ENGLISH CHANNEL RELAYS 2021

  ONLINE APPLICATION TERMS & CONDITIONS PRICING STRUCTURE Before applying you can check out our ENQUIRY PACK, hopefully this will answer some of your questions, but feel free to contact trustee Howard James – howard@thealexatrust.org if you require any additional information.  

LITTLE BOWMAZING FUNDRAISING EVENT

Update: Throughout July Little Bowmazing raised money for The Alexa Trust by selling hair accessories and donating 10% of all sales to us. We can no announce that a donation of 23.80 pounds were made to The Alexa Trust.  This will go towards one of our two current projects The Parents Fuel Fund or Breastfeeding Read More

THE MILK LOUNGE

by Sarah Poole – Neonatal Nurse, William Harvey Hospital “The inspiration for this room was to create a safe, relaxing space that will enable mothers to relax during what is often a very stressful and challenging time. Milk production is reliant on hormones, one makes milk, one releases milk, and when mum is anxious theses hormones are negatively Read More

KM COLOUR RUN 2017

Five Hundred individuals took part in the annual KM Colour Run yesterday, supporting 60 charities.  And raising a grand total of £23,000.00. Three lovely lovely ladies, Diane Shadwell, Charlotte Harper & Julie Lees took part in support of The Alexa Trust and raised a total of £249 of which £74.70 goes towards the KM Charity Read More

IT MATTERS A GREAT DEAL! – We need your support

Any parent who has lost a child, regardless of the situation; miscarriage, stillbirth, infant, young or adult child death, will tell you that the physical ache in your heart never goes away. You learn to live with it, or should I say, keeping busy in life dulls it.  Sometimes when you stop and think the Read More

ENGLISH CHANNEL SOLO SWIM – New Record by Howard James

Not only did Howard James become the new record holder for the earliest English Channel Crossing earlier this year. Today, November 3rd, in spectacular style, he broke the latest crossing record as well, previously held for 36 years. You have to agree this is an amazing achievement. My non swimming mind or should I say Read More

HEARTFELT GESTURE – Kingsdown Beach Pebble Sale

During the summer holiday, five beautiful young ladies from Kingsdown, Walmer and Dover had an fundraising idea; to hand paint and sell stones on Kingsdown beach, to raise money for babies in neonatal.               From left to right: Elena, Lucy, Libby & Ella (Camille not present whilst photo was Read More

MY STORY – where it all begun…

‘Having been diagnosed with severe acute pre-eclampsia at 25 weeks, 4 days’ gestation, I was told the only thing that could “cure” the disease was for my child to be born. My organs were failing fast, but knowing that she wasn’t ready to be born gave as an almost impossible dilemma. We had to strike Read More