Charities we support

Is there an Ickle Pickle in your life?

Ickle Pickles are the smallest and sickest babies who need intensive care in Neonatal Units – Whether born too soon or with an illness the NHS cares for over 20,000 ickle pickles every year.

Advances in Neonatal medicine have realised incredible improvements in survival rates – in 1975, half of all babies born weighing less than 1.5kg (3.3 lbs) died. Compare that to today where over 90% of premature babies weighing 800g or more (equivalent to a bag of sugar) survive.

Over the same period the pressures on Neonatal care have spiralled due mainly to the expanding population of the UK and an increase in multiple births as fertility treatment has improved.

With NHS budgets being continually squeezed there is a real and tangible need for public donation and support for neonatal care.

The Ickle Pickle Partnership turns gifts and donations from generous people into specialised equipment such as incubators and ventilators to help Neonatal units provide incredible levels of care for Ickle Pickles.

Besides our own appeals, we enable parents and families to run their own localised appeals for the specific Neonatal unit that helped their ickle pickle – together we can make a big difference.

Biggleswade Ivel Rotary Club - Mosquito Nets Project

This is a small project that is making a big difference an my brother is actively involved in taking the mosquito nets to the people.

•In 2004 St Andrew’s Clinics started providing mosquito nets for Maasai people in the Lake Magadi area of Kenya.

•The life cycle of mosquitoes is only weeks.  If all the female mosquitoes in an area are deprived of anyone to bite for a few months, the disease would die out

•Every year in Lake Magadi area, malaria kills 6 children in every 1000 + a comparable number of  adults who have been weakened by AIDS, TB, childbirth, accidents, malnutrition…

•Nets for every family member – young & old, infected or not

•Training to improve malaria awareness and a support structure to maintain the nets & their potency

•Target = 2,500 nets for trained/ supported families

The NCT do a fabulous job and I run numerous courses with them and for them. Huge thanks to all the incredible volunteers that make everything happen.

The RNLI do a fantastic job and I can’t thank them enough

Thank you for all you do!