DONATIONS & FUNDRAISING

Dorset Deaf Children's Society relies on donations and fundraising for funds. It has no paid officers and the Trustees work on a voluntary basis from their own homes. With very small overheads this means that every penny raised and donated is used directly for the benefit of deaf children in Dorset.

We could not provide the support for the deaf children and their families without these generous donations and fundraising.

If you make a donation or you have sponsors who are tax payers we can also Gift Aid your donation or sponsorships which means more funds for DDCS!

Please contact Shirley on 01202 571089 for a Gift Aid Donation or Gift Aid Sponsorship form.

Treasurer contact details:

Shirley Sorbie

Treasurer and
Membership Secretary

01202 571089
07765 304968

Address:

Touchwood,

9 Oakland Walk,

West Parley, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 8PF

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FUNDRAISE OR
DONATE TO DDCS

If you would like to fund raise for us with a sponsored event this is the best way to organise donations.

All you need to do is go to www.kindlink.org select 'Individual Fundraising' and you can set up your own fundraising page and the sponsorship comes direct to us

and they will also claim gift aid for us.

Single donations to the charity can be made on the link below.

THANK YOU!

KindLink - make a donation

KindLink - set up a fundraising page

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR DONATIONS AND FUNDRAISING RECEIVED:

Donations 2024

Richard George
Caroline Watton
Tesco (Grant)

Fundraising 2024

BH Coastal Lottery
Emilia Gray - Car washing

Donations 2023

Richard George
Strategic Solutions Financial Services
ASMPT Sports & Social Club
Mrs Di Phillips - 80th Birthday Gifts
Durnovarian Ladies Group
In memory of June Earles
Kelly Sherman
Charles & Susie Andrews
Axis Foundation
Darren Slade
Anna Reidy
Blue Pebble Finance Ltd
Strategic Solutions Financial Services - Grant for PGL Osmington Bay Acitivity Weekend
Catherine Enright
4com
Entertainer Bournemouth - Jack Gives back

Fundraising 2023

BH Coastal Lottery
LFB Meats - Collection Box
Jocelyn Tritton - Milton Keynes Marathon
Holly Bryant - 100k March for Deafness
Dalkeith Dentist - Collection Box
Amazon Smile
Patrick Blackmore - London Marathon
Broadwindsor Primary School - Petra's class non uniform day
Nicki Paul - London Landmarks Half Marathon
Christmas Party Raffle

Donations 2022

Richard George
Marsham Court Hotel
Strategic Solutions Financial Services
Bournemouth Round Table
Waitrose, Dorchester
Charles & Susie Andrews
Philippa Morrison
ASM Assembly Systems Weymouth Ltd
In memory of Nellie Tarbin
Concern with Hearing Dorset

Fundraising 2022

BH Coastal Lottery
LFB Meats - Collection Box
Amazon Smile
IMI Critical Engineering, Thompsons Valves Ltd - Easter Raffle
Louise Trew & Harbour Hill Crescent Street Party
DDCS - Collection Box
22nd Bournemouth Brownies - Beetle Drive
Poole Bay Holdings - Halloween Fancy Dress

Donations 2021

Charlie Sorbie
Richard George
Martin Bray
Strategic Solutions Financial Services
Charities Trust – For Good Causes
Neil McMullen
Liam Childs
In memory of Rhona Kingsbury
Rejuvo JPCS
Nick Gee
Hand in Hand Lodge of Oddfellows
Sainsbury’s, Poole
Greg Paige
Che & Julia Tsang
Mrs J.M. Hawker
Bournemouth Society for the Deaf
The Entertainer - Poole
Darren Slade

Fundraising 2021

Amazon Smile
BH Coastal Lottery
LFB Meats - Collection Box
DDCS - Collection Box
50th Anniversary Fun Day Raffle
Gray Family - Bournemouth Fun Run
Christmas Party Raffle

Donations 2020

Val Dunford
Mrs Black Bequest
Ben Drewett
Martin Bray
Richard George
Strategic Solutions Financial Services
In Memory of Maureen Deeney
Charles & Susie Andrews
Mrs R Guppy
Portland Lodge
Gerry & Michelle Ives

Fundraising 2020

Soap Department, Lush – Raffle
Smile Amazon
BH Coastal Lottery

Donations 2019

Martin Bray
Southern Gas Neworks
In memory of Mr Gilbert Cross
Charles & Susie Andrews
Mrs Sarah Martin
Order of Womens Freemasons – Lodge Sirius No.31
Kelly Hennessey
Strategic Solutions Financial Services
The Nash Family
Claire & Bill Hombersley
Richard George

