New Charity of the Year Partnership for Family Fund
Student accommodation provider, Kexgill has announced Family Fund as their Charity of the year for 2016/17. Kexgill are an award winning company providing accommodation services to students in nine locations across the North of England for over 36 years.
Kexgill Managing Director Richard Stott was motivated to learn more about Family Fund after a chance encounter with a parent of disabled children in a pub in Beverley. After hearing the challenges that families face raising disabled children as well as how Family Fund had helped to ease the pressures on this family, Richard was inspired to help Family Fund to support more families raising disabled children and young people.
The team at Kexgill were tasked with finding imaginative fundraising activities designed to engage and motivate Kexgill staff and their student tenants to raise money for Family Fund. The first of these fundraising activities is a Hipster Beard growing campaign throughout March and April which is sure to capture the imagination of many students and Family Fund supporters alike. Richard said;
“Kexgill is pleased to name Family Fund as their 2016/17 Charity of the Year. Family Fund is an inspirational charity making a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of families raising disabled children all across the UK every year. We are proud to be working in partnership with this great charity and we are looking forward to many successful fundraising activities with our staff and tenants that produce much needed financial support for Family Fund”.
The partnership between Family Fund and Kexgill offers great opportunities for Family Fund as the Chief Executive of Family Fund Cheryl Ward explains;
“We are delighted to have been named Charity of the Year by Kexgill and look forward to working in partnership with them over the next 12 months and beyond. For Family Fund this partnership represents an incredible opportunity to raise much needed funds, and awareness of the challenges that hundreds of thousands of families face on a day to day basis when caring for a child with a disability or serious illness. Together Kexgill and the Family Fund can make a real difference to the lives of disabled children and young people and my team and I are excited at the opportunities that lie ahead. I am very grateful to Kexgill for choosing Family Fund as their Charity of the Year”
For more information about the Hipster Beard campaign please visit the Family Fund website.
Notes to editors
- Family Fund is the country’s largest grant-giving charity for disabled children and has over 42 years of supporting families raising disabled and seriously ill children and young people to have the same opportunities as others. It does this by providing grants for essential items such as kitchen appliances, clothing, bedding, sensory toys, tablet, much-needed family breaks and more. Across the UK last year, the Family Fund supported 72,043 families with over £33 million in grants and services. www.familyfund.org.uk
- Grant applications and relevant information on who we help and how to apply can be found at our website www.familyfund.org.uk. Families can contact the team using the Contact Us page or by calling 01904 621115.
Press contact
For all media enquiries, contact Alison Day on 01904 571049/07415 162803 (office hours Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm) or email comms@familyfund.org.uk
Alison Jessop, Communications & Development Manager
Family Fund, 4 Alpha Court, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York, YO32 9WN
Tel: 01904 571049 Mobile: 07415 162803 email: comms@familyfund.org.uk
Family Fund is the country’s largest grant-giving charity for disabled children and has over 42 years of supporting families raising disabled and seriously ill children and young people to have the same opportunities as others. It does this by providing grants for essential items such as kitchen appliances, clothing, bedding, sensory toys, tablet, much-needed family breaks and more. Across the UK last year, the Family Fund supported 72,043 families with over £33 million in grants and services. www.familyfund.org.uk