Maryka’s Midnight Marathon Page

On October 1st, for the second time, I shall be running down the tarmac at Heathrow Airport raising money for the Heathrow Community Trust, providing much needed funds to communities around Heathrow.

One example of a project HCT has funded via the Projects for Young People grant stream is The east to west Trust who were awarded a grant for their Emerge project which supports young people admitted to A&E departments due to self-harm injury or attempted suicide. The grant supported provision at St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey, where the Trust were able to have volunteers working three nights a week supporting 154 young people aged 10-25 who were in a mental health crisis across 2 years. The Trust also expanded their community provision to be able to support young people once they left hospital.