Archive for December, 2025
The Santon Group has also been instrumental in award-winning residential developments, particularly the conversion of listed buildings not currently in residential use, for almost 20 years.
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The Sandhu Charitable Foundation donates £2,000 to Chess in Schools & Communities (“CSC”).
CSC believes chess is an effective and affordable educational intervention, which promotes key academic and social skills that children will use throughout their lives, not just in childhood. The game helps them to think not only logically and solve problems, but it develops sportsmanship and resilience. It also teaches children to plan ahead and take responsibility for their actions.
Chess is open to anyone regardless of gender, ethnicity, faith or disability. It has also been positively linked with academic performance – however, it has all but disappeared from state schools and especially from deprived areas. This is exactly where it can have the most benefit.
The Sandhu Charitable Foundation, by way of match funding the sum of £8,000, which enabled a total of £16,000 to be donated to Blood Cancer UK. Blood Cancer UK recently announced 12 innovative pilot projects that they funded this year. One of those was Dr. Blunt’s Project – “Using the Immune System to develop a new treatment for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”. This new scheme gives researchers the opportunity to test original ideas and generate early data to, hopefully, unlock future funding.
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The Sandhu Charitable Foundation have donated the sum of £10,000 to Magic Stars Football Livelihood Program – a Magic Bus project.