The team at Becketts have established the Becketts Health and Wellbeing Fund with Suffolk Community Foundation. Ian White, Executive Chair explained “We needed an organisation that had a deep understanding of the needs of Suffolk.  The Foundation ensures that every pound donated by our Fund make a real difference to the local community. We are continually grateful that the work the Foundation undertakes”

The Fund will support local projects helping people in Suffolk and Norfolk to address health inequalities and improve wellbeing. We would love your support and any donations to help us reach our goal for a truly worthwhile cause.

With your support the following charities have already been supported by the Fund.

Great Barton Free Church- SEND café

The Becketts Health and Wellbeing Fund has recently awarded funds to the Great Barton Free Church to support their weekly SEND café session. These special weekly sessions offer activities and a safe space for individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. The café is vital to help encourage the independence of attendees and build a strong and supportive community.

Suffolk Accident Rescue Service (SARS)

The Fund has recently supported the excellent work of SARS who provide specialist clinicians to assist the East of England Ambulance Service at the scenes of incidents where patients require an enhanced level of medical care before they reach hospital. The funding will help to support their core costs to enable them to continue to provide lifesaving help to those who need it in Suffolk.  

Aoife's Bubbles Charity

Aoife’s Bubbles Charity offers vital support to children affected by cancer and their families. The Beckett Health and Wellbeing Fund has recently helped to fund ‘The Bubble Hub'. These monthly therapeutic sessions provide a consistent, nurturing space that encourages emotional expression, social connection, and healing through creative and therapeutic activities. The charities’ goal is to create a sustainable programme that supports the emotional wellbeing of children living with or recovering from cancer, helping them to rebuild confidence, process their experiences, and find comfort in connection.

Aspect Living Foundation- H2H Hospital to Home

Aspect Living Foundations’ H2H Hospital to Home project has been supported by the Fund. The funding will support the project to help hospital discharge teams to free up beds by providing a care package of a week’s hot meals and an evening tea provision for the elderly and vulnerable thus giving them support to enter back into independent living and the community.

Families Together- Chill, Chat & Play- Stowmarket

The Beckett Health & Wellbeing Fund helped to support the continuation and growth of Families Together perinatal mental health support group called Child, Chat and Play in Stowmarket. This free weekly group is especially for parents/ mums with pre-walking babies who are experiencing poor perinatal mental health such as feelings of isolations, anxiety and depression. A recent evaluation from the group highlighted how valuable the support being provided is with 83% of the mums agreeing the group had made them feel less isolated and improved their wellbeing. The grant awarded from the Beckett Health & Wellbeing Fund will enable expansion of the group to include regular green prescribing activities, such as buggy walks to improve the mental health of the attending mums.

Hope After Suicide Loss

The Beckett Health & Wellbeing Fund has enabled HOPE to continue its range of services for those bereaved by Suicide (Survivors). The Fund has supported HOPE to bring together a team of counsellors to which survivors can be referred to rather than employing their own therapeutic counsellor. HOPE is the only established, open-ended, free of charge support service for survivors in Suffolk. Its fantastic work is summed up by this quote from a Survivor they supported “Nothing in my life has come anywhere close to the devastating loss of my son to suicide. The support from HOPE, is so compassionate, and free of time restraints, has been as immeasurable as the grief I have suffered in losing my son. Initially I was supported but now I am strong enough to support others.”

Second Chance Stroke Group- Bury St Edmunds

The Beckett Health & Wellbeing Fund funded specialist transports costs for stroke survivors to attend the services offered by the Second Chance Stroke Group. The group provides a vital role for stroke survivors in the community with its primary purpose to bring together individuals who require therapy and support. Many of the group’s members are severely disabled, and without the group’s assistance, they would be confined to their homes. The funding of specialist transport costs offers a lifeline to survivors allowing them to attend the group’s meetings each week for support and therapeutic activities.

Breast Friends

Breast Friends received support from the Fund to help with providing 150 surgery and menopause care kits for women diagnosed with breast cancer. The kits will be offered to patients at Ipswich Hospital and also to women across Suffolk who apply online through the organisation’s website.

Ending Life’s Taboo

The Beckett Health and Wellbeing Fund has supported Ending Life’s Taboo to provide end of life counselling in Ipswich Hospital to adults. The funding will enable the organisation to continue the work they do to support the mental wellbeing of adults up to 45, who are deemed to be in their last 2 years of life.

The Befriending Scheme

The Fund has supported the Befriending Scheme in re-establishing its 'Mindful Mondays' project, a mental health support group at its Community Care Farm in Lindsey, Suffolk. The project supports individuals facing ongoing mental health challenges and aims to help participants develop skills, form friendships, enhance self-confidence, and gain qualifications.

EPIC Dad Community Interest Company

With the help of Funding from the Beckett Health and Wellbeing Fund, EPIC Dad have set up a  programme of outdoor wellbeing and relational activities for disadvantaged fathers and families in West Suffolk. From Forest School-style play to guided walks and farm visits, each experience supports positive connection, reduced isolation, and gentle skill-building in emotionally safe spaces.

"Fore" Get Me Not Golf

The Fund has supported “Fore” Get Me Not Golf in providing dementia friendly golf sessions at Seckford Golf Club. Regardless of ability the person living with dementia can play golf supported by a volunteer giving their family carer the opportunity to join in or relax in the clubhouse.

Asperger East Anglia

The Fund has supported Asperger East Anglia with their core costs to allow them to continue to offer support. Asperger East Anglia facilitates young people’s training and employment workshops, family carer support and groups, adult social groups and women’s groups. They also offer personal support, including crisis support, run charity shops and manage supported living accommodation.