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.

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.

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.

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.

MS Pioneer - Cutting edge research to Stop MS

MS Pioneer - Cutting edge research to Stop MS

In the last decade MS research has accelerated at pace, giving hope to those affected. Twenty years ago there were very limited treatment options, but now there are over a dozen licensed treatments that can reduce the severity and frequency of MS relapses and undoubtedly, the MS Society has been at the forefront of many of these breakthroughs.

Freedom from Torture

Freedom from Torture

In October 2019, Freedom from Torture received a grant of £5,000 from the Pixel Fund. We used this grant to help provide a range of services for 107 children and young people who have been affected by torture. The grant helped us to provide: family therapy, individual psychological therapy, therapy groups, and social work.

York Mind

York Mind

In the last 12 months since receiving the funding from the pixel fund, York Mind have supported 183 young people in the Choose Your Way Project, and 158 young people in Young People’s Counselling. The funding has supported us to offer this provision, allowing young people aged between 8-25 within York to access a range of options of mental health support. These options included peer support groups, art & life skills groups, and one-to-one mentoring and counselling.

Delivering improvements to My CAMHS Choices - Update

Delivering improvements to My CAMHS Choices - Update

The generous grant awarded to the Centre from The Pixel Fund has enabled us to develop this website from an idea into a reality. The website – On My Mind – has an emphasis on reaching those who are thinking about looking for support, who may already be receiving or waiting to receive support or those who require help and information about self-managing their own wellbeing, perhaps because ‘traditional’ offers either do not appeal or have not previously worked.

Project Update - The preclinical development and evaluation of a vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis and sepsis

Project Update - The preclinical development and evaluation of a vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis and sepsis

The Pixel Fund has generously donated £10,000 over three years towards Meningitis Now’s research project being carried out at the University of Liverpool.

The project may sound complicated – ‘The preclinical development and evaluation of a vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis and sepsis’ – but essentially the team are seeking to create a more effective vaccine to protect against pneumococcal meningitis, a life-threatening form of bacterial meningitis.

Bobath Scotland Update

Bobath Scotland Update

Since 2013 Bobath Scotland has had a successful partnership with the Pixel Fund. Receiving a total of £19,000 over the past 6 years Bobath Scotland has been able to provide therapy to hundreds of children from across Scotland living with cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in children. 1 in 450 children are diagnosed with CP and it can affect every aspect of daily life for them, and their parents and siblings. Many children with CP will never walk or talk, for others their condition may be mild but problems with balance can mean falling over in the playground more often than their peers or difficulty getting around school each day. No two people experience this incurable condition in the same way.

Music therapy for people living with Huntington’s Disease

Music therapy for people living with Huntington’s Disease

The Pixel Fund has generously supported music therapy for people living with Huntington’s Disease at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Huntington’s Disease is an inherited, degenerative, neurological condition which causes damage to nerve cells in the brain and can affect movement, cognition (perception, awareness, thinking, judgement) and behaviour. There is no cure for Huntington’s Disease however recent research at the RHN has focused on the potential of therapies such as music therapy and therapeutic gardening to help maintain cognitive skills and to improve emotional wellbeing.

YoungMinds Northern Hub

YoungMinds Northern Hub

The Pixel Fund is generously donating towards our Northern Hub project. The Northern Hub is a response to the continued increase in demand for YoungMinds services nationwide. Although our remit is UK-wide, our head office is based in London. Due to travel times and costs, we have limited delivery outside London and theSouth East, with work we have delivered usually being on an ad-hoc basis through temporary contracts. Pixel are helping us reach communities in need in the North of England.

Meningitis Research Foundation - Pushing the Boundaries

Meningitis Research Foundation - Pushing the Boundaries

Meningitis is a devastating disease – one in ten people who contract bacterial meningitis will die and many more are left with life changing after effects. The Pixel Fund has supported a ground breaking research project to investigate why some people are more susceptible than others to meningitis by comparing the genetic blueprint of patients with meningococcal disease alongside the genetic blueprint of the particular bacterium that cause their illness.