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  • 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…

  • Self injury Support Charity Report March 2024

    Self Injury Support is a UK-wide, experience-led charity providing support and improving knowledge around self-harm. We have 38 years’ experience delivering support to people who self-harm, having been set up by a group of women who wanted more holistic mental health support and quickly grew into a national support service. Since 1986 the organisation has…

  • 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…

  • New trustee: Georgina Szanto!

    We are very grateful to be joined by Georgina Szanto as our new trustee! A bit about our new trustee:

  • Break charity introduction…

    Break has worked across East Anglia for over 60 years, supporting some of the most vulnerable young people in society.  Originally founded to give holidays to families whose children have disabilities, Break has grown and evolved.  Now their focus is primarily young people who have been taken into care.  Break provides safe and loving homes…

  • Meet our interns!