The Open Door Centre is thrilled to be granted £2,500 by The Pixel Fund who's progressive approach to funding and supportive role throughout the application process is not only refreshing but fills us with a great deal of confidence whilst we look forward to working closely with the team over the grant period.
The Pixel Fund is generously supporting The Therapy Garden and its Green School. The Therapy Garden is a horticulture and education charity, that uses gardening to generate positive change. We work with adults and teenagers with mental health challenges, learning difficulties and physical disabilities.
Our grant from the Pixel fund will help us to support teenage & young mothers with mental health problems during pregnancy & in the first year following birth. Young parents are 3 times more likely to experience difficulties (Public Health England 2016); dealing with feelings of anxiety, depression and isolation.
In recent years, The Pixel Fund has generously supported the work of Muscular Dystrophy UK. Most recently they granted £10,000 in total towards a four year research project, which advanced a promising potential genetic therapy for the childhood muscle-wasting condition: spinal muscular atrophy. We are delighted and extremely grateful to receive the support of The Pixel Fund once again…
We are an independent local mental health charity operating in West Sussex. Our work is driven by the needs and experiences of people with a mental health problem. We provide information and support to anyone experiencing mental health issues and campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
The Pause Project will support young people with a range of mental health issues, aged 14-18 years, who are resident in Harrogate District. The project will provide a weekly drop in for young people at our dedicated, multi-functional modern building in the centre of Harrogate and will offer a range of mental health and wellbeing support and facilities for young people.
The Pixel Fund has kindly donated £5,000 towards the ongoing support of suicidal people in London. This should enable us to deliver our programme of support for 20 suicidal individuals (who we call Visitors) – at a cost of approximately £247 per Visitor. Our service is unique in that it is free, confidential, face-to-face and continues for as long as the Visitor needs.
Dementia presents varied, complex and constantly evolving challenges to people living with dementia and their loved ones. Those affected need time, care, and to feel that they are not alone. They need ongoing, dementia-specific support, given freely – which is exactly what the Pixel Fund is very generously helping to provide through Dementia Support’s far-reaching Wayfinding service.
Fife Employment Access Trust (FEAT) support young people (15-18) and adults (18+) with moderate to severe and/or enduring mental health problems, providing a range of self-management and employability programmes to people with mental health conditions to better manage their conditions to improve daily living and develop their employability skills to prepare for, enter and sustain paid work, or access other meaningful activities such as volunteering and further education.
The artistic medium we have found works best in hospitals is animation. This process uses a broad range of art forms such as storytelling, visual arts, building scale sets, making characters, animating the characters and finally finding a voice for your character. This means that there is something to engage everyone. Creating an animation also requires people to develop their communication skills, team work, problem solving, commitment to attend the sessions and a lot of patience which can be a real challenge for people in psychiatric hospitals.
