Here at The Pendsey Trust we are delighted to bring you our good news story about what has been our main focus this summer. It all began with the crazy idea that we could get 100 bicycles out to India to enable the young people we are helping with educational scholarships to reach school safelyRead More
A little over three years since my first visit to India, which inspired the birth of The Pendsey Trust, I am excited to be shortly setting off once again, this time with my sister in tow, to help deliver 100 bicycles to some very special young people. The Pendsey Trust has been working veryRead More
We were sorry to inform you back in December of the tragic and unexpected death of one of our founding trustees, Michelle Wardle. In her short life, Michelle had achieved a huge amount, and was a dedicated supporter of numerous charitable causes. To recognise Michelle’s role in the early days of The Pendsey Trust, aRead More
I can hardly believe that we have been going for a year- but equally cannot believe how much we have grown and the huge number of enthusiastic, inspirational individuals who have helped us achieve our goals during that time. With fundraisers in the UK from a Roman Rumble to Man V Food, we have engagedRead More
The Pendsey Trust were delighted to be chosen as one of Newcastle University’s RAG week charities in January 2014. The week was a great success, and raised over £6,000 for some great causes. Elinor Thomas, a third year combined honours student, leads the RAG committee. We caught up with her to find out a bitRead More
We are delighted to introduce the child The Pendsey Trust will be sponsoring with the proceeds from World Diabetes Day! Khushi is 2 years old and lives in a house built of mud with no water or electricity in the province of Yavatamal. She lives with her grandmother, parents and older brother. Her father is aRead More
When we first launched as The Pendsey Trust, we put feelers out into the Diabetes Online Community, looking for inspiration and support. We were lucky enough to find Tim Brown, a blogger from shootuporputup.co.uk, a popular diabetes community site in the UK. Tim wrote our first interview (see here) and shortly afterwards, took on theRead More
Ladies and gentlemen…we have take-off! I am delighted to announce that after months of preparation and planning, we have now officially launched The Pendsey Trust. 80 young professionals from across central London attended a Pub Quiz at The Rose Pub, Vauxhall, and raised around £1130. This is a fabulous amount of money for our firstRead More
The Pendsey Trust’s Lucy Laycock was interviewed by diabetes blog Shoot Up or Put Up; the full interview is copied below with kind permission from Shoot Up: Recently your soaraway Shoot Up was contacted by Lucy Laycock, one of the founding members of The Pendsey Trust: a UK-based charity dedicated to helping people with typeRead More
