Our Charities
Every year at Goodwood we support some exceptional charities, raising money and awareness for good causes both during our summer season and also the rest of the year.
Goodwood Estate Official Charity
Winston's Wish
Winston’s Wish is a children’s charity that support children and young people after the most devastating loss that they will ever face. More than 100 children are bereaved of a parent every day and it is estimated that there are currently over 309,000, under 18 year olds, that are bereaved in the UK.
Winston’s Wish is the one specialist national organisation dedicated solely to bereaved children and young people. We support children after the death of a mum, dad, brother or sister. Winston’s Wish offer a number of specialist bereavement support programmes for deaths through murder, manslaughter, suicide, accident, illness and for families in the military.
One of the most important services at Winston’s Wish is their Freephone national helpline, which is operated by clinically trained practitioners. It is a vital support line for those looking for advice on how best to support a bereaved child. Their Helpline is the primary referral route to the remainder of their services. Last year alone, they received over 5000 calls to their Helpline and we estimate that around 7000 children benefitted from a call to the Helpline.
Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Roberts Centre
The Festival of Speed have chosen the wonderful Roberts Centre as their nominated beneficiary in 2017.
The Roberts Centre are an organisation with a reputation for developing innovative responses to families who are struggling to improve their family’s difficult circumstances, whether from homelessness or family breakdown. Having no home is the tip of the iceberg; they are continuously improving and developing innovative responses, to work with families who are struggling to improve their family’s difficult circumstances. The Roberts Centre help families tackle the underlying and often complex issues which surround homelessness, in practice, giving people the skills to manage their money, home and children. Issues such as debt, parenting difficulties, co-parenting, managing money, lifestyle changes, mental health and learning difficulties, low educational attainment and aspiration are all key areas in which they seek to actively make a difference and achieve a positive outcome.
Particular emphasis is on meeting the needs of the children who are often the casualties of their family’s plight.
The Roberts Centre’s main objectives are:
- to support families to enable them to provide the very best outcomes for their children
- to support families in need
- to support families who are suffering from the impact of relationship breakdown
- to provide evolving pathways for families striving to improve their families circumstances
- to form a partnership with families and work with them to ensure the best possible outcome
All funds raised at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year will go towards the invaluable projects the Robert Centre provide to those that need them.
Goodwood Revival
Chichester Boy's Club
We are delighted to announce the chosen charity for the Goodwood Revival in 2017 will be the Chichester Boys’ Club.
The Boys’ Club was founded by the Rotary Club in 1922 with the purpose of promoting the mental, physical and spiritual well-being for young people resident in the Chichester area, particularly those from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Since losing its funding in 2012, the Boys’ Club has had to find additional sources of revenue to maintain the services it offered to the local community and today the Chichester Boys’ Club regularly attracts young people, girls and boys, from all walks of life through its doors. Since the closure of other venues in and around Chichester the building is now also used by, amongst others, a Young Carers Club, Target for Teens and the Chichester All Sports. Those working towards the Duke of Edinburgh Awards also receive tuition in the Chichester Boys’ Club premises.
The Boys’ Club is financed through the daytime letting of their iconic premises in Little London to a wide mix of clubs, societies and groups, including HUB Club, which is a charity for people with learning difficulties and The Chichester Lunch Club, which provide a friendly social setting for older people with mental health problems. The ‘Information Shop’ for young people hires space which provides advice, information and counselling services.
Although the Sports Hall met requirements when originally constructed in the 1950’s, a scheme is underway to replace the corrugated asbestos roof with a new insulated roof which will reduce the energy consumption and reduce maintenance and repair costs. The Games Hall now needs to be upgraded internally and any funds raised at the Goodwood Revival in 2017 will go towards making this possible.
The Chichester Boys’ Club have a close history with Goodwood and have provided the Revival with the wonderful shoe shine youngsters for many years. If you are a regular visitor to the event you will probably have seen them busying themselves with brushes and polish, encouraging your shoes to look their best!
Goodwood Racecourse
Best Beginnings and The Reading Agency - Goodwood Racecourse Beneficiaries
The two chosen charities, Best Beginnings and The Reading Agency, both accomplish incredible work in their individual fields and we are delighted to be able to support such worthy causes.
In 2014 our Ladies' Day Charity Race, The Magnolia Cup, raised £200,000 for charity, and has raised £800,000 in total over the last four years.
Best Beginnings
Best Beginnings works to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children in the UK and to help reduce child health inequalities. They create and deliver accessible, engaging, evidence-based resources to educate and empower parents, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to give their children the best beginning. The charity also develops supporting change programmes to better enable healthcare professionals to support families.
The Reading Agency
Five million working-aged people have poor literacy skills. The Reading Agency works with a huge range of partners to run creative reading programmes, which support people of all ages to become passionate, skilled and informed readers. Adult learner Nicola, from Brent, said that her personal life is “Richer and a new career in teaching is in sight”. While Tina from Hull said “All my life, since I was young, people have told me I was thick, but I knew deep down that I wasn’t and now The Reading Agency has brought that out, and I have proved what I can do”. We want everyone to feel the way Nicola and Tina do - because everything changes when we read.
VISIT THE READING AGENCY WEBSITE