We had a wonderful day handing out presents to the Children at St George’s Hospital in Tooting Thank you very much to the play specialists for all their help. Thank you to the trustee families, Darren and James Bowler , Amy and Anna Hancox and Henry and Christian Blandford for being amazing Santa helpers!…
We have a few bits of news so thought it would be a good idea to do a quick blog post to update our friends and followers on what has been happening. We are almost ready for the Santa visit on the 21st December, as usual Pete will be donning the Santa outfit and will…
Christian is in the Chapel Choir at the New Beacon School and they had their Advent service at the beautiful chapel at Tonbridge school. The junior school choir sang Christian’s composition, “The Snow”, while he played the piano. If any parent wants photos of the event they can be downloaded from here. This is a…
We are thrilled to announce that Waitrose Sevenoaks have chosen The Christian Blandford Fund as one of their three charities for December’s Community Matters!! This is a scheme whereby at the end of your shop you are given a green token to place in a box of the charity you’d most like to support. At…
Kevin Britt is doing the London night rider event and raising money for The Christian Blandford Fund. Kevin writes The night rider event is a 100k 62 mile ride around London taking in 50 of London’s most famous site including the Olympic park, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalger Square, the Royal Opera House and the London Eye. There are over 4000 riders raising funds…
Christian used to love going to Stagecoach in Tonbridge, and I received this lovely email from Wendy who runs it… I just wanted to get in touch to let you know that on our last day of term (28th March) our students will be having an informal Medieval Market for parents and friends. We would…
Claudia received an email recently from the lovely Lucy Docherty. Hi Claudia, Its Lucy here. I have attached to this email a piece of English work I had to complete for school, because Mum thought you might like to read it. We had to do a speech using persuasive and emotive language, and I thought Christian’s inspiringstory of…
We had a great day handing out presents at St George’s helped by the wonderful play specialists. The photos are on facebook here and also here where parents can download hi-res versions using the username guest and the password Christmas. Thank you very much for the very talented photographer Hugh Miller who gave up his…
Christian loves to play the piano and write his own music, this year he entered a competition run by Sevenoaks School to write a Christmas Carol for a 5 part choir. The winners and runners up in each age group got their song sung by the incredible London based Cantus Ensemble at the Christmas Carol concert…
We strongly feel that our goal is to improve the life of children staying in hospitals. Sometimes that means spending money on buying things that make life better, but sometimes it involves putting pressure (gentle or otherwise) on authorities to make changes that we feel are important. All of the trustees in The Christian Blandford Fund, Peter,…
