Over 400 people ran for Sense in the Flora London Marathon to raise money for our work with deafblind people
Fundraising Sense As a result of our fundraising work, voluntary donations of £5.4m have enabled our current services to continue and new services to be developed. ●
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We were chosen as Orange’s Charity Partner for 2005-6 with the target of raising £200,000 towards Sense’s Outreach work over two financial years. Their fundraising events included the Tour d’Orange where over 70 Orange employees and 4 Sense staff cycled from London to Paris. Through the support of our trustee, John Crabtree, we set up a Corporate Development Board with representatives from the CBI, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Clifford Chance, Conygar Investments, Interbrew and BUPA. The Board is pledged to raise donations for Sense over a minimum of three years and to provide new networking opportunities. Sense was a beneficiary of a city trading day at ICAP, which raised £110,000 in eight hours of trading for a range of charities.
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403 people ran the Flora London Marathon raising £667,000 for Sense’s work with deafblind people. 293 articles about Sense runners and our involvement in the Flora London Marathon were featured in the media. BBC Children in Need pledged £98,000 over three years to support our work with deafblind children in Wales. We secured three year funding from the Department of Health to develop an advocacy training project. John Crabtree organised a trek to Machu Picchu in Peru that raised over £100,000. Planned future treks include Bavaria, Mount Etna and to Everest’s base camp. Our legacy income continues to make a huge contribution to our work. Past supporters donated over £1.4m in their wills towards our support for deafblind people.
Sense helped me communicate with my child – it gave
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me a lifleline
– a Sense parent
sense annual report & accounts 2006
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