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Latest News
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The Pines just uploaded the new project Family fun days! (22 hours, 56 mins, 21 secs ago)
We currently provide short breaks for disabled young people in the Hertford area, but we’d love to do more – like bring them and their families on exciting activities and fun days. Fun days we’d like to take them on include go-karting, sailing, a day’s adventuring at Phasels Wood and the chance to get up close and personal with some wild animals! Read more »
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Short Breaks @ West Hyde just uploaded the new project Family fun days (22 hours, 56 mins, 23 secs ago)
We currently provide short breaks for disabled young people in the Rickmansworth area, but we’d love to do more – like bring them and their families on exciting activities and fun days. Fun days we’d like to take them on include go-karting, sailing, a day’s adventuring at Phasels Wood and the chance to get up close and personal with some wild animals! Read more »
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Penrith Drive Children's Centre just uploaded the new project Outdoor toys for our garden (22 hours, 56 mins, 25 secs ago)
We’d like to buy a variety of toys for our garden, including a double slide, trikes, natural toys such as logs and large pine cones, and two sit-on cars for the children to ride on! Read more »
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Bugbrooke Children's Centre just uploaded the new project Emergency childcare for families in need (22 hours, 56 mins, 29 secs ago)
We’d like to run an emergency childcare service for the local families who come to our Children’s Centre. Read more »
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A supporter has just donated £10.00 to An Interactive White Board. We want to help local families from disadvantaged backgrounds using state-of-the-art technology. (5 days, 1 hour, 51 mins, 8 secs ago)
Featured projects
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Bean bags and toys for the disabled children who come to visit
Our project offers respite breaks for disabled children and young people. We’d love to buy a wide range of age-appropriate toys for them to play with and bean bags for them to relax on! Read more »
£0.00 raised
£549.00 to go
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A wild day out at the zoo!
We’d like to take the foster children we work with on a day out to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol. They’ll be able to have a great day out and see loads of different animals – from giraffes to tarantulas! Read more »
£14.00 raised
£535.00 to go
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A Windy Day Box full of kites, streamers and wind chimes!
We’d like to buy a Windy Day Box, full of fun items that the children at our centre can use to have fun outside when it’s windy! Read more »
£0.00 raised
£219.60 to go
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Help local children to get artistic with a new easel!
We’d love to buy a three-sided easel for the children who visit us to use for their mark making. Three of the children will be able to use it at the same time, helping them to work together and learn through copying others. Read more »
£0.00 raised
£175.63 to go
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A fun-filled trip to Alton Towers for some Bradford care leavers!
First of all we’d like to say thank you to everyone who donated towards our Christmas bowling trip. The young people had such an amazing time – it really meant so much to all of them. Now we’d like to go one better, and take 25 of our care leavers on an exciting day out in a minibus to Alton Towers! Read more »
£30.00 raised
£1,162.43 to go
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Cooking lessons for young people on a budget
We’ve held cooking sessions for the young people we work with in the past, and they’ve always proved incredibly popular. These sessions promote healthy eating and demonstrate to the young people that it’s possible to cook and eat healthily on a budget. This money will provide cooking lessons for six young people, as well as the equipment they’ll need for the lessons. Read more »
£0.00 raised
£296.73 to go
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A reading club for the local children we work with and workshops for their parents
We’d like to set up a reading club at our centre where children can access a range of books, as well as engaging in arts and crafts and creative writing. We’d also like to hold some workshops for parents, where they can learn the best ways to support their children through reading at home. This money will pay for books, arts and crafts materials and the costs of the workshops, including a teacher. Read more »
£683.71 raised
£1,731.89 to go
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We’d like to send some of our most vulnerable families on a rare family holiday
Many of the families we work with have never been on holiday together. We’d like to send ten families on a short break. We’d do this once they’ve completed the support plan we’ve set together, and they’ve shown real progress in working towards a more positive future for their children. Read more »
£130.00 raised
£4,767.08 to go
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New toys and equipment for local disabled children to use when they come to visit us
We’d love to buy some new toys and equipment for our centre, including a trampoline, see-saw, physio ball, bath toys and bean bags, so the disabled children and young people we work with can a great time while they stay with us! Read more »
£0.00 raised
£1,317.60 to go
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Soup and sandwiches for our group sessions - help our young offenders to turn their lives around.
We run a group work programme for local offenders, to teach them new skills, help them to stop offending and change their lives for the better. We’d like to provide them with some soup and sandwiches. Many of our group members are homeless, and having something to eat will help them to focus on getting the most out of these sessions. Read more »
£22.00 raised
£1,049.18 to go
What we've achieved so far
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has been raised since we launched thanks to people like you.
94
projects have been successfully funded so far. Thank you!
1,513
gifts have been given across the UK through My Action for Children.