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Ascot Racecourse is proud to announce a number of initiatives and funding commitments that will provide crucial support for local charities and the wider community in 2022 and beyond.

Through the Ascot Racecourse Supports community and charity programme, these commitments will build on the wide-ranging help and assistance provided to many organisations through 2021.
Charity funding commitments continue to grow In excess of £25,000 grant funding has already been promised to seven fantastic charities for the year ahead through the Berkshire Community Foundation. That includes £5,000 to the Renova Trust which provides housing to formerly homeless or precariously housed people and ex-offenders.
The Windsor-based charity DASH will also receive £5,000 to help them in their work to provide specialist support to adults and children experiencing mental health issues, modern slavery, trafficking, homelessness and complex needs associated with domestic abuse.

Pictured Below:  Alexander McCullough  and  Toby Spong read their poems out to racegoers  during the Howden Christmas Racing Weekend at Ascot on 18th December 2021.

Sarah Wilson, Headmistress at Heathfield, a leading independent secondary boarding and day school in Ascot for girls aged 11-18, discusses ‘attitude’ and its impact on achievement and life chances.

Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst described ‘attitude’ as an individual's predisposed state of mind…a responsive expression towards something, which in turn influences the individual's thoughts and actions’, and is therefore an important consideration in every student’s education and the responsibility of every school and parent.

Attitude determines how students react to adversity, overcome challenges, create bonds with others and how they learn. It has an important role to play in defining a student’s destiny – how well they perform on a personal level, in school and in their future career. Building a positive attitude, responding and viewing things in the right way, positively impacts their future and success - not just in exams, but in all areas of their lives.

 On Friday 10th December, students at Charters School in Sunningdale,   helped to plant the Queen’s Green Canopy, a tree planting initiative which is being coordinated to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee next year.

One student from each Key Stage helped to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ in the school’s beautiful grounds.

The trees, which have been supplied free of charge to groups, organisations and individuals throughout the UK, will enhance the school grounds for future generations of Charters Students and will be a lasting legacy from a truly remarkable monarch.

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Christmas may be a time for festive cheer but new figures from Samaritans reveal that concerns about family have risen for the fifth year in a row.

So far throughout 2021 family worries have made up 34 per cent of emotional support contacts with the charity. Mental health is the top concern at 46 per cent; isolation and loneliness at 28 per cent; and relationship problems at 24 per cent.

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 Vivien Currie MBE is today announced as the next Chief Executive at Ascot Racecourse, succeeding Guy Henderson, who will retire on 30^th June 2022 following his eighth Royal Meeting as CEO.

Vivien has been Chief Executive of Hamilton Park Racecourse since 2008, during which time the business has developed a wider commercial focus, diversifying into the award-winning, multi-faceted events business that it is today. 

Her achievements at Hamilton Park have ranged from improving the racecourse experience for owners, trainers, jockeys and stable staff to building an award-winning £10 million ‘Hampton By Hilton’ hotel on course.

Within two years of her arrival at Hamilton Park, Vivien was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Racecourse Association (2010 – 2016) which included four years as Vice Chair. She was then appointed as a Members’ Nominated Director of the British Horseracing Authority (2016 - 2019).

Vivien received an MBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List for her services to racecourse management, business and charity.