News – Sullivan's Heroes

Funds flowing from The Crown at Turners Hill

Our heartfelt thanks to The Crown at Turners Hill and their customers, who’s generous fundraising throughout 2018 for Sullivan’s Heroes raised a fantastic £734.78. The funds, all of which will be used for grants towards home adaptations for the disabled children the charity is supporting, were raised through in-house Collecting Boxes, ‘Sully’s Bar’ Beer Tent profits and the Christmas Cash Draw. Thank you so much to all involved for your ongoing support. To discover the extensive menu of traditional English dishes, ...

Fun and funds for Gordon’s birthday!

Huge thanks to Gordon Borer, and all his generous supporters, for his recent Facebook Fundraiser for Sullivan’s Heroes on his birthday. Together with his friends and family Gordon smashed his £150 target to raise a fantastic £260 towards home adaptation grants for the disabled children Sullivan’s Heroes is supporting. If you’re looking to do the same, it's simple to set up a Facebook Fundraiser and share with your supporters – find out how ...

Scorpio’s scores for 2018

Our thanks to Scorpio Worldwide who’s generous donations of ex-duty free stock items for sale, plus in-house collections by members of staff, raised an impressive total of £1807.81 throughout 2018 for Sullivan’s Heroes. Scorpio Worldwide are leading suppliers of Jewellery, Watches, Electronics, Perfume, Cosmetics and Gifts to the Travel Retail Industry. The company’s generous donations of costume jewellery, together with ladies, gents and children’s watches, perfumes, cosmetics, electronics, toys and gifts has enabled all proceeds from sales of the items at events ...

A beautiful ‘Room for Jessica’

We are delighted to bring news of Jessica’s brand new ground floor bedroom that has now been completed. The adaptations to the family home have made life easier for Jessica, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour at just 13 months old, and has undergone a number of surgeries over the past 8 years to help her. Thankfully Jessica's tumour is currently stable but the treatment has left Jessica disabled, with moderate learning difficulties, visually impaired and with bilateral carotid artery narrowing. ...

New projects for the new year

2019 heralds lots of news to bring you! We’re delighted to welcome both Vinnie and Ella as the latest children we are supporting with their home adaptations, respectively requiring to raise £8,000 for a loft conversion and £25,000 for an extension to meet their needs. Meanwhile work is underway on both Reuben’s and Jordan’s projects to create their new fully accessible bedroom and bathroom extensions. We’ve been in the Press with lovely articles about the charity in East Grinstead Living magazine, and ...

Steve Jenkins’ fantastic fundraising

Huge thanks to Steve Jenkins, General Builder, and everyone who helped Steve in his latest Collection Tin fundraising for Sullivan’s Heroes – which raised an impressive £178.93. Steve Jenkins undertakes building works and home improvements in Gosport and the surrounding areas, and is well versed in Sullivan’s Heroes’ projects as he carried out the home adaptations for Joe, who the charity supported throughout the works. You can see the fantastic space which Steve created for Joe and his family here. Steve has ...

John Lewis Community Matters – February to April 2019

We are delighted that John Lewis’ Community Matters programme will be supporting Sullivan’s Heroes in their Southampton store, from 1st February to 30th April 2019. Every three months the John Lewis branch selects three local community groups to support. Customers are directly involved in deciding how much each nominated group receives, by using a token to vote for the organisation they'd like to help. At the end of your shop in store, you’ll receive a token to place in the Community Matters box. Each ...

Legal and General help build ‘A Space 4 Jakey’

We are delighted to have received funds recently from Legal and General for one of the home adaptation projects Sullivan’s Heroes is supporting. Legal and General’s employees undertook fundraising, and together with Match Funding added by the company this amounted to a fantastic £1,100 towards building ‘A Space 4 Jakey’. A huge thank you to everyone involved in helping towards Jacob’s £60,000 target, to build him a ground floor bedroom and bathroom to meet his ...

Festive fun at The Crown at Turners Hill

Huge thanks to The Crown at Turners Hill and their customers for their recent festive fundraising with the Crown’s Christmas Cash Draw. The draw, which offered cash prizes of £200, £100, £50 and 5 prizes of £10 each, raised a fantastic £71.23 for Sullivan’s Heroes. These funds will be used towards home adaptation grants for the children the charity is supporting. A local historic pub, The Crown At Turners Hill is proud of it's extensive menu of traditional English dishes, with ...