Amber Trust beneficiary Max has cortical visual impairment and cerebral palsy after being starved of oxygen for 24 hours prior to his birth. He has received funding from Amber for a range of guitar, piano and singing lessons over the past five years. He…
Ebony Gilbert never meant to write a book about her son George, but now she is hoping it will helpchildren think differently about disability. The Bethnal Green writer released her self-published children’s book Seeing with My Heart last month after…
Amber Trust beneficiaries Lilly Kurata, Ashleigh Turley and Ivan Rodriguez Deb stole the show as they brought the curtain down on the Music in Mind Symposium at King’s College School, Wimbledon, on Sunday. The teenage trio, along with Amber patron Derek Paravicini, played starring roles on the piano,…
Amber Trust beneficiaries Ashleigh Turley, Ivan Rodriguez Deb and Lilly Kurata will bring the curtain down on the Wimbledon International Music Festival’s Music in Mind Symposium on November 7. The teenage trio are set to perform alongside Trust patron Derek Paravicini as part of the ‘Music & Blindness’ seminar at King’s College School in Wimbledon. Eighteen-year-old multi-instrumentalist Turley’s interpretation of I Wish…
Solihull’s Hannah Morgan admitted she may have developed a taste for the high life after skydiving in aid of The Amber Trust earlier this month. The 26-year-old dare devil plummeted 15,000ft – including a one minute freefall – at the North London Skydiving Centre in Cambridgeshire on October 23 to raise more…
Good things come to those who wait and so it proved for The Amber Trust’s golden fundraiser Poppy McGhee at this year’s Annual Concert. The 16-year-old violinist has raised more than £10,000 for the charity in the past nine years after being inspired to get involved…
Amber Trust’s London Marathon Man Andy Shea is confident a tricky month will not derail his efforts to complete the 26.2mile challenge. The 34-year-old has found it difficult to fit in training during September after his two-year-old daughter Poppy – who is a current Little Amber award…
The Amber Trust chair of trustees Lady Julia Walport says the finale to this year’s Annual Concert will be hard to beat when the event returns in 2022. More than 100 people watched the inspiring live show in The Wathen Hall, St Paul’s School, Barnes on Sunday. Many more followed the two-hour celebration of music on the internet thanks to…
Sunday will not be a day of rest for The Amber Trust as fundraisers will be out in force in the UK and abroad. St Paul’s School in Barnes will play host to the Trust’s Annual Concert as we showcase the abilities…
University of Sussex academic Professor Dan Hough is more accustomed to standing around in a cricket field, so running the Berlin Marathon has required a little extra inspiration – via his mum. The 47-year-old Head of Politics, from Ascot, heads across the Channel on Wednesday as part of a 40-strong International Association for the Study of German Politics delegation observing the German…