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
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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
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
FATHERS’ DAY FUNDRAISING RAFFLE – Lloyds Bank, Herne Bay
All this week Lloyds Bank Herne Bay is hosting a fundraising event for The Alexa Trust. Spot The Ball Competition Book Sale Not only to raise valuable funds to support parents, but also to bring more awareness for dads in neonatal. Thank you Donna for organising event. Total Raised: £18.70 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