The Alexa Trust has raised £18,571.04 of the £20,000.00 target for our Neonatal Breastfeeding Support Appeal PHASE 2. To date we have donated: ✔4 Breast Pumps ✔8 Bottle Sterilisers, worth £3,106.32 ✔£6,000.00 towards the refurbishment of the Feeding Room As part of PHASE 2 of the Neonatal Breastfeeding Support Appeal, we have now raised enough funds to Read More
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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
PHASE 2 – FEEDING ROOM – DONATION
by Howard James On May the 2nd, trustee Howard James (that’s me) went to the William Harvey Neonatal Unit to donate a cheque written for £6,000.00. This is towards Phase 2 of our Neonatal Breastfeeding Support Appeal – giving the feeding room a much needed make-over. Which is dated, needs some TLC and a modern Read More
WORLD PREMATURITY DAY 2017
Friday 17th November is world prematurity day in recognition of the 15 million babies born prematurely worldwide and of these approxamitely 60 thousand babies are born to UK mums. 1 in 10 babies are born preterm worldwide and according to the World Health Organisation preterm birth is classified as: extremely preterm (<28 weeks) very preterm Read More
CALLING ALL HOSPITAL STAFF – East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Calling all staff at the William Harvey Hospital, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Buckland Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital to take part in the 2018 KM Charity Team Events to raise money and awareness for The Alexa Trust. Abseil TBC Assault Course TBC Big Charity Quiz TBC KM Read More
INSPIRATIONAL MARATHON SWIMMER – Phia Steyn
Download Phia’s SWIM REPORT Download SWIM REPORT by Robert Hamilton, Vigour Events UPDATE: Phia has made it and it comes with no surprise. Well done Phia, you are amazing! UPDATE: Due to flooding Phia’s swim has been delayed, just waiting for the right moment. UPDATES TO FOLLOW The Alexa Trust would like to wish fellow Read More
DEAL REGATTA SWIM 2017
What a great turn out this year! With fabulour weather and spirtis high 57 swimmers took to the water, later joined by Sophie Papougnot, who was swimming the Deal Regatta Swim as part of her 50 is a magic number Challenge. This year was also the first year we supplied swim caps with our iconic Read More
PRE-LOVED CLOTHES SALE 2017
Although we had limited footfall, maybe because the Kingsdown Rocks and Carnical were in full swing, we still raised decent money. Thank you for everybody who donated clothes, shoes and accessories, everybody who volunteered on the day and friends, passer-bys and family who supported event. A special thank you to Lisa Mabbs, Kate Forey and Read More
50 IS THE MAGIC NUMBER CHALLENGE – Sophie Papougnot
Interview with Sophie Papougnot CONGRATULATIONS SOPHIE!!! On completing your 7 days challenge; 50km swim, 50km cycle, 50km run, 50km walk. We are super proud of you. Enjoy your rest and we look forward to hearing about it very soon. To DONATE, please follow link: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sophiepapougnot1 DONATIONS NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR THIS EVENT From 22nd-29th Read More
CHARITY SINGLE EXPRESS YOURSELF BECOMES BACKING TRACK – Vigour Events Scotland
We are feeling very proud to have our charity single Express Yourself as backing track to team Vigour Events promotional videos. Hope you like it… Home of Open Water Swimming in Scotland 100% of all money raised from Express Yourself will go towards supporting breastfeeding mums in neonatal. Only £2 to download, it’s a bargain! Read More