We are an independent local mental health charity operating in West Sussex. Our work is driven by the needs and experiences of people with a mental health problem. We provide information and support to anyone experiencing mental health issues and campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
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.
The Pause Project will support young people with a range of mental health issues, aged 14-18 years, who are resident in Harrogate District. The project will provide a weekly drop in for young people at our dedicated, multi-functional modern building in the centre of Harrogate and will offer a range of mental health and wellbeing support and facilities for young people.
The Pixel Fund has kindly donated £5,000 towards the ongoing support of suicidal people in London. This should enable us to deliver our programme of support for 20 suicidal individuals (who we call Visitors) – at a cost of approximately £247 per Visitor. Our service is unique in that it is free, confidential, face-to-face and continues for as long as the Visitor needs.
Dementia presents varied, complex and constantly evolving challenges to people living with dementia and their loved ones. Those affected need time, care, and to feel that they are not alone. They need ongoing, dementia-specific support, given freely – which is exactly what the Pixel Fund is very generously helping to provide through Dementia Support’s far-reaching Wayfinding service.
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.
Fife Employment Access Trust (FEAT) support young people (15-18) and adults (18+) with moderate to severe and/or enduring mental health problems, providing a range of self-management and employability programmes to people with mental health conditions to better manage their conditions to improve daily living and develop their employability skills to prepare for, enter and sustain paid work, or access other meaningful activities such as volunteering and further education.
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.
The artistic medium we have found works best in hospitals is animation. This process uses a broad range of art forms such as storytelling, visual arts, building scale sets, making characters, animating the characters and finally finding a voice for your character. This means that there is something to engage everyone. Creating an animation also requires people to develop their communication skills, team work, problem solving, commitment to attend the sessions and a lot of patience which can be a real challenge for people in psychiatric hospitals.
The donation of £5,000 from The Pixel Fund to SignHealth will help enormously with the development of computerised CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) resources, which take the form of sign-language based videos. This involves the scripting, translating and filming of cCBT programmes in Deaf accessible BSL.
If an individual who has suffered a brain injury has support to adjust with their life change then they are likely to respond to rehabilitation interventions more positively and show better outcomes from such interventions. There is also a small number of studies showing that good family adjustment after a member has suffered a brain injury results in lower stress and anxiety for the carers in that family unit.
Our Project, funded by The Pixel Fund, is to provide psychoeducation and therapy to our beneficiaries at our monthly Norwich and Norfolk OCD Voluntary Support Group. Our beneficiaries travel from all areas of Norfolk and Suffolk due to our reputation for training, helping and supporting people with OCD, their family members and carers.
