Activities

Throughout this year, we have funded many activity projects that support children and young people’s mental health.

Living with a long-term health condition or managing a new diagnosis can be a challenge for anyone, but especially hard for children, so the projects we have funded aim to help them from diagnosis, through treatment and beyond.

Lara, parent

Using art and nature

Many young people struggling with their physical health can feel that their life is defined by hospital stays and outpatient’s appointments.

Being able to explore their feelings outside these environments, with other young people in similar situations, can help them feel more normal and less defined by their illness.

That’s why our Art Therapy and Woodland Wellbeing sessions have made such a difference to so many young people.

Lights and magic

We also funded a new specialist sensory room at Downs View school in Woodingdean, Brighton.

This space enables the pupils at the school, who all have a range of learning disabilities, to have a space that they can receive support away from the more structured classroom environment, offering a quiet place to reduce their anxiety and of course somewhere interactive and fun.