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Moose Toys donates toys to children’s charity Go Beyond

Children and young people who attend a Go Beyond break will soon be receiving free toys from best-selling, global toy company Moose Toys thanks to a generous donation. Go Beyond provides free week-long breaks to children who are living in poverty, have been bereaved, abused or bullied or are caring for loved ones. This year, […]

Complete Westinsure’s 12k’s of Christmas for Go Beyond this December

Ready, steady…snow! This festive season we are inviting runners, cyclists and walkers to complete 12ks of runs, rides or walks to give children facing serious challenges a break from their home lives. Plymouth-based event organiser Redrok Events has chosen Go Beyond as the beneficiary of Westinsure’s 12k’s of Christmas challenge, which invites people to complete […]

Buy a box of boutique New Zealand wine and donate to Go Beyond

John Casson, MBE and Chairman of the John Casson Foundation, has made a generous offer to Go Beyond supporters this festive season. Read on for a special letter of explanation. “Dear Go Beyond’s supporters, With Christmas not far way I am writing to you with an offer for your personal enjoyment or/and a present. Through […]

Christmas breaks at Go Beyond

This December our teams are planning a month of Christmas breaks at our Cornish and Derbyshire Centres for children whose wish is for a Christmas just like those in their imaginations. Each centre will be decked with lights and Christmas trees and the smell of the children’s first Christmas lunch will waft through the hallways. […]

Actress Jenny Agutter supports appeal to help children affected by the cost of living crisis this winter

Go Beyond Patron and star of Call the Midwife and The Railway Children, Jenny Agutter, is supporting our appeal to give children affected by the cost of living crisis a break away from their difficult lives this winter. Jenny said: “I am keen to support Go Beyond because they give those children who don’t have […]

Charities partner to show children importance of Cornish seas and beaches

This summer Go Beyond partnered with Surfers Against Sewage to give children and young people from across the UK the chance to learn more about Cornwall’s beaches and how they could help to protect them. Surfers Against Sewage provided dedicated Ocean School sessions to children staying at our Coastal Centre. For many of the children […]

A message from CEO Michele Farmer on one year with Go Beyond

August marks my first year as Chief Executive with Go Beyond and I’ve been doing some reflection. For a team of fewer than 30 people, we have achieved a lot: 629 children have had a break in that 12 months. They’ve come from all of the counties of the South West, the Midlands, London, Manchester, Sheffield […]

Children from Channel 4 documentary series Dispatches given the week of a lifetime at Go Beyond

We are pleased to be giving the class of children who appeared in Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary series ‘Growing Up Poor Hidden Homeless’ the break of a lifetime at our Daleside Centre in Derbyshire this week. Our teams approached the producers of the documentary series in 2021 after the plight of Britain’s poorest children was […]

Go Beyond CEO Michele Farmer celebrates 30 years of breaks

30 Years ago, in May 1992, Chicks was started as a small charity in Devon providing country holidays for inner city kids. Some things have changed. Go Beyond is a name more suited to the 2020s. We now offer breaks in the Peak District as well as the South West. Many children do still travel […]

A message from Michele Farmer, CEO

Dear Go Beyond Supporter, Spring is very definitely in the air. Crocuses are coming out and in some sheltered spots, the daffodils are starting to appear. It always feels like an optimistic time, a time to look forward to the year ahead. This is the 30th year our charity has provided breaks for children, first […]

Cornwall based marketing agency announces Go Beyond as their Charity of the Year

A huge thank you to Peaky Digital who have chosen Go Beyond as their Charity of the Year for 2022! The Cornwall based marketing agency Peaky Digital has kindly selected Go Beyond as their charity of the year, meaning they will be supporting us throughout 2022, by providing a day’s worth of digital marketing services […]

Have some fun this Christmas with Ashbourne Rotary’s Virtual Balloon Race

A huge thanks to our friends at Ashbourne Rotary Club who have organised a virtual balloon race and have chosen Go Beyond as one of the two local charities to benefit! Following on from their successful Easter race, it is back again for Christmas! Working just the same as a real-life balloon, entrants buy a […]