Category: News

  • FOCUS on Fundraising: Kew Gardens Half Marathon

    Sunday March 31st 2024 Another exciting run to fundraise for the trust! Em Cockshutt and Dan Barnes took part in the Half Marathon, fundraising for the Trust. “We both met Joe through Warwick University Lacrosse (Lax) and he was a great runner/sportsperson, often running half-marathons and triathlons on top of playing lax, smashing his degree and…

  • FOCUS on Fundraisng: University of Warwick Lax Ball

    Thanks to President, Lucy Fothergill and Charity Manager, Daisy Barrow for organising what looked like a very successful evening at the Stratford Park Hotel. As well as the Lax Ball and a Raffle, the UofW supported our Beer, Harris & Freud event last November and ran a pizza and quiz evening raising £100’s with these…

  • FOCUS on Charity: Beder

    From our FOCUS April Beder is another charity that Beer-Harris Memorial Trust has donated money to. Beder works to really encourage people to open up about their mental health. Here are a few words from the charity: “Beder was set up in order to reduce the number of people suffering in silence and feeling that…

  • FOCUS on Charity: Off the Fence

    From our FOCUS March Beer Harris Memorial Trust has donated money to the amazing charity, Off the Fence. So here’s a sneak peak into the two programmes that have started to be funded from this money: The Antifreeze Homeless Project“Brighton and Hove has seen a 155% increase between January and September 2023 (Brighton & Hove…

  • FOCUS on Charity: Taste Life

    A report by CEO, Di Archer From FOCUS February ‘I am whole and live with a new sense of identity and purpose’ “So said one of our recovery course participants. After years of struggling with a life-stealing eating disorder, through our course she finally found the tools she needed to walk out of it and…

  • North Yorkshire Long course Weekend

    Exciting new event for 2024! Long distance challenge to help fundraise. Friday will begin with a Yorkshire Dales swim, an opportunity to swim in the Grimwith Reservoir. Saturday is filled with cycling; with the choice of a 56 or 112 mile bike courses in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales national park. Finishing on Sunday where a…

  • Council of Reference

    An introduction to our new council of reference members: Niall-Day Sawyer – Technical Advisor Esther Beer – Social Media Advisor Peter Snodgrass – Legal Advisor Bennet Carr – Fundrarising Advisor Nigel Ford – Sales and Marketing Advisor Read this months addition of FOCUS to learn more about our new members. We are excited to welcome…

  • Grow For Life December 2023

    Grow for Life is a social and therapeutic gardening charity, working throughout Bath and towns and villages across North East Somerset. Their vision is to see a world where people experiencing low confidence, anxiety, depression or isolation are restored to live life to the full. Their purpose is to nurture people so that they flourish.…

  • January FOCUS…

     Focus NewsletterJanuary 2024  Welcome to the January edition of FOCUS, which introduces our new Council of Reference members. This month we feature Break, a charity working across East Anglia, supporting some of the most vulnerable young people in society. This is the first year we have supported this charity. We include more details of our fundraising events for 2024,…

  • December FOCUS…

    Focus NewsletterDecember 2023   Welcome to the December edition of FOCUS, which includes a roundup of a very successful year, introduces our seven new Interns from KES and gives you some dates to put in your diary for our fundraising events for 2024. Our featured charity is Grow for Life, a social and therapeutic gardening charity, working throughout Bath and…