Author Archives: L1nd@2021

The Harry Crossley Foundation are proud to have had a long standing relationship with The Red Cross Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital Trust. Currently The Hospital Trust are on a fund raising drive for R103 million to secure the upgrade and redevelopment of the Emergency Unit. The Harry Crossley Foundation have answered this call [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation had the honour of being invited to the 4th annual  “Building Children For Africa” Conference and  attended the opening this morning. The conference opened with the beautiful singing of the Herschel Girls School Choir. The conference is titled Constructs of Care and is being hosted by the Child Nurse Practice Development [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation is thrilled to be a funder to the Perinatal Mental Health Project run by Associate Professor Simone Honikman. This project aims to give mental health support to women during their pregnancy and after the birth of their child and reaches communities most at risk We attach the link to the latest [read more]

We are always thrilled to hear from our Fellows  and this just in from Robbie Ordelheide. Robbie was part of the 2017 cohort of HCF Fellows at UCT – we were thrilled with Robbie’s results and we are very happy to hear of the contribution he is making down under in rebuilding Christchurch in New Zealand. “I was awarded [read more]

We were thrilled to receive confirmation from SU that one of our Green Matters/ Harry Crossley Foundation Fellows has completed her PhD. Read about it here https://bit.ly/2U5CEJz Well done Linda Luvuno – we are extremely proud of you.

We were invited to the hand over of uniforms for the first cohort of trainees for 2019 at the Infinity Culinary Training Centre in Cape Town. It was a morning of much excitement as the uniforms were handed over to the trainees. This is a program that is very inspiring as the young men and [read more]

We were very happy to have attended the annual “ meet and greet” of recipients of funding from The Harry Crossley Foundation at the Cochlear Implant Unit at Tygerberg Hospital at the end of 2018 Each year a number of patients receive this life changing treatment as a result of the generosity of The Harry [read more]

The Doris Crossley Foundation provides funding for undergraduate students mainly at UCT and SU. Each year a new cohort enters the university arena and each year the same set of issues come up. In an anonymous questionnaire students claimed to feel alienated, overwhelmed, pressed for time, insecure, ignorant, lonely and tired. Obviously it is not [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation is proud to provide funding for the Infinity Culinary Training School. This is a non- profit and public benefit organization which serves as a chef school and trains disadvantaged young South African men and women in urgent need of employment. Students are provided with the basic cooking skills, professional tools, and [read more]

The Harry Crossley Foundation is proud to have supported the upgrade of the Intensive Care Unit at the RCCH and in particular the Neo Natal High Care Unit. This unit provides a space for ill babies in the first four weeks of their lives. The unit is filled with state of the art equipment and [read more]