• Cancer Research UK
• Long Marston Speedvisor Campaign
• Long Marston Open Space Project
• Quinton Junior and Infant School
• Quinton Youth Club
• Quads Drama Group
The Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust
The Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust charity was formed in 2001 after Joseph Foote was diagnosed with a brain tumour, aged only two. Joseph’s cancer returned numerous times and after many operations and removals of the tumour it eventually claimed his life in August 2007 – aged just nine years old.
Two children every day are diagnosed with this form of cancer in the UK alone, and thousands more worldwide. It has taken over Leukaemia as the leading killer and continues to take so many young lives each year.
Joseph’s father, Andy Foote, set up the charity which has so far raised over £1.5Million and has been supported by the GlobalGathering team since its formation
Achievements so far by the Joseph Foote Fundraising Trust include:
• Laboratory with £1Million worth of ‘state-of-the-art’ research equipment
• 12 full time scientists
• Largest collection of Paediatric brain tumour tissues worldwide for research.
• Live cell lines growing in the lab (these are very difficult to culture) that will advance our research – only a few people worldwide have managed this.
• We have identified the 3 genes that are responsible for the success of this disease and are now testing drugs to target those genes without damaging healthy ones.
More finding is needed for the following:
The charity hopes to start human clinical trials within the next three years with the new drug being developed. It will take nine years to complete the trials, but by then they will be saving lives and close to the cure. Fundraising is needed to achieve this breakthrough that could save the lives of thousands of children each year.
And finally, the charity keeps back approximately 5% of the funds each year to help the children that are undergoing gruelling chemotherapy treatment or for the less fortunate that have been told there is no hope left. The charity offers these children and their families a “wish”, they are sent on a holiday or to meet a star or even they just receive a gift, what ever they wish for.
The charity needs your help and together we can make a difference. To make a donation or hold a fund raising event please visit www.josephfoote.co.uk or contact the charity on 0121 744 1444 or email: info@josephfoote.co.uk.
Cure Leukaemia
The Cure Leukaemia Appeal is a multi-million pound project launched in 2004 to create a world class centre of excellence for clinical leukaemia research at University Hospital Birmingham.
To date Cure Leukaemia has:
• Raised £2.4 million to build the Centre at University Hospital Birmingham, which is now fully operational.
• Leveraged free drugs for clinical trials, which are having a worldwide impact.
• Funded salaries for 15 research nurses over three years.
• Funded patient care and patient support groups.
• Purchased state-of-the-art equipment to support the research.
More funded is needed for the following:
• More research scientists.
• More research nurses.
• Haematology units throughout the Midlands to extend the impact of the clinical research currently taking place at the Leukaemia Centre.
• Ground breaking clinical projects.
• State of the art equipment such as a blood count machine at £40,000 each which are desperately required.
• Purchase of drugs for further clinical trials.
Supporting Cure Leukaemia is helping a Midlands charity to provide a better,
brighter future for 125,000 leukaemia patients in the UK and ultimately throughout the world.
• There are 25,000 new patients diagnosed every year with more than 20 different forms of blood cancer.
• There has been an 80% mortality rate amongst adult patients with leukaemia – now a reducing figure due to the impact of the new clinical research.
• The 1,500th bone marrow transplant has now taken place at the QE hospital.
Please visit www.cureleukaemia.co.uk.
The Challenger Trust was set up in 1998, to give disadvantaged young people from some of the most socially deprived areas of the UK, the opportunity to develop life skills and improve their education and employment prospects, through challenging personal development and leadership programmes in the outdoors. Many young people in the UK are unable to engage with the traditional education system and find themselves marginalised; unable to learn or develop skills and without the self confidence or direction to choose a positive path in life. Those from disadvantaged backgrounds, without positive role models or family support, are especially vulnerable and unlikely to reach their potential.
Innovative programmes are required to give these young people life-skills and an alternative path to success. Giving them the means and motivation to succeed will bring benefits not only to their school but to their communities and society at large.
The Challenger Trust uses experiential outdoor learning which incorporates a personal development programme and core learning theme. We also make our courses progressive and where possible link to other appropriate awards or projects, such as Duke of Edinburgh. Our approach seeks a collaborative approach to extend the scope and effectiveness of our work. To have the greatest effect we focus the most disadvantaged communities and on children in or pre transition. In 2008 alone We Helped over 3000 disadvantaged young people.
The Challenger Trust raises funds and commissions work which delivers these acknowledged benefits to young people up to the age of 18 who would not otherwise have the means to access them. We work in close partnership with schools, local support agencies and suppliers to give young people the skills they need to become active and responsible members of their schools and communities.
Our courses focus on developing learning and employment skills and have consistently been proved to:
• Raise aspirations by developing self-esteem and confidence.
• Develop the life-skills that young people will need to be successful in the world of work - teamwork, leadership, problem solving, communication and decision making.
• Enable young people to gain a better understanding of their local area, the environment and its history.
• Focus young people’s attitude towards healthy living, including cookery and money management skills.
We will meet these aims by:-
• Giving young people the chance to excel and show their skills in a completely new and supportive environment, experiencing things that they thought were not possible.
