The Childrens Trust

I hope I've managed to post this in the right place! I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone that has already bought their raffle tickets for this year's Arbtlak Raffle which is already at nearly £5000 - wow!! Every penny from the raffle goes directly to The Children's Trust and this amazing amount will really help us to change the lives of children who need it. Just to let you know a little bit more about what we do and where your money goes . . . The Children's Trust cares for children with severe disabilities, some have been born with their disabilities whilst others have had a brain injury due to illness or accident. Our aim is to provide a home from home environment where the children can benefit from care, therapy, rehabilitation and education at our main care centre in Tadworth or with one of our care team members that work up and down the country. Most of our children cannot walk or talk, have impaired hearing or vision or both and many cannot feed without a feeding tube - as you can imagine this brings many challenges to day to day life and fundraising helps us to continue providing these vital services. We have one little boy called Ollie who when he was only one years old had an accident, he was sitting at the table with his sister when he leaned over and grabbed a handful of grapes from a plate and put them all in his mouth - this caused him to choke, he fell unconcious and sadly due to the lack of oxygen this meant he acquired a brain injury. Ollie was initialy given very little hope of making a recovery but through many years of intense therapy and care at The Children's Trust Ollie is doing really well and has been able to return back home to his family. As a mum myself I always think about how easily this happened to Ollie and his family but makes me so glad that there were people there to help when they needed it most. We help many families who may never have heard of us before and hopefully through brilliant fundraising like the Arbtalk raffle we can reach out to more people and let them know about what we do. Our goal is to reach more and more children and raise more awareness of the specialist care we offer to the children who desperatly need it and with your help and support we can do just that! Here is an example of just some of the things your money can help with . . . £15 can buy children's therapy toys such as finger puppets, £25 could buy a big bag of soft play balls, £50 could buy a comfy floor mat for play or therapy, £150 buys a soft wedge to help a childs posture, £300 could get a rollator to help get a child moving. Every single penny will help us to help a child so once again a huge thank you to everyone that has already donated and please if you haven't got your tickets yet don't forget to get them before Friday to be in with a chance of winning some amazing prizes! Arbtalk - The Children's Trust Huge and massive thanks to Steve for organising and to everyone that has donated prizes to make the raffle possible - I think this is going to be the best year yet so thanks everyone! Jo (Community Fundraiser - The Children's Trust)

Hi Everyone, It's Jo here from The Children's Trust. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Steve for organising this year's Christmas Raffle which will help us to continue to provide vital care services for children up and down the country with multiple disabilities and brain injuries. I hear that there are lots of fantastic prizes on offer so a special thank you to everyone that has donated and made the raffle possible. And of course, thank you so so much to everyone from Arbtalk that has bought tickets - every penny is donated to helping the children so a massive thank you from myself and everyone at The Children's Trust. It would be amazing to make this year's the best one yet so please keep the ticket purchases coming! Thanks and best wishes, Jo xx

Hi Everyone, I am not sure if I am managing to post this in the right place so firstly I hope people can get to read it and secondly I hope it isn't posted somewhere strange!! My name's Jo and I fundraise for The Children's Trust. As many of you know we have been chosen to benefit from the Arbtalk Chrsitmas raffle - I would just like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has already purchased tickets and to everyone else in advance! I know that Steve has worked really hard and there are huge number of prizes to be won this year. Tickets are £5 each (for 5) and we are so grateful to be the benefiting charity - it really means a lot to us and means we can continue to provide our much needed care services for the children who need it most. At The Children's Trust we care for children from all over the country that have servere and muliple disabilities. We specialise in the care of children with brain injury - some have had accidents and some have had illnesses but they all need unique and specialist care. You can find out more about our charity on our website which is The Children's Trust provides services to children with multiple disabilities Please keep buying the tickets so we can raise as much money as possible and good luck to everyone in the draw! Thank you so much. Very best wishes, Jo Brown xx

WOW! I want to say a huge THANK YOU to eveyone that joined in with Christmas raffle - £2020 is an amazing amount to have raised and will make a huge difference to the lives of the children and their families at The Children's Trust. A special big thank you to Steve for organising the whole raffle and to the sponsors who donated the prizes. If you want any more information about The Children's Trust you can visit http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk or call me on 0115 9326109. Happy New Year to you all and what a fantastic start! Very best wishes, Joanne

Hi Everyone I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from me and everyone at The Children's Trust! The support you have shown through the raffle is fantastic and really does make a difference to thw lives of the children we care for and their families. Just befoe Christmas we had this article printed in The Mail and (hopefully) I have attached the link somewhere here. If you have a spare 5 minutes please take the time to read it as it will give you an idea of what we do at The Children's Trust and why every penny is essential. Thank you again one and all for your overwhelming generosity. Wishing you all the best for 2009, Joanne

Hi It's Joanne here from The Children's Trust. Hoping I am posting this correctly! I just wanted to say a big thank you to Steve Bullman and everyone associated with Arbtalk for choosing us as the benefiting charity for your Christmas raffle. There has already been a huge repsonse so thank you to all of you that have already purchased your tickets, it really does make a huge difference to our charity. We care for children from all over the UK who have muliple disabilities and complex health needs. Many of the children have brain injuries that have been caused by a medical condition or as a result of an accident. The Children's Trust provides care, education, rehabilitation and therapy as well as support for families at a time of great need. You can find out more at our website http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk or you can call me on 0115 9326109 or email [email protected] if you would like to know more about the work we do and other ways you can help support us. As you can imagine fundraising is vital for us to continue to provide these service so again a huge thank you and please keep buying the raffle tickets, it really does make a difference to the lives of these children and their families! Very best wishes to you all - and good look to everyone in the raffle! Joanne Brown The Children's Trust Community Fundraising Manager