How to Help - The Great Kent Party

Join the Great Kent Party

Next time you throw a party, simply make it in aid of Canterbury Oast Trust.

Maybe it's just and informal dinner party with friends, your birthday coming up or a party in the garden enjoying the Summer weather - whatever the occasion, just by getting your guests to make a small donation you can help,

We'd like everyone to have fun with their fundraising, So we are promoting the idea of the Great Kent Party.

We don't mind what kind of party - in fact we've had some ideas:

• The Great Kent Garden Party
• The Great Kent Dinner Party
• The Great Kent Pub Crawl
• The Girls Night Out
• The Tea Party
• The Birthday Party
• The Office Party
• The Picnic Party
• The Barbeque Party
• The Childrens' Party
• The Party to end all Parties

Schools, sports clubs, businesses, local organisations and societies can all join in the fun.

So how does it work?
Well, we want to make it easy for you! So, if we can help, please contact our Fundraising Department and we can provide you with balloons and leaflets on our work here at the Canterbury Oast Trust. We can also help with invitations - see below.
call us on: 01233 861493 ext. 241
email us at: fundraising@c-o-t.org.uk
or use our online Contact Form

Print your own personalised invitations:
Click to download invitations in either of the following two designs as Microsoft Word .docs for you to personalise on your own computer.

You can also do everything at the click of a finger using the brilliant website justgiving.com. Invitations can even be e-mailed and your guests can make their donation directly to us on line - so no more filling in forms and chasing cheques and cash. Click HERE for an example.

Do join the The Great Kent Party and help us to buy specialist aids, update furniture and equipment for our homes and just simply enable us to continue our day services. A small donation - for example for art materials, or to enable residents to go on a cinema trip - is so very welcome and does make such a difference to the lives of those supported by COT

Here are just some examples of what you raise could help fund:

£15 could help build social skills by paying for trips out to the cinema or to sports activities

£25 could develop life skills through contributing towards a day's supported work and training

£50 could improve movement and flexibility by paying for physiotherapy sessions for a person with profound physical and learning disabilities

£100 could help equip a home with specialised aids and equipment for disabled people

£150 could enhance the lives and comfort of residents by paying for new furniture in a home

£250 could help develop physical co-ordination and a sense of real achievement by paying for six months' supply of basic materials for the arts and crafts project

£500 could help to develop communication skills for those with very complex needs and impaired speech abilities through the purchase of specialist computer equipment