Cheque Presentation Luncheon at The Berystede Hotel
Ascot Charitable Trust, together with patrons Ray & Lisalynn Bowdery, recently held a ‘cheque presentation’ luncheon at The Berystede Hotel in order to donate the proceeds from their annual Ascot Charity Ball to five delighted beneficiaries.
Rae & Lisalynn Bowdery, ACT Committee & beneficiaries
A cheque for £25,000 was presented to the NSPCC. Additional cheques in the sum of £4,000 each were presented to Naomi House, People to Places, St John Ambulance and Treloar Trust. After the photographs were taken, guests enjoyed a lovely buffet lunch together.
The NSPCC’s purpose is to end cruelty to children. Their vision is of a society where all children are loved, valued and able to fulfil their potential.
Nicky Pardo, Alan Carr, Anne Hoddle, Rebecca Smith from NSPCC, Rae & Lisalyn Bowdery, Ronnie Wilkie & Sayonara Luxton
ChildLine, another service provided by the NSPCC, is the UK’s free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people who need to talk. It is staffed by trained volunteer counsellors who provide confidential comfort, advice and support for children and young people who often have nowhere else to turn.
Naomi House is a purpose-built children's hospice that provides a homely environment for children and young people with life-limiting conditions that mean that they will not live to become adults. They are currently building ‘Jack’s Place’, respite care for 17 yrs onwards. Medical advances mean that many of the youngsters, with life-limiting illnesses, who have grown up using Naomi House, are now enjoying life into early adulthood. As they grow older and their conditions become more complex and challenging, their need for care changes; nursing often becomes more intensive and the equipment required, larger and more sophisticated. The building will share the charity's existing site in Sutton Scotney and will include six bedrooms with en suite bathrooms big enough to accommodate wheelchairs, specialist medical equipment and supplies, and to provide privacy, independence and dignity.
Situated just north of Winchester in Hampshire, they offer one-to-one palliative care that includes respite, terminal and bereavement care and support to children and their families in central southern England. They are available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year and it costs around £2.5 million every year to keep this service running.
Karen Coleman & Julie Tunnicliffe from Naomi House with Rae & Lisalynn Bowdery & ACT
People to Places provides specialist, accessible, transport for disabled people and those with mobility problems. The charity currently runs a fleet of twelve mini-buses, and also operates the Day Centre Borough Bus on behalf of RBWM, employs eleven paid staff, benefits from the support of over 30 volunteer drivers, and currently needs to spend some £1/2 million a year to run the service.
Peter Haley, Jim Sloan & Mrs Sloan from People to Places receiving cheque with ACT Committee
The work of the charity touches the lives of many thousands of people within the Borough. Most importantly it provides a lifeline for so many of its individual members, mainly the elderly and infirm, who without the help provided by People to Places would indeed be housebound.
St John Ambulance has local events ranging from Royal Ascot to local sports events and church fêtes. Ascot and Bracknell has one of the most successful
St. John Divisions in England, having 56 active members. These consist of Adult, Cadet and 'Badger' groups. Its Officers devote nearly all their spare time to training the members and attending community activities. They are currently struggling to find cash to refurbish their building and need our help, NOW.
Ronnie Wilkie receiving the St John Ambulance cheque
Treloar Trust. Every year, Treloar School and College in Hampshire changes the lives of 320 of the most disabled young people in Britain. They achieve this not only by providing a first-class education but the magic of Treloar’s is the dream team of teachers, careworkers, medical staff and technical specialists who all work seamlessly together to develop the person as a whole.
Fiona Janczur from Trelor Trust being presented with the cheque
100 years ago, one man had the vision to bring together medical care, education and opportunity to enable disabled young people to take control of their lives. That man was Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1906.
Today, Treloar’s meets the needs of over 40 disabilities, some of them rare and all of them complex. 95% of their youngsters use wheelchairs, 40% have little or no speech and 20% will not live into old age. Nonetheless Treloar youngsters have the same desire to learn and zest for life as anyone else and your help enables them to fulfil this. For more information about Treloar’s please visit their website: |
2007 Ascot Charitable Trust