Sunflowers Wellbeing Project  

Sunflowers Wellbeing Project  

Tuppenny Barn is an organic smallholding and charity passionate about delivering educational opportunities for children, young people and the wider community in our outdoor classroom. Working with horticulture we help foster physical health and mental wellbeing through our education and green therapy programmes. With a focus on supporting those facing disadvantage in our community, all activities at Tuppenny Barn are delivered in line with our ethos of sustainability – we value having a positive impact on our local and wider environment.

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North Tyneside Disability Forum Ltd - end-of-grant progress report at 48 weeks on… Positive Future Lives.

North Tyneside Disability Forum Ltd - end-of-grant progress report at 48 weeks on… Positive Future Lives.

 Context – and fit to Charity’ s Mission  ‘ to support disabled people of all ages with particular emphasis on younger and older people …. to advance education by enabling the full participation in community life coming together on equal terms to include lay and professional people, services users and service providers, friends, families, carers, advocates, groups and representatives..’   Young people are especially important to us as they are the future leaders, service providers and central to the charity’s sustainability and resilience.

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Green School at the Therapy Garden

Green School at the Therapy Garden

Our Green School programme offers interventional educational opportunities for young people living with mental health challenges. We offer the chance to gain a City & Guilds vocational qualification ‘Skills for Working Life: Horticulture’ and we are also registered to use AQA's Unit Achievement Scheme's validated units enabling us to acknowledge and celebrate individual achievement.

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Play Therapy Base

Play Therapy Base

Play Therapy Base is delighted to receive funding from The Pixel Fund the £2,000 grant will contribute to the running costs of our third playroom. We will be able to offer an additional 25 sessions per week from the space plus have space to meet families enquiring about the service.

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Mind

Mind

The growing number of children and young people experiencing mental health problems is one of our biggest concerns and a key strategic area for Mind. Although we look forward to a time where we no longer mention Covid as part of our day to day lives, we cannot ignore the damage it has done.

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Designability's Wizzybug Loan Scheme

Designability's Wizzybug Loan Scheme

The Wizzybug Loan Scheme provides free fun, powered wheelchairs called Wizzybugs to children under 5 living in the UK.

Wizzybug offers young disabled children fun, independence and freedom of movement, often for the first time in their lives.

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Sasbah's Drama Workshop

Sasbah's Drama Workshop

The project was a 4-day workshop running from 25-28 October 2022 (inclusive) where 24 young people with physical and learning disabilities attended. It included both drama and music, and forms part of Sasbah’s programme for young people which has been highly successful in delivering huge developmental benefits for those participating, for many showing that they can do things they never imagined.

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Platform for Life

Platform for Life

We are a Chester based mental health charity offering free, community based counselling and other therapies to adults, children and young people living in relative poverty and experiencing mental health issues.  Those living in poverty are at much higher risk of suffering with mental health issues and much less likely to be able to access suitable and timely support to help address these.

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Pop Arts - Haringey

Pop Arts - Haringey

Pop Arts is an ambitious new charitable organisation that wants to ensure all young people, regardless of their financial status or the challenging circumstances that they might face, have access to the support and technology they need to make their own music.

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Tailor Ed Foundation

Tailor Ed Foundation

We are delighted that the Pixel Fund have made a very generous donation to our exciting, innovative new service in Edinburgh - ND:well, to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in Edinburgh who are neurodivergent.

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Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

We are very grateful to The Pixel Fund for funding to support Animal-Assisted and Nature-Based sessions at Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship to vulnerable young people who are in desperate need of our provision to support their mental health and well-being; with enquires to our charity having increased by 62% over the past year.

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MYTIME Young Carers

MYTIME Young Carers

A massive thank you to The Pixel Fund from MYTIME Young Carers. MYTIME are delighted that the Fund is supporting our Making Memories Programme which provides fun and enriching activity days for young carers of ages 5-18. Each activity day out involves around 40 young carers and includes an activity such as paddleboarding, kayaking, outdoor adventure activities or ice skating. Each day also includes a meal for every young carer.

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Clear Sky Children's Charity - The Power of Play!

Clear Sky Children's Charity - The Power of Play!

Clear Sky Children’s Charity provides Play & Creative Arts Therapy to vulnerable children when they need it most. Working in schools across Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties, Clear Sky support children who have experienced bereavement, bullying, family breakdown, parents in prison, parents with substance abuse issues, parents with mental health issues and traumatic experiences (e.g., car accident, fire etc.). These children are presenting with a range of complex emotional and behavioural needs, some of which are likely directly attributable to the recent Covid restrictions and associated social and economic pressures. 

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The Hugs Foundation Helping Hands Project

The Hugs Foundation Helping Hands Project

The Hugs Foundation have received a fantastic grant of £5,000 from The Pixel Fund to enable Hugs to continue to run the ‘Hugs Helping Hands’ youth well-being project. The project provides well-being support to children and young people in Cornwall who have a range of complex needs including; social, emotional, physical and mental ill health, trauma and abuse, SEND, reduced or non-school attendance, social isolation, self-harm and suicide ideation. Hugs unique intervention creates a circular relationship between the environment, rescue animals and people they support. 

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Supporting the wellbeing and mental health of people with cerebral palsy

Supporting the wellbeing and mental health of people with cerebral palsy

The Pixel Fund is helping Cerebral Palsy Scotland to employ a Clinical Psychologist to meet the mental health and wellbeing needs of people with cerebral palsy that they support.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland is a charity that improves the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy (CP) through specialist therapy, support and information.

A lifelong condition, cerebral palsy results from an injury to the infant brain that causes disruption to the development of movement, posture and balance. Around 150 children in Scotland are diagnosed with CP every year.

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Young People get a Spring in their Step!

Young People get a Spring in their Step!

The Totnes Rural Area Youth Engagement (TRAYE) project has been successfully awarded funding from the Pixel Fund for a project that supports young people to be active and improve their mental health and wellbeing.

TRAYE currently works with young people from the isolated towns and parishes of Buckfastleigh, Staverton, Dartington, Totnes, Harbertonford and Marldon. We deliver quality youth support and have remained open throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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The Garden Classroom (TGC)

The Garden Classroom (TGC)

A huge thank you to the Pixel Fund for enabling us to bring our Urban Forest School programme free of charge to children in Islington from some of the most deprived schools in the borough.

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Brighton Therapy Centre

Brighton Therapy Centre

Brighton Therapy Centre is a small UK-registered charity based in the vibrant coastal community of Brighton, and we have been providing high-quality no-cost and low-cost counselling and psychological therapies for individuals, families, young people, and local businesses since 2012. Right now, we are experiencing an overwhelming demand from our community, and we are grateful for the grant from the Pixel Fund that allows us to meet the needs of the young people who come to us in search of mental health support. 

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Tom's Trust

Tom's Trust

Tom’s Trust was established in 2011 by Andrew Whiteley and Debs Mitchell following the death of their only son Tom, aged 9, after a seven-month battle with a brain tumour. They received almost no mental health support for Tom or their family during diagnosis, treatment or beyond.

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BOUNCE! Brighter Futures

BOUNCE! Brighter Futures

The Pixel Fund is supporting BOUNCE! Brighter Futures to develop our service. BOUNCE! is a charity providing specialist mental health services to children and young people within schools and the community. We are a team of committed mental health professionals with a high level of training and a wealth of relevant experience. Our focus is on delivering accessible, high-quality psychotherapy and counselling to children, young people and their families who would otherwise fall through the cracks of statutory services and private provision.

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