Our two newest Members of The Snowdrop Care at Home Team have In the language Care at home Spring 2010 now been with the Trust for Jane Wilkinson, Family Volunteer Co-ordinator, 7 months and are settling in well. has been meeting all the Volunteers, which has of flowers, the for children with helped her to understand the diverse assistance Julie Hearn joined The Snowdrop Care at Home that Volunteers are able to offer to Snowdrop snowdrop means life-threatening Team after our previous Snowdrop Counsellor, Families. She has now started to meet many of hope & consolation Annette, left to manage a NHS Countywide the Snowdrop Families. Jane is in the process and terminal illnesses Counselling Service. Julie has been working with of getting to grips with essential new Policies, several Snowdrop Families, and says that she is mandatory training sessions for Volunteers ...... really enjoying her new role. and so much more. ABOUT US EVENTS DIARY 2010 Pizza Party President ANNUAL CHARITY WALK Geraldine Hamilton Snowdrop Family 9 May Arundel Castle Park Walkers to start between Delight Chairman & Co-Founder Volunteers Diana Levantine 2.00 – 3.30pm Entrance Fee : Adults £2, Children £1, Pizza Express Susie Pike is one of our very special Family Co-Founder & Trustee (under 12’s free). in Chichester Kate Shaw newsletter Volunteers. As a trained Beautician, Susie has been Sponsored Adults & Children free have supported Snowdrop in able to help several Snowdrop Mums to benefit Vice-Chairman & Trustee entry. many ways during the latter part Dogs welcome but must be on leads from her wonderful relaxing massages, facials, Valerie Seddon of 2009 and the early part of 2010. pedicures and manicures. Susie also organises Former President & Trustee ROUNDHILL COTTAGE In February, the Manager and Staff Lady Miranda Emett EAST DEAN Charity Runs to raise money for the Trust. Over National Garden Scheme organised a wonderful Party for the Christmas she asked all her ‘running friends’ to Trustees 30 & 31 May 2.00 – 5.30pm Snowdrop Families. Pizza, risotto, join her to run some of the Centurian Way. It was Elizabeth Edwards, Rita Hope, Pauline Open Gardens/Teas pasta and other delicacies were Blumer, Marilyn Brooks, Suzanne Clark freezing when they started off and yet they were all TESCO’S STORE served to delighted youngsters and in such good humour ...... perhaps it was their Santa Office Manager COLLECTION their parents. The food just kept A St John Ambulance First Aid Training Joanne Rule 10 June 10.00am – 6.00pm on being cooked and served until hats that helped to make them feel so festive ! Shripney Road store, Bognor Regis Course for Family Volunteers was held in Office Administrator everyone was full to bursting ! January. 10 Volunteers, along with Di Levantine Claire Rowlands EVENING PRESENTATION We are so grateful to Pizza 9 July 7.30 – 9.30pm and Jane Wilkinson, attended the Course and Registered Charity Address ‘You Cannot Be Serious’. A Talk on Express for giving so many of our MAKE A DONATION all attendees found it to be extremely useful, 3 Kingley Centre Wimbledon behind the scenes by Tony Families an evening they won’t interesting and fun ! Downs Road Hughes forget. West Stoke Edes House, West Street, Chichester The Charity spends around £240,000 annually on Chichester Drinks Reception direct care for the Families and The Snowdrop ‘Care West Sussex Tickets £15.00 will be available from PO18 9HJ at Home’ Team. This crucial financial support the Admin Office – 01243 572433 Paul Adams with the ‘Boats by Moonlight’ Painting helps parents to cope with the day-to-day problems t: 01243 572433 SELSEY HORTICULTURAL of caring for a very sick child. The financial e: [email protected] SOCIETY SUMMER SHOW Chichester problems that parents have can be overwhelming, www.thesussexsnowdroptrust.com 31 July 2.30 – 4.30pm Manhood Community College possibly