For over 54 years, Brandon Centre has been at the forefront of delivering preventative services grounded in the psychoanalytic understanding of adolescent development. An important part of our work is reaching and supporting young people in our community who don’t typically access statutory mental health services.
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Youthlife was established in Derry/Londonderry in 1992 by a group of parents concerned about the emotional effect of bereavement and loss on their own children. Thanks to Pixel's £5000 contribution to our core costs Youthlife can continue to provide counselling and therapeutic support for 200+ children and young people per year aged 5-25 years who have experienced the loss of a significant person in their life through bereavement, separation, loss or family breakdown.
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Home-Start Clackmannanshire offer practical and emotional support to families across Clackmannanshire who have at least one child under the age of 12. Ensuring they are able to build strong foundations for a happy and healthy future as a families. We provide a package of supports, bespoke to each family, to improve mental health and wellbeing, reduce isolation, and increase resilience.
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Home-Start Cambridgeshire are delighted to announce the award of a grant from The Pixel Fund of £5,684, in support of our Young Parents Project. Our vision is to give children in Cambridgeshire the best possible start in life, and so we support families with young children who are going through difficult times.
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The Level Two mentoring provision supports vulnerable young people with mental health issues to develop coping strategies which enable them to set and achieve goals and improve their life chances. In 2023, we have mentored 150 young people, but the need is increasing significantly as many more young people experience mental health challenges. This funding enables us to support 17 additional young people.
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With support from The Pixel Fund and several other charitable trusts and foundations, we are pleased to be able to continue providing supported work experience placements at Martineau Gardens for young people with a range of support needs. These young people are aged between 16 and 25, and their developmental differences, or exclusion from mainstream education, mean that they are often denied access to traditional work experience.
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At Ignite Life, we provide mental health support to disadvantaged and marginalised young people across the South West. We have three mental health services, with a new one launching in February 2024. All services aim to support those who too often slip through the net due to poverty and social disadvantage.
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Let Me Know (LMK) is an education charity working to prevent relationship abuse before it starts, giving young people the skills to avoid abuse and fill their lives with relationships that support them to be well and thrive. LMK achieves this through delivery of preventative workshops to young people aged 11-24 in schools and community settings.
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We know the impact of living with a disability and chronic illness can be severe, overwhelming, and isolating. Children and young people are at risk from social isolation, difficulty in making friends, poor mental health and wellbeing, and poor educational and career outcomes due to missing school. A grant from the Pixel Fund is helping Children's Health Scotland deliver Self-Management Skills (SMS) Programmes and a monthly online HUB to children and young people living with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses.
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Venture Scotland is the only provider of long-term, outdoor-based personal development support for young adults in Scotland. Using Scotland’s natural environments and a person-centred practice, we support young adults who are suffering from poor mental health, trauma, poverty, health inequality, unemployment, crime and alcohol and substance misuse.
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Impact Arts' Art Therapy Programme in North Ayrshire provides a tiered model of psychotherapeutic support to children, young people and their families who are affected by familial/parental substance use. Targeted towards those where the use of alcohol and drug use by family members is a contributing factor to Adverse Childhood Experiences.
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KidsAid intend to provide a group therapy intervention for twelve children and young people who are displaying early signs of poor mental health. Themes within the sessions will focus on connecting with oneself and others with self-acceptance, empathy, and compassion; exploring worries and fears; and creating a personal toolkit to use when life feels overwhelming.
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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.
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We are very grateful to the Pixel Fund for supporting our Urban Forest School programme for the second time. Over the past two years, we’ve been able to extend outreach of our UFS programme to include schools who would not normally engage with us by being able to offer fully funded taster programmes.
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