Our Strategy

The 2022-2025 Rockinghorse 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

So read on to find out what our plans are, how we will manage in an ever-changing landscape for charities and how we will continue to aim for a world where children are healthy and happy.

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 vision, mission and values

Our vision

Our vision is a world where children are healthy and happy

Our mission

We do this by funding projects, programmes and people that enhance the care and support given by our incredible colleagues in the NHS.

We work in partnership with the UHSussex NHS Trust and other local charities to fund projects, programmes and people as well as helping young patients and their families.

We fund cutting edge equipment and facilities, support medical staff, innovative research and pioneering treatments, that make a difference to patients and their loved ones. We support developments that go above and beyond what the NHS can provide at present.

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.

Our strategic ambitions

We have developed six strategic ambitions that we will be focusing on over the next three years.

These ambitions will help us:

  • Ensure that staff at The Alex, TMBU and children’s services across Sussex have the resources, equipment, and environments they need to care for sick children and their families.
  • Focus on identifying, developing, funding and evaluating projects that make a real impact on sick babies, children and their families.
  • Build our internal capacity and capabilities to ensure we can be there for all sick children and their families for the next 55 years.

Ambition 1

Reach, Impact, Evidence and Access

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Ambition 2

Engagement

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Ambition 3

Partnerships

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Ambition 4

Profile and Influence

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Ambition 5

Finance

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Ambition 6

Resources

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