Rockinghorse

Rockinghorse wants to make all children’s health facilities in Sussex child-friendly environments and believes that no child should be frightened to go into hospital. Specifically, we provide games, toys and televisions for children’s wards, we provide entertainers to go onto the wards and we will even redecorate wards to make them more welcoming and homely for the children to visit. Additionally, we provide cutting edge medical equipment that makes surgery less invasive, quicker or less painful.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a registered charity that saves lives at sea. It provides the 24-hour on-call service to cover search and rescue requirements out to 100 nautical miles from the coast of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and a seasonal beach lifeguard service on appropriate beaches in the south west of England. The RNLI is independent from Government and continues to rely on voluntary contributions and legacies for its income.

SurfAid International

SurfAid International is a non-profit humanitarian organization whose aim is to improve the health, wellbeing and self-reliance of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing.SurfAid, in partnership with communities and government, works to prevent disease, suffering and death through educational programs. SurfAid’s main goal is to empower the communities so as to foster health and resilience that is sustainable.SurfAid runs disaster preparedness, water and sanitation, and health programs in the Mentawai Islands, 150km off Indonesia’s West Sumatran coast, and Nias Island, 125km off the North Sumatran Coast. The region is renowned for its people, who are spiritual and proud, but they are also overwhelmingly burdened by illness including malnutrition, chest infections, diarrhoea and malaria.The infant mortality rate (children under five) in the Mentawai Islands is 93 per 1,000 live births – nearly one in 10. In Nias, the rate is 66 deaths per 1,000 births. (SurfAid Knowledge, Attitude, Practice [KAP] 2007 survey.)  In industrialized countries, on average there are six deaths for every 1,000 live births. SurfAid is proud that 90 per cent of its staff are Indonesian nationals who work hand-in-hand with communities in the Mentawai and Nias islands to bring about permanent, positive health change - and saving lives while respecting the unique culture and customs of the islands.