Crowdfunding for our Cambodia Sensory Spaces

Our chair, Andrew, has just returned from a visit to Cambodia where he has been undertaking outreach medical clinics for the last week.

These have been taking place in South West Cambodia - where the majority of our sensory spaces are located in Cambodia. There have been significant changes in the local area since his last visit six months ago - there has been huge urban development and during this visit Andrew learned that a number of children are living on and around construction sites. Transport around the region was extremely difficult during this visit due to the effect the construction vehicles are having on the roads.

The centre in Cambodia where one of our sensory spaces is located has taken the very pragmatic decision to move this into the community - near a railway line community - where a significant number of children live. This will make access easier and will ensure that even more children can benefit from the support the Sensory Space will provide to their development, health and wellbeing. Great move, we say!

Our focus for the remainder of 2019 and early 2020 is to raise sufficient funds to be able to install a further sensory space in another location in Cambodia, and your support is really valuable to help us achieve that aim. We're a long way from our target at the moment, but we are confident that we'll reach it with your amazing support.

In the meantime, here are a few photos from Andrew's latest visit.

Thanks, as always, for your superb suport of SicKids charity.

Kind regards,

The SicKids team

Hi everyone,

We’re thrilled to welcome Jenny Brown to our Board of Trustees.

Jenny joins Andrew, Dianne and Den as part of the charity’s leadership team. We’re all volunteers, and personally invest time and money into SicKids, which means – as, unlike many bigger, SicKids has no overheads – we guarantee that every penny we receive from donations goes directly towards supporting the health and wellbeing of children and young people in the northwest of England and in Cambodia.

Jenny is a Managing Director of Women and Children’s Services in a large acute hospital in the northwest of England. She has worked as a healthcare administrator in the NHS since 1991 and has undertaken a variety of administrative and operational management roles. After working for over 17 years in a world leading cancer hospital, in 2008 she began working in one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in England and along the way was awarded a PGDip in Health Services Management from The Manchester Business School. 

Jenny has worked across several areas of acute healthcare services including oncology, critical care, emergency and acute medicine, paediatrics, neonates and maternity services. Having worked across a variety of health services that children and young people (CYP) access, Jenny is aware of how often the needs CYP and their carers are not always recognised or provided, and is looking forward to working with SicKids supporters to make the difference. 

When Jenny’s able to get away from the both hospital and the housework, she enjoys watching live music, hill walking and running… slowly!

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Over the next six months we will begin active fundraising again to try to secure sufficient funds to install a further Sensory Space in Cambodia before the end of 2020.

Thanks again for your continued interest in SicKids and for all of your support.

Links:

• Our biggest mission yet in Cambodia
• Opening our sixth Sensory Space
• Working in partnership with THC