Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust
Duchy Health Charity has awarded a grant of £11,009.65 towards The Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust ‘Cornwall Young People Sailing and Outdoor Adventure Trips project’.
The Trust enables young people with cancer, living and treated in Cornwall, to attend a transformational sailing experience in Cowes, Isle of Wight, or to attend an outdoor adventure centre in one of the Trust’s partnership centres located across the country in areas such as the Peak District or Herefordshire.
When cancer treatment ends, that is when the Trust’s work begins.
Look Good Feel Better Confidence Boosting Workshops for People with Cancer
Duchy Health Charity awarded us a grant of £3,432 towards ‘Look Good Feel Better’ confidence-boosting workshops in Cornwall.
The grant has enabled delivery of nine workshops across Fowey Hall and The Cove Macmillan Centre atTreliske, supporting 55 people living with cancer.
Three further workshops have also been scheduled in Fowey, and four at Treliske.
Chair’s Report 2025
Chair’s Report for the Duchy Health Charity AGM 10 November 2025
Read for Good – hospital reading programme for children
‘Read for Good’ were thrilled to receive a grant of £5,000 from Duchy Health Charity to help bring the magic of books and stories to children in the Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske.
The much-loved Read for Good hospital programme provides a unique and vibrant, mobile bookcase that can reach right up to a child’s bedside, with brand new, carefully selected books as well as professional storyteller visits.
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Dentaid the Dental Health Charity
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Bodmin Wellbeing Orchestra
Bodmin Wellbeing Orchestra In March 2024, the Duchy Health Charity awarded a grant of £3,164 to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) to launch their plans for a Wellbeing Orchestra in Bodmin. One of the UK’s leading Orchestras, the BSO is passionate about using music to improve mental health. Since 2019 their Bristol Recovery Orchestra, run in […]
Thank you from Read for Good
A message to the Duchy Health Charity from Read for Good storyteller Amanda Smith Reading is nothing short of life changing and no child should be defined by early life disadvantage, which is why ‘Read for Good’ have been making the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske a better place for children facing a hospital stay, […]
Chair’s Report 2024
Chair’s Report for the Duchy Health Charity AGM 2 December 2024 Introduction The purpose of Duchy Health Charity is to: Prevent disease and illness by encouraging health and wellbeing; Facilitate change in health and wellbeing across Cornwall; Work in partnership with other organisations and institutions across Cornwall In many ways, the year since I last […]