Bakers’ Summer Donations

Thank you once again for your generous support of SIBS4FUN, everyone at SNAP is hugely appreciative of your continuing support of our work. With your help, we were able provide another special week and the children absolutely loved the tattoos – as usual! Thank you also to Olivia and Liv for volunteering on the Thursday, supporting the children and giving on of them the confidence to sing Mamma Mia!

Thank you to everyone at Bakers. It really means a lot to us and we are truly grateful for your ongoing support and generosity.

“My little boy was born at 30+5 weeks via emergency C-section. He weighed 900grams at birth. He had all clear brain scans in NICU. We then started to notice that something wasn’t right and after being persistent, we got taken seriously after taking a trip to A&E and then a day after his 1st birthday we finally got a mri scan which told us the dreaded news. Finley had a brain injury and he was starved of oxygen, which now leads to him having cerebral palsy. Finley is currently 2 years old and he doesn’t stand or walk. We are trying to build his strength and gain his confidence in doing so. We are keen that with some intensive blocks and different ranges of therapy, we will hopefully have him standing and walking. He lacks confidence and is ever so scared.”

Thanks to donations from the Bakers Foundation, Wipe Away Those Tears were able to fund a course of physiotherapy for Finley at a cost of £1,000.

Thank you so much for this fantastic news, it is much appreciated as this is quiet period for us. We are filling a much needed gap in Children’s Mental Health provision. Kids Inspire is an Essex-based children’s mental health charity supporting children, young people and their families who are experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, and other worries.

We are the largest sanctuary in Essex and have been rescuing animals since 1983. We offer a home to any breed, providing a lifetime of love, care and security for abused, abandoned and neglected animals. We are currently home to over 600 residents across 100 different species. We continue to actively promote animal welfare and humane behaviour but sadly we regularly see an increase year on year, asking for our support of many more animals. We receive no government funding and rely solely on the kindness and generosity of the public, businesses and grant funding organisations to keep doing what we do. This donation would go a long way towards our basic running costs such as animal feed, veterinary fees, maintaining animal enclosures etc.

Your donation is so much appreciated and absolutely put to the best use.

We have financed three pan Essex Nurses who will shadow families from diagnosis in hospital and at regular intervals at home to ensure that their needs as a family are met. This is a support which the MND community locally have been asking for as coordinating 6-8 specialities from the hospital/social care and in the third sector is pretty challenging for anyone living with MND.  Once the individual can no longer independently address these needs it falls on their family carers, who are juggling work, family life and the care of their loved one which can lead to burnout. At this stage the family carer ends up needing intervention and often their loved one ends up in a nursing home before they are ready. This pre-emptive work should ensure that every family is very much on the Family Coordinators radar and help is at hand throughout the families journey… We have now supported over 200 this year, total over 28 months 332 and they are literally nationwide!

Thank you very much for so generously funding Pod’s visits to the children’s wards at Essex hospitals This new donation from Bakers Foundation will fund 60 Pod sessions. at Southend, Newham, Romford, Chelmsford, Whipp’s Cross and Harlow hospitals, similar to previous years.

Lisa – Lead Health Play Specialist at Southend and Chelmsford:
“I had the pleasure of accompanying Skittleman around Broomfield hospital on his last visit. Skittleman provided the patients with fun, magic, and laughter. He always includes everyone in on the giggles, including staff. It’s great for the patients to see the staff in a different light. Being in hospital can be a frightening and stressful time for both the patients and their families. Skittleman really does make a difference to everyone, he changes the vibe and energy of the ward environment. The Play Teams across the MSE would like to thank Baker Labels for funding our visits on behalf of our patients and their families. We see first-hand the positive impact Pod visits have on children and young people in hospital.”

Thank you all for your ongoing support with a £2000 donation from the Baker Foundation. This will make an incredible impact! The donation will help to support the costs of families staying at Paul’s House, our dedicated “Home from Home” in London. £2000 could cover over one month’s stay for a family at Paul’s House to save them the time, money and energy expended to travel to London, whilst their child is facing treatment for cancer.

Thank you so much that is an incredibly generous donation.

On behalf of everyone at Brentwood Foodbank and our clients we want to say a massive thank you for this act of generosity. Unfortunately, the needs of our local community are greater than ever. During the first 6 months of 2024 we have fed 5,562 Brentwood residents referred to us in crisis, who couldn’t afford the essentials. 2,077 of these residents were children. This is a 28% increase on the same period last year.
Thank you again for this fantastic donation and for so kindly supporting our work in the local community.

Baker Labels’ generous support will be instrumental in delivering projects which enhance resident comfort, wellbeing, and independence. The Marillac Neurological Care Centre provides specialist care and treatment for 52 residents with complex neurological conditions. Neurological injuries & conditions can have devastating, life-long impacts on anyone – it only takes a few seconds for a life to be completely knocked off course. Our residents are adapting to an uncertain future, relearning what they can achieve and resetting their lifegoals.

Thank you ever so much for the continued support from the Bakers Foundation. Thanks to the funding, we now have our book, ‘You are a dad… you always will be’ being offered to newly bereaved fathers by midwives across the UK.

Donations from the Bakers Foundation help us to not only continue our services and ensure our comfort bears reach families who need them, but to innovate and advocate for people like us who walk the journey of pregnancy and baby loss.

This is amazing and great news, thank you so much. We have had a significant drop off in donations in the last 6 months which means we are currently spending £500-£1,000 per week on food, so donations like this are both incredibly generous and encouraging for us. One family we have helped this week gave us this feedback “Dear all at Billericay Foodbank, I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Last night was the first night I have slept all the way through without my stomach growling, I can’t even express my gratitude, I really had given up hope. Once again, I am truly, truly grateful to the guy who dropped it off and for you doing this. God bless you”