Fundraising 2019

DDCS Family and Friends
Bournemouth Marathon Event
Smile Amazon
David Sampson – London Marathon
BH Coastal Lottery
Dalkeith House Dentist – Collection Box
Conor Tobin – Sponsored Football
Sale of NDCS Christmas Cards,
Barking Cat Ale House Collection Box

MAUVEWORX

FOR PRINTING OUR NEWSLETTERS FREE OF CHARGE

STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FINANCIAL SERVICES

FOR POSTING OUR NEWSLETTERS FREE OF CHARGE

THE BLANDFORD SCHOOL

WHO PROVIDE US WITH THE USE OF THE SCHOOL HALL FREE OF CHARGE FOR OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY

BOURNEMOUTH DEAF CLUB

FOR PROVIDING A VENUE FOR OUR AGM AND AWARDS

ALEX RACES TO THE FINISH LINE

The Dorset Deaf Children’s Society has been an amazing source of support and fun for Alex and his family. So to say thank you Alex wanted to fundraise for the charity by running 1km in the Bournemouth Marathon Festival in October 2021. He managed to persuade his big sister to do the 1.5km and his Mummy and Godmother to run the 5km.

In 2019 Alex and his sister raised £361 by running the 1km, but this time they wanted to raise even more. With a lot of support from their family, friends and school community they managed to raise an amazing £1,150.56p!

Bournemouth Marathon Event

On the Saturday 5th of October, six of our hearing impaired young members and six siblings/friends bravely joined in with hundreds of other runners taking part in the Bournemouth marathon event. Our youngsters showed great courage and determination as they ran along the beachfront and pier towards Bournemouth Gardens. Cheered on by hundreds of supporters, family and friends they each overcame nerves and fear to cross the finish line and collect their medals. We are immensely proud of their achievements and for the awareness and funds they have raised for our Charity.

Well done to Phoebe, Alex, Jacob and Emilia who ran in the 1km race.

Ava, Evie, Poppy, Sid and Olivia who ran in the 1.5km race. Isla and

Arthur who ran the 2km and Felix who bravely competed as the

youngest runner in the Junior 5km.

Later that day Martin Rose (dad of Ava and Isla) took part in the 10km along with

two teachers of the Deaf from Dorset HSS plus friend Ruth Kirby who all wore

their DDCS t-shirts with pride. Finally after a long day cheering on the other

runners it was Hannah’s (mum to Ava and Isla) turn to take on the 5km

Supernova night race.

The events continued into Sunday 6th October when Adam Foley, Nicola Foley,

Lisa Forbes, Rob Horton, Jo Mason and Liz Davies all took part in the Half Marathon. It was a chilly, but sunny early start to the morning with runners congregating in Kings Park for an 8am start. The beautiful route took them along the beachfront in Southbourne towards Henghistbury Head then back into Bournemouth where the runners battled the dreaded steep hill at Boscombe gardens. Thankfully our lovely supporters were handing out Jelly Babies to give the runners a sugar boost to make it up the hill!!! The runners then had to endure substantial winds as they battled with fatigue and pain to reach the finish line just beyond Bournemouth Pier. All runners finished in great time with many beating previous PBs.

This event how proven to be very popular with our families, it has provided wonderful awareness for our charity and all our runners wore their DDCS t-shirts with pride. We would like to express our thanks all those who took part and especially to those family and friends who supported and sponsored us, we raised over £2,000 in total!!!

AMAZING RUNNERS FOR DDCS

On 14th October 2018 six amazing DDCS supporters woke up in London at 6:30 am to promises of cold weather and downpours from their phone weather apps, sighed out loud but still jumped out of bed, pulled on the lycra and trainers and headed off to the start line of the Royal Parks Half Marathon. There our team of Lisa & Jodie Forbes, Adam & Nicola Foley, Kelly Hennessy and Nicky Findley joined the other 16,000 entrants (all of whom seemed to be queueing for the loos!) as we nervously tried to work out where we were supposed to go. Just before we made our way to the start the heavens opened (for the first of many times during day) and we all got a proper soaking! At this point I was wondering to myself how much trouble I might be in for cajoling them all into this and from all the hours of training I had seen them all putting in, I knew I wouldn’t be able to outrun any of them if they turned into a baying mob armed with pitchforks and torches and came after me. But, I was glad to see, the Team remained in great spirits. “Think about how much money you are raising for the kids” was my repetitive mantra every time I sensed one of them gritting their teeth as more rain ran down their backs…

But, in spite of the rain and an injury to Jodie’s foot on a discarded cup at a drinks station, everyone did magnificently. I watched as a proud Chairman, friend, husband and father on my tracker app. The course was magnificent, taking in four of London’s eight Royal Parks, Hyde Park, Green Park, St James’s Park and Kensington Gardens,10 Downing Street, passing Buckingham Palace to wave at the Queen, thundering through Admiralty Arch and Trafalgar Square and many other famous landmarks. The whole way round the route was filled with tens of thousands of supporters cheering everyone on, steel bands, cheerleaders and DJs were blasting out motivational music and terrific tunes, the atmosphere was incredible, in spite of the conditions.

