Anita Grant

A week today Marcus Kwan and Rick Phillips will be running in the ‘Virtual London Marathon’. It’s their first marathon and they are running the distance around a 4 lap route of Kesgrave and Martlesham. As in London, they will be starting their 26.2 miles at 9.30am and if you’re local you can come and add to the atmosphere by cheering them on (apparently you may be treated to Rick’s singing!). A huge thank you to Marcus and Rick for choosing to raise money for Jess Grant Celebration; all you are doing is greatly appreciated.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/marcus-rick-virtual-marathon

In just over a week, Hannah Bradley will be running in the London Marathon, her first ever marathon. Hannah got a place in the ballot, and very kindly chose to raise funds for Jess Grant Celebration in memory of Jess. Thank you so much Hannah, we are extremely grateful for all your support.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/hannah-bradley15

Jess Grant Celebration are delighted to announce that we are funding a second year of music therapy for young adults receiving care at Zest, St. Elizabeth Hospice. Thank you so much to everyone who has helped to raise the funding needed to make this happen. We know that music therapy is making a tremendous difference at Zest; for further information please see the article at https://www.jessgrantcelebration.org.uk/zest-music-day/

We are very pleased to announce that Jess Grant Celebration was awarded £500 through the Tesco Community Grants Scheme. Thank you so much Tesco Community Grants and thanks to everyone who voted for us in store. Here is music therapist Daisy Williamson using the iPad we purchased for the Ipswich Hospital Music Therapy service. Daisy believes this will be a great asset and it will make a big difference in many of the music therapy sessions at the hospital.

On Friday, Jo Palmer and I were kindly invited to attend a Zest Music Day at St. Elizabeth Hospice. We felt very privileged to be able to take part in the music therapy session and to see first hand the enormous difference music therapy is making to the young people at Zest.
Martha, a work experience student spent last week in the Marketing team and wrote an article on Friday about Zest, specifically about the music therapy activity. Martha has captured music therapy and Jess Grant Celebration perfectly in her article at:-https://www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk/about-us/news/news-archive/zest-music-therapy-sessions-they-are-just-a-lot-of-fun-to-be-a-part-of/

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to the Bingo fundraiser, raising an incredible total of £1,312.50. Completely blown away by the support; this will make a huge difference to the funding Jess Grant Celebration can provide in the future.
A massive thank you to Maria Norman whose idea it was to have a fundraiser for Jess Grant Celebration and who organised and promoted the event.
Many thanks to bingo caller Tim Beach for everything he has done to make the event such a success.
Thank you to Steve Stocks and The Golden Key for all their promotion of the event and of Jess’ charity.

We are over the moon to announce that the Smokehouse gigs that Suffolk New College Music Tech students Olly Martin and Gracie Hicks organised raised a fantastic total of £400 for Jess Grant Celebration. A massive thank you to Olly and Gracie for picking Jess’ charity and for all their hard work putting on these fabulous gigs. Huge thanks to the fantastic acts who performed at the 2 gigs: RYSKI, Sophie The Great, Paint The Clocks, Perihelion, Devils Like Girls and Suns of Icarus. Thanks to The Smokehouse for all their promotion of the gigs and of Jess Grant Celebration.

We are delighted and proud to be funding music therapy for children receiving care at Ipswich hospital. Please read the fantastic feedback Music Therapist Daisy Williamson has recently received  Thank you so much to everyone who has made this funding possible for this wonderful therapeutic service 

“Daisy has provided videos of her music therapy sessions specifically for one of our paediatric oncology patients receiving cancer treatment.

This patient has special needs and requires additional support during many nursing interventions. She struggles to understand the reasoning behind the need for these.

Since Daisy has sent us these videos we have played them to this patient to help distract her. She has always responded well to music but these videos have made such a difference to her staying calm for nursing interventions. The use of Daisy’s music therapy has made treatment so much better and less distressing for both the patient and her mum.

She has also used these videos in school when nurses visit her and mum has not been present, which has made this a more positive experience.”

Photos and feedback from a recent Zest Music Day ❤

Wow, Exeter University Swimming Club raised a totally amazing £1,233.64 for Jess Grant Celebration during their Varsity Week 😀 Thank you so much to everyone in the swimming club for voting for Jess’ charity, very kindly nominated by Jess’ friend Erin Yeomanson (thanks again Erin ❤). A huge thank you to everyone who helped organise, and took part in, the fabulous fundraising activities: the bake sale; the fun run (in swimwear in the freezing cold 🥶); the varsity t shirts; the pub quiz; the swimming gala with Bristol and Bath Unis; the raffle. Thank you to Abby Jones, Events & Relations Secretary, for her part in organising the events and for keeping us updated from start to finish about all the wonderful fundraising. Every penny of the brilliant total raised by Exeter University Swimming Club will be used to fund music therapy sessions for children suffering from medical conditions 🎸🥁