Children Today Charitable Trust

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new initiative following the success of our inclusive storytelling sessions, "Accessible Authors," which engaged over 5,500 young people earlier this year. Our mission is to raise awareness of disability and neurodiversity among young people across the UK, and we're eager to expand this project even further. 📚 Why This Matters: In the UK, there are over 351,000 children with a learning disability, 15-20% of children are neurodivergent, and 11% have a physical disability. Despite some progress, only 3.4% of children's books feature a disabled main character. We believe it's crucial for all children to see disabled and neurodivergent characters in the stories they read. This fosters inclusion, representation, and understanding from an early age. 