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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Home-Start Winchester & Districts

Home-Start Winchester & Districts

Working in Winchester and its surrounding area, Home-Start Winchester & Districts provides trained volunteers to support parents (with one child under five years old) who are facing challenges. They provide non-judgemental assistance, friendship, emotional help and practical support for families going through challenging times.

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Our Time Charity

Our Time Charity

We’re thrilled that the Pixel Fund has awarded Our Time a grant to support the second tour of My Mad Mum—our powerful, engaging theatre production that shines a light on the experiences of children living with a parent who has a mental illness.

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Centre for ADHD and Autism Support

Centre for ADHD and Autism Support

Neurodivergent young people are disadvantaged and stigmatised daily, with many diagnosed with anxiety or depression. A lack of understanding of their needs and busy, overwhelming sensory environments means many neurodivergent young people find school, including friendships, confusing and complicated.

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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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Daisy's Dream

Daisy's Dream

We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the Pixel Fund to allow us to continue running art groups for bereaved children and young people. 1 in 29 children will be bereaved of a parent or sibling by the time they are 16 years old and the impact can be hard. The emotional and physical toll of bereavement can be devastating for children.

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Mind: Providing Trauma-Informed Support for Young Women, Girls, and Non-Binary People

Mind: Providing Trauma-Informed Support for Young Women, Girls, and Non-Binary People

We are Mind, the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. Since 1946, we’ve stood side-by-side with people with mental health problems. Together we’ve pushed relentlessly for understanding, support, respect and an end to stigma and discrimination. Through our network of over 100 local Minds, we deliver 900 different services, such as counselling, art/music therapy, crisis care, and welfare advice to 330,000 people every year.

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SASBAH

SASBAH

SASBAH is pleased to receive a generous gift from the Pixel Fund in support of Bourne Free, our highly popular, weekly club supporting over 60 younger people affected by physical and learning disabilities.

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My Brain: My Mental Health Project - encephalitis International

My Brain: My Mental Health Project - encephalitis International

Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) is a thief. Caused by either an infection or the immune system attacking the brain in error, as many as 4 in 10 people depending on the cause of encephalitis will sadly not survive the condition, even with treatment. Even in those families where the person survives, it robs them of the person they once knew often leaving people with life-changing problems.

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JIGSAW Thornbury

JIGSAW Thornbury

JIGSAW Thornbury is a charity based in South Gloucestershire that works with children and young people aged 0-25 with additional needs or disabilities, and their families. Everyone can join in, with or without a diagnosis. We provide friendship, support, compassion and fun, along with innovative services that empower the while family to connect, fit in and thrive.

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Young Roots

Young Roots

Young Roots has a 20-year track record, providing impactful support, advice, advocacy and youth development activities for young refugees and asylum seekers (aged 11-25yrs) in our hubs and clubs across London. Young Roots is delighted to receive the very generous donation of £7,500 from the Pixel Fund.

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Tor Support Services

Tor Support Services

Tor Support Services provides free, confidential counselling and psychotherapy services for 5 – 25-year-olds who live in and around Okehampton in Devon. The charity has been offering this service since 2009. Clients are local children and young people who are referred to Tor Support Services with a wide range of issues including anxiety and depression, bereavement or parental separation, behavioural problems, substance abuse and self-harm.

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AT The Bus: Supporting Children and Young People's Wellbeing through art as therapy.

AT The Bus: Supporting Children and Young People's Wellbeing through art as therapy.

Responding to an escalating crisis in children and young people’s mental health, The Pixel Fund is helping at AT The Bus deliver small group art as therapy sessions to students aged 11 - 16 attending Greyfriars School, Cowley in Oxford.  

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Dandelion Time

Dandelion Time

Dandelion Time is delighted to have been awarded a £4,000 grant from the Pixel Trust. This grant will go towards Dandelion Times Family Support Programme. Dandelion Time offers help to children with very challenging emotional issues, often resulting from trauma, violence or serious health difficulties in the family.

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