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
We are delighted that Jess Grant Celebration has been able to provide funding for music therapy sessions as part of Zest’s fantastic new Zest Days service. We know firsthand what a difference music therapy can make to young people.
Jess was quite a private person and creating music helped her to express her emotions and process her feelings. It also provided a lot of enjoyment when times were really tough.
She was like a different person after a music therapy session. Thanks to the fundraising efforts of our supporters, we are excited that we are able to provide funding for Zest to allow more young people to benefit from music therapy.
Please read the full story on St. Elizabeth Hospice’s site at: https://bit.ly/3jTwbjR
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
Please find out how you can get involved on our Events Page at https://www.jessgrantcelebration.org.uk/events/
A huge thank you from Jess Grant Celebration for everyone’s support. It’s just over 2 years since we first launched Jess’ charity, and it was this time a year ago that the new music therapy service was launched on the Children’s ward at Ipswich Hospital. We’ve put together a little thank you presentation for everyone who has helped and supported Jess Grant Celebration over the first 2 years.
Hope you enjoy seeing all the photos again. Thank you so much x
