The Foundation is committed to providing regular backing for the organisations that it supports, raising funds by means of sponsored challenges and fundraising events / auctions.

We are constantly looking for new organisations to support, providing their remit falls within the boundaries of our charitable objects (and obviously funds permitting).

Our Current Projects 

To date, the funds we have raised have been split between the following charities:

Rennie Grove Hospice Care 

Rennie Grove Hospice Care is a registered charity offering specialist and supportive care and advice for patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses in their homes and in the hospice.  The Charity also supports patient’s relatives and carers whilst their loved ones are ill, and through bereavement.

They helped Sacha hugely in his final days, supported Lucy with bereavement counselling and provided age-appropriate play counselling for Olivia which helped her come to terms with his death.

Anthony Nolan

The Anthony Nolan Trust matches patients requiring bone marrow transplants with donors. Sacha saw first-hand how invaluable this was to many of the wonderful people he met in his many stays in hospital.

The Foundation has supported the Trust in helping to increase their database of donors, thereby increasing the likelihood of suitable bone marrow donors being available for patients.   For many patients, these transplants represent the only realistic curative option remaining for them.

Macmillan Cancer Support | The UK's leading cancer care charity

Macmillan exist to help improve the lives of people affected by cancer, both those living with the disease and their families and carers.  They rely on voluntary donations for 99% of their income.

Sacha’s Macmillan Nurse changed the course of his illness, providing physical, emotional and practical help and support.  Amongst other things, she helped to apply for a temporary blue badge to help with parking, logistics and costs after Sacha’s application was rejected, and literally physically picking Lucy up off the floor after she became exhausted driving him to and from London every day for blood transfusions.  Her kindness, support and guidance were invaluable for the family.

Child Bereavement UK

Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. They support children and young people when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. They also provide training to professionals in health and social care, education, the emergency services and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

Lucy and Olivia both received bereavement counselling and were able to join in family groups which helped them both realise that they weren’t on their own.  Olivia went on to join the Young Persons Advisory Group which met regularly to not only connect bereaved teenagers, but where they brainstormed ideas to help other families going through the pain of death and bereavement.  Lucy subsequently volunteered for the charity for a year and worked on the phone lines which was a humbling experience. 

Year on year demand for this service increases by approximately 20%. Also, come September/October 2023, some of the funding which currently pays for this service is coming to an end.

£3,000 could enable the charity to respond to 100 calls to their freephone Helpline from bereaved families or the professionals who are supporting them, providing a listening ear, guidance, and support.  It’s an invaluable resource for many different people from families to emergency workers and teachers.   The ability to signpost people towards the help and support they need cannot be underestimated.

UK's Largest Woodland Conservation Charity - Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity. They fight to protect woods and trees preventing the loss of irreplaceable habitat and carbon stores, preserving our natural heritage for the future.  The Foundation have donated and dedicated half an acre of Pepperbox Wood in Great Missenden in Memory of Sacha.

New Projects

Alongside these existing charities, funds raised by Charlie’s participation in (and hopeful completion of) this year’s Marathon des Sables in Morocco will support the following organisations:

Maggie's Barts - London (City & East) | Maggies

There are now 24 Maggie’s centres across the UK, located alongside major cancer hospitals. They function as one unified charity (SC024414); however, each centre has its own separate budget and local management. Their priority has always been to work closely with GPs, hospitals, and clinical teams; not to replace them, but to help ease the pressure on their tight schedules and limited resources, improving their patients’ experience.

Maggie's centres are built around a central 'kitchen table' to create a comfortable, domestic atmosphere; the centre is a calm space where people can process their situation and feelings away from the clinical environment. Last year Maggie’s delivered over 293,000 sessions of support at our centres and online/via phone, and over 67,000 people visited for the first time.

The Foundation wish to support them in all they do.  Sacha was treated and died in St Bartholomew’s Hospital and if a Maggie’s Centre had been there when he was it would have made the lives of all of us who supported him very different with a safe space and accompanying emotional and physical support.

Lindengate

Lindengate is a small, award-winning, nature-based health and wellbeing charity that champions the benefits of learning and recovery through nature, encouraging resilience of wellbeing in people of all ages (from 8 – 95 years), whilst at the same time protecting the environment and having a positive impact on the natural world.  They run courses for many diverse groups from troubled teens, children struggling at school, those undergoing cancer treatment and dementia as well as man others. 

They were awarded the coveted Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services, have over 200 volunteers as well as being awarded The Green Flag for excellence for having one of the best quality community gardens in the country.

Bursary Programme – Bristol University

Sacha studied Geology at Bristol from 1991 to 1994 and was first diagnosed with Lymphoma in 1992; thanks to the amazing support of the University he managed to carry on with his degree whilst having chemotherapy and was able to graduate with his peers.

The Foundation has donated funds to the Bristol University Life Sciences department to create a long-term bursary in his name, to support students from marginalised backgrounds or those who’s financial circumstances are impacted by illness, to enable them to continue with their studies.

If you or your organisation would like to apply to The Foundation for support, please contact us, we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as is reasonably possible.