Me2 Club, Inclusion for All Project: Empowering Disabled Children through Mainstream Activities

Me2 Club, Inclusion for All Project: Empowering Disabled Children through Mainstream Activities

Me2 Club is a charity which helps children and young people with additional needs and disabilities aged 5 – 19 access social, sports and leisure activities in Berkshire. It was set up in 2003 by a group of parents who wanted the same opportunities for their disabled children.

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Support Dogs

Support Dogs

Support Dogs, are delighted that, thanks to the amazing generosity of The Pixel Fund, our charity will be able to change the lives of another child with autism and their whole family by helping to fund a new Autism Assistance dog partnership.

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Tuppeny Barn - Children's Wellbeing Programmes

Tuppeny Barn - Children's Wellbeing Programmes

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.

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Innovative Urban Forest School delivered by The Garden Classroom

Innovative Urban Forest School delivered by The Garden Classroom

We are very grateful to the Pixel Fund for supporting our Urban Forest School programme for the second time. Over the past two years, we’ve been able to extend outreach of our UFS programme to include schools who would not normally engage with us by being able to offer fully funded taster programmes.

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The Shine Project

The Shine Project

The goal of The Shine Project is to support young people in developing and maintaining good physical and mental health, providing a firm foundation with which to achieve a successful and happy future. We do this through the delivery of our early intervention physical and mental wellbeing courses in small groups of up to 12 young people aged 11-14.

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The Green Team

The Green Team

At the Green Team we are passionate about young people thriving through nature – caring for the environment, others and self. We have been successfully running outdoor programmes in Edinburgh, since 1995. Thrive is the Green Team’s mental health and wellbeing programme. The programme runs projects throughout the year.

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SELFA

SELFA

SELFA supports children and families who are experiencing vulnerabilities to build resilience, thrive and achieve, with an overall aim of improving mental wellbeing.

Reasons for referral to the Charity are varied and complex. Many of the children and young people have autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, attachment disorder, mental and physical health issues.

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Edinburgh City Youth Cafe - Cairn Service

Edinburgh City Youth Cafe  - Cairn Service

The Cairn Service is a vital and unique initiative dedicated to providing confidential support to young victims and witnesses of crime in and around Edinburgh.

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Additional Funding for Young People

Additional Funding for Young People

We are very pleased to be supported by Pixel again. Having previously funded our Young People's service, Pixel have agreed to support an additional 4 clients this year.

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Kool Carers South East

Kool Carers South East

It is with heartfelt thanks, that we would like to thank The Pixel Fund, for their very kind and generous grant of £5,000, towards our core costs. This is repeat funding from The Pixel Fund and as charity, we are extremely appreciative that they continue to value and support our work with young carers and their families.

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Blue Smile: supporting children’s mental health in Cambridgeshire

Blue Smile: supporting children’s mental health in Cambridgeshire

18% of children in England are struggling with their mental health, according to 2022 NHS Digital data – that’s around 5 children in every school class. A grant from The Pixel Fund is helping Blue Smile deliver 1-1 arts-based therapy for children in Cambridgeshire primary schools, providing prompt, specialist help to those who need it most.

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Platform for Life- helping children and young people improve school attendance

Platform for Life- helping children and young people improve school attendance

We are a Chester based charity established in 2017, that offers free, accessible, community based mental health and wellbeing services such as counselling, play and art therapy to adults, young people and children living in relative poverty in three communities in Chester that fall within the bottom 10% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

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Meningitis Now

Meningitis Now

At Meningitis Now, our vision is a future where no-one in the UK loses their life to meningitis and everyone affected gets the support they need to rebuild their lives.

 Fighting meningitis has been our driving force for over 35 years; but our work is far from over. 22 people every day are still affected by this terrible and devastating disease. They will continue to need our aftercare and support, both now and in the future; and until meningitis is eliminated from the UK, it's vital that we continue to raise awareness and fight back against the disease.

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Cerebral Palsy Plus

Cerebral Palsy Plus

Cerebral Palsy Plus is delighted to receive a generous donation of £8000 from The Pixel Fund. This will help us to provide a range of activities for children and young people with Cerebral Palsy in Bristol and surrounding areas. The activities will help to improve the wellbeing of children who are living with a complex disability, helping them to have fun and experience new things in a safe and supported environment.

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Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Breakthrough is a South West UK charity supporting survivors of trauma and abuse.

1-in-5 people experience trauma (childhood abuse, accidents, domestic violence, sexual assault, displacement, etc) during their lifetime.

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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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