Blue Smile

Blue Smile

Blue Smile is a children’s mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area. We support children aged 3-13 years in schools through providing expert one to one therapy. Half of all lifetime mental health problems emerge by the age of 14 so in childhood we have a window of opportunity to intervene early on, preventing deterioration.

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Voice Collective

Voice Collective

The overall aim of the Voice Collective project is to improve the prospect of recovery and capacity to cope of children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing distress through hearing voices and other unusual perceptual and cognitive experiences (e.g. unusual beliefs, self-harm, dissociation and multiplicity).

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Caspari Foundation

Caspari Foundation

Caspari Foundation is a London-based independent charity that helps disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people, aged 5-18, overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties and barriers to learning. We do this by providing Educational Psychotherapy in schools either in small groups or individually.

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Re-Instate W-rap™ Project

Re-Instate W-rap™ Project

Re-Instate’s W-rap™ Project (Well-being, Recovery, Activity Parcels) is entirely co-produced and managed by people who use our services. W-rap aims to provide at least five full size gifts for patients during long-term hospital stays due to their mental ill-health.

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Inspiring Young Futures

Inspiring Young Futures

Inspiring Young Futures is for young people, encouraging them to think about what they would like to achieve and helps them work towards their goals.

The programme offers regular community-based outreach support wrapped around an 8-day Wilderness Journey usually in the highlands of Scotland. Through intensive learning and personal development individuals will consolidate their new skills, boost confidence, motivation and aspirations.

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Oakleaf Enterprise

Oakleaf Enterprise

The Pixel Fund grant will be used to expand and develop our counselling provision for young people during 2020.

We are creating two additional counselling spaces within our premises (in addition to our three existing rooms). With funding in place, we will expand our counselling provision for young people aged 18-25. Based only 500 metres from the University of Surrey we already have several students attending our counselling, those preferring to support from an organisation independent of the university.

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Cerebral Palsy Plus

Cerebral Palsy Plus

The generous donation that we have received from the Pixel Fund will enable our charity to provide trips and outdoor activities for around 180 children and young people with Cerebral Palsy in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, including accessible transport and travel assistance. All of these will be held in accessible venues that are disabled-friendly.

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Whirlow Hall Farm Trust

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust is an educational trust based on a 140-acre farm in Sheffield. Each year we support over 10,000 children and young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds and the inner city, to grow. Our mission is to enrich the educational experience and personal development of all children and young people, regardless of their circumstances, and to improve knowledge around food, farming, and the environment.

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Revive MS Support

Revive MS Support

Most people think of MS as the most common neurological condition affecting young people of working age. But this overlooks the estimated 10% of people with MS who develop the condition during childhood, many of which are either left undiagnosed or, once diagnosed, receive very little support.

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Freedom from Torture

Freedom from Torture

Freedom from Torture is a UK-based charity that provides treatment and help for people who have been tortured and have fled to seek safety and sanctuary in the UK. Our services to help survivors of torture include: psychological therapy, activity-based therapy groups such as art therapy, creative writing and bread-making, specialist therapy for children, young people and families who have been affected by torture and pain management. We also provide legal and welfare help and advice to help survivors with some of the issues they face living in the UK.

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Bazaar – A Marketplace for the Mind

Bazaar – A Marketplace for the Mind

The Open Door Centre is thrilled to be granted £2,500 by The Pixel Fund who's progressive approach to funding and supportive role throughout the application process is not only refreshing but fills us with a great deal of confidence whilst we look forward to working closely with the team over the grant period.

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Green School

Green School

The Pixel Fund is generously supporting The Therapy Garden and its Green School. The Therapy Garden is a horticulture and education charity, that uses gardening to generate positive change. We work with adults and teenagers with mental health challenges, learning difficulties and physical disabilities.

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Whole School Approach

Whole School Approach

Over half of adult mental health problems start by the age of 14, yet 75% of children are unable to access support and do not receive help when they need it. Shockingly, suicide is now the second biggest killer of young people.

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Bluebell Buddies

Bluebell Buddies

Our grant from the Pixel fund will help us to support teenage & young mothers with mental health problems during pregnancy & in the first year following birth. Young parents are 3 times more likely to experience difficulties (Public Health England 2016); dealing with feelings of anxiety, depression and isolation.

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On My Mind for parents and carers

On My Mind for parents and carers

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is a children’s mental health charity, aiming to transform mental health provision for children and young people in the UK by improving the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of treatment.

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The Camden Psychotherapy Unit

The Camden Psychotherapy Unit

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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Strategic intervention to substantially increase access to mental health support for children and young people living with muscle-wasting conditions

Strategic intervention to substantially increase access to mental health support for children and young people living with muscle-wasting conditions

In recent years, The Pixel Fund has generously supported the work of Muscular Dystrophy UK. Most recently they granted £10,000 in total towards a four year research project, which advanced a promising potential genetic therapy for the childhood muscle-wasting condition: spinal muscular atrophy. We are delighted and extremely grateful to receive the support of The Pixel Fund once again…

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Communities in Mind

Communities in Mind

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.

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