Skerritts Charity
The Ebenezers Children’s Home is based in a village 10km outside of Chennai, it cares for poor, homeless and orphaned children from the streets of Southern India. The home is a very special place that has a big family atmosphere, providing the children with security and allowing them to grow up with love and fellowship within their lives.
Images from June 2009
Skerritt Consultants are recognised as Martlets Champions donating £500 per year to The Hospice. The Martlets Hospice helps people affected by terminal and life limiting illness living in and around Brighton & Hove.
They provide end of life care services to adults with terminal disease including cancer. Their facilities include an 18 bed InPatient Unit, Day Hospice and Martlets @ Home Service. Practical and emotional support is also offered to the families and carers of our patients including helping them through bereavement.
Their main aim is to maximise the quality of life for thier patients and they strive to support patient choice, dignity and independence in all they do. They are a registered charity and all their services are provided free of charge. It costs over £4 million every year to run the Hospice and local community support is essential to their survival .
You can visit the Martlets Champions Website :www.martletschampions.co.uk
Charity Events
Rockinghorse Wonderland Ball raises £62k for sick children in Sussex
A staggering £62, 000 was raised at Rockinghorse’s 14th Annual Wonderland 
Ball on Saturday (28 November). The event, which was sponsored by Skerritt Consultants, saw The Grand Hotel in Brighton transformed into the world of Lewis Carroll’s most famous creation, Alice in Wonderland, complete with characters from the much-loved children’s story.The evening kicked off with a drinks reception, followed by a three-course dinner at the Mad Hatter’s tea party, an endearing themed performance by K-BIS Theatre Group and an evening filled with music, dancing and fairground-inspired games, such as pin the tail on the Cheshire cat.
Guests tapped their toes to music by string quartet, Oopsie Mamushka, and Sussex-based band Murdoch’s Crazy Eyes filled the dance-floor within seconds with their repertoire of classic songs.
The auction raised close to £9.5k and an astounding £22.5k was donated by guests during the evening. The fabulous auction prizes were kindly provided by local companies and included such wonderful packages as a week-long break in sunny Spanish resort La Manga and a foodie’s fantasty, which included an exclusive food critic experience with Andrew Kay and a cookery lesson for eight at Jamie Oliver’s Recipease, along with other food-related items.The lucky winner of one lot took away a money-can’t-buy experience of an exclusive sneak peak behind-the-scenes of the filming of GMTV.
Attendees had great fun popping balloons for the balloon raffle, which raised £3, 500 and saw winning guests leave with a holiday in Mallorca, a night’s stay at the Hilton Metropole and dinner for two at The Meadow, amongst other prizes.
GMTV reporter/producer, Marcella Whittingdale, hosted the evening for her fifth y
ear: “I love getting involved in the Rockinghorse Wonderland Ball, it always proves to be a great evening and this year was no exception.“Everyone has been so generous, especially in these tough times, and – on behalf of Rockinghorse – I cannot thank people enough for their support: the money will make a huge difference to sick children throughout the county.”
Ms Whittingdale is actively involved in raising money for children’s charities and is currently training for the ten-mile Great South Run.
Gavin Fisher, Chief Executive of Rockinghorse, said: “We are truly humbled by the support we have received.A huge thanks goes out to our sponsors, Skerritt Consultants, to Marcella for being our fantastic host once again, to all the companies who donated prizes, and last but most certainly not least, to all of our guests – we really couldn’t have done it without you.”
www.rockinghorse.org.uk
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acoustic duo fashion by The Pretty Things, before Sons of Albion delivered three Chilis-meet-Reef numbers. Uriah Heep hit the stage with apt new cut, Overload, complemented by three classics, including the stomping Gypsy Queen and uptempo Easy Living. Thunder had the less than sell-out crowd on theirfeet for their four-song stint, beginning with Back Street Symphony, Gimme Some Lovin’ had all voices raised, and I Love You More Than Rock’n'Roll showed the quinted still cut it. Hot Leg do that with aplomb, despite Justin Hawkins hobbling with crutches and plaster cast. Ive Met Jesus was restrained but the falsetto on chickens was squawktastic, and the Cocktails completed their foursome in punchy fashion. The Storys’ Steve Balsamo was joined by most of Thunder and Jon Lord for a couple of turns, notably Purple’s Child In Time, before Glenn Hughes led a rousing You Keep On Moving, a wailing Mistreated and a belting Soul Mover, with Danny Bowes aboard. Hawkins returned to lead Thunder on The Darkness’ I believe In A Thing Called Love, then Steve Harley did a two-song turn including Come Up And See Me, and the cast joined together for cracking closer Smoke On The Water, bringing down the curtain on over three hours of class rock.”Source: Tim Jones – Record Collector
Feathers & Fireworks Ball
The Feather and Fireworks Ball took place on the 21st June 2008 at the Brighton Hilton Metropole. The evening celebrated E3 Group’s 10th anniversary in the entertainment business. The event was also a great opportunity to raise money for local charities, which included Chestnut Tree House and Martlets Hospice.
Skerritt Consultants donated £10,500 to the Chestnut Tree House.
www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk
Smugglers Ball
On the 24th November 2007 the Brighton Hilton Metropole was transformed 
into a pirate’s tavern at Rockinghorse’s Smuggler’s Ball. Over 500 guests joined Rockinghorse for the annual themed ball and helped raise over £100,000 for the charity Rockinghorse.
Skerritt Consultants donated £19,500 to Rockinghorse.