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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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 generous grant awarded to the Centre from The Pixel Fund has enabled us to develop this website from an idea into a reality. The website – On My Mind – has an emphasis on reaching those who are thinking about looking for support, who may already be receiving or waiting to receive support or those who require help and information about self-managing their own wellbeing, perhaps because ‘traditional’ offers either do not appeal or have not previously worked.
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The Pixel Fund has generously donated £10,000 over three years towards Meningitis Now’s research project being carried out at the University of Liverpool.
The project may sound complicated – ‘The preclinical development and evaluation of a vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis and sepsis’ – but essentially the team are seeking to create a more effective vaccine to protect against pneumococcal meningitis, a life-threatening form of bacterial meningitis.
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Since 2013 Bobath Scotland has had a successful partnership with the Pixel Fund. Receiving a total of £19,000 over the past 6 years Bobath Scotland has been able to provide therapy to hundreds of children from across Scotland living with cerebral palsy.
Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in children. 1 in 450 children are diagnosed with CP and it can affect every aspect of daily life for them, and their parents and siblings. Many children with CP will never walk or talk, for others their condition may be mild but problems with balance can mean falling over in the playground more often than their peers or difficulty getting around school each day. No two people experience this incurable condition in the same way.
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Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA) was established in 1989 by families living with the progressive, genetic, neurological condition, Huntington’s disease (HD). The charity was established by families because, as with many rare diseases, there was a vacuum of support from health and social care services.
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The Pixel Fund has generously supported music therapy for people living with Huntington’s Disease at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Huntington’s Disease is an inherited, degenerative, neurological condition which causes damage to nerve cells in the brain and can affect movement, cognition (perception, awareness, thinking, judgement) and behaviour. There is no cure for Huntington’s Disease however recent research at the RHN has focused on the potential of therapies such as music therapy and therapeutic gardening to help maintain cognitive skills and to improve emotional wellbeing.
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The Pixel Fund is generously donating towards our Northern Hub project. The Northern Hub is a response to the continued increase in demand for YoungMinds services nationwide. Although our remit is UK-wide, our head office is based in London. Due to travel times and costs, we have limited delivery outside London and theSouth East, with work we have delivered usually being on an ad-hoc basis through temporary contracts. Pixel are helping us reach communities in need in the North of England.
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Meningitis is a devastating disease – one in ten people who contract bacterial meningitis will die and many more are left with life changing after effects. The Pixel Fund has supported a ground breaking research project to investigate why some people are more susceptible than others to meningitis by comparing the genetic blueprint of patients with meningococcal disease alongside the genetic blueprint of the particular bacterium that cause their illness.
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