The Children’s Foundation Regional Small Grants programme supports community projects that benefit children and young people in the North East area in line with our aims and objectives. Grants awarded are up to a maximum of £1,000. Recent award winners have included: Sunderland Gateway were awarded £1,000 which will allow the group to purcahse new [...]
The Children’s Foundation continue to support the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust by fundraising for the new Great North Children’s Hospital. The hospital is now open, but we are still raising money to provide new high-tech facilities which will help to make the environment inside as comfortable and stress free as possible for the [...]
Video games have been shown to be highly motivating and enjoyable for children with cerebral palsy. A well designed video game has been shown to provide all elements required for effective motor learning, namely interactivity, repetition, multi-sensory stimulation, immediate feedback and motivation. Thanks to The Children’s Foundation and a grant this pioneering new therapy has [...]
The Whoops! Child Safety Project, our flagship partnership project, has delivered unique training packages to health professionals, parents, carers and children since March 2000. The project offers groundbreaking safety initiatives and hard hitting visual resources to back up their training sessions. Their aims are: To raise awareness of the dangers To promote behavioural change To [...]
The Children’s Foundation are aware that there is a vital need within the North East to provide interventions in areas of child health that are currently under represented. Therefore, one of our main focuses for 2011 is to work towards improving the mental health of children & young people, making small but effective improvements at [...]
The Children’s Foundation will be holding their Annual Stars Awards, on the 27th September 2011, at the Northern Football Club, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. The awards aim to recognise the achievements of children in the North East with a disability, their friends and families, the challenges they face on a daily basis, reward their accomplishments [...]
Our parenting newsletter provides parents with a step by step insight into how their baby grows emotionally and physically, gives them guidance on the way their baby thinks and basic parenting advice. The newsletters have been very well received by parents and analysis has shown that it has made a significant difference to maternal wellbeing [...]
The last grant round was held in March 2008 with the following grants being made: Project Name of Project leader/team Start Date Host Institute Amount awarded Neuro-developmental outcomes of twins with different birth weights Dr Ravi Swamy & Dr Nicholas Embleton Neonatology, Ward 35, Royal Victoria Infirmary Began in January 2008 Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals [...]
Allison Baker, founded the Cerebral Palsy Research Fund in partnership with The Children’s Foundation in 2005 and sine then Alison has worked tirelessly with friends and family members to raise almost £10,000. This year £2,500 has been raised from a variety of activities including a ‘Stars in Their Eyes’ event. Alison’s son, Colin Scott was [...]
