Yellow Submarine Holidays

Trustees are pleased to support Yellow Submarine with a grant towards its residential holidays for young people with learning disabilities and autism. These holidays offer a fun and safe experience encouraging independence and supporting personal growth and development.

Woodland Centre Trust

(Camp Mohawk, Wargrave, Berks)

Trustees are only able to provide a smaller grant this year in support of the wonderful work with severely Autistic children and their families. The experiences you can offer to such children are invaluable.

The Wingate Centre

Trustees are pleased again to receive your application to help with for funding for 4 nights’ accommodation for 10 children to attend recreational activities for which they would not have any other opportunity.

Together Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to contribute toward the cost Eye Gaze enabled IPads to enable the Speech and Language Therapists to make assessments as to the suitability of Eye Gaze technology for severely disabled/non-verbal children.

Tiny Tim’s Children Centre

Trustees are pleased to make a grant to enable the Centre to offer therapy sessions to children with disabilities and special educational needs. Trustees recognise the importance of these sessions to improve children’s quality of life by reducing pain and building coping and self-esteem.

Theodora Children’s Charity

Trustees are delighted to continue to support the work of Theodora Children’s Charity by providing funding toward the cost of weekly visits to Sheffield Children’s Hospital by Giggle Doctors. Giggle Doctors visit children with serious illness, disability or life limiting conditions, bringing these children and their families joy and laughter at a time when they need it most.

Tall Ships Youth Trust

Trustees are pleased to be able to support TSYT in providing half of the requested award to enable 5 disabled youths to participate in Project Badger. Trustees cannot contribute to TSYT’s SOS fund it being a capital project

Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust

This charity provides support to young wheelchair users in Essex to help them overcome social exclusion. They also provide respite care for families. The grant will be used to purchase winter warmer packs for the children, a number of whom, without them, risk having to be admitted to hospital due to hypothermia, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases.

Speech & Language UK

Trustees would like to give a grant to support the staff who work on the Speech and Language UK Advice Line. This is a free helpline which provides Family Support, a cornerstone of the charity’s activities and mission, equipping parents and carers with the knowledge, practical strategies and professional support that will help their children develop their talking and understanding of words, enabling them to flourish.

Soundabout

Soundabout provides a range of free online musical resources designed for learning disabled children and young adults with complex support needs and their families and carers.