The Windmill Trust
The Windmill Trust is a registered charity established in 2021 in response to the shortage of specialist children’s mental health support in West Cumbria. We provide long-term, trauma-informed creative psychotherapies, including Art Therapy, Play Therapy and Dramatherapy, delivered by HCPC-registered, master’s-level therapists.
LMK (Let Me Know)
Relationship abuse is an urgent problem impacting millions of people in the UK every year.
Its prevalence continues to be on the rise. And young people barely out of full time education, between the ages of 16 to 19, are the most at risk of experiencing it; an early experience that can impact nearly every aspect of the rest of their lives.
Additional Funding for Young People
Kool Carers South East
It is with heartfelt thanks, that we would like to thank The Pixel Fund, for their very kind and generous grant of £5,000, towards our core costs. This is repeat funding from The Pixel Fund and as charity, we are extremely appreciative that they continue to value and support our work with young carers and their families.
Blue Smile: supporting children’s mental health in Cambridgeshire
18% of children in England are struggling with their mental health, according to 2022 NHS Digital data – that’s around 5 children in every school class. A grant from The Pixel Fund is helping Blue Smile deliver 1-1 arts-based therapy for children in Cambridgeshire primary schools, providing prompt, specialist help to those who need it most.
Platform for Life- helping children and young people improve school attendance
We are a Chester based charity established in 2017, that offers free, accessible, community based mental health and wellbeing services such as counselling, play and art therapy to adults, young people and children living in relative poverty in three communities in Chester that fall within the bottom 10% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
Meningitis Now
At Meningitis Now, our vision is a future where no-one in the UK loses their life to meningitis and everyone affected gets the support they need to rebuild their lives.
Fighting meningitis has been our driving force for over 35 years; but our work is far from over. 22 people every day are still affected by this terrible and devastating disease. They will continue to need our aftercare and support, both now and in the future; and until meningitis is eliminated from the UK, it's vital that we continue to raise awareness and fight back against the disease.
Cerebral Palsy Plus
Cerebral Palsy Plus is delighted to receive a generous donation of £8000 from The Pixel Fund. This will help us to provide a range of activities for children and young people with Cerebral Palsy in Bristol and surrounding areas. The activities will help to improve the wellbeing of children who are living with a complex disability, helping them to have fun and experience new things in a safe and supported environment.
Breakthrough
Sunflowers Wellbeing Project
Tuppenny Barn is an organic smallholding and charity passionate about delivering educational opportunities for children, young people and the wider community in our outdoor classroom. Working with horticulture we help foster physical health and mental wellbeing through our education and green therapy programmes. With a focus on supporting those facing disadvantage in our community, all activities at Tuppenny Barn are delivered in line with our ethos of sustainability – we value having a positive impact on our local and wider environment.
North Tyneside Disability Forum Ltd - end-of-grant progress report at 48 weeks on… Positive Future Lives.
Context – and fit to Charity’ s Mission ‘ to support disabled people of all ages with particular emphasis on younger and older people …. to advance education by enabling the full participation in community life coming together on equal terms to include lay and professional people, services users and service providers, friends, families, carers, advocates, groups and representatives..’ Young people are especially important to us as they are the future leaders, service providers and central to the charity’s sustainability and resilience.
Green School at the Therapy Garden
Our Green School programme offers interventional educational opportunities for young people living with mental health challenges. We offer the chance to gain a City & Guilds vocational qualification ‘Skills for Working Life: Horticulture’ and we are also registered to use AQA's Unit Achievement Scheme's validated units enabling us to acknowledge and celebrate individual achievement.
Play Therapy Base
Mind
Designability's Wizzybug Loan Scheme
Sasbah's Drama Workshop
The project was a 4-day workshop running from 25-28 October 2022 (inclusive) where 24 young people with physical and learning disabilities attended. It included both drama and music, and forms part of Sasbah’s programme for young people which has been highly successful in delivering huge developmental benefits for those participating, for many showing that they can do things they never imagined.
Platform for Life
We are a Chester based mental health charity offering free, community based counselling and other therapies to adults, children and young people living in relative poverty and experiencing mental health issues. Those living in poverty are at much higher risk of suffering with mental health issues and much less likely to be able to access suitable and timely support to help address these.
