Local Info

Help an East Coast Child is for the people living across the East Coast and we hope to make a difference to everyone living here.

As the only radio station in the area broadcasting local news and information all day, 7 days a week, we're passionate about raising money to help local families and children.

We need your help....

1. Fundraising and Donations

There are so many ways you can help us raise money we've produced a fundraising pack to give you some ideas and advice on organising an event. Just click on the link and download the pack:

Help an East Coast Child Fundraising Pack

You can set up your own fundraising page on our 'Just Giving' page and raise money for Help an East Coast Child. Click the 'fundraising' image below:

Or if you simply want to make a donation, please use our 'Just Giving' page, click the 'Donate online' image below:

All money raised across the East Coast area will stay across the East Coast!

2. Grant Applications

The aim of Help an East Coast Child Charity is:

to relieve poverty, hardship or the distress of families with children.
to promote the physical or mental welfare of families with children in need of care and attention.
to improve the lives of individual families with children and children's groups living in Ipswich.

by providing donations to drive education, health, welfare, ability and opportunity

The Trustees meet six times a year to consider grant applications. If you know of someone who might benefit from a grant, please encourage them to contact us. They can either write to us at Help an East Coast Child, Radio House, 10 Oulton Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 4QP or email charity@thebeach.co.uk

Our Charity Number is: 1108581

Check out the pictures of some of our recent stunts and to see where the money goes to.

Background
Help an East Coast Child is a registered charity and set up in 1997 as a Christmas appeal for toys. Local people bought an extra gift for a less privileged child and these were distributed on Christmas Eve by a local support group.

In 2001 we started raising cash...as there’s only so much you can do with two thousand teddy bears and dolls!

Since then nearly £100,000 has been raised for children all around the East Coast...kids with disabilities, school children and students, Scouts and Guides, youth projects and sports teams...the appeal reaches out to everyone.

Local people raise cash all year round, from fashion shows to running the London Marathon.

The Beach covers all running costs of Help an East Coast Child and we promise every penny goes to the local area.

Who has benefited?
Recently we donated £5000 to the Little Acorns Group in Gorleston to help their disabled children.

£5000 also helped fund a sensory garden at the John Grant Special School in Caister.

We've made donations to the Ellie Savage Memorial Fund which helps children living with cancer and research into brain tumours.

But it’s not all about big money appeals. Along the way Help an East Coast Child has made more than 50 individual awards to disabled children, has provided raffle prizes, and enabled less privileged youngsters to go on holiday and visit theme parks.

Further examples include...

The playground at Corton Primary School was in need of repair to make it safe for the kids. The school raised cash by holding treasure hunts and when we found out we donated a further £100.

We donated funds to a womens refuge centre so that they could re-furbish the bedrooms.

We donated £350 to Cliff Park Infant school to purchase a Baby Belling Oven for the school's cookery club so that they're able to open the class to a wider range of children.

After playgroup equipment was stolen during a break in at a Great Yarmouth nursery we stepped in and replaced bikes trikes and other toys.

We donated £400 to purchase sensory equipment for the North Portage Service.

Local girl, Rhiannon can now hear people from a further distance after we purchased a radio mic for her hearing aid. It will also improve her speech and language.

We purchased a lap top computer for a young local girl who was being bullied at school, so that she could continue studying for her exams at home - away from the abuse.

We donated funds for Xmas presents to a local homeless shelter for young people.

Help an East Coast Child Fundraising Pck