Stories
Stories of charities helped by BWCF.
Project Harar
Project Harar arranges treatment for children with facial disabilities in rural eastern Ethiopia. There are few roads, fewer buses and just one doctor for every 70,000 people. For brothers like Obsa and Numibian (pictured), getting treatment for their cleft lip and palate was almost impossible. Living some 500 kilometres away...
React - Rapid Effective Assistance for Children with Potentially Terminal illness
React is a charity that provides essential equipment and assistance to terminally ill children cared for by financially disadvantaged families. React considers requests for anything regarded as a 'basic, essential need' by medical professionals working with the child. This can be specially adapted Medical or Mobility Equipment, Educational and Developmental...
Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club
Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club caters for mentally disabled children and children with learning difficulties, and takes groups of children for cycle rides every weekend.With much needed grants from the BWCF during 2007 through 2009, they were able to purchase 4 'wheelchair tandems' that enable children with mental disabilities to...
Ruddi's Retreat
Ruddi's Retreat is a small charity that provides respite holidays at one of 3 caravans based at Primrose Valley, Filey for children and their families living with cancer, life limiting illness, or bereavement. In many cases when such a child comes out of active treatment in hospital the after effects...
S.A.L.V.E.
S.A.L.V.E. is a small, registered UK and Ugandan Charity working to reduce the number of children living on the streets of Jinja, Uganda through education. In Jinja, there are an estimated 200–300 young people living and working on the street facing a number of human rights abuses on a daily...
SASBAH
Founded in 1965, SASBAH supports people of all ages in Sussex with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, conditions which pose life-long challenges. Originally a parent support group, SASBAH quickly came to focus on creating and developing the best opportunities in life for those with the conditions, while not forgetting the...
Sebastian's Action Trust
Sebastian's Action Trust is a registered charity providing respite holidays and ongoing practical support to seriously-ill children and their families. The children and adolescents they support battle with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.The Trust runs the UK's only purpose-built respite holiday house for seriously-ill children and their families. The house, which...
SELFA
Skipton Extended Learning for All (SELFA) is a local charity supporting vulnerable, disadvantaged and disabled children and young people in Skipton and Craven. The Charity was founded in 2007 to offer out of school enrichment opportunities. Over the years SELFA has grown and last year helped more than...
Sickle Cell Society
Over 17,500 people in the UK have Sickle Cell Disorder and each year around 300 babies in the UK are born with it. Children with SCD are at always at a risk of stroke, especially between the ages of 2 and 16 and they experience many lengthy hospitalisations and emergency visits....
Sunny Days Children's Fund
Sunny Days Children's Fund was founded in 2006 and provides respite breaks, small grants for those who are in need of financial help, and family support for children who have a wide range of medical conditions including Leukaemia, Cerebral Palsy, the deaf and blind, terminal illnesses and a variety of...