Safety Net UK: Helping children and young people recover from trauma

Safety Net UK: Helping children and young people recover from trauma

Safety Net is a Cumbria-based charity supporting children, young people, and adults affected by rape, sexual abuse, domestic abuse, and exploitation. With the help of The Pixel Fund, we will deliver trauma-informed therapy to children and young people who have experienced domestic or sexual abuse. 

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Youthlife - counselling and support for children and young people affected by bereavement, separation or loss of a significant person.

Youthlife - counselling and support for children and young people affected by bereavement, separation or loss of a significant person.

Youthlife is a community charity based in Derry/Londonderry city centre. Youthlife’s mission is to ensure that no child faces loss alone. Youthlife offer counselling and support to children and young people aged 5-25 years who have lost someone close to them through bereavement or separation, using a trauma informed approach.

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Just Drop In Rural Schools Project

Just Drop In Rural Schools Project

Just Drop-In is here to help and support children and young people who are finding life hard. The charity has a heartfelt commitment to improve the mental health and wellbeing of local children, helping them to find themselves and their feet. 

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121 Youth Counselling

121 Youth Counselling

121 Youth Counselling is a service for distressed and vulnerable young people aged 11 to 17. They are given the freedom to share worries and concerns while obtaining non-judgmental and impartial support enabling them to address issues early in their life to build a bright future. Every year we receive over 140 referrals for young people needing support with their mental health.

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Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

Sirona provides equine, animal and nature-based therapeutic and educational activities within a relational and person and animal-centred approach to vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in order to improve their mental health and well-being and guide them towards more positive life outcomes. Many of the young people who attend Sirona have experienced severe trauma in their lives and are in foster care or adoption, others have referrals of ADHD, Autism Spectrum or struggle in a traditional school environment.

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Venture Scotland

Venture Scotland

Venture Scotland believes in empowering young people who are facing challenges in their lives to first understand and then improve their mental health and emotions and, in doing so, change the course of their lives. 

Through the power of the outdoors, we change, improve and often save the lives of young people across Scotland. Suicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Scotland, and we hear first hand from the young people we work with that our programme is what turned their lives around. 

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Young People's Therapeutic Horticulture at Martineau Gardens

Young People's Therapeutic Horticulture at Martineau Gardens

Support from the Pixel Fund has enabled us to continue and expand our Therapeutic Horticulture programme for young people, aged 14-25. These young people have neurodevelopmental differences, which means that it is difficult for them to access traditional work experience opportunities. 

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The Garden Classroom

The Garden Classroom

TGC delivers nature connection activities to promote mental health to over 10,000 children in our north east London community who are experiencing one or more forms of disadvantage. Islington and Hackney are among the most unequal places to live in the UK, where the incredibly wealthy and most socio-economically deprived (43% and 38% Islington children live in poverty) live alongside each other.

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Blue Smile: supporting children’s mental health in Cambridgeshire

Blue Smile: supporting children’s mental health in Cambridgeshire

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. More children than ever are facing mental health difficulties with official figures from 2023 showing 1 in 5 children in England have a probable mental health disorder.

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Level Two Pixel Mentoring Project

Level Two Pixel Mentoring Project

The Level Two mentoring provision supports vulnerable young people with mental health issues to develop coping strategies which enable them to set and achieve goals and improve their life chances. In 2023, we have mentored 150 young people, but the need is increasing significantly as many more young people experience mental health challenges. This funding enables us to support 17 additional young people.

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Cerebral Palsy Plus

Cerebral Palsy Plus

We would like to thank The Pixel Fund for the generous grant of £8000 you gave to Cerebral Palsy Plus in June 2023. This has significantly impacted children and young people with Cerebral Palsy, allowing us to develop our services and deliver more activities than ever before. These activities have aligned perfectly with our mission to support our members in fulfilling their potential and creating opportunities for connection, fun, and personal development.

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Pop Arts end-of-grant progress report

Pop Arts end-of-grant progress report

Pop Arts successfully engaged 2 eligible young people in Haringey through creative music mentoring sessions. Over 7 weeks (during Nov-Dec 2023), participants met weekly for 2 hours at Ten87 studios in South Tottenham, guided by a music producer to create their own music. The participants explored diverse music genres, including Trap, Drill, Afrobeat, Hip Hop, and Pop.

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Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship

Sirona is a small charity based in South Devon established in 2012 that provides equine and animal-based therapeutic and educational activities to young people and adults with mental health, learning, physical and social and/or emotional challenges.

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Supported Work Experience at Martineau Gardens

Supported Work Experience at Martineau Gardens

With support from The Pixel Fund and several other charitable trusts and foundations, we are pleased to be able to continue providing supported work experience placements at Martineau Gardens for young people with a range of support needs. These young people are aged between 16 and 25, and their developmental differences, or exclusion from mainstream education, mean that they are often denied access to traditional work experience.

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Ignite Life

Ignite Life

At Ignite Life, we provide mental health support to disadvantaged and marginalised young people across the South West. We have three mental health services, with a new one launching in February 2024. All services aim to support those who too often slip through the net due to poverty and social disadvantage.

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Inclusive Swimming at BOSP

Inclusive Swimming at BOSP

Inclusive Swimming – BOSP Holiday Club provides hydrotherapy swimming opportunities to some of the most marginalised children and young people (CYP) with complex physical, learning disabilities and/or medical needs, who are unable to access mainstream pools in Basildon, Essex.

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Building happy and healthy relationships with LMK

Building happy and healthy relationships with LMK

Let Me Know (LMK) is an education charity working to prevent relationship abuse before it starts, giving young people the skills to avoid abuse and fill their lives with relationships that support them to be well and thrive. LMK achieves this through delivery of preventative workshops to young people aged 11-24 in schools and community settings.

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Interest Link Borders Befriending Project

Interest Link Borders Befriending Project

The grant will fund our Central Borders befriending project for children and young people with learning disabilities and autism aged 8-25. This will break down barriers with the community through volunteer befriending services that enrich members’ lives and give respite to their families.

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