Did you know you can support us via the Eastbourne Local Lottery for as little as £1 per week. Eastbourne Local Lottery was created in 2018 by Eastbourne Borough Council to support community projects in the local area. Tickets are £1 each and 60p from each ticket sale will come directly to us! Each ticket…
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Children’s Respite Trust volunteer, Anne-Marie Prescott, is kindly producing handmade face masks to sell for the Trust. Seamstress Anne-Marie, usually produces wedding veils, but has turned her hand to making masks to raise money for the Charity. She says “So many charities have struggled over the last few months and I fear that some of…
Congratualtions to Linda Baker, winner of a Luxury Fortnum and Mason Charity Hamper. Thank you so much to everyone who supported the Trust by purchasing tickets for our draw. We are very pleased to announce that the total raised amounted to £320! Our winner of the Charity Hamper was Linda Baker of Westways Vending from…
The whole team here at the Children’s Respite Trust are missing our families and children very much. While community care continues, we cannot wait for the day that we are able to welcome everyone back to the Respite Centre. We greatly look forward to hearing these rooms filled with the sound of our wonderful children…
We have kindly been donated a Luxury Fortnum and Mason Hamper!! If you would like a chance to win this stunning Hamper, raffle tickets are £5 each and can be purchased at Raffall.com by following this link. The closing date for entries is 31st May. Good luck and thank you! 🍾
Thousands of charities across the UK are facing massive losses because they cannot hold fundraising events at the moment. The organisers of the London Marathon along with charities throughout the country have come together to make a difference. So, today marks the launch of the 2.6 Challenge. On 26th April, the day that we should…
Sadly, the Trust’s Prosecco Party has become one of the many events to be cancelled due to Covid-19, but we can still get together online and get quizickle . Friday 24th April was going to include prosecco, fine dining, more prosecco, a Queen tribute band and more prosecco. More than that it was going to…
We’re so grateful to everyone for donating towards the Children’s Respite Trust’s Smile Appeal and we’re very pleased to announce that we have hit our target. Members of the Trust’s team spent the Easter bank holiday weekend delivering the packages, stuffed full of activities to families with disabled children across Sussex and Kent. The Smile…
Given that many of the children we support have underlying health conditions and have had to self-isolate already, we have decided to put our resources to good use during this uncertain time by offering a home shopping service to our families. Thank you to everyone who has offered their help so far it has been…
We are so very grateful to everyone who joined us at our Spring Comedy Night on Friday 13th March. Thank you to our sponsors of the evening Crabapple Barn, Purebrite Cleaning Company, CBL Fastenings,J Kirby Electrical Ltd, and Acorns Charitable Trust. We are hugely grateful to Langney Sports Club for hosting the evening free of…
The Trust are very grateful to of W Bruford for the very generous donation recently presented by Ashley Pugh to Gavin Fisher. The donation represented half of the total amount raised at W Bruford’s “Moment in Time” dinner back in November. The other half being donated to St Wilfrd’s Hospice in Eastbourne. During the dinner,…
Thank you so very much to Cornerstone Uckfield for their recent donation to the Trust. Members of the Church gathered together to sing carols in the run up to Christmas as well as giving donations to the Trust instead of buying Christmas cards. Thank you everyone for your support, we are very grateful.
We are extremely grateful to everyone who donated Christmas gifts via the campaigns set up by Basepoint Crowborough and Anytime Fitness, Uckfield. Both Anytime Fitness and Basepoint Crowborough visited the Respite Centre prior to Christmas to deliver the donated gifts and our children and families were delighted with their presents. Over the Christmas break we…
On Saturday 14th December, Louisa and Tilda took on a challenge of their own for the Children’s Respite Trust. Tilda and her brother both have autism, sensory processing difficulties and severe learning difficulties. Tilda also has dyspraxia, hypermobility and other conditions which means that walking can be difficult. Tilda absolutely loves Sheffield Park and her…
We’re delighted to say that phase II of our building work is now well underway and the new car park is complete. A huge thank you goes to all the guys at Taylor Wimpey for working tirelessly through the bad weather to complete it in a week. They gave their time and talents free of…
Zuzana from Z-Energy kindly organised a fundraising event for the Trust- “Zumba for Everyone” at Dean’s Leisure Centre, Rottingdean. It was a fantastic afternoon with goodie bags for everyone plus a Raffle and bracelets to purchase to raise money for the Trust. There were some wonderful raffle prices- a Joules bag, some homemade Christmas Bunting…
The Children’s Respite Trust were hugely grateful to have be chosen by Waitrose Uckfield as one of their three Community Matters “Good Causes” for October 2019. Throughout October shoppers were given the chance to support the Trust with their green tokens. We are very pleased to announce that an amazing £420 was raised. Thank you…
On Saturday 23rd November 2019, Peter Wilkes Chairman of the Uckfield Runners presented a cheque of £1,000 to the Children’s Respite Trust. The members of Uckfield Running Club pay £1 each time they run and over the course of the year their pounds soon add up. The Trust were very grateful to have been their…
Thank you to everyone who made our Comedy Night on Friday our most successful Comedy Night yet! We raised a huge £3,721 for the Trust 🌟🌟🌟 Thank you to Jim Grant from Oi Oi Comedy Sussex and our acts Craig Campbell, Marc Lucero and Katherine Atkinson for entertaining us. We wouldn’t have even had a…
The Trust are extremely grateful for the continued support received from Renato Pires and his team at Acting Moon Events. Renato recently attended the Respite Centre here in Uckfield and presented the Trust with a donation towards Phase 2 of our building works which are due to begin shortly. Acting Moon Events also attended our…