Arts Depot

Trustees applauded the work at Arts Depot in preparing young people with learning difficulties to develop some independence skills preparing them for adulthood in providing drama opportunities and work experience preparation. From the engaging website we are aware of the inclusive nature of Arts Depot Trust and are pleased to note the collaboration between yourselves and Chickenshed.

Batten Disease Family Association

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant to continue to fund the work of Liz Jones, the recently appointed Family Support Worker.

Bolton Lads & Girls Club

Trustees are once again delighted to be able to support the running costs of the Youth Inclusion Project which supports children and young people with disabilities and additional needs.

Brainwave Centre

Trustees are pleased to continue supporting Brainwave particularly your efforts during Lockdown to keep families supported by your Brainwave Online Programme.

Challengers

Trustees are pleased to be able to provide support for the holiday playscheme for children with disabilities and their families in Basingstoke this year.

Charlie House

Trustees are delighted to be able to support this project in Scotland which is a first for our trustees, North of the border. We are pleased to award a grant specifically targeted to your school holiday programme for children with life limiting conditions.

Children’s Adventure Farm Trust

Trustees are delighted to be able to provide funds for another group of children to visit the Trusts lovely facilities for holiday adventures.

Children’s Heart Surgery Fund

Trustees are pleased to support your programme of support for babies and children across Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire with congenital heart disease who are treated at Leeds Congenital Heart Unit. We make a grant towards your annual programme for young patients in 2023, supporting their emotional and physical wellbeing during and after their treatment in hospital.

Children’s Hospice South West

Trustees are pleased to support your unique hospice activities, particularly the positive way you have addressed your problems during Covid. The theme seems to be one of developing resilience techniques coupled with your ‘at home’ services; the blended care approach and Music therapy.

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.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Trustees were impressed to read about the creative residencies CBSO planned, enabling the musicians to gain expertise in working with pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning needs. We have received very appreciative feedback from one of the schools served: CBSO really took the time to get to know individual pupils and their interests in music e.g. F1 theme tune, Shawn the sheep theme tune and taking time to learn new pieces of music to really engage them in the session. Pupils began to understand that once they had stopped playing an instrument, the whole class would also stop, which was lovely for them to be given that control.

Create

Trustees are pleased to support Creative: Connection ~ Watford, a creative arts project bringing together schoolchildren from SEND schools and mainstream schools, tackling prejudice and building understanding and key life skills. This shared experience should help to build understanding between disabled and non-disabled young people, encouraging positive attitudes at an early age.

Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity

Trustees are pleased to be able to support the Early Intervention Services for 0-5 year olds with cerebral palsy and similar motor learning impairments in South East England.

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.

Elizabeth Foundation

Trustees are pleased to support the highly dedicated Teacher of the Deaf to give essential education in listening and language skills to 24 pre-school deaf children with cochlea implants.

Footsteps Foundation

Trustees are pleased to continue their support for your Spider Therapy Project, an intensive bespoke physiotherapy for children with neurological disorders, using traditional methods combined with the specialist piece of equipment called the ‘Spider’.

Go Kids Go

Trustees were pleased to receive your application for funding to enable us to contribute to the work you do in training young children in their use of a wheelchair via workshops and fun activities such as dance and basketball.

Haringey Shed

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant to help provide transport for children with disabilities and no other form of transport to a number of activities. We welcomed the letter of support from Catherine West, MP for Hornsey/Wood Green and are always encouraged to see Jim Shepley taking an active part in our biennial conferences.

Heart ‘n’ Soul

Trustees could sense the energy and admired the creativity of your project ‘Do Your Own Thing’. We admire the inclusive aspect of all you do to enable young people who have learning disabilities to have fun and enjoyment whilst respecting each other. Your employment policy is also commendable.

Helen & Douglas House

Trustees are pleased to continue their support for the Supportive Stays Project. It must be wonderful that parents have found a project that enables them to have respite from being carers. Somewhere they can just enjoy being a family in a safe, caring environment with all the correct medical expertise that is needed for a terminally ill child.

