Happy New Year! Thank you very much to Xanthe and Tamsin Tate for getting 2025 off to such a great start. They will be undertaking a walking marathon on Saturday 25th January, and have very kindly chosen to raise funds for Jess Grant Celebration: ‘What we love about it is that it is raising funds […]
Thanks so much to everyone who has supported Jess Grant Celebration in 2024. This was our 6th year of providing funding to music therapy projects to support children and young people through the power of music. We really couldn’t do it without your support. Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we’re looking forward to helping […]
Enormous thanks to everyone at Kesgrave Parkrun’s 10th Birthday who helped to raise a whopping £349.51 for Jess Grant Celebration ❤ Special thanks to Jen Evans and the Kesgrave parkrun team who chose Jess’ charity to benefit, to Christine Driver, who did a brilliant job of manning the cake stall and to the bakers for […]
Thank you so much to Kesgrave Community Centre for raising an incredible £291 from their ‘Live Music at the Bandstand’ raffle yesterday. Many thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets on the day and a massive thank you to Fiona Farrell and Molly Jarrett (pictured) from KWMCC who picked Jess Grant Celebration to benefit from […]
Trustees Jo Palmer, Andy Flatman and myself spent a wonderful morning at St. Elizabeth Hospice today, having been invited to a Zest Music Day. Many thanks to Cath Markham and all the staff at Zest for making us feel so welcome. It was a privilege to be a part of Daisy Williamson’s group music therapy […]
Many thanks to Ipswich Hospital Community Choir for once again thinking of Jess’ charity. We very much appreciate their donation of £164.90 towards the funding of music therapy. The choir have been incredibly supportive of Jess Grant Celebration, singing for us at JessFest in 2019, and choosing us to benefit from their 10th Anniversary Concert […]
Thank you so much to Marcus Kwan for raising a phenomenal £1044 (+ £231 in gift aid) running his first London Marathon. Many of you will remember Marcus raising funds for Jess’ charity with Rick Phillips when he took on his first marathon running the ‘Virtual London’ in Kesgrave in 2022. Marcus also ran as […]
Many thanks to Sam Linassi for raising a fantastic £225 (+ £41.25 in gift aid) running in memory of Jess at the London Marathon. Sam knew Jess through karate and since 2019, she has always chosen to raise money for Jess’ charity when obtaining a ‘good for age’ place in the London Marathon. We can’t […]
To everyone who has ever supported Jess Grant Celebration, please read the following article to hear about the wonderful work that you’re continuing to help fund at Ipswich Hospital. From those tentative initial meetings 5 years ago with Siobhan Castle, Lead Play Specialist, ward staff, and Ray Travasso from Suffolk Music Therapy Services, this invaluable […]
In memory of her Dad, Ivan Keeble, better known as DJ Ivan, Marie Chapman, along with her brother Paul and sisters Julie and Amanda, very kindly picked Jess’ charity to raise money for at his Celebration of Life. Music was a massive part of DJ Ivan’s life and he spent his last night DJing for […]