becoming the ‘last straw’. Registered Charity No: 1096622 School Lane, Selsey The Trust receives no help from the Limited Company Number: 4557686 Snowdrop goods will be on sale Welcomes (Limited by Guarantee) Government and depends on the generous support ROLLS ROYCE of this Community – Schools, Clubs, Church Groups, THE SNOWDROP MOTOR-CARS LTD Local Trusts, Organisations and Individuals. Every penny CARE AT HOME TEAM 16 September 5.30 – 7.00pm is appreciated and enables Snowdrop to be able to Westhampnett Plant NEW ADDRESS Reception + Plant Tour continue to provide this vital help. Please can you Tickets £15.00 will be available from Artists The Westhampnett Centre help us to help these children and their families. 28-29 Westhampnett Road the Admin Office – 01243 572433 Chichester SNOWDROP AUTUMN The Snowdrop CARE AT HOME TEAM West Sussex PO19 7HH TEA PARTY have moved 4 times this year! T: 01243 815227 21 October 2.00 – 4.30pm name Walberton Village Hall Community Nurses Tickets £10.00 will be available from ...... I/We would like to make a donationHowever, and enclose they have£ . . . . now. . . . . finally. settled into offices at The Westhampnett 01243 815227 The Hornet Gallery has just opened in Chichester and sells work address the Admin Office – 01243 572433. Centre, and we hope that this will be their permanent base. As the Jane Evans, RCN CCN Presentation by Ann McDonald, ARPS by Steven Neal and Paul Adams. Paul, a well known local artist, Gill Cunningham, RCN CCN ...... Team are employed by the NHS, although most of them are funded The Far East through a Photographer’s has always wanted to run an Art Gallery. His oil paintings hang in Rosy Turner, RCN by Snowdrop, they have always worked from an NHS site. The Lens many Chichester homes and are collected by his admirers all over D Michele Walker, RCN CCN Snowdrop goods and Christmas onation the Country. In 2009 Paul donated his painting of ‘Chichester in partnership between our Charity and the NHS PCT works Cards will be on sale. very well. Dr Ann Wallace, the Consultant Community Nurse Support Workers Snow’ to Snowdrop and it was used for Snowdrop’s most successful Stephanie Grindley COMBINED CHARITIES Christmas Card last year. Steven paints in a different style and his Paediatrician, who was the instigator of Snowdrop Jackie Wheatland AUTUMN FAIR send F work is also much sought-after by collectors. Both Artists have very orm in 1993, has headed the Team since Di and Kate 6 November Timings TBC 3 Kingley to Centre, Downs Road, Family Volunteer Co-ordinator West Stoke, Chichester PO18 9HJ Walberton Village Hall kindly offered to donate 20% of all their sales proceeds over the : The Sussex Snowdrop Trust, founded the Charity . Dr Wallace is in constant 01243 815273 Please make cheques payable to ‘The Snowdrop goods and Christmas contact with the Nurses, and when a child is Jane Wilkinson coming months to Snowdrop. postcode This original oil painting of Sussex Snowdrop Trust’. Gift Aid Cards will be on sale. At the Preview Evening, one of Paul’s paintings, which has very referred by their GP to the Hospital, Dr Family Support Counsellors ‘Chichester in Snow’, was Forms can be supplied upon CHARITY BALL generously been donated to Snowdrop by Mr and Mrs Ian Spawton, Wallace is immediately informed. This Phil Portway gifted to the Trust by the artist request or downloaded ...... 13 November Timings TBC was put on show and will be sold to the highest bidder. The highest information is then passed onto Julie Hearn Avisford Park Hotel, in Paul Adams. The painting was from the website. bid when this Newsletter went to print was £1,000 ! Please visit the the Team. Team Administrator conjunction with Snowdrop. subsequently auctioned, the Tickets £TBC – will be available from Gallery in the Hornet and take a look at this beautiful picture of Karen Spencer highest bid resulting in £510 for the Admin Office – 01243 572433 ‘Boats by Moonlight’. the Trust. Di Levantine, Chairman & Co-Founder Snowdrop host their first ever children’s Pendean House, a BUPA Residential Autumn Tea Party Home near Midhurst, has been raising money for Snowdrop for many years. 