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5 February 2008
Dear Franky and
Gary
Thank you so much
for taking the time and trouble to come over to Tadworth yesterday to
see what goes on here at The Children’s Trust.
This is also to
acknowledge with gratitude receipt of cheques to a total value of
£7,000, which you presented us with. I was truly touched by your
generosity in raising all this money for the Trust and amazed that all
this should have come from a brief conversation with Franky over dinner.
Please will you pass on to the musicians and all the other friends who
helped you to put on the concerts in Chiddingfold our sincere thanks for
this magnificent donation. These are obviously hugely popular and
worthwhile events.
As you saw for
yourselves, we are in the midst of a major construction programme here,
building new purpose-built houses for up to 20 children with acquired
brain injuries who come to us for therapeutic rehabilitation as well as
a new hydrotherapy pool. When there buildings are open in 2009 they will
mark the fulfilment of our ambition to create a new national centre for
rehabilitation of brain-injured and disabled children. The whole project
will cost about £7 million. We are more than half way towards our target
but there is quite a way to go so you can be assured that the money you
have raised will be pit to very good use indeed.
I
hope I shall have an opportunity to invite you both back to see how the
money has been spent when the new centre is open. I hope we shall have
created something which our many supporters throughout Surrey can be
proud of.
I
shall certainly look forward to meeting you both again, perhaps on one
of my (rather infrequent) visits to fish at Wintershall.
With all good wishes,
Yours sincerely
Andrew Ross
Chief Executive
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