Reuben’s Retreat Team
We are a small hard working team of full and part time staff, greatly supported by our dedicated volunteers.
Nicola Graham: Nicola is Reuben’s Mummy and Founder & Chief Executive of Reuben’s Retreat. Nicola is our vision behind the project who leads and inspires the whole team, volunteers and supporters. Nicola says she feels blessed to walk hand-in-hand every day with her angel Son to deliver his work.
Nicky Dean: Nicky is our Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive and Board of Trustees, and assists with various project management, HR and health and safety tasks. Nicky also supports our beneficiary work and manages our supporters CSR days.
Rachael Horrocks: Rachael is our Office Manager at our Ashton office. She ensures that our accounting system runs smoothly and supports the co-ordination of many of our events. Rachael also welcomes visitors, responds to supporter enquiries, updates our webshop, and helps to ensure that our families are looked after for our Ashton based support.
Lindsay Smith: Lindsay is our Community Fundraiser. Lindsay’s role is to develop fundraising opportunities in the community setting, raising much needed funds, building relationships with potential supporters and nurturing existing relationships with suppliers, donors and voluntary fundraisers.
Stacey Kirkpatrick: Stacey is our Senior Fundraiser, working alongside our generous corporate contacts and engaging with new ones. Always looking for the opportunity to partnership with local and national businesses.
Lee Davies: Lee is our operations manager and makes sure everything runs smoothly, he is currently working on the move into our retreat!
Harriet Pratt: Harriet is our Children and young peoples champion in our family support team. She loves to create new exciting experiences for families and help them to make special memories.
Deborah Ho: Deborah also works on the Family Support Team as Family & Well-being Champion supporting parents bereaved of a child.
Susan Anders: Susan is our Housekeeper in Glossop. She works two afternoons a week ensuring that The Lodge at Reuben’s is always clean and welcoming for our families and visitors.
Lucy Dean-Moore: Lucy is our Creative Lead and creates all of our digital and print artwork. She also looks after the communications, website and social media content.
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Top tips for hosting a virtual event
There’s so many ways to still get involved in fundraising for charity during this challenging time. Here’s our top 4 tops for hosting a virtual event for charity 1. Host it your way and decide what kind of virtual event you would like to host, here’s just a few ideas: Coffee morning, dance class, pub quiz, karaoke,…
15th April
Share your #REUBow
Draw them, paint them, craft them and hang them high to send hope up to the sky. Allow us to continue our current work remotely supporting 143 families by donating £1 text REUBEN to 70201. We can’t wait to see your #reubow creations!
26th March
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REUBall 2020
Our next annual ball will take place on Saturday, 4th July 2020 at The Village Hotel in Bury. Reserve your places for REUBall 2020 now! Tickets cost £60 per person, with a £20 per person, non refundable deposit due at the time of booking (balance due early April 2020). You can purchase the tickets here…
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We are pleased to have the facility for our supporters to set up a regular donation from £5 a month upwards.
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