A huge thank you to everyone who has supported Jess Grant Celebration this year. We are very pleased to announce that, with everyone’s help, we will be able to continue to fully fund the Ipswich Hospital Music Therapy Service for the whole of 2022. This extremely valuable therapeutic service has gone from strength to strength this year, with Daisy Williamson now helping 7-9 children every session. We are also delighted to now be funding Zest music therapy days for young adults at St. Elizabeth Hospice.
With special thanks to:-
Our trustees: Caroline Allison, Andy Flatman and Jo Palmer for their time, help and support throughout the year.
Mark Hall at CHP Design for our wonderful website and logo, and his ongoing support in hosting and maintaining the site.
Jess Grant Celebration Patron, Brian May, for his continued support.
Everyone who has provided much needed funds by taking part in challenges and events, and making donations to Jess Grant Celebration this year.

Thank you so much to Amber Grover and the staff at The Entertainer toy shop in Cambridge. Amber heard about Jess Grant Celebration and very kindly nominated us for a ‘Jack Gives Back with Pennies 2021’ grant (https://pennies.org.uk) Thanks to all the ‘pennies’ donated by The Entertainer’s very generous customers, charities are nominated to receive a portion of the funds raised. We have received the fantastic news that Jess’ charity has been awarded £1000 😀 This is amazing and will help us so much going forward with our plans to continue funding music therapy services for children and young people in hospitals and hospices 🥁🎹🎸

Massive congratulations to Sam Linassi for completing the London Marathon in a personal best time of 3:32:37, a brilliant achievement. We are so grateful to Sam for picking Jess Grant Celebration to fundraise for again and for raising a fabulous £376 + gift aid

Lovely article in the Ipswich Star helping us to raise awareness of Jess Grant Celebration and what we are doing in our beautiful daughter’s memory

https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/health/jess-grant-celebration-donation-to-ipswich-hospice-8241502

Thank you very much to everyone who took part in 5k May and helped to raise an amazing £440 for Jess Grant Celebration

We are so excited to share our news! Throughout the academic year, Kesgrave High School Sixth Form have been organising events and challenges to fundraise for Jess Grant Celebration in memory of Jess. You may remember the non-uniform day in the Autumn term that raised a fantastic £500! But, they didn’t stop there! At the end of last year, the Sixth Form Committee set the challenge to run a virtual marathon over a period of 12 weeks, starting with the annual Santa Run. In total, Kesgrave High School have raised a staggering £3,574.71 😍🥳❤🏃. This is by far the highest total raised by any group of individuals for Jess’ charity. We can’t thank Kesgrave High School enough for all their wonderful fundraising; it means so much to us that Jess’ peers picked her charity to raise money for in her memory.
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of the Year 13s the very best in whatever they are going on to do in the future.

We’re delighted to announce that we are part of the Run for Heroes 5K May.

How to get involved?

🏃 All you need to do is run, walk, row, cycle, swim or dream up another way of completing a 5K challenge during the month of May

💰 Donate £5 to our campaign page at

https://runforheroes.justgiving.com/get-involved?charityId=2680991

🤚 Nominate 5 others to get involved

🎁 Unlock rewards from Run for Heroes’ amazing brand partners

Thank you x

Unfortunately, for many reasons, our re-scheduled JessFest event will not be going ahead on Saturday 2nd October 2021.
At this point we’re unable to plan a further re-schedule, and have refunded the full ticket price to everyone who kindly bought their tickets early in 2020, before COVID-19 became a thing!
So pleased and grateful that all the stars aligned for JessFest in 2019. We have amazing memories of a fantastic day. A perfect way of celebrating Jess and her love of live music, and raising funds for music therapy in her memory. Thank you again to everyone who made JessFest happen and for everyone’s support and help in making it such a special day.

Thank you so much to everyone who got involved in Jess’ Celebration weekend. It was so lovely seeing and hearing about the celebrations. Queen and 80’s music were very much a common theme. Everyone knows that Queen were Jess’ favourite band, and she also loved 80’s music, especially when she was at primary school. Jess always had good taste 😀
We are delighted to announce that Jess’ Celebration weekend raised £765 (+ gift aid of £128.75). This is a fantastic total and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has donated. Every penny raised will be used to fund the fantastic music therapy service at Ipswich Hospital.
There’s still time to donate if you would like to: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/JessCelebration