Mentor Link offers long-term, weekly, one-to-one social and emotional listening support to disadvantaged and vulnerable children by providing them with a mentor. We professionally and safely recruit and train local volunteers to become mentors and offer weekly support to children in need, either in a school or community setting.
Safe and Sound charity’s mission is to transform the lives of children and young people in Derbyshire who are affected by child exploitation. Through delivering innovative, hands-on programmes, Safe and Sound enables children, young people, families and carers, whose lives are affected deeply by their experience of child exploitation, to move not just to a place of safety, but to emerge unshackled and undefined by their experiences and enabled to reach their full potential.
Creativity Works is an award-winning charity and socially engaged arts organisation based in Radstock, in Bath and North East Somerset, delivering creative projects that make a real difference to people’s lives. There are several strands to our work including our Mental Health and Wellbeing creative work; delivering social prescribing projects, community based creative workshops and events which boost wellbeing, decrease social isolation and increase life chances for our communities. Our participants include adults living with poor mental health, vulnerable young people, older people, adults living with dementia, young carers and disabled adults.
Strength and Learning Through Horses work with disadvantaged and vulnerable young people from all across London and Hertfordshire.
The Pixel Fund’s generous donation will enable 6 young people to access experiential therapy programmes. These young people are excluded from mainstream education or are at risk of exclusion, are struggling with complex mental health challenges & social/emotional challenges and are unable to successfully engage with traditional mental health interventions & educational support provided by the school.
We are a Chester based charity started in 2017, offering counselling and play therapy support to families; adults (parents/carers), children and young people living in relative poverty who are experiencing mental health issues. We focus on families rather than individuals and believe that improving a parent's mental health can have a significant impact on their children.
Our first grant from The Pixel Fund will play a key role in enabling children, with wide ranging additional needs and disabilities, to return to the leisure activities they love, safely and confidently!
‘Lessons Learnt From Lockdown’, the largest report on the impact of covid on disabled children, states the focus of their recovery should be re-engaging socially, getting used to being back in a routine, gaining confidence in peer relationships and having fun.
We are very grateful to The Pixel Fund for its grant towards the costs of our Open Sessions project. During open sessions special schools and day centres that educate and care for children with special needs bring groups of up to 16 for play and learning – supported by both their own staff and Camp Mohawk’s own support staff. There are currently 42 schools and centres from a wide geographical area registered to visit - with many more requesting places.
Key Changes promotes positive mental health through music - supporting people with a wide range of mental health challenges, including the most severe conditions. Our award-winning music industry informed programmes were specially developed to engage young adults from Black, Mixed and other ethnic minority backgrounds, who are significantly overrepresented in experiencing mental illness.
Mudlarks are delighted to have received funding from the Pixel Trust to purchase a yurt for our Forest School. This 20 ft yurt will be able to accommodate the largest of groups as it seats up to 30 people. It is a much needed addition to our forest school and means we can offer a warm dry place to shelter in cold and wet weather. The yurt will also act as a very reassuring visible focal point for our children and young people to return to after enjoying exploring the woodland, and a hub for all to meet up in at break times.
Forest school is a programme that works with children in green spaces to develop personal, social and emotional life skills through learner led, hands on experiences. The Garden Classroom’s Urban Forest School programme aims to bring these vital benefits of to children who need them most. Working in areas of high deprivation, The Garden Classroom (TGC) works to make regular forest school sessions accessible to children who may otherwise not have the opportunity.
