Charities
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and Frenchay Residents Education & Community Hub
We passionately believe in supporting charity. We specifically encourage charities to attend our Show to enable them to raise funds from their stalls. For example, Guide Dogs for the Blind, St Peters Hospice, Children’s South West hospice, Age UK and REMAP (who make and adapt equipment free of charge to improve the quality of life for people who experience short or long-term disability through infirmity, illness, or ageing)
Funds from our Show in 2025 have gone to support our local charity FRE&CH (Frenchay Residents Education & Community Hub) who are working hard to renovate the old primary school to provide education, health, and community facilities
Funds from our Show in 2026 will be equally divided between Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and FRE&CH
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
GWAAC’s Critical Care Team work 365 days a year to ensure that everyone in Frenchay and beyond has the opportunity to receive the pre-hospital emergency medical care they deserve. We don’t simply fly patients to the nearest hospital. Our priority is to get to the patient fast. We treat people at the scene, on the road, and in the air, providing complex interventions to stabilise and treat the patient, giving them the best chance of survival.
Our team of highly trained Critical Care Doctors and Specialist Paramedics bring the expertise of a hospital emergency department directly to patients facing life-threatening conditions. By delivering advanced medical care on the scene, we provide crucial interventions that can make the difference between life and death.
This link is to a video from one of their former patients that provides great insight into the care they offer, regardless of the patient’s location.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
FRE&CH (Frenchay Residents Education & Community Hub)
FRE&CH (Frenchay Residents Education & Community Hub) is a new charity established to re-purpose the former Frenchay C of E Primary School premises to provide accommodation for a pre-school (up to 50 places) and a community hub to serve the existing village and new housing development on the former Frenchay Hospital site – where there is a serious shortage of pre-school places and community services and facilities.
FRE&CH is established as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and has been a registered Charity since October 2024, registration number 1210565. FRE&CH are registered for income tax ‘gift aid’ purposes.
The first phase of the preschool was opened on 03-09-2024 and the second phase seeks to refurbish the main building by late June 2026. 40% of the main building will be converted to a community hub and cafe in phase three.
In addition to preschool and community facilities local NHS services are likely to be incorporated into the hub to provide midwife and health visitor facilities, work to determine their community based service needs has just begun.
Frenchay as a village has not been provided with any additional community infrastructure, despite the doubling of the population over the last four years with the old hospital site being developed as new houses.
FRE&CH was established by Frenchay Residents association following four years of campaigning to save the old school premises from commercial development, which SGC Cabinet agreed to support in November 2023.
