For a while now we have faced a bit of a conundrum: how to provide the support that children and families need when they approach us, or when schools approach us on their behalf, when we have no funding to provide it.
Up until now we have signposted to other organisations or scrambled around to find pots of funding which match their needs. This all takes time, which for some families is exactly the problem…all the time they are waiting, things are getting worse.
So – we decided that what we need is a funding pot which can be flexible enough to offer different types of support depending on what a family needs – it might be counselling, or play therapy, or parenting support, or a group resilience building programme.
We’ve called it our Inhale/Exhale Fund, and we have received initial funding from several fantastic groups and organisations.
It’s a small start, and we won’t be able to support everyone’s needs yet, but we really hope it will grow and grow…🦚
If you’d like to support this fund, please donate to the amazing swim relay group who are swimming the distance of TWO channel crossings in aid of Family Compass on the 8th of August:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/swimthechannelandbackagainhttps://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/swimthechannelandbackagain