The Children's Trust is a national charity and is the leading authority on brain injury in the UK. Working from a base in Tadworth, The Children's Trust offers a combination of services to children throughout the UK including:

• Residential care
• Short breaks
• Rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury
• Transitional care between hospital and home
• Outreach - caring for children in their own home
• The Children's Trust school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties

The Children Trust is at the cutting edge of development and is constantly striving to improve the lives of the children in its care. Nowhere else in the world offers the same extensive treatment programs for children who have experienced a brain injury. No other body has created and developed a teaching program for severely disabled children that works in parallel with the current state school curriculum. It truly is a unique place but whilst it helps hundreds of children and their family's year on year, there are more than 3000 children injured each year. The Children's Trust therefore is looking to help even more children with the help and support of volunteers and fundraisers and in particular, with assistance from local businesses.

Meet Julia Hart - Community Fundraising Manager

After Running the London Marathon in April 09 Julia Hart was so taken with the life changing work of the charity that she felt compelled to join their award winning fundraising team. Julia became the Community Fundraising Manager for The Children's Trust in the summer of 09, looking after the North East Home Counties. Talking about The Children's Trust Julia Hart says: "Working as a community fundraising manager for The Children's Trust is an exciting place to be in the world of charity right now".

As part of her role, Julia works with local businesses who want to support the charity. Julia says: "There is a lot of synergy between the business world and the charity sector - my role is to help businesses see how they can gain from working in partnership with the charity."

It is widely recognised that large blue chip companies gain huge benefits from affiliating themselves with large national charities. These benefits include:

• It improves profile locally, nationally and internationally
• It creates media attention and increases PR opportunities with national news papers and radio stations
• It adds to their Corporate Social Responsibility profile
• It increases brand awareness

Julia is looking to help local businesses gain similar benefits by working in partnership with The Children's Trust including:

• helping you to raise your profile within the local community
• creating media attention around you and your company
• helping you with free local advertising and PR
• helping you fulfil your corporate and personal social responsibilities
• helping to build your business brand.

If you are considering working with a charity and want to know how working with The Children's Trust can help You and Your business please contact Julia Hart on 01275 453878. To email Julia or to visit The Children's Trust website, please click the links at the top of this feature.

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