Listening Books

The James Beattie Trust has supported Listening Books in delivering our audiobook service to many people in the local community who find it difficult or impossible to read print due to an impairment, such as arthritis, glaucoma or dyslexia.  Such fantastic support has helped to spread the joy of reading throughout Wolverhampton via the spoken word.

 

Thank you again for your help.

Robert Marchant

Development and Office Manager

020 7407 9417

12 Lant Street, London SE1 1QH

rmarchant@listening-books.org.uk

www.listening-books.org.uk

 

Robert

Brickkiln Dunstall Gateway Club

The Club has been running 30 years and provides tailored social activities for 17 profoundly disabled Members over the age of 25 residing in the City of Wolverhampton.

Our activities include arts and crafts, cultural themed evenings, indoor gardening, adapted sports and in the summer months visits to nearby places of interest. If the Club did not exist many of our Members would not have any meaningful social life.

We rely on the generosity of local and national charitable organisations for funding and we are particularly grateful to the James Beattie Charitable Trust who has provided both financial support and encouragement for many years.

Theodora Children’s Charity- Giggle Doctor

We want to say a big thank you to The James Beattie Trust for your very generous donation, which will provide magical Giggle Doctor moments to 100 sick children at Birmingham Children’s Hospital this year.

A stay in hospital can be very frightening for a child. Our Giggle Doctors visit children individually at their bedside. They combine music, play and storytelling to bring magical moments to children facing huge challenges with their health.

“My daughter didn’t want to talk, eat or drink after her operation but then Dr Snug and Dr Geehee appeared and worked their magic. She ate, drank and spoke! She even got up and danced. Thank you so much!”

Parent
Amy Calcutt
Fundraising and Communications Coordinator

D      +44 (0)20 7841 0531
M      +44 (0)7507 702 698
Mail : amy.calcutt@theodora.org

Cerebral Palsy Sport

Cerebral Palsy Sport is the country’s leading

Family birthday photoshoot May 2011

national disability sports charity supporting people with cerebral palsy to reach their sporting potential and putting people with cerebral palsy and their families at the heart of everything we do. We provide inclusive sports opportunities including football, swimming, athletics, bowls, table cricket and adapted sports. Through sport activities, we raise hopes and aspirations by supporting people to overcome the challenges of their physical disability and take a more active role in their local community. We positively impact on more than 4,000 people and families affected by cerebral palsy by enabling them to play, participate and enjoy new sporting opportunities.

The funding from the James Beattie Trust will enabled us to provide SportStart fun programmes in Wolverhampton and enabled children and young people with cerebral palsy to play, participate and enjoy multi sport activities.

 

Mrs Ali Talbot

FRSA

Chief Executive – Cerebral Palsy Sport

0115 925 7027

 

See our website here

The Edwards Trust

Edward’s Trust mission is to provide holistic, person centred services to help West Midlands families bereaved in traumatic circumstances to cope with their grief and improve their wellbeing. The donation from the James Beattie Charitable Trust will provide vital one-to-one counselling support to parents whose child or children have died, giving them a space to talk about and understand their feelings, realise that what they’re going through is part of the “normal” grieving process and to have hope for the future.

Emma Wright

emma.wright@edwardstrust.org.uk

Switchboard:  (0121) 456 4838

www.edwardstrust.org.uk

The Reading List Foundation

We are so thankful to the Trust for the grant – we’ll put it to use awarding a Scholarship to an exceptional student from Heath Park School in Wolverhampton (as we did in 2018).  We were only set up i

Universities where Scholarship winners are now studying;

n 2016, but this summer we hope to be able to award over 150 Scholarships to fantastic young people as they start university.  We have donors support Scholarships in schools and colleges from Newcastle to Penzance, and we’re proud to be able to include Wolverhampton in in our coverage across England.

Alan Terry
Co-founder

m: 07947 507847

Registered Charity 1164690



PDSA

Stella with her owner Deborah Oak. Stella underwent a lifesaving operation to remove the pyometra which when weighed later was 2.2kg (roughly the same weight as a 5lb bag of potatoes). Stella has since gone on to make a full recovery.

PDSA exists to provide free expert veterinary care and treatments to the pets of the people who are most in need in society; those who simply could not afford private care for their beloved pets.  For the people and pets of Wolverhampton, we offer these services through a dedicated PDSA Pet Hospital in the city, which on an average day sees around 100 poorly pets and worried owners.  Anyone who owns a pet can appreciate the value they undoubtedly bring to our lives.  For everything they give us, we need to be doing everything we can to keep them healthy and happy in return.  The wonderful donation from the James Beattie Charitable Trust will help us to continue this work; enabling us to reunite pet and owner quicker.

Stacey Teesce

Major Gifts Fund-raiser

Direct Line: 01952 797 280

E mail

http://www.pdsa.org.uk/

Multiple System Atrophy Trust

Thank you for your wonderful grant, which will go directly towards our work supporting vulerable families in Wolverhampton experiencing a diagnosis of the terminal neurodegenerative disease MSA. You donation means the world and will help us provide support groups, MSA Nurse Specialists and a helpline.

Thank you. 

 

Katie Heyward

Fundraiser

Multiple System Atrophy Trust
Main telephone: 0333 323 4591

 

Changing Tunes Midlands

We have found the recent

contribution from James Beattie Trust extremely useful in maintaining our existing work in HMP Brinsford YOI, working with young men 16-25

yrs. Our musician has found the work exciting, challenging and fun; getting participants to open up and reveal the types of music they like and want to engage with. Initially this is difficult without them feeling judged by peers, however as our musician works to create a good environment they start to engage with the process. We now have people working with us writing and performing their own music, with keys, Beats and Hip hop styles, including bass playing and hand drumming. Changing Tunes Midlands is working to expand our operations into HMP Oakwood and HM

P Featherstone prisons in the very near

future and values the support of the James Beattie Trust.

Dave Perryman.
Changing Tunes Midlands

Circus Starr

Let me just say, thank you so much! The James Beattie Charitable Trust has made it possible for vulnerable and underprivileged children in Wolverhampton to come to our two

relaxed and inclusive Big Top Circus shows. Your support of our project has given children and families with access needs the opportunity to explore live performance, to create special memories and to spend quality time together as a family. Fun matters and at a time when businesses and foundations are facing uncertainty post-Brexit – and so many other requests for donations – you thought of others for whom FUN is all too often in short supply and extended your hand of support to them. 

 

Judith HallGrants and Trusts Manager
For and on behalf of Circus StarrT:  01260 288690

E:  judith.halle@circus-starr.org.uk

W: www.circus-starr.org.uk