Brighton Dome & Brighton Trust

Trustees are pleased to award a grant specifically for use in the Umbrella Club as part of a programme to provide respite care to children with life-threatening conditions at three events in Brighton

Jessie May Children’s Hospice

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for the Hospice at Home programme which is undertaken by specially trained nurses. We hope our grant will enable 25 families in the Bristol area to benefit from the respite care on offer.

Marches Family Network

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for three activity sessions for children with learning difficulties in Hereford and Leominster. We commend this much needed and imaginative project.

Clear Vision

Trustees are pleased to award a grant to replenish the library of children’s dual print and braille books thus enabling shared reading.  We are pleased that contact has been made with two other charities supported by trustees, namely Calibre and Living Paintings.

Tiny Tim’s Children Centre

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for 2019 that will enable the expansion of the space awareness/balance group for children with disabilities and possibly the music/movement toddlers’ group

Step by Step

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for 2019 towards the costs of continuing to run two weekly hydro-therapy swim sessions for children with disabilities age 2-18 in order to build and improve their motor and communication skills.

Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for 2019 for placing a drama practitioner in residence at Cherry Garden School across two full school-terms, to provide performance and creative opportunities that the students might not otherwise be able to access due to their needs.

SHINE (East Norfolk)

Trustees are pleased to award a grant for 2019 in support of providing holiday and weekend opportunities for rest, relaxation, respite and play for children with disabilities and their caring families.

Seashell Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to continue to support the work of the Seashell Trust by providing funds for the purchase of 4 “fantastic communication aids” …iPads. Each to be configured with installed communication apps that are aligned with each individual deaf child’s needs. Costs to include protective screen and casing.

Rainbow Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to continue support towards the costs of a Family Support Worker providing practical and emotional support to families in Cumbria and North Lancashire who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness.