Bendrigg Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to support the work of Bendrigg Trust again this year, albeit with a reduced award. Its wonderful work in providing adventurous experiences to children with special needs from urban areas is much appreciated.

Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity

Trustees thank you for your application to support children with cerebral palsy and other motor learning impairments. We would like to give you a grant towards your Learning Together Project of conductive education sessions to help children improve their physical and communication skills, as well as their social and emotional well-being.

Batten Disease Family Association

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant for the Trusts to continue to provide your family support service.

Douglas MacMillan Charitable Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to support the Douglas Macmillan Children’s Hospice in providing Dramatherapy sessions to help children express their emotions and cope with the effects of a life-limiting condition through drama therapy.

Haringey Shed

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant to continue to help provide transport for children with disabilities and no other form of transport to a number of their activities. When we received the first application for this grant last year we were delighted to receive the letter of support from Catherine West, the MP for Hornsey and Wood Green.

Sick Children’s Trust

Trustees were impressed that you are able to help 496 families in a single year when their children are staying in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, by offering bedrooms for as short as 12 nights or as long as 172 nights.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Trustees are pleased to be able to offer a grant for your work in providing 8 musical sessions in 3 schools where the children have profound and multiple learning difficulties. We enjoyed this imaginative application especially because you tailor the music to the projects in the schools.

Children’s Hospice South West

Children’s Hospice South West. Trustees are pleased to support the expansion of your community based services with their particular focus on end of life care at home.

Woodland Centre Trust

(Camp Mohawk, Wargrave, Berks)

We value the range of equipment and opportunities you provide at Camp Mohawk for 559 families and 35 special needs schools whose pupils have a range of cognitive and physical difficulties. We are impressed with the number of volunteers giving support with the range of indoor and outside faculties.

Winston’s Wish

Trustees thank you for your application to support bereaved primary school children through the trauma of losing a close relative through suicide. We would like to give you a grant to fund your Growing Hope Project, where schools have monthly sessions growing vegetables and flowers, which give them a sense of purpose, and much more.