From September 2021, over a period of three years, we have been awarded £48,914 from The National Lottery.
This grant will fund the DS Achieve Little Achievers programme for babies and children with Down Syndrome, aged 0 -5 and their families, until September 2024.
Each year, families who attend Little Achievers benefit from sessions with specialised professionals, and in addition parents and carers receive peer and professional support to build resilience and receive advice and ideas for activities to do at home to support their child’s development.
We are delighted that we can continue to offer this programme to families with babies or early years children with Down Syndrome with certainty thanks to this very generous grant funding. THANK YOU, The National Lottery!
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From October 2021, for a period of three years, we have been awarded £29,865 from BBC Children in Need.
This grant will fund the DS Achieve Young Achievers programme until September 2024, giving stability and huge opportunity to the service to enable school age children with Down Syndrome to develop their social skills in a safe, supported environment.
We are incredibly happy that we will be able to offer this service to children and young people with Down Syndrome for years to come! A BIG thank you to BBC Children in Need for the support!
grumpy givers
We had a wonderful surprise in September 2021! We received a very generous donation from a group called Grumpy Givers. We understand that the group wishes to remain anonymous and we want to respect that. However, we wish to say a big THANK YOU to those involved for their generosity.
We are delighted to have received generous grant funding from Postcode Places Trust. This grant runs from December 2021 to December 2022.
Postcode Places Trust is a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. Our organisation received £14,700 from the Trust towards the core costs of running our charity, including IT, salaries, and insurance.
While we work hard to keep our core costs low, we couldn’t deliver the many services we provide to families without our central team and infrastructure, and we are very grateful to Postcode Places Trust for their award. THANK YOU!
DS Achieve is delighted to be one of three organisations partnering with Hertfordshire Libraries to deliver their brand new Youth Volunteer programme 'My Voice'.
'My Voice' is a two-year project, generously funded by Arts Council England, which will provide opportunities for young people aged 14-24 years old to join the Hertfordshire Libraries youth volunteer network in libraries across the county. The three partner organisations are The OLLIE Foundation, Herts Sports Partnership and DS Achieve. For DS Achieve, this funding runs from November 2022 until April 2024.
Thank you, Arts Council England! And to Hertfordshire Libraries - we are excited about what we can deliver together.
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In December 2022, we were grateful to receive £300 from the Community Festive Grant at Hertfordshire County Council towards the cost of our festive family social event.
Grumpy Givers
In January 2023, we were delighted to receive another very generous donation from the group called Grumpy Givers. The group wishes to remain anonymous and we want to respect that. However, we wish to say a big THANK YOU to those involved for their generosity.
tesco stronger starts
We are delighted to have received £1000 of grant funding from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme. This grant will help to fund the DS Achieve Resources into Homes service until September 2024.
Our Resources into Homes service is for families with early years children with Down Syndrome who are not yet attending an education setting. It involves direct training to parents from a specialist teacher on how to use a specialist resource to enable their child to achieve maximum progression with their learning at this early stage. The specialist teacher will identify the next step in learning for the individual child and advise on which resource is most appropriate to help the child move forward with their development.
Tesco has introduced a £5m grant programme, in partnership with Groundwork UK, to give children across the UK a stronger start in life.
We’re delighted that we can continue to empower parents and help children with Down Syndrome fulfil their potential via Resources into Homes. Thank you Tesco Stronger Starts!
