Your support will help to change lives.
Every donation matters!
Making a donation, raising funds or volunteering makes an enormous difference to PSDS and the families accessing our essential services.
We are fully self-funded, with an annual fundraising target of £160,000. Help us reach our goal!
Fundraising events
We organise our own events – including quizzes, wine-tastings, coffee mornings, golf days, auctions and raffles. You can get involved by taking part, donating prizes or sponsoring one of our events. Why not join our Events and Fundraising team of volunteers or organise an event of your own? We’d love to hear your ideas and we’d love to be your charity partner if your workplace or club is looking for a good cause to support. Please contact Helen to find out the difference your support will make.
What’s on and when…
Here are details of what’s coming up next…
- Down Syndrome Awareness Week – Monday 16th – Sunday 22nd March 2026. We’ll be celebrating this special week and World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) with a whole host of events and activities including a coffee morning and pre-loved book sale. Get ready to join in and rock your mismatched socks too! Check back here for further details early 2026.
- PSDS Quiz Night – 7.30 – 10.30pm, Friday 20th March, Reigate Manor Hotel. Our ever popular Quiz (and legendary raffle!) is back! Gather your team of up to 8 for an evening of fun and prizes galore. Bookings will be live in January, so watch this space for the link. If you have prizes to donate for our raffle please get in touch here.
We’ll be adding details of a whole host of exciting events to suit all tastes soon. Please get in touch if you have fundraising plans of your own and don’t forget you can hire 42a Prices Lane too!
PSDS Golf Day 2026
Last year’s Golf Day at the Reigate Heath Golf Club was a great success, raising almost £7,000 to support our services for children and young people with Down syndrome and their families. We are so grateful to everyone who took part and helped to raise this incredible total.
We are excited to be returning to Reigate Heath once again this year for more fun on the fairways, followed by fabulous food, a raffle and auction and early evening entertainment open to our golfers and their guests.
Please hold the date of Friday 26th June 2026. Entry forms will be available very soon. Don’t miss the chance to take part in this wonderful event for a really great cause.
Run for us!
For the runners out there (and the tough mudders!) we have teamed up with Run for Charity who provide places at hundreds of running events across the country. You can sign up at a reduced rate if you support PSDS, we just ask that you run on our behalf to raise funds and awareness for us.
Check out the Run for Charity website or our own section within it.
How your donation helps
Every donation changes lives by helping our children and young people reach their full, individual potential!
- £25 will buy resources for our learning library
- £50 will pay for 4 sessions of one-to-one teaching for one of our pre-schoolers
- £100 will pay for one of our youth communication group sessions
- £250 will provide a social activity for our teens and young adults
- £500 will fund our school support service for one school for a year
- £1,000 will cover occupational therapy across our pre-school groups for a week
- £2,500 will pay for one of our whole family social events
- £5,000 will run our after-school drama clubs for a year
- £10,000 will cover one term of speech and language therapy across all our groups
Down Syndrome Awareness Week
World Down Syndrome Day is celebrated globally on the 21st March each year, reflecting the third copy of the 21st chromosome. We invite our members and supporters to wear mismatched socks on or around this date to celebrate that every single one of us is a unique individual. During the week around 21st March charities like ours organise events and campaigns to raise awareness as well as raising essential funds. Please let us know if you’d like to get involved in rocking your socks or supporting PSDS during Down Syndrome Awareness Week next year!
It’s easy to donate via JustGiving
If you are planning a fundraising event why not set up a campaign on JustGiving – it’s a really effective way to collect donations and promote your support of PSDS. Or you can make a one-off donation or set up a monthly payment via JustGiving too. Please get in touch if you need any help with creating an event page on JustGiving. Thank you for your support!
Planning an event of your own?
Let us know what you’ve got planned and how we can help. We have collecting tins and buckets, bunting, t-shirts, posters and leaflets. Just use the button below to tell us your plans and please share news and photos of your event with us too. Don’t forget to tag PSDS on social media so we can share your posts to create more publicity and awareness.