Updates - Archive for the ‘Updates’ Category


New website alert!

Crossroads Care South Central (CCSC) exists to provide home respite support to unpaid carers living in West Sussex and Hampshire. We gave them £10,000 through our Local Community Grants Programme to enhance their IT systems, including their online booking system.  Its this online booking system which enables the personalisation of the scheme and will help them move to being a paperless organisation.  Well, they’ve only gone and done it and we’re delighted to link to their new website which we happen to think is rather wonderful – click here to have a look: http://www.crossroadscare-sc.org Top work guys!

Brighton Marathon 2012: is it YOUR turn to compete?

Chris, Rob, Nick and Joel all ran the Brighton Marathon and changed the lives of thousands of people as a result.  Can you say that you did that this April? If they’ve inspired to take part in a true sporting challenge


Brighton Marathon 2011; let’s hear it for the boys!

THEY CAME, THEY FUNDRAISED, THEY DID A BIT OF RUNNING! Huge congratulations and thanks to all our runners for the Brighton Marathon 2011 – you did it! Congratulations to Nick Lambshead, Rob Caulkin, Chris Scott and Joel Egloffe. Commiserations to Oliver Parish; it


Brighton Marathon 2011

This weekend sees the second ever Brighton Marathon and The Body Shop Foundation is delighted to say that we’ve got five runners doing it for us and the projects we support. Because of their support, hard work and training, there are


10 questions we ask everyone; author, contributor, friend of the Foundation – the lovely John Reid

Ah, questions questions questions. The world is riddled with them and we’ve decided to add some more into the mix. This time, we throw our investigative light on John Reid, author and contributor of articles to the Foundation


Celebrating our 20 years….Simon Counsel, the Rainforest Foundation

“The Rainforest Foundation UK has been very lucky to have had a relationship with The Body Shop Foundation since 2000, and we’re really proud that together we have been able to make progress towards saving the world’s rainforests. The Body


Cool Running : he came, he saw, he did a bit of running….

Looking back it seems that the last blog I did was four weeks ago, a cheery little number about all the training I’d done and how I felt I was ready for the marathon.  The last line went something like:


Brighton ROCKED! Well done to everyone who helped at the Brighton Marathon

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who took part in the inaugural Brighton Marathon yesterday.  Firstly, our 15 incredible runners who ALL completed the course, despite the blistering heat of the day. 15 names that we repeat with pride and salute: Lisa, Sarah,


Celebrating our 20 years….Will Travers

Too often the corporate world is exactly that – corporate, distant and remote.  Not so with the Body Shop Foundation – the real face of a real company that really cares. I have had the pleasure of working closely with Body


Calling all Brighton & Sussex based supporters & friends!

This coming Sunday sees The Body Shop Foundation pack up the office and its volunteers and head for a day at the beach at the very first ever Brighton Marathon. Join our celebrations; come along and cheer on our runners and