Since Mike Caddy established Pebble Beach as a charitable trust in 2005 over £52,000 has been raised in donations. Fifty percent of the monies are given to a local Hampshire and Dorset charities while the other half provides computers and educational equipment to schools and youth projects in Brazil that would otherwise be unable to have access to essential technology. Other local charities that have received donations include the Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, Southampton Hospital's Paediatric Unit and Lymington Sailability.
Pebble Beach Donations to-date include: £3,000 to the Oakhaven Hospice.
£4,113.50 to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Southampton General Hospital.
£2,000 to the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.
£4,000 to Lymington Sailability.
£2,887 to Julia’s House.
£4,081.50 (including raffle) to The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy.
£2,757.50 to Help the Aged.
£3,813 to RNLI Bembridge Lifeboat Station
Over £25,000 for the cost of 100 computers for Brazil.
100 computers purchased from Computer Aid International are being shipped to Brazil to benef it a school in Salvador in association with The Rotary Club of Salvador.
We have also purchased two extra computers for Estrela, a small British/Brazilian charity who, working alongside local youth and community initiatives in Salvador, benefit disadvantaged children within their communities - visit www.estrela-brasil.com to find out more.
Pebble Beach is now looking for other schools in Brazil that can benefit from the monies raised.
“Once again we’d like to thank our very generous customers for their continued support”
Registered charity no. 1116171
The Elizabeth Foundation
The Pebble Beach Charitable Trust has been supporting the RNLI for the last six months, and in particular their very worthy campaign to re-build the Bembridge life boat station on the Isle of Wight. This successful period of fund raising has now drawn to a close and we now look forward to supporting The Elizabeth Foundation (Registered charity no. 293835) over the coming months.
The Elizabeth Foundation supports infants and pre-school aged children with a hearing loss and their families, by providing help, support and encouragement. It is the Elizabeth Foundation’s belief that it is the right of every deaf child to be given the opportunity to learn, to listen and talk.
When a family receives the news that their baby or young child has a hearing loss, The Elizabeth Foundation is there to help straight away. Families can self-refer, or may hear about The Foundation by recommendation from health professionals. The Foundation’s Hampshire Family Centre is a special place where teachers of the deaf provide expert help and advice in a way that suits the family best; regular “one to one” sessions, or in a group with other deaf children and their parents where fun, listening, music and language help give each deaf child the best possible start in life. Families learn about deafness, and that their children have a rich and fulfilling life ahead of them. A baby diagnosed in infancy may attend The Elizabeth Foundation for four years before starting school, and your donation helps make sure that we will continue to be there for them.
After a successful six months supporting Help the Aged, the Pb Trust is now looking forward to the next half of the year supporting the RNLI and in particular, their campaign to re-build the Bembridge life boat station on the Isle of Wight.
Bembridge lifeboat station is classified as a key station by the RNLI and is strategically situated on the Solent, home to one of the busiest shipping lanes in our waters. Having weathered all manner of sea conditions for over 80 years, the existing life boat station is understandably in a fragile state - both the walkway and slipway are now suffering from concrete rot and are starting to crumble. A new boathouse is vital for the volunteer crew, shore helpers and station personnel to continue their extraordinary work for generations to come.
Bembridge lifeboat station not only provides rescue cover to people in trouble at sea. About 10,000 people visit the lifeboat station every year, including 2,500 school children attending as part of their school curriculum. They are given an overview of the RNLI and its strong volunteer ethos as well as an interactive educational talk on water safety. After the talks the children are shown around the boats and have fun trying on items of crew clothing. These educational sessions are not just limited to local pupils. Children attending summer camps on the Isle of Wight have station visits incorporated into their holiday activity programmes.
For more information about the RNLI visit: www.rnli.org.uk and enter Bembridge in the ‘search this site’ box
Click here to read the RNLI press release, published on the RNLI web site, on this successful campaign
For older people, the festive season can often bring on acute feelings of loneliness. Help the Aged research shows that one million older people spent Christmas Day alone.
Pebble Beach Charitable Trust supported the Help the Aged Christmas Lunch programme in Hampshire and Dorset over six months from late 2008-2009, rasing £2,757.50 in the process. The excellent programme supports older people to socialise and enjoy a Christmas celebration, which is an effective activity to help ease some of the isolation older people across the UK feel at this time of year. The Charity gives grants to older people’s groups and projects and this money is designed to help with the financial cost of their Christmas event such as food or extra transport so that all members of a group can take part. These are some of the expenses that cash-starved groups and projects often find difficult to meet.
Guy Patterson, Help the Aged Regional Development Officer for Hampshire and Dorset, said, “Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for some o l der people, especially if they have few plans to mark the festive season or live far from their families.”
“We are grateful for the support of Pebble Beach customers, as any money raised will assist local community groups in their remarkable work that supports so many older people across the UK. The Christmas Lunch 2008 is one of a range of ways in which we can help to bring people together and it should provide a fun and memorable celebration for many older people in Dorset and Hampshire”.
For more information about Help the Aged visit: www.helptheaged.org.uk to find out more.
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