78 Snowdrop Supporters attended this Christmas Party Snowdrop Founders, Kate Shaw popular annual event and enjoyed a delicious The Hilton Avisford Park Hotel in Snowdrop are ever thankful for the wonderful and Di Levantine, were invited to tea provided and served by Members of the Walberton was the setting for the first generosity of the Snowdrop Supporters. Below a Wine & Cheese Evening at the Committee. Consie Dunn, former Organiser thank you ever Snowdrop Children’s Christmas is a very small selection of organisations and Home in October last year, and were of the West Sussex NGS, gave an extremely Party, with some 60 youngsters and Rumboldswhyke CE School, Christmas individuals who held events, sold Snowdrop presented with a cheque for almost £800. informative and illustrated talk about the their Parents attending. The arrival Celebration donations - £82; Anchor Bleu, thankgoods and/or kindly made donations: you The Manager, Jackie Travers and the Staff various gardens which have been entered Bosham (Julie Snell), Quiz Night - £123; Adams of Father Christmas laden with gifts Integra, Donations in lieu of sending Christmas are thanked for all their wonderful ongoing into the Scheme over the years. The event was the highlight of the afternoon. Our thanks go to the support of the Trust. produced a wonderful £1,192 for the Trust. Cards - £200; Badgers Pub, Petworth, Guest Wayfarer’s Royal Arch Sincere thanks go to Shayne Miller of donations - £547; Walberton CE Primary Masonic Lodge No. 7995, Val Seddon, Trustee SupremeClean for his sponsorship of School, Christmas Musical Production collections who have again this year the children’s gifts and teas, Carte Blanche - £939; Rumboldswhyke, Whyke & Portfield donated Easter Eggs for Greetings for the teddy bears and, of course, the PCC, St George’s Church, collections - £860; the Snowdrop children. An audience of 70 discerning music lovers and Hotel for providing the venue. Cornelius House, Christmas Raffle - £50; doting parents were entertained to both Marilyn Brooks, Trustee Santa comes to Donnington Parish Hall, New Year’s Eve Dance Pagham District Council, donation - £150; In modern and classical music, provided by Summersdale proceeds - £250; Laburnum Grove Junior School, Christmas Concert donations - £160; Memory of Joshua Court, Annual Football Soloists from the West Sussex County BBC Radio Sussex and Santa Claus visited the Summersdale Match - £550; C & M Trophies, Ladies Willowhale Bowls Club, donations in lieu of Youth Orchestra. We were treated Radio Surrey chose The Garage in Lavant, bringing along his Bowls League donation - £100; Midhurst Christmas Cards/Fun Afternoon - £115; Rosy to a lively display on the Sussex Snowdrop Trust to benefit Elves and his Reindeer, Blitzen and Turner, sale of Christmas decorations - £436; Masonic Lodge, donation - £200; Mr & xylophone, violin and clarinet Mrs Barry Seaman, donation - £203; Anne from their annual Nine Carols and Star. Kate Mosse, local author, came Beggar’s Roost Nursing Home, Christmas Raffle Mudford, donation - £150; Yvonne Norris, solos, and a harp Nine Lessons Christmas Concert to meet Santa and to open the event. - £215; Southbourne Parish Council, donation donations in lieu of Wedding Gifts - £770; solo, played thank you held in Chichester Cathedral Despite the dreadful weather, Santa - £65; Southbourne Infant School, Christmas Penny Hardwick, donation - £200; Wayfarer’s Celebration of beautifully by in December. Well loved Radio spent the whole day chatting to the Concert collections - £210: Selsey Jigsaw Club Chapter 7995, donation - £300; Bognor