Grants 2021
Unique - Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group
We provided funding of £10,000 to be used on their 'Genomic Jargon Buster' project, a new service for families using dynamic, digital content to de-mystify complex terminology, helping them better understand their child's diagnosis.
Whirlow Hall Farm Trust
We provided funding of £10,000 to support their educational programmes Whirlow LIFE for children age 5 - 16 and young people age 16 - 25yrs with disabilities and learning difficulties.
St Augustine's Community Care Trust - known as Homelink Day Respite Care Centre
We provided funding of £6,915 to increase activities involving external entertainers so that their clients can begin to mix again with others in a light-hearted way, following such a long period of isolation.
Prospect Hospice
We provided funding of £10,000 to replace their ageing aid call system so that staff can support patient safety when they are called to respond to their urgent needs.
Action Through Enterprise
We provided funding of £9,984 to promotes inclusion through support groups, a playscheme, access to healthcare, education and income generation for marginalised disabled children and their families in rural Ghana.
Riverside Counselling Service
We provided funding of £10,000 to help fund their core work of providing 1:1 counselling to support the mental health and well-being of vulnerable adults and young people.
Wiltshire Treehouse
We provided funding of £10,000 for the provision of bereavement support to children and young people within Swindon & Wiltshire.
Swindon Women's Aid
We provided funding of £10,000 to fund an Independent Domestic Violence Advisor that was put in place during COVID due to increase in demand. We would like to continue to fund this post.
The Grand Appeal (Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation)
We provided funding of £10,000 to support babies, children and young adults with additional needs at Bristol Children's Hospital with a grant towards the hospital's Sensory Play Programme.
Purple Community Fund
We provided funding of £10,000 for PCF students' college and university tuition fees. This is their final hurdle; despite the extreme poverty they face daily they've successfully completed their school education.
Inner Flame
We provided funding of £10,000 to support the salary costs for their Team Programme.
Dressability
We provided funding of £7,619 to employ a sewing team leader to grow and develop their service.
Rowan Humberstone Ltd
We provided funding of £10,000 to contribute towards staff costs incurred in running creative workshops in Wood, ceramics, Textiles, Print, Mixed Media, Music and Drama.
North London Hospice
We provided funding of £10,000 to support the Out of Hours Service which allows expert palliative care to be accessed 24/7 by patients, their families and health and social care providers in the local area.
Wessex Children's Hospice Trust
We provided funding of £5,000 to financially support the work of Naomi House & Jacksplace. To assist us in the delivery of care and support to seriously ill children, young people.
The Change Foundation
We provided funding of £10,000 to set up a national network of visually impaired rugby clubs and the first national visually impaired rugby competition for children and young adults in partnership with the 12 Premiership rugby clubs
Accuro (care services)
We provided funding of £10,000 towards direct project staff salaries and transport costs to run our School holiday project from Oct 2021 - Sept 2022 supporting up to 70 children and young people with disabilities in West Essex
St Barnabas Hospices (Sussex) Ltd
We provided funding of £10,000 to support Covid-safe activity days which enable families to enjoy a day of activities at the hospice, improving their wellbeing in a secure environment.
Forget Me Not Children's Hospice
We provided funding of £10,000 to cover Perinatal Nurse Staff Costs - ensuring babies and children have support at every stage of their life alongside their families.
The Steve Sinnott Foundation
We provided funding of £10,000 to support the Positive Periods Programme enabling socially disadvantaged girls across the world to learn about menstrual health, gender equality, making reusable, sustainable sanitary pads to attend school every day.
Wiltshire Search and Rescue
We provided funding of £10,000 to replace our ageing Incident Control Vehicle - to both guarantee reliability, and to house the very latest technology within a bespoke interior.
Aching Arms
We provided funding of £10,000 to cover the operational costs of getting comfort bears to hospitals for a 12 month period.
Goals Beyond Grass
We provided funding of £10,000 towards the Sports Development Manager's salary, who is responsible for planning, managing, and all sports delivery within the charity, with a key focus on developing current and future projects.
Swings & Smiles
We provided funding of £10,000 to purchase a wheelchair accessible roundabout for our inclusive outdoor playground.
Over The Wall
We provided funding of £5,000 to enable Over The Wall to adapt services for children with serious illness and their families, by delivering a remote, online, version of camp in 2021.
