Improving children’s mental health through 1:1 arts-based therapy in Cambridgeshire schools
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Supporting Young People's Mental Health in Havant and South East Hampshire
Young people in the UK are facing a growing mental health crisis. One in five, aged 8 to 25, has a probable mental health condition, with anxiety, depression, and self-harm on the rise. Young people are also experiencing long delays in accessing support. Over 78,000 waited more than a year for NHS mental health treatment in 2023–24. These statistics reveal a system under strain and a generation in need of urgent, compassionate support.
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Future Youth Zone
Future Youth Zone aims to give young people somewhere safe and inspiring to go, providing opportunities to lead aspirational futures. A grant from The Pixel Fund towards our Mental Health First Aid Project helped Future Youth Zone to support thousands of children and young people to have improved or stabilised mental health and wellbeing.
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Youthlife - counselling and support for children and young people affected by bereavement, separation or loss of a significant person.
Youthlife is a community charity based in Derry/Londonderry city centre. Youthlife’s mission is to ensure that no child faces loss alone. Youthlife offer counselling and support to children and young people aged 5-25 years who have lost someone close to them through bereavement or separation, using a trauma informed approach.
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Young People's Therapeutic Horticulture at Martineau Gardens
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Cerebral Palsy Plus
We would like to thank The Pixel Fund for the generous grant of £8000 you gave to Cerebral Palsy Plus in June 2023. This has significantly impacted children and young people with Cerebral Palsy, allowing us to develop our services and deliver more activities than ever before. These activities have aligned perfectly with our mission to support our members in fulfilling their potential and creating opportunities for connection, fun, and personal development.
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Pop Arts end-of-grant progress report
Pop Arts successfully engaged 2 eligible young people in Haringey through creative music mentoring sessions. Over 7 weeks (during Nov-Dec 2023), participants met weekly for 2 hours at Ten87 studios in South Tottenham, guided by a music producer to create their own music. The participants explored diverse music genres, including Trap, Drill, Afrobeat, Hip Hop, and Pop.
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The Therapy Garden - Green School
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Garden Classroom (TGC)
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Support Dogs - A little update from Pixel
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MS Pioneer - Cutting edge research to Stop MS
In the last decade MS research has accelerated at pace, giving hope to those affected. Twenty years ago there were very limited treatment options, but now there are over a dozen licensed treatments that can reduce the severity and frequency of MS relapses and undoubtedly, the MS Society has been at the forefront of many of these breakthroughs.
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Autistica Update
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Clear Sky Update
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Freedom from Torture
In October 2019, Freedom from Torture received a grant of £5,000 from the Pixel Fund. We used this grant to help provide a range of services for 107 children and young people who have been affected by torture. The grant helped us to provide: family therapy, individual psychological therapy, therapy groups, and social work.
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York Mind
In the last 12 months since receiving the funding from the pixel fund, York Mind have supported 183 young people in the Choose Your Way Project, and 158 young people in Young People’s Counselling. The funding has supported us to offer this provision, allowing young people aged between 8-25 within York to access a range of options of mental health support. These options included peer support groups, art & life skills groups, and one-to-one mentoring and counselling.
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The Listening Place
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