The Wingate Centre

Trustees were pleased to receive your application for funds to help with the costs of providing residential breaks for children with SEND. Trustees were sorry to learn that during 2023 you had to cancel a large number of breaks in the summer due to water damage in the accommodation, which led to only 23% occupancy.

Whoopsadaisy

Trustees are pleased to continue supporting the holiday clubs for 5–12 year olds living with cerebral palsy. These are vital for helping the children maintain their skills and for giving parents important respite.

Whizz-Kidz

Trustees are pleased to award a grant again this year to Whizz Kids to help build confidence and encourage life fulfilment for your young charges. We commend your sibling programme of support.

Welsh National Opera

Trustees heard from your monitoring trustee about the bespoke training WNO offers to members of the orchestra and chorus, designed and delivered by a specialist in music-making with people with PMLD. The artists were encouraged to be reflective in their practice. Opera Tutti has evolved as a result, leading to the expansion and breadth of the programme, so that it can now offer one-to-one music sessions for children and young people with PMLD and a relaxed concert for a broader needs group.

Tiny Tim’s Children Centre

The grant provided by Trustees specifically provided free therapy sessions to children with disabilities and special needs, focusing on therapies which were not available to the children from the NHS or affordable from the private sector, such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and remedial and neuromuscular massage, helping families from Coventry, Warwickshire, and the West Midlands.

Theatre Troupe

Trustees welcomed your application for continuing funding for your groundbreaking work with young people and their communities, providing theatre therapeutically for those in need. Trustees would have wished to fund you to the extent requested, but the difficult financial environment means we are only able to offer a reduced grant this time.

Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust

Trustees had been delighted in the past to have supported Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust in its work with children and young people with severe disabilities and bone conditions, particularly those most clinically vulnerable and living in poverty.

Sick Children’s Trust

Trustees were pleased to have continued support of Crawford House, a respite centre attached to the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary, a sanctuary for the families of hospitalised children from all over the North of England.

SHINE (East Norfolk)

Trustees were pleased to have supported your work providing additional breaks for children and young people with severe learning, physical, or sensory disabilities, multiple disabilities, or complex long-term health needs, where families had a particular need for a higher level of support.

SHINE (Cambridgeshire)

Trustees valued the support that Shine gave to children and young people with Spina Bifida, enabling them to manage their continence with confidence and independence. Trustees were most interested to have heard your presentation at our Conference in May, and one of our Trustees had been very impressed with the Zoom session she had been invited to join, showing the excellent support Shine provided and the rapport clearly demonstrated with your families.