Support Dogs

Support Dogs

Our autism assistance programme is life-changing for both the child with autism and their family. Autism assistance dogs are trained to provide safety and to facilitate a more independent and socially inclusive life for both the child with autism and their family.

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The Listening Place

The Listening Place

The Listening Place is incredibly grateful to the trustees of The Pixel Fund for choosing to support our work with young people. There has been a worrying increase in the number of young people taking their own life or feeling suicidal and the economic and social fallout from Coronavirus will provide further specific challenges for young people.

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Psychotherapy for young people

Psychotherapy for young people

The Guild of Psychotherapists is providing weekly in-depth 1:1 psychoanalytic psychotherapy for young people (aged 18-25) living in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark struggling with mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders, and self-harm.

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The Camden Psychotherapy Unit

The Camden Psychotherapy Unit

We are so grateful for the support of the Pixel Fund for our work in improving young peoples' mental health. The funding enables us to help Londoners aged 18-25 to improve the quality of their lives via weekly psychotherapy at a cost of around £1,000 per person.

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Rainbow Trust Children's Charity

Rainbow Trust Children's Charity

We are so grateful to the Trustees of the Pixel Fund for their support of our work supporting families who are caring for a seriously ill child. When a child is diagnosed with a terminal illness, family life is turned upside down and their lives are changed forever. Rainbow Trust supports families through this crisis, pairing each family with a dedicated Family Support Worker to provide practical and emotional support to help them cope with each new day.

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Be OK Service

Be OK Service

For the past five years we have been running a successful mental health service called Be OK for young people aged 16-25. Young people have issues such as depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and obsessive compulsion disorder.

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Trauma Breakthrough

Trauma Breakthrough

Trauma Breakthrough is a small UK charity for survivors of trauma and abuse, and exists to support the 1-in-5 who experience trauma (childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and traumatic incidents) during their lifetime.

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Mary Dolly Foundation

Mary Dolly Foundation

We will be providing individual therapy sessions specifically to children and young people from ages 5-18 who have experienced poverty, neglect, emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse, violence, aggression, trauma or self-harm. The therapy sessions will prevent negative behaviours becoming pathological.

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Employ your Mind

Employ your Mind

“Employ your Mind is a long-established and highly acclaimed personal development, self-management and employability programme for adults with severe and enduring mental health conditions. In recent years we have adapted the programme to suit young people (15-18) – reducing the length of the course to 18 weeks and increasing the pace as our feedback showed us young people

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Improving educational and development outcomes for children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic

Improving educational and development outcomes for children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic

At Meningitis Now, we know that many children and young people, who have had an experience of meningitis, will have a range of physical, emotional and psychological issues that are affecting their lives. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, we have seen evidence of how these issues may have become even greater, as lockdown and the requirements of social distancing limit people’s normal access to education, medical and social care services, and family support.

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The Maytree Respite Centre

The Maytree Respite Centre

All at the Maytree Respite Centre are very grateful for the generous gift from the Pixel Fund. Maytree work with a small staff team and through volunteer befrienders to prevent suicide by offering helpline and, uniquely, residential support to people who are feeling suicidal.

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YoungMinds Parents Helpline

YoungMinds Parents Helpline

Support from The Pixel Fund will play a key role in the running of YoungMinds Parents Helpline, which exists to support thousands of families in the UK every year with free, confidential online and telephone advice. It is a two-tier service, free to callers, through which our team of advisers provide reassurance and practical advice to parents and carers who are worried about the mental health and emotional wellbeing or behaviour of a child or young person.

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SASBAH drama and music workshop

SASBAH drama and music workshop

We promote the well-being of people of all ages across Sussex affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus, enabling them to lead the lives they want to. We are thrilled to have been granted £2,500 by the Pixel Foundation, to offer a drama and music workshop in the autumn of 2020 to twenty-five young people with these complex disabilities.

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Heart & Soul

Heart & Soul

Livewire youth project runs a mental health and wellbeing project, whereby we support young people to reach their full potential and overcome many issues with their mental health and wellbeing. We seek to help the young people we work with to become resilient confident individuals and have found that our mental health project exceeded our expectations in terms of outcomes and has become integral to the delivery at Livewire. During these unprecedented times it has been necessary to adapt our provision and work in creative ways to continue to offer young people the support they need.

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Winston's Wish

Winston's Wish

Every day in the UK more than 100 children experience the death of a parent or sibling. Winston’s Wish is a national charity with over 25 years of experience of supporting bereaved children. Our vision is a society in which every child can get the help they need when someone close to them dies.

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Blue Smile

Blue Smile

Blue Smile is a children’s mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area. We support children aged 3-13 years in schools through providing expert one to one therapy. Half of all lifetime mental health problems emerge by the age of 14 so in childhood we have a window of opportunity to intervene early on, preventing deterioration.

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Voice Collective

Voice Collective

The overall aim of the Voice Collective project is to improve the prospect of recovery and capacity to cope of children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing distress through hearing voices and other unusual perceptual and cognitive experiences (e.g. unusual beliefs, self-harm, dissociation and multiplicity).

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Caspari Foundation

Caspari Foundation

Caspari Foundation is a London-based independent charity that helps disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people, aged 5-18, overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties and barriers to learning. We do this by providing Educational Psychotherapy in schools either in small groups or individually.

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