a young lady Presenters read the Lessons children, and Punch & Judy, Tombola (Sandy Lewis), donations - £175; St. Mary’s Regis (Parke Family), Sponsors-v-Juniors Golf whose shoes to a packed Cathedral. As the and a large Raffle stall were provided Centre, Felpham, Retiring Collection/Christmas Tournament - £382; Larrikin Explorer Scout Youth Music would have made Concert was being recorded to be for entertainment. The Trust is not Concert - £600; Pagham Pram Race, Raffle/ Group , The Downsman 24hr endurance broadcast at Christmas, everyone only grateful to Santa, but also to Street Collection - £400; Saxa Regis Council Victoria Beckham RSM No. 204, donation - £250; Owen & Nadja run - £226; J S Humidifiers, donation - £300; had to be as quiet as possible - quite Helen Spilsted who organised the Marian Cullis, Jam/Marmalade sales - £150; Dr turn green with envy. ‘The Tico-Tico Bird in the Cornmeal’, was played to us on the violin with Everson, Annual Word Puzzle proceeds - £431; difficult if you had a cough! The retiring event and kindly donated £412 to P Wilkins, donation - £100; Felicity Garwood, great zest by a youngster aged 10. The Ensemble played a selection of pieces varying from Bach Thair Family of Chichester, Christmas House collection raised £778. Our sincere thanks to Great South Run Sponsorship - £156; Lois to Gershwin. We thank these young performers who gave up their precious free time in order to Snowdrop. Lights collection - £130; Bosham Primary everyone who supported this event. Jowett, Coffee Evening - £410; Arundel help other young people of their age who are so much less fortunate than them. The delicious Kate Shaw, Trustee School, Carol Service Collection - £104; Ken Players, Christmas Coffee Morning - £525; tea was provided by Snowdrop Volunteers and was hugely appreciated, not least by the & Valerie Strudwick, Christmas Decoration Dorset House School, Parents’ Association young violin player who had to have chocolate cake wiped from his mouth by Adam Display - £290; Holy Cross Church, Bignor, Southbourne Classical Christmas Eve Service Collection - £200; St. donation - £250; Bosham Crafts for Christmas Barker – Adam teaches and mentors these youngsters. The afternoon raised £725 (Jan Guest), Makers’ donations/raffle/ Singers Concert Peter’s Church, Selsey, donation - £500; Optima for the Trust. Our thanks go to the Headmaster and Governors of Seaford refreshments - £1,400; Friday Morning Ladies Donna Redman (a Snowdrop Mom), was Company, Christmas Raffle - £100; Neil & Sue College for allowing us to use their superb Music Rooms for this event. of Langstone, Charity Sale proceeds - £257; asked by her friends Kelly Bennett and Debbie Edden of Mitchmere Farm, (NGS) – exhibitor East Preston & Kingston Horticultural Society, Consie Dunn & Geraldine Hamilton, President commissions/donations - £606; Masonic Lodge Hitchman what they could give her to celebrate donation - £50; Chichester Quilters, donations The Bury Union No. 38, donation - £200; PCC of Hill Bikers have her Birthday. Donna said she would like to do Chidham, donation - £91; W Wittering PCC, - £2,000; Langmead Farms Grim Challenge Local Rotary & Lions Team, Sponsorship - £300; Grittenham Barn continued to fundraise something to raise money for Snowdrop in order Photograph provided courtesy of donation - £500; Midhurst Lodge of Mark Clubs have always The Chichester Observer Christmas Fair (Nicola Rollason), donations for Snowdrop during 2009; to say thank you for the support she and her Master Masons, donation - £350; Sussex Mark - £913; Rogate PCC, Christmas Market supported the Trust among the many events organised husband Neil had received in caring for their son. Benevolent Fund Charity, donation - £350; proceeds - £600; Inner Wheel of throughout its 16 years they held a Concert, sale of a DVD, The outcome was a Concert in Southbourne