Post run and after warm showers, I asked some of our team for their thoughts on the day, this is what they had to say.

“Perhaps it was the weather (it was a wee bit wet!) but the camaraderie between the runners was particularly outstanding. Everyone was keen to encourage one another in a way I’ve not noticed at other events, and the support from the crowds along the route was exceptional too - you could have been forgiven for thinking you were taking part in the London marathon!”

“On another level, there’s something about running for a worthy cause with thousands of like-minded people that brings out the best in us - and Madeline is such a little star, it’s not hard to be inspired to get up early on a dark Sunday morning and run 13.1 miles in the rain!”

“Loved every single minute- the support was phenomenal all around the course and imagining the vast sums of money being raised by so many for such worthy causes was very humbling. A wonderful experience”

“I’ve wanted to run this half marathon for a few years now and the day was beyond any expectations. Thousands of runners who has committed to the training and fund raising come together to raise money for charities close to their hearts. I ran for a while next to a man named Ed who was raising money for a Parkinson’s disease Charity. Ed has Parkinson’s himself and shuffled a little but he was strong and determined 10 miles in. I don’t know Ed but I was inspired by him for making this huge effort, which must have been 100 times more than any of our efforts. What a great man. This is my biggest memory of the day and I know will stay with me. …. We’ve all got the running bug now and it won’t be too long before we are all running again together. “

I would like to thank all the runners and their supporters again for attending and raising so much money for our charity, as at the last count the figure was at just over £3000 including gift aid and that money will benefit so many children and their families.

If anyone else has any ideas for fundraising, please let us know, every bit helps!

Raising money while losing pounds

Nicki Edwards, Natasha Barnes with baby Ebony and her brother Jacob, and biggest loser Louise Pender present the cheque to Dorset Deaf Children’s Society Chairman Kevin Forbes.

Customers of Nicki Edwards, The Cambridge Lady, who embarked on the Cambridge Weight Plan 60 Day Challenge raised £730 for The Dorset Deaf Children’s Society while collectively losing over 22 stone in weight.

“I am immensely proud of all my customers who took part in the challenge and did so well, raising this much money for such a good cause” said Nicki. “Everyone is a winner; my clients who have lost so much weight and feel so much better about themselves, and all the children that are helped by the Society”.

Nicki, along with Louise Pender, who was the biggest loser, and Natasha Barnes whose own baby daughter Ebony has profound hearing loss, presented the cheque to chairman Kevin Forbes. “I congratulate all Nicki’s customers and thank them for the wonderful donation. Every penny will go directly to help deaf children of all ages across the county” said Kevin. “The Dorset Deaf Children’s Society is run solely by volunteers and provides invaluable advice and information for parents and carers of hearing impaired children. We will use this money to help organise events and outings for affected families so they can meet and share ideas with others like themselves.

Around 30 of Nicki’s clients took part in the challenge and donated to the charity. The competition was closely fought but Louise came out on top having lost over 17% of her starting weight – that’s 26.5 pounds over the 60 days. Nicki is keen to point out that everyone’s weight loss journey is unique to them however.

Many thanks to Zena Brown and the Rebekah Fund who chose Dorset DCS as their charity to raise funds for during 2017.

They organised car boot sales, raffles, tombolas, line dance events, evening cruise around Poole Harbour, a 5k run and have raised £1553.57!

Cathy Jones, Trustee and her daughter Poppy were presented with the cheque on Sunday 3rd June.

DDCS IS COUNTY CHARITY FOR WAITROSE

Dorset Deaf Children’s Society was very lucky to be chosen by Waitrose as their Community Matters Charity in multiple shops. This meant during September 2016 we were in every Waitrose in Dorset. Our Chairman, Kevin Forbes, and Vice Chairperson and Treasurer, Shirley Sorbie, went along to Waitrose in Wimborne and were made welcome by Steve Lee form Waitrose, Sherborne and staff from the Wimborne branch who presented them with a cheque for £3632!! It was particularly apt that one of the staff members presenting the cheque was Meggie Voce, who has a cochlear implant and her family were members of Dorset Deaf Children’s Society when she was younger.

Waitrose in Parkstone had already supported us in June 2016 when we received £296 thus giving us a total of £3928 from Waitrose Community Matters charity fund.

This is an amazing amount of money for us and we are very grateful to Waitrose and to all their customers for voting for us with their tokens!

STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FINANCIAL SERVICES SUPPORT FOR DORSET DCS

Strategic Solutions are an award winning firm of independent chartered financial planners, based in Dorset but with advisers across the south for example Devon, Hampshire and Somerset.

