LATEST NEWS In these difficult times many charities are struggling with reduced funding, but an increased demand for their services. We have received several requests for grants from charities new to us. As a result we have decided to support Lewis-Manning Hospice Care for their support to the families of those with life-limiting illnesses in Dorset and Bede House Association who support young people and those with learning disabilities or suffering domestic abuse in Southwark.
2000 Community Action Centre on the Peyps estate in Deptford runs the Peyps Social Supermarket.
The Good Grief Project, which began as a project to make a documentary film about the grief of bereaved parents and the continuing bonds they have with their dead child, has now become a charity. Their mission is to support families grieving after the untimely death of a loved one, particularly the death of a child and to promote an understanding of what it means to grieve.
Meanwhile the film now named 'A Love That Never Dies' has been on a UK-wide tour.
Alice's Escapes is based in the southern Lake District and provides holidays for seriously ill children and their families. We gave them £5,000 towards another cabin to provide holidays for bereaved families too. Here it is just arrived.
We have been supporting Joshua Orphan and Communtiy Care and their valuable work helping vulnerable children and their families in Malawi since 2015.
| Jessica On the 2nd March this year it was 18 years since we last saw our beautiful and much loved Jessica. And on the 12th of April it will be her 32nd birthday.
Jessica's Heart The JMT owns and manages Jessica's Heart, a former pub in Deptford called The Osborne Arms.
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Jessica's Tree We have a tree in Greenwich Park dedicated to Jessica's memory.
Ashdon Jazz Academy The JMT supports the Ashdon Jazz Academy. This is a charity set up by a bereaved mum in memory of her daughter who ended her own life, aged 14.
Many teenagers are struggling with depression, low self-esteem, negative body images, self-harming, eating disorders, bullying, the pressure of premature sexualisation, gang sexual exploitation and other emotional difficulties The Ashdon Jazz Academy aims to provide these female teenagers with a dedicated trained female mentor. |
