Thank you for taking the time to visit the Trust’s Just Giving page in preparation for our forthcoming sponsored walk when we will trek from Southend United’s ground at Roots Hall Southend, to Victoria Road home of local Essex rivals Dagenham & Redbridge to raise funds for the Trust and the Stroke Unit at Southend Hospital.

Through supporter membership and fund raising the Trust currently provides sponsorship to Southend United’s youth department and has also helped raise money for specific items required by the club, including equipment for its physiotherapy department. We are always keen wherever appropriate to increase our investment by partnering other important causes within the club. We see Southend United Football Club as being an important part of our town. 

We in addition see the Trust as having a role to play within the surrounding community and as part of this activity on Tuesday 28th January 2014 nine Trust Members will be walking the 28 miles to the away game between Southend and Dagenham & Redbridge, to raise funds for the Trust and the Stroke Unit at Southend Hospital.

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than 380,000 patients each year. It’s the local hospital for the Southend area and beyond, providing a wide range of acute services and specialist treatment.

Strokes are the largest single cause of severe disability and the third most common cause of death in the UK after heart disease and cancer. They will have a major impact on the lives of individuals they affect. The Stroke Unit at Southend University Hospital via its excellent services and state of the art facilities has dramatically helped to reduce the level of disability in stroke patients and has become one of the top three stroke services in the country. Through the Trust’s fund raising efforts we want to help maintain the Unit’s excellent services – as after all you never know when ourselves or someone close to us might need these services.

We do hope that you will sponsor us for our walk. You can either make a donation in support of the whole team’s efforts or alternatively sponsor a specific walker. The choice is yours-- we really don’t mind!

Any sponsorship pledge you can make no matter how small will be very welcome and in anticipation thank you so much for your support.

If you are a UK taxpayer, please remember to tick the Gift Aid box when donating as this will increase your donation by at least 25% at no cost to you.

Monies raised will be split 50/50 between the Trust and the Stroke Unit.

Again many thanks for your donation!