Holding On Letting Go
We provided funding of £10,000 to part fund the parent/carer service which complements the work of Holding On Letting Go with bereaved children and young people.
Pimlico Musical Foundation (PMF)
We provided funding of £10,000 to cover a full year of the Foundation Scholar programme for 4 particularly disadvantaged students. This would cover all tuition, staff costs, travel, food, concert costs, one-to-one instrumental lessons and trips.
Hollybank Trust
We provided funding of £3,000 to purchase a large number of iPads to facilitate greater communication between the children, young people and adults who live with us and their families.
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity
We provided funding of £10,000 to establish a new Roald Dahl Transition Specialist Nurse for East Sussex supporting 96 young people living with complex neurodisabilities.
Mosaic 1898
We provided funding of £10,000 to create opportunities for disadvantaged and disabled children in Leicestershire to break the cycle of poverty and social deprivation through education.
Lifespace Trust
We provided funding of £9,298 to contribute towards the costs of Lifespace's commitment to early intervention in Warwickshire's primary schools, working with children aged 8-11 including transition work into Y7 at secondary schools.
The Grace Eyre Foundation
We provided funding of £10,000 to contribute to Active Lives' employment project, Let's Work Together. Supporting adults with learning disabilities to gain valuable work experience and skills training to increase their employment opportunities.
Sutton Mental Health Foundation Charity Company
We provided funding of £8,728 to run a Covid inspired peer to peer support group for mums with a pre-existing mental health condition who have had a baby during the pandemic, working with Homestart Sutton.
Northampton Saints Foundation
We provided funding of £10,000 to cover core costs for the Social Inclusion Engage, Engage+ and Hitz Programmes, currently supporting 117 students aged 10 - 18 who have struggled in, or excluded from mainstream education.
St Nicholas World Development Group
We provided funding of £10,000 to ensure the continued education of 140 disenfranchised children at the Feed My Lamb School in Uganda and offer them vocational skills to support themselves in the future.
Royal Star & Garter
We provided funding of £5,000 towards dementia care in the Surbiton Home supporting resident's health and wellbeing.
Age Concern Hampshire
We provided funding of £5,000 towards the Wellbeing Project to support the health and wellbeing of people aged 50+ throughout the pandemic and thereafter.
Swindon MS & Neuro Therapy Centre
We provided funding of £10,000 to contribute to Lead Neuro Physiotherapist salary costs to provide people with neurological conditions specialist exercise classes, physiotherapy technical advice and treatment plans and access to physio-assisted gym.
Leonard Cheshire
We provided funding of £10,000 to sustain and support the continuation of the inclusive cycling scheme ‘Gloucestershire Wheels For All’ during 2021/22.
Blue Smile
We provided funding of £10,000 to support expert arts based therapy and mentoring provision in Partner Schools, where we provide teams of therapists to support up to 20-25 children each year.
Love 146
We provided funding of £10,000 to support the cost of the salary for of a care support worker for those who have moved on to independence but remain emotionally vulnerable and will benefit from counselling or practical advice.
The Ickle Pickles Children's Charity
We provided funding of £10,000 to support the funding of a Fabian Therapy Evolution CPAP machine to provide high flow oxygen to extremely premature babies and help support core costs to part fund a salary.
SMASH Youth Project
We provided funding of £5,000 to provide one year’s rent to meet an emerging Post-COVID need of a space for wellbeing support for young people and volunteer training. This space will be transformed from an office to a wellbeing hub.
FOCUS Charity
We provided funding of £10,000 to cover the costs required to provide one-to-one mentoring support to at least 70 young people in the next year through The Youth Mentoring Programme.
Youth Adventure Trust
We have provided funding of £5,000 to support 7 or 8 young people from Swindon on Year 2 of the YAT programme, which includes per young person: a 6-day Forest camp and 2 Activity Days.
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
We have provided funding of £9,600 to support the successful training and placing of three hearing dogs with severely or profoundly deaf children.
The Churn Project
We provided £9,440 to support the funding of the weekly Families Matters Group for vulnerable parents and their pre-school children.
Youth Adventure Trust
We provided £5,000 to support young people from Swindon on their second year of the Youth Adventure Programme which includes a six-day Forest camp and two activity days.