Anita Grant

Early Bird tickets are now on sale! Please go to the Events page to find out more and purchase your tickets for the evening session of JessFest.

What a fabulous night! Our first ever Jess Grant Celebration music quiz was a huge success raising a phenomenal £882 🙂 Thank you to everyone who supported the event and contributed so generously.
A big thank you to Barry Martin who did a brilliant job as quiz master, and put in hours of time and effort researching and compiling the questions and music clips. It really was an eclectic mix of tracks, and lovely to see so many people enjoying the music. Jess would have loved it.
Thank you to everyone who contributed prizes to the raffle. What started life as a random collection of prizes became something beautiful when Jo Palmer and Suzanne Gledhill offered to titivate (their word!) the prizes and create indulgent hampers. Many thanks for their creative ideas and hard work.
Kath Gosling did a sterling job collecting entry money, selling tickets and hosting the raffle. Thank you and we’ll be forever grateful for your introduction of ‘speed’ raffle to keep the night moving.
Jess Grant Celebration incurred no expenses for the event, with all the money taken on the night going directly to the charity to support music therapy. A huge thank you to our friends at Cedarwood Primary School, who helped with this, providing the venue free of charge.
So, what do you reckon? Same time, same place next year…?

A massive thank you to Tina Yallop and Maxine Dawson at Eclipz hairdressers in Lakenheath, Suffolk for organising a fabulous bingo night, raising an incredible £1138 for Jess Grant Celebration. Tina and Maxine did a brilliant job of entertaining the 130 people who supported the event, held at Lakenheath football club. Their unique number calling provided much hilarity (seven and o, seventy-o!). Many thanks to Laura, Karen and Zoe, who also work at Eclipz hairdressers, to all the volunteers, and the staff at the football club for all their hard work on the night.
We are so grateful to everyone who attended the event, and to everyone who donated prizes, making it such a great night. Your generosity will enable us to raise the funds required to achieve our aims for the benefit of children with life-threatening illnesses. Every penny of the amazing total raised at the bingo fundraiser will be used to support music therapy.

We are excited to let you know that Jess Grant Celebration recently provided our first bit of funding to EACH (East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices) for a music event. We supported the Ed Sheeran gig night for children and families at the Treehouse hospice.
Following a meeting with Music Therapist Ray Travasso at EACH in March, we committed to supporting gig nights and Treefest, an annual music festival at the hospice.
Jess Grant Celebration is looking forward to supporting EACH’s future music events.
Thank you so much for all your support x

A year on from Jess’ Celebration Service, we came together again to celebrate Jess, eat cake and raise money for Jess’ new charity. In addition to our very well supported Cake Celebration at Kesgrave’s Millennium Jubilee Hall, Jess’ friend Laura arranged a bake sale at East Bergholt High School, our friend Ann held a cake sale at Gallagher Ipswich, and a number of friends had their own cake parties in honour of Jess.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the cake celebrations: baking; organising; helping on the day; coming along; buying and eating cake; making donations to Jess’ charity. We appreciate everyone’s support, and can’t thank you enough for helping to make Jess Grant Celebration’s first event so successful.
Very proud to announce that the Kesgrave Cake Sale raised a total of £546.75 & the East Bergholt High School bake sale raised £194.70. And more totals to be announced soon…

Thank you again to everyone who has supported Jess Grant Celebration in our first few weeks; the response has been amazing!
We now have a confirmed date and venue for our first event: Jess Grant Celebration Cake Sale Friday 15th February, 2.30pm – 4.30pm at Millennium Jubilee Hall, Kesgrave. A year on from Jess’ Celebration service, it will be an opportunity to come together again to celebrate Jess, eat cake and raise money for Jess’ charity!
We appreciate it’s a working/school day and many of you live in different areas of the country. So, we are inviting you to think about hosting your own coffee morning or cake sale at home, work, school etc for Jess Grant Celebration. It would be lovely to think of multiple cake-themed celebrations during that week.

In Jess’ memory, inspired by her love of music, today we are launching the Jess Grant Celebration charity. Through music, we are aiming to help other children and young people with life threatening illnesses.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us to get to this point. Your help, advice and support has been invaluable in setting up Jess Grant Celebration.

A special thank you to:-
CHP Design Ltd for designing this website and for our Jess Grant Celebration logo; we are delighted with both.
Dr. Brian May for supporting Jess Grant Celebration as our Patron.

We are very proud and honoured to announce that Dr. Brian May is our Patron and we are extremely grateful for his support of Jess Grant Celebration.

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