Hello everyone and welcome to my just giving page.
On April 25th I am running the London Marathon, for local charity, Help an East Coast Child. I have chosen the charity for a couple of reasons, the first been that in these hard times that we are currently in, funds are hard to raise. The second been more personnel to me is that Help an East Coast Child helped my family raise the funds to purchase a special needs major buggy for my eldest son Mikhail, who is diagnosed at three years old with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Global Developmental delay and severe speech delay.
Background
Help an East Coast Child is a registered charity and set up in 1997 as a Christmas appeal for toys. Local people bought an extra gift for a less privileged child and these were distributed on Christmas Eve by a local support group.
In 2001 we started raising cash...as there’s only so much you can do with two thousand teddy bears and dolls!
Since then nearly £100,000 has been raised for children all around the East Coast...kids with disabilities, school children and students, Scouts and Guides, youth projects and sports teams...the appeal reaches out to everyone.
Local people raise cash all year round, from fashion shows to running the London Marathon.
The Beach covers all running costs of Help an East Coast Child and we promise every penny goes to the local area.
Who has benefited?
Recently we donated £5000 to the Little Acorns Group in Gorleston to help their disabled children.
£5000 also helped fund a sensory garden at the John Grant Special School in Caister.
We've made donations to the Ellie Savage Memorial Fund which helps children living with cancer and research into brain tumours.
We gave help and advice as well as a donation to Kirkley High School students setting up their own radio station.
After playgroup equipment was stolen during a break in at a Great Yarmouth nursery we stepped in and replaced bikes trikes and other toys.
Emily Mia, a brave Yarmouth girl was born without a tibia - a vital part of the leg. The difficult decision was then made to amputate at the knee. Family and friends rallied round to help buy a state of the art artificial leg of which we helped with a cash donation.
As you can see many different children have received help from the charity I am supporting, so please dig deep as any donation will be gratefully received!
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