Founded by the four partners in 2010, they wanted to build a different culture to what people thought about financial services firms. Part of this of course was to be the leading specialists in pensions, savings, mortgages, inheritance tax work and family protection pans. A bigger part though was the ‘Corporate Chartered’ status which involves extra qualifications and extra ethical requirements. Over the years they have developed this ethical requirement way beyond the required standards - culminating in the launch of their Community Foundation.

This voluntary scheme allows the Strategic team to donate part of their income to a ‘fund’ which the firm then matches. This fund is then used to help local communities.

Along with the continued support for DDCS, the fund is also used to sponsor a financial programme at Safewise, providing safety jackets for the Community Angels project and also a recent tour where a world record breaking memory man toured 5 local schools and delivered one hour long memory technique and motivational sessions to over 6000 children.

The money from the fund goes directly to local communities, both large and small. Strategic Solutions are very proud of their connection and support of DDCS over the years. Strategic Solutions have been supporting DDCS since 2012 giving regular bi-monthly donations which now total up to £7870.00! This is an amazing amount of funds for us and enables us to provide events, grants, equipment and support to all the children and their families. It is not only the donations, they also post our newsletters free of charge. This saves the charity a considerable amount of money and they have also helped with printing and many other ways to promote us. They came along to our event at Paultons Park in April this year and presented us with a cheque (see picture) and we were featured in the Bournemouth Echo!

FERNDOWN GOLF CLUB - CAPTAINS CHARITY

On Monday 5th September 2016 Ferndown Golf Club held a Charity Golf Day. This event raised a staggering amount for The Peter Alliss Wheelchair Charity and Ferndown Captain’s chosen charities. Robin Pomeroy, the men’s captain nominated Dorset Deaf Children’s Society as one of his charities and through the generous support of golfers and Ferndown Golf Club we received an amazing £3,600!

The presentations to the charities were made by Harry Redknapp at Ferndown Golf Club’s annual presentation which was held on Friday 3rd March 2017. Kevin Forbes, our Chairman accepted the cheques on behalf of all the children and their families who will benefit from this fantastic gesture and he said a few words of thanks to all in attendance, which we hope went some way towards saying how grateful we all are for this incredible show of generosity. He said it was lovely afternoon and everyone was so friendly and interested in the great work we do as a local charity.

THIS IS THE TOTAL RAISED BY OUR DDCS TEAM

IN THE DORSET PLANE PULL!

£4875!

The Dorset Plane Pull is by far one of the county’s most unique charity fundraising event. This year Dorset DCS entered a team and took part in what was a great day of fun and also raised a fantastic amount of money! The teams consist of 20 willing and able, but not necessarily super strong, people to pull a 35,000Kg Boeing 737 a distance of 50 meters, ideally in the fastest time. The event takes place at Bournemouth Airport and as well as the plane pulling there was live entertainment, food and drink, stalls and exhibits on site throughout the day. This year was different to other years in that the weather was so bad on the scheduled day, Monday 25th August 2014, the event had to be postponed. The bank holiday saw constant torrential rain all day so it would not have been safe to hold the event then. This caused a mountain of work for the organisers (who are all volunteers) and also for the charity team managers as many team members could not make the new date. But on Saturday 13th September the event took place and all the teams turned up for a fun day!

In amongst all the banter and jokes there was a bit of nerves whilst watching the other teams but after the safety talk our team walked out onto the airport apron determined to get the plane moving! They did not disappoint and did it in a very respectable time of 50.28 Seconds. It does not sound very long to be pulling but by the end there were some very wobbly legs and arms! Our team ended up seventh out of fifteen teams which was not bad for a first time pull.

Many thanks to the team who were:

Martin Ring – Chairman and father to Stuart
Stuart Ring – Hearing Impaired youth member
Charlie Sorbie – Hearing Impaired and father to Tom and Jamie
Tom Sorbie – Hearing Impaired youth member
Jamie Sorbie – Hearing Impaired youth member
Jack Woodrow – Hearing Impaired youth member
Martin Bray – Father to Owen
Nick Neville – Father to Kallum
Nat Moore – Cousin to Harry Copson
Lee Curtis – Father to Angel
Amanda Tuck – Mother to Jordan
Michael Calverley – Father to Olivia and Jacob
Sarah Charles – Mother to Lewis and Joe
James Oakley – Uncle to Owen
Alex Lester – Supporter
Shane Culwick – Supporter
Sharon Broome – Supporter
Chris Drewett – Father to Ethan
Sam Stone – Uncle to Owen
Lloyd Leonard – Hearing Impaired youth member

A big thank you to all who have sponsored the team and enabled them to raise so much money. To the businesses and individuals who have been so generous it is much appreciated!

Dorset Deaf Children's Society