Our Strategy

Summary

At Rockinghorse Children’s Charity our vision is for a world where children are healthy and happy.

While we work towards this world, we will continue to fund projects, programmes and people that enhance the care and support given by our incredible colleagues in the NHS and beyond.

Our purpose as a charity is to help them do more.

This strategy sets out how we will do this, what our goals are and how we aim to achieve them.

To develop our strategy, we listened carefully to the people we support, our community, our colleagues and Trustees and together we have developed six priorities that we want to focus on for the next three years:

• Reach, Impact, evidence and access
• Engagement
• Partnerships
• Profile and Influence
• Finance
• Resources

Background

If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that despite our best-efforts things can happen to throw us off course. We certainly can’t predict the future and it’s fair to say that we continue to live in uncertain times.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t plan and try our best to make Sussex a safer place for children to grow up.

We recently celebrated our 55th anniversary and if we have learnt anything by being around for so long, it’s that we need to adapt and innovate, to ensure that we can still be here for the next 55 years.

Babies will still be born too early, children will continue to get poorly, and young people will still struggle to manage their mental health in an increasingly challenging world, but we’ll be there to help them and the people that support them.

Our values

We care: We care about children, young people, their families, and all those that look after for them.

We always act with kindness and compassion. We care about the NHS and all those who work there. We care about the world and want to make it a better place.

We’re passionate: We are passionate about making life better for children, young people and their families.

If there’s something we can do to make life better for children and their families, we’ll go above and beyond to do it. We are passionate about our community and all those in it.

We’re honest: We are open and honest about our work, what we fund and how we raise funds.

We work hard to ensure money goes to projects that genuinely make a difference. We involve our supporters in our projects and share our learning and experience wherever possible.

We’re supportive: We help wherever and however we can, we support children, their families, we support Health Care Professionals (HCP) and paediatric services, and we support each other as team members.

We work with and support other charities and organisations who are doing great things for children in Sussex.

We’re collaborative: We prioritise working with people and organisations wherever possible.

We work with experts and others for the best possible outcome for sick children and their families. We love a partnership that prioritises impact and avoids duplication.