• Focusing on skills improvement of all activities facilitated by instructors. Progress and learning will be reviewed throughout the course and questionnaires will be completed at the end showing what was learnt.
• Ensuring all young people manage their own budget for the week by being responsible for their own shopping and cooking. This addresses one of the key concepts of the course in self-management.
The key to the success of this work is a close relationship with our funding partners. We achieve this by:
• Producing the best outdoor educational training in this field using the UK’s leading practitioners.
• Assuring that every project is a unique and highly customised experience delivering tangible evidence based benefits and outcomes.
• Building in sponsor links and PR as required.
• Ensuring 100% of funding goes to the nominated project.
100% of the funding goes towards the cost of the overall project. This covers the individual placements including accommodation, insurance, food, activities, instruction and equipment.
The project will involve 70 young people aged 14-15 years old from 3 schools in Hillingdon, London who will take part in a 5 day residential project in spring/summer 2010. The schools participating will be Abbotsfield, Barnhill Community and Stockley Academy.
We work closely with the schools and Connexions as well as other referral agencies. The need for our work in Hillingdon is established through working with these agencies as well as the schools deprivation index and NEET figures. Feedback from our very successful pilot project we ran last year shows the increasing need for our programmes and the positive influence and difference they make to disadvantaged young people.
Susie Young, Head of Careers, Guidance and WRL from Stockley Academy commented, ‘The students thoroughly enjoyed their time in Derbyshire even though it was cold and sometimes wet. Students who did not excel at academic students suddenly found they could do well in their team building exercises. It is a very valuable residential and we would be sad to think we could not offer it to our COPE students this coming year’.
Shauna MacLeod who took part in the pilot project stated, ‘Thank you , I really enjoyed the trip it was well fun I liked fly fishing, planting trees was fun, feeding the wild boar and deer was also fun and the thing I enjoyed the most was kayaking it was funny when the boat capsized!!!! The walking up the hill was tiring and a bit hard but we made it!! I thought it was much better going down hill!! I found out a lot of things about trees, birds, different animals and much, much more!! Thank you so, so much I had great fun and thanks to Innes and Poppy for driving us about. Thank you Ian and Ivan as well.’
Our delivery committee, trustees, suppliers and volunteers have over 17 years experience in outdoor education, enabling them to produce and ensure the wellbeing and success to any project undertaken.
The 2008 Neet figures from the Department of children, schools and families and Connexions show that in London, 12,090 (5.8%) of 16-18 year olds are already facing NEET with 450 (5.3%) in Hillingdon.
In the UK, the minimum educational standard for 16 year olds is five good passes (grade C or above) at GCSE, including Maths and English. In 2008, one in ten 16 year olds in England were still obtaining fewer than 5 GCSEs, only slightly below 1999/00. Children in disadvantaged inner-city schools rarely perform as well as their counterparts in better schools. Pupils living in the top quartile of affluent areas have a 70% chance of achieving give good GCSEs, compared with only 30% for pupils from areas in the bottom quartile. As a result, few pupils of deprived backgrounds get the educational opportunities they deserve. NEETS leapt by more than 100,000 in the past year and London remains one of the highest NEET areas in the country highlighted by the figures from the Department of Children, Schools and Families, “959,000 16-25 year old are NEET in 2009, 119,000 more than this point last year”.
The project will involve:
• A series of challenging activities which will be undertaken in teams over a period of 5 days, with 3 nights camping. Activities including climbing, canoeing, orienteering, team building games will all push young people out of their comfort zones and encourage them to work with others and show their skills in a challenging but supportive environment. Also working on a number of Environmental Conservation Projects, including, setting bird boxes, planting trees, fixing bird fences, looking for deer calves and various other projects taking place at the time.
• Reviews of each activity using the experiential learning model which allows young people to take positive things out of their mistakes and apply their learning in the next task.
• Young people taking responsibility for their own welfare on the course – with a budget they will shop and cook for themselves, giving them practical life-skills. All young people taking part in the project will be asked to organise their own fundraising events to raise £50 each towards the cost of their placement. This encourages one of The Challengers Trust’s focus on self and money management, enabling them to be responsible for the budget of their respective course and for their own cooking and camping facilities.
Our project will give disadvantaged young people the opportunity to develop key life skills necessary to improve their education and employment prospects:-
• Young people will have an improved attitude to learning resulting in reduction in truancy and disruptive behaviour.
• An opportunity to spend time in the countryside, enjoying exercise and a healthier lifestyle.
• Key skills improvement, including teamwork, leadership, decision making, problem solving and communication.
• Raised aspirations and broader horizons- enabling young people to make positive choices in their life.
• The school teaching environment benefits from engaged students and positive role models for other students with strong evidence of improved examination grades.
• We aim to have a long term environmental impact with a practical element such as introducing a tree planting scheme.
• Local communities benefit from improved integration of young people across different postcodes, improved cultural awareness and alternative options to crime and gang culture.
• Individuals perform better at selection interview and have better personal statements to offer an employer or higher education establishment.
• Employers benefit from a more committed and competent employee
