OKMT (Otakar Kraus Music Trust)

Funding for music therapy for 7 children aged 5-14 years with brain damage, living in Twickenham and Richmond enabling them to access the OKMT music school for 1 year.

Movement Centre

To provide Targeted Training for children with cerebral palsy, Targeted Training mimics the natural development of control, using a specially designed standing frame which is made in the hospital workshop. Each frame is tailored and adjusted to the child’s specific requirements. The frame goes home with the child so they can repeat their exercises daily, taught by the physiotherapists, which the parents commit to.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Support towards the ‘Sound Journeys’ project which enables children with significant Hearing Impairments and some on the Autistic Spectrum to participate in music activities which provide them with an additional means of communication. The members of the orchestra give of their time and also provide Continuing Professional Development to others.

Lake District Calvert Trust

To provide bursaries for young disabled children to attend activity courses.

Megan Baker House

Support towards work in offering conductive education to improve the outcomes and life-chances of children with a range of motor-disabilities including cerebral palsy, dyspraxia and acquired injury in Ledbury.

Mad Hatter’s Children’s Charity

To enable 9 sessions for 8 different special schools in the Midlands area to experience the To Boldly Go project at the Ackers Adventure Centre.

ICAN

Support towards additional hours for an O.T. in 2017 to treat severe complex communication difficulties with some children at Down House School.

Heads On

To support the work of a project artist to develop drawing skills in children with a mental illness, through the Year of Drawing Project.

Haven House Children’s Hospice

Funding provided to increase Physiotherapist contact time by 10% as part of the Hospice@Home.Butterfly programme.

Haringey Shed

Funding for support workers to enable young people with disabilities in the Haringey area to access activities there, largely drama based and organised by Haringey Shed.