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 just a few of our upcoming events and activities:
- PSDS Summer Party with Singing Hands – Sunday 13th July – by invitation only (this is a PSDS members’ event). PSDS members please see your invitation for venue and timing.
- PSDS Stall at Summer Fun Day Family Market – 11am – 4pm on Sunday 17th August – our friends at Curated by Dapper and Suave are hosting one of their fabulous pop-up markets at Denbies Wine Estate. Pop in to shop and stop by our stall for prizes and fun!
- PSDS Garden Party Open Day – 3pm – 5pm on Sunday 14th September at 42a Prices Lane. Come and celebrate the opening of our fabulous garden, where the Chairman of Surrey County Council and the Mayor of Reigate & Banstead will do the honours. There are refreshments, entertainment a tombola and craft area too. Please contact Danielle for more details and to confirm attendance.
- RunReigate – Sunday 21st September, Priory Park Reigate. Join us for this iconic event with distances from 5k to half marathon, plus 1 mile races for children. Following our successful debut of TeamPSDS at last year’s event, we’ll be returning this September! Please let us know if you’d like to join our team and which distance you’d like to run.
- PSDS Afternoon Tea – 3pm Saturday 4th October at the Reigate Manor Hotel. Join us in the Garden Room to catch up with PSDS friends and supporters old and new over a cuppa (or a glass of fizz!) and a delicious selection of sweet and savoury treats. A lovely social event with the chance to win a wonderful hamper too. Click here to book.
Watch this space for news of additional events being planned and check out our calendar for a full listing of events and activities.
PSDS Golf Day 2025
Our second annual 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. After bacon rolls and 9 holes of golf on the beautiful heathland course, our golfers enjoyed a delicious BBQ, music from PSDS member NattyBee, prizes, raffle and a very exciting auction with their guests and some PSDS families joining in the evening’s entertainment too.
We are so grateful to everyone who took part in or supported our Golf Day and especially the individuals and organisations who donated such amazing prizes for our auction and raffle. Huge thanks to the team at Reigate Heath Golf Club and Mike and his team at On The Hoof for helping to make this event go so well.
Watch this space for news of our 2026 Golf Day and don’t miss the chance to take part!
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.