The £4,000 funding that we have generously received from the Pixel Fund will allow us to be able to continue to offer counselling and therapeutic interventions to our young carers aged 8 – 18 years and their immediate families. Since the pandemic, this support has proven a crucial lifeline for so many of our families and we cannot thank the Pixel Fund enough for their support and for believing in our work.
Perth Autism Support provides a range of services to support autistic children, young people and their families across Perth and Kinross. Many of the autistic young people we work with experience high anxiety, and as a result they often find it difficult to engage with the larger group activities that we deliver.
We would like to thank Pixel for supporting Counselling Plus to continue to offer professional counselling to local young people. Since our inception in 1992, the need for effective mental health support has hugely increased and whilst this is a positive change due to recognition of its importance, it does mean that we need additional support to meet this increased need.
Mentor Link offers long-term, weekly, one-to-one social and emotional listening support to disadvantaged and vulnerable children by providing them with a mentor. We professionally and safely recruit and train local volunteers to become mentors and offer weekly support to children in need, either in a school or community setting.
Safe and Sound charity’s mission is to transform the lives of children and young people in Derbyshire who are affected by child exploitation. Through delivering innovative, hands-on programmes, Safe and Sound enables children, young people, families and carers, whose lives are affected deeply by their experience of child exploitation, to move not just to a place of safety, but to emerge unshackled and undefined by their experiences and enabled to reach their full potential.
Creativity Works is an award-winning charity and socially engaged arts organisation based in Radstock, in Bath and North East Somerset, delivering creative projects that make a real difference to people’s lives. There are several strands to our work including our Mental Health and Wellbeing creative work; delivering social prescribing projects, community based creative workshops and events which boost wellbeing, decrease social isolation and increase life chances for our communities. Our participants include adults living with poor mental health, vulnerable young people, older people, adults living with dementia, young carers and disabled adults.
Strength and Learning Through Horses work with disadvantaged and vulnerable young people from all across London and Hertfordshire.
The Pixel Fund’s generous donation will enable 6 young people to access experiential therapy programmes. These young people are excluded from mainstream education or are at risk of exclusion, are struggling with complex mental health challenges & social/emotional challenges and are unable to successfully engage with traditional mental health interventions & educational support provided by the school.
We are a Chester based charity started in 2017, offering counselling and play therapy support to families; adults (parents/carers), children and young people living in relative poverty who are experiencing mental health issues. We focus on families rather than individuals and believe that improving a parent's mental health can have a significant impact on their children.
Our first grant from The Pixel Fund will play a key role in enabling children, with wide ranging additional needs and disabilities, to return to the leisure activities they love, safely and confidently!
‘Lessons Learnt From Lockdown’, the largest report on the impact of covid on disabled children, states the focus of their recovery should be re-engaging socially, getting used to being back in a routine, gaining confidence in peer relationships and having fun.
We are very grateful to The Pixel Fund for its grant towards the costs of our Open Sessions project. During open sessions special schools and day centres that educate and care for children with special needs bring groups of up to 16 for play and learning – supported by both their own staff and Camp Mohawk’s own support staff. There are currently 42 schools and centres from a wide geographical area registered to visit - with many more requesting places.
Key Changes promotes positive mental health through music - supporting people with a wide range of mental health challenges, including the most severe conditions. Our award-winning music industry informed programmes were specially developed to engage young adults from Black, Mixed and other ethnic minority backgrounds, who are significantly overrepresented in experiencing mental illness.
