Charity

PUDSEY Bear will be visiting Bluewater this week offering gamers a chance to compete on live television. The Children in Need challenge at the shopping...

THIS week (9-15 October) is Baby Loss Awareness Week and a father has raised thousands of pounds for a space which offers privacy and dignity to grieving families in hospital who suffer the loss of a baby. 

SUPPORT your local hospice one-step at a time at St. Luke's Loop sponsored walk

OLYMPIC Champion and Health and Wellbeing advocate, Sally Gunnell OBE has announced that she will be supporting national cancer charity Cancer Support UK.

STARTING today (Monday 4th September), Air Ambulance Week 2023 will take off across the UK, and local charity, the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT),...

A NEW Essex-based charity has launched with thousands of pounds of grant funding available to support community-centric good causes making a positive impact in...

IN a milestone year for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) marking 25 years of saving lives, colleagues and friends have paid tribute to CEO, Jane Gurney, as she reaches 20 years of loyal service with the charity.

ANNA Ellis from North Stifford is taking on the challenge to swim 15km throughout the month of August to raise money for Bowel Cancer UK

ESSEX-based Charity The Dream Factory, grants dreams to children and young adults between the age of 3 to 25 years, who suffer from life-threatening,...

LOCAL charity, Little Havens, is proud to announce its new Patron, Simon Webbe of boyband Blue.

THE Women’s Institute (WI) in Thurrock and Essex Freemasons have got together with a local charity, ‘Get Started Art’, and the Stifford Clays Health Practice PPG (Patient Participation Group) to provide knitted toys and clothes for a Basildon based charity ‘Colourful Beginnings’.  Around 60,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the UK. This means that one in every 13 babies is born before 37 weeks. At Colourful Beginnings, they support families with premature and sick babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) all over the UK.

LOCAL businesses step up to ‘Brew for the Crew’ in aid of Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

SEIB Insurance Brokers have this week donated £6,060 to St Luke’s Hospice in Basildon as part of their diamond anniversary celebrations. SEIB has a history of donating to St Luke’s and has named the hospice their Charity of the Year for 2023. SEIB is set to support to further fundraising events run by St Luke’s in the months to come. 

SOPHIE Scowen, 35, from Chafford Hundred, will be awarded an MBE for services to the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Since...

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