Funtington PCC, St. Mary’s Church, proceeds Littlehampton, donation - £200; existence. The very first a Bike Push at the Snowdrop Annual Church with singers, ballet and modern dancers. The Rare Brand Market from Choristers’ Comfort Cordial sales - £50; Chichester Cathedral Fellowship, thank you donation Snowdrop 2009 Walk and a Charity Ride by Mimmine Lodge, Festival Weekend Raffle/ This was a wonderful Birthday treat for Donna to comes to Sussex Annual Charitable Giving - £100; Terry received was from the some 200 Bikers around Sussex. The Auction - £1,229; Louise Coleman & Friends, share with her friends and family, and one which Emma Schwartz and Sarah Taylor, donation - £100; Stephen Chichester Rotarians hard work and sterling efforts of the proceeds from Family Fun Day in Fishbourne enabled her to donate the magnificent gift of Morison, the founders of the rare brand Sibbald/Dawn Scott, Walberton and was for a fantastic BHB has meant that over £4,000 has - £350; East Dean Quiz Night, Raffle - £140 been donated to our funds. £630 to Snowdrop. market, contacted Snowdrop and Barn Dance proceeds - £130; St. £2,000. A photograph Cowdray Park Seniors Golf Members, 2009 Pauline Blumer, Trustee kindly offered to run their Christmas Mary’s Church, Chidham, Carol Singing of this first-ever Cheque monthly raffles - £2,720; Danny Market with the proceeds being Bailey, Chichester Priory 10K proceeds - £91; Aldingbourne Social Club, Presentation hangs in the 2009 Collecting Tins - £247; St. James’ Church Advent at Arundel Four local donated to the Trust. The Run sponsorship - £103. Trust’s West Stoke Office. Birdham, Crib Service proceeds - £272; The Roman Catholic Deanery Schools took part in a marketplace was set up Chris Withall, Gill & Friends, Since that time in 1993, Southdowners, donation - £200; Tanbridge memorable Advent Service at Arundel Cathedral. in the beautiful Farbridge proceeds from knitted Snowdrop have been extremely fortunate to House School, Christmas Concert proceeds Dancers, musicians, singers and readers Barns, and some 40 rare Christmas items - £250; have received several gifts from both the - £310; Baxter Family of Binderton, Christmas performed to captivated parents, friends and retail brands displayed their Blackdown Charity Clay local Lions and Rotary Clubs. Pigeon Shoot, donation lights - £350; Oldwick Saddlery, Reindeer Day guests. Each of the four Schools had raised original Christmas gifts. thank you donations - £216; CIS Golf Society, Christmas money for the Trust by way of organising their - £1,000; Ford Airfield Together with an Italian Market, Snowman donations Raffle - £130; Last December, Members of the 1st own Advent Charity Projects. These funds, Coffee Cafe, a gift wrapping - £110; Chichester District SNOWDROP ANNUAL CHARITY WALK Hunston Brownies entertained their together with the Cathedral retiring collection, service and a creative workshop Council, funds raised in lieu of ARUNDEL CASTLE PARK friends and families with a delightful Fashion resulted in a wonderful £1,614 being donated the day became a huge success. Sunday, 9 May 2010 sending Christmas Cards - £116; Show and other very enjoyable performances. Bikers to Snowdrop. Di Levantine, who attended the Dogs are allowed at this Sales of Snowdrop items, raffle Edward Bryant School, Christmas Card event, but it is imperative They presented Di Levantine with a Service, was given the opportunity to talk about proceeds and general donations, resulted donation - £25; Supremeclean, provision of that they are kept on a wonderful cheque for £250 which they had raised the work of the Trust and to personally thank all Snowdrop leaflets; Omega Press, provision of lead at ALL times. Boost Funds in a wonderful £1,390 for the Trust. Thank you. for the Charity. the children and staff for their excellent support. Jo Rule, Office Manager Snowdrop letterheads.