CHAT Charity - News & events page

Forthcoming Events

Cancelled - Thursday 11th March 2010 - 7:30pm

Sadly, due to lack of response, the
Thai Banquet at The Thai on the River has unfortunately had to be cancelled.

Friday 23rd April 2010 - 7:30pm

CHAT Quiz Night, Rivets Sports & Social Club Whitehead Way, off Stoke Road, Aylesbury. 7:30pm till 10:30pm.
Prompt start at 8pm.

A fun quiz evening for teams of between four to eight people answering questions on all the usual catergories, such as General Knowledge, Music, Films and TV.
Please come along, bring some friends and make up a team.

Entrance is £9 a ticket, and includes supper which needs to be booked in advance. Options are Cod & Chips, Chicken & Chips or Veggie Burger & Chips.

To purchase tickets and request your food orders, please contact Anthea at the CHAT office on 01296 564105 or e-mail anthea.cass@chat-charity.org.uk. You can also click here for our full postal address. Cheques should be made payable to CHAT.

Details of future events
will be posted here as soon as information is available.

CHAT's project

Respite Care for Children with Complex and Special Needs

Residential Respite Care

In discussions with Health Professionals involved with families of children with complex and severe disabilities, it has been found that there is a huge unmet demand in Buckinghamshire for respite care. This unmet demand includes Residential Respite Care and also Respite Care in the Home.

There are now more and more of these children with complex health needs. This is because of the skills of the Paediatricians, together with new technology and equipment, which are enabling tiny premature babies (born at only 24 weeks in some cases) and babies born with brain deformities, to be able, not only to survive their own birth, but to live for a number of years.

The 24-hour ongoing care needed to look after a child with complex or special needs in the home is extremely demanding and exhausting for the parents and carers. Usually their homes are set up to accommodate the child, but then the parents feel that they cannot go away unless there is special residential care available.

Respite Care in the Home

Respite Care in the Home is also an essential help for these families because they cannot get baby sitters like normal families can. Their children will be doubly incontinent, may suffer from frequent seizures, may need oxygen to help them breathe, may be tube-fed and would need to be turned regularly if they are in bed.

Just a short break of 2-3 hours during the daytime or evening would make such a difference to the parents of special needs children. It would enable mums to go to the hairdressers, do some personal shopping, or just meet up with or visit some friends to have a chat and a cup of coffee.

It is considered that the quality of life for the children with severe complex health needs, their siblings and their parents living in Buckinghamshire would be greatly improved if there was more respite care available.

CHAT’s New Project

CHAT would like to fund through charitable fundraising, two Paediatric Nurses and two Specialist Health Care Assistants to provide additional respite care to enable families to take more regular breaks knowing that their disabled child is being well looked after.

The Specialist Nurses will be trained so that they can go into the homes of families with special needs children and offer the essential short breaks of 2-3 hours per day.

This is a huge task for the charity, especially at a time of financial hardship.

Don't forget, you can still raise much needed funds for CHAT by donating at the Just Giving website, please click on the link below.

http://www.justgiving
.com/chat-charity

News

Saturday 24th October 2009
CHAT held a very enjoyable 'Fun and Gifts for All' Event at the Aylesbury Civic centre with over 40 Stalls and Beauty Treatments, plus Children's activities including Giant Scalextric and Pottery Painting. Stage entertainment throughout the day included plays and songs from local schools and groups, plus a Fashion Show by House of Fraser.

Thanks to all who supported CHAT in this event including:- The Pauline Quirke Academy, Bedgrove Infant School Chamber Choir, Kandeeze School of Dance, House of Fraser. Also many thanks to Sainsbury's, Holiday Inn Watermead, and Champneys for their generous donations, Carter Associates and Protea Print for their design of posters and printing (and their patience) The Civic Centre Staff for their generosity and support, and to Sally Evans and Zena Ashdown for their commitment and help in organising this event which raised just over £1,000.

Wednesday 7th October 2009
A lively evening was enjoyed by 50 people, including Mix96 Breakfast Show D.J. Adam Morris as CHAT raised nearly £400 at our ABBA Night at the Riviera, Watermead.
Thanks to mr Pardis for his hospitality and good food, and to Tribute duo ABBA Factor and their long white boots.

Friday 11th July 2009
CHAT held two events today, a Tombola at Bedgrove Day in the Park, Aylesbury and a Toys & Hook the Duck Stall at Fairford Leys Fair in the Square, Aylesbury.

Friday 26th June 2009
An enjoyable evening of quizzes at Rivers Sports & Social Club covered a variety of subjects such as General Knowledge, Films, Music, TV Trivia, nothing too hard - just a bit of fun. CHAT raised just under £300 on the evening. Many thanks to all who attended and helped out, including Sue Severn, who stepped in at the last minute to be our Quiz master.

Wednesday 13th May 2009
A fantastic evening of magic provided by Paul Megram 'Close-Up' Magician, finished off a marvelous Three Course Dinner at the Thai on the River Restaurant, Watermead, Aylesbury.

Sunday 26th April 2009
Many Thanks to Darryl Smallman who has so far raised £320 completing the Flora London Marathon on behalf of CHAT in 4hrs 43mins. You can still sponsor Darryl by visiting the just giving link below www.justgiving.com/
dazdoeslondon09

Saturday 18th April 2009
£300 was raised at the CHAT Bazaar at Eskdale Road Community Centre in
Stoke Mandeville.

Thanks to all those who donated - Seven Stars Dinton, Zoomania, and to all those who helped out and attended.

Friday 27 March 2009
Over 100 people joined in with a fun quiz night at Rivets Sports & Social Club, Stoke Mandeville Road, Aylesbury.

The fun evening of quizzes covered a variety of subjects including the ever popular Picture Round - other highlights included General Knowledge, Music, Sport, Television, and a particularly challenging for some Film Tag lines.

It was great to see so many friends together joining in for another enjoyable evening. The top scorers were Saga Louts with a magnificent 94points, there were no losers as even last place got a tin of Quality Street! Many thanks to all who helped CHAT raise over £500 on the night.