Team Astral Unicorn will be entering the Spartan Race London 2014 to raise funds for the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation.

Shaun Harrop will certainly be busy during his visits to the gym over the next few months while he is working in Afghanistan.  

A big thank you to Ferndown Town Council Grants Committee for their fabulous donation of £150. 

Congratulations to the Air Cadets Junior Leaders who have recently completed their demanding course with Test Phase, a week long assessment.  

To mark the end of offensive operations in Afghanistan three pilots from RAF Brize Norton will run 448 miles, a mile for each member of British service personnel killed during the conflict. They will run over 17 marathons in 17 days!

Dominic Keeley will be setting off on April 22nd to hitch hike across Europe, but the big challenge for him will be to arrive in Budapest without spending any money at all on transport.  

JTYAF Trustee, Geoff Beck has kindly donated 7 tickets (6 adults + 1 child) for the Army v Navy Rugby Match at Twickenham on 3rd May.

Pete and Linda Thornton were absolutely delighted when Maggie Tomlin told them that the JTYAF had been selected by staff and residents at Amberwood House as their Charity of the Year for 2014. 

Matthew Quinn, an ambassador of the JTYAF and his friend Neil Sutherland organised a Black Tie Charity Dinner in September 2013 and raised over £10,000 for the JTYAF and Maggie's Cancer Centres.  

The JTYAF were honoured to have been chosen by the Royal Society of St George, East Dorset Branch as one of their recipient charities of the year for 2013. 

Adam Plant went one step further than growing a mustache for Movember.  Adam cultivated a beard from October 2012 to May 2013 to raise funds for the JTYAF. 

The JTYAF were honoured to have been chosen by Greendale Construction Limited as one of the recipient charities to benefit from their Annual Charity Raffle at last year's Christmas Party.  

The trustees of the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation (JTYAF) are delighted to announce that £70,000 has been allocated for awards to local young people for 2014. The charity has expanded to include three additional youth organisations making JTYAF funding available to many more young people.

The “Strouden Blues” - Ward Councillors John Adams, JohnTrickett and Michael Weinhonig have recorded a Christmas CD  for charity with the Townsend Youth Project.

Graeme Bridger the Manager of Motorbitz in Ferndown is kindly offering cost price car registration plates which are customised with the JTYAF logo and offer a great opportunity to promote the charity.  

Sarah has teamed up with the JTYAF and has kindly offered to donate any profits on sales made through the charity. 

We are sooooooo excited because for the first time ever a Christmas single has been released as a download with all net profits kindly being donated to the JTYAF.

Wimborne & Ferndown Lions Club President, Frank Fortey, presented a cheque for £2500 to the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation. 

Paulette Winwood is a consultant for the organic skin care company Neal's Yard Remedies and would like to promote their Christmas gifts to the local community and help raise money for JTYAF.  

We were honoured to have been chosen as the focus of a volunteering project,  by students from the National Citizenship Course at Bournemouth and Poole College.