Dementia Adventure

Dementia Adventure

People living with dementia and their carers often feel that holidays, travel and outdoor activity are things that are no longer available to them. Often traditional respite involves separating the person with dementia from the family carer such as their husband or wife.

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PROSPECT Research Project

PROSPECT Research Project

PSPA is the only UK charity dedicated to supporting people living with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Cortico Basal Degeneration (CBD). PSP and CBD are degenerative diseases of the brain and nervous system which affect about 6,000 to 10,000 people in the UK at any one time.

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The CLD Trust

The CLD Trust

Funding from The Pixel fund will enable us to provide an emotionally sensitive package of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Our approach, whilst providing the structure of cognitive behavioural therapy and a focus on changing thoughts and behaviours, also provides the opportunity for individuals to explore their thoughts and feelings, allowing an understanding of the emotional part of their experience in addition to the cognitive.

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Interact Stroke Support

Interact Stroke Support

Following his stroke Andrew Marr said he had been “forced to smile less.” He is not alone. 150,000 people have a stroke each year in the UK and many of them smile much less.

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“Epilepsy and you”: a self-management course helping people to live better with epilepsy

“Epilepsy and you”: a self-management course helping people to live better with epilepsy

Epilepsy is a serious neurological condition involving recurrent seizures which begin in the brain. Like other chronic conditions, epilepsy can impact substantially on daily life, and the challenges it brings may include social, financial, cognitive and emotional factors.

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Acacia Family Support

Acacia Family Support

With a £1,500 grant from The Pixel Fund, Acacia Family Support are able to keep running their group work support sessions for mothers and families across Birmingham who are affected by maternal mental health problems, particularly pre and postnatal depression.

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Admiral Nurse Service

Admiral Nurse Service

Dementia UK provides specialist dementia support for families through our Admiral Nurse service. One such service is The Admiral Nurse Dementia Helpline which is for anyone with a question or concern about dementia. From looking out for the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s, to understanding the challenges of living with someone with vascular dementia, our specialist Admiral Nurses have the knowledge and experience to understand the situation and suggest answers that might be hard to find elsewhere.

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Delivering improvements to My CAMHS Choices

Delivering improvements to My CAMHS Choices

With the support of The Pixel Fund, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families will be able to deliver improvements to My CAMHS Choices – a freely accessible website offering an approachable guide to CAMHS and access to peer experiences and advice – as recommended by young people.

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COMMEND – Improving the psychological health of people living with motor neurone disease

COMMEND – Improving the psychological health of people living with motor neurone disease

Today in the UK, six people will hear the devastating news that they have motor neurone disease (MND) – a rapidly progressive neurological disease which attacks the nerves, leaving those affected unable to walk, talk, eat and ultimately to breathe. There is no effective treatment and no cure. One third of people will die within a year of diagnosis.

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The Maytree Respite Centre

The Maytree Respite Centre

The Maytree Respite Centre is a unique national charity offering a sanctuary to suicidal people in despair. We provide a safe residence, where volunteers and staff are available 24/7 to provide compassionate support to isolated individuals. Maytree provides confidential phone and email support to people suffering anxiety about suicide (including friends and family) and a short residential stay in a non-medical setting.

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Get Connected

Get Connected

Oakleaf Enterprise has provided vocational training and wider support to people with mental health needs since 1995 when an occupational therapy unit at the old local Victorian asylum, Brookwood Hospital, closed and relocated to Guildford. The charity was registered in 1997.

Oakleaf benefits local people in Guildford and neighbouring boroughs who suffer mental ill-health. The charity has supported hundreds of people back into work. Just as significantly, it has helped keep many hundreds more sufficiently well enough to stay out of hospital.

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SCO ReConnect

SCO ReConnect

SCO ReConnect is a programme of interactive, creative music workshops for people living with dementia. This project provides a series of music sessions in which patients are invited and supported to sing, play instruments, improvise and listen. Sessions are delivered by a specialist workshop leader and two SCO musicians and involve dementia patients, visiting family members and NHS staff.

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Anxiety App for Autism

Anxiety App for Autism

In 2016 the Pixel Fund supported the development of a paper-based toolkit to help autistic people self-manage their anxiety. In partnership with King’s College London and with the further support of the Pixel Fund, Autistica will translate this toolkit into a mobile app, allowing us to offer personalised support for autistic people suffering from anxiety nationwide.

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Reach Out Family Support

Reach Out Family Support

The Pixel Fund is supporting our Reach Out home support service with the aim of recruiting an additional 40 volunteers over the coming year. Reach Out is a free service that places volunteers with families who are struggling with autism. Volunteers are well trained and supported by a behaviour specialist, and the volunteers themselves have a range of backgrounds including psychology students and speech and language therapists.

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Making Sense of MS

Making Sense of MS

People with MS often have difficulty doing basic things, like walking, talking, writing and concentrating. Many get chronically depressed, can have problems with their eye-sight and have trouble sleeping. Researchers have found that when people are first diagnosed with MS they often show “post-traumatic symptoms”.

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HD Specialist Service

HD Specialist Service

The Pixel Fund has generously supported our HD Specialist Service - a network of eight regional Huntington’s disease Specialist teams across Scotland who ensure the needs of individuals and families are understood by providing specialist assessment, ensure that person-centred support that is right for each individual is in place by acting as care coordinators, supporting other agencies and improving quality of support through training and education.

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Bobath Scotland

Bobath Scotland

Cerebral palsy is a lifelong condition that affects muscle control and movement. Everyday actions like walking and talking, sitting and swallowing can be affected. Bobath Scotland helps people with cerebral palsy and their families to live better every day. That might mean…

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Pilot Triage Project

Pilot Triage Project

The Camden Psychotherapy Unit is a charity providing free and low fee psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We are a busy service which is very much in demand, particularly amongst people on low incomes, as the kind of long term help which we offer can otherwise be very hard to access.

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