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The Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI) is a partnership, between local authority, conservation bodies and industry, working together to enhance, conserve, and promote the environment in East Ayrshire. Our work is driven by a belief that:

East Ayrshire is a fantastic place for wildlife

restored open cast coal sites offer great opportunities for creating new wildlife habitats

community participation in wildlife conservation enhances peoples lives

young people are the decision makers of tomorrow and should be given every opportunity to discover the value of their environment today

Oakhaven Trust, Registered Charity Number 900215, provides specialist palliative care and support to those facing life-limiting illness and their loved ones in both a home and hospice setting. Our team of specialist Oakhaven nurses, doctors, counsellors and physiotherapistease physical symptoms and offer psychological, spiritual and social support.

Their care is tailored to suit the needs of each individual and, with a blend of expertise and compassion, the team offers support for people when they most need it. Since its foundation in 1992, Oakhaven's free of charge services have grown to provide comprehensive palliative care to 100,000 residents in the New Forest and Waterside area. The following statistics show the many different ways that we support our community:

Oakhaven supports over 120 patients, their families and carers each week in our In-Patients Unit and Day Hospice as well as out in the local community.Our Community Nurses make 2,500 contacts every year, through 'one to one' visits in the patient's home, working with local GPs/hospitals or by telephone.Our Senior Physiotherapist makes 500 consultations and treatments each year in the hospice and community.The Day Hospice is a well used facility, appreciated by patients and their carers, with more than 1,000 attendances by patients annually.

The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys (EST) is a UK based charity dedicated to providing riding therapy with donkeys to children with special needs and disabilities.

The aims of the EST are to bring enjoyment and pleasure into their lives and to give them the satisfaction that comes with the achievement of learning riding skills.

Riding skills are taught by qualified riding instructors using the donkey because of its placid nature. In addition, children are encouraged to groom and care for the donkeys.

The successful Storybook Parents project is being rolled out across the forces with the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) in Yeovilton being the latest to launch the service today, Wednesday 14 May 2008.

The community support project enables personnel to record their children a bedtime story and personalise it with messages and greetings. Children can play the CD anytime they need comforting when their parents are sent on deployment.

Being able to maintain their role as a parent, despite long absences, is a key concern for many serving in the forces. When it is time for deployment, part of the emotional difficulty of leaving the family behind is the disruption to the simple routines like bedtime stories, which can be vital to children and parents alike. The Storybook Parents service can help to preserve that routine and give children the opportunity to hear their absent parent's voice whenever they need to.

This free service, available to all personnel at RNAS Yeovilton, has been brought to the base through funding by the Annington Trust. A small team of volunteers, with ties to the base through work or family, have undergone training to use the digital recording equipment and software for editing, enabling them to produce high quality and professional looking story CDs for the families of service personnel.

Little Treasures was set up by three Trustees. There are still so many children in the UK that have disabilities and are very sick that are not getting the help they need. Many parents have to give up work to look after their child and are therefore unable to afford the specialist equipment and respite their child needs.

One in four children in the U.K suffer with acute medical conditions, and everyday 10 families are told that their child has cancer, this often means that one or both parents have to give up work and become full time carers for their children.

 Little Treasures offers help and support to improve the lives of sick children and their families. We raise funds for children in many different circumstances from paying travel fees to and from hospital to helping terminally ill children live their dream.

Registered charity no.1119024