Kidney Research UK

Trustees are pleased to support your help to children awaiting a kidney transplant by the publication of 200 bespoke copies of ‘My New Kidney’ books to include a 56pp 210 x210 hardback, full colour printing hand finished with holographic sticker, gold envelope and letter felt tips and “My New Kidney” drawstring bag.

Liquid Vibrations

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant to help deliver a training programme to schools in Folkstone in the use of Liquid Vibrations unique Music Hydrotherapy practice.

Little Miracles

Trustees admire your vision of a world where all families, that have disabled and life limiting children, have the support that they need at the time they need it. We appreciate that your ‘Pot of Gold’ initiative allows this to happen in a small way as you seek for suggestions of how to tap into your expertise and infrastructure most effectively.  We are pleased to note that Stephen Cheetham supports the work of Little Miracles. We are able to award a grant towards 3 Pots of Gold and would appreciate knowing about the projects these pots fund in due course.

Living Paintings Trust

Trustees are delighted to be able to support Living Paintings, once again, in your work that enables blind and partially-sighted children to experience the joys of reading and being in touch with the visual world. May all your hungry little caterpillars blossom into beautiful butterflies.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Trustees are pleased to continue supporting the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Open Sound Ensemble 2022/23 which has the aim of supporting the musical progression, personal development and social musical opportunities of young people aged 11 – 18 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEN/D).in South East London.

Martin House Hospice

Trustees were interested to read about the excellent art therapy work taking place at the hospice and are pleased to continue to support this work for another year.

Musical Keys

Trustees are pleased to contribute towards the running costs of the Musical Keys, Norwich Early Years Monday Group. The children attending have a range of developmental, cognitive or syndromic differences such as autism, learning disabilities or physical disabilities and this grant will go towards the provision of music sessions focusing on the delivery of live musical activities with active participation in song and with instruments.

NANSA

Norfolk & Norwich Send Association

Trustees are pleased to support the care that you provide in supporting children, and their families, living with special educational needs and disabilities who depend so much on your All Aboard service.

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice

We note the need for Noah’s Ark to expand their care team and services to a level that matches the growing need for these services in their catchment area. We are pleased to help fund the expansion of their services.

Sea Change Trust

Trustees wish to support your work over the coming year, in continuing the individual therapeutic support and groupwork through existing partnerships with schools and colleges, and in addition, to offer support to the new population of refugees arriving in the county from the Ukraine.

Sebastian’s Action Trust

Trustees wish to support your work over the coming year, in continuing the individual therapeutic support and groupwork through existing partnerships with schools and colleges, and in addition, to offer support to the new population of refugees arriving in the county from the Ukraine.

Sense

Trustees commend the work of this very large Charity and feel that any grant award we make, should be used for the specific purchase of IT equipment for the Sensory Studio, to be used by children who are deafblind or suffer from visual impairment.

Sick Children’s Trust

Trustees were pleased to see the Sick Children’s Trust endeavouring to return to pre-covid levels of support for families with children at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle and are pleased to continue to fund the Homes from Home project with the running costs of Crawford House.

Soundabout

Trustees are pleased to able to support once again the inspiring work of Soundabout that enables profoundly disabled children in the Midlands to enjoy multi-sensorymusic making activities, especially in the outdoors and in country parks.

Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust

Trustees are pleased to offer a grant to enable five children with complex needs to receive ‘Cosmoids’ which will help them to develop a range of skills including choice making, language, sensory awareness and motor skills.

Tall Ships Youth Trust

Trustees are pleased to hear that Tall Ships is back on the ocean and able to provide sail training and personal development skills to a new tranche of children and young people who have learning difficulties and/or a disability. We hope our reduced grant will enable 4 such children to enjoy a 4 night voyage with you.

Theatre Troupe

Trustees appreciated your reference to Quaker testimonies and recognise that Theatre Troupe is committed to these values in their planned workshops with 30 teenagers exhibiting acute and complex distress. We are able to support this series of 60 workshops in multi art forms to make theatre, which will culminate in 2 performances. You thoughtfully responded to parental requests and need and will hold the workshops at half term and provide transport and refreshments.

Well Child

Trustees are pleased to be able to support a nurse in Warwickshire in her work with children with exceptional respiratory health needs.