“Thank you so so much for my iPad. I love it! I have used it to get in touch with my friends, Skype my cousin who is at university and play lots of games. I am also using it to catch up on my school work, as I have not been to school since I had my first operation at the end of September. I spend quite a lot of time chatting with my best friend Grace and I have also started to do jigsaws on it – this is so much better as normally my back aches when I lean over the table. I am easily able to take it to hospital as I spend a lot of time in the Royal Berks or the John Radcliffe. I am doing an art award with the school teachers in Oxford and I will be writing my comments for my portfolio on my iPad. Thank you again – it’s brilliant.”

“I am so grateful for the support from the John Sykes Foundation so I can concentrate on my training. I go to the gym every day for training and the money will go towards my travel expenses for more competitive races and I have five more coming up in the next six weeks. It’s going to be busy!”

“I cannot really express my gratitude in words to the charity for how easy the application process was compared to other charities to how fast the response was and how quickly they followed through with the grant for the special needs travel bed for our son. Usually applying to charities is a long process and a mound of paperwork so it was so refreshing to see such a different approach and quick, positive response. The grant is quite simply life changing as we can now consider future family breaks and even respite options from family which was simply not possible before due to our son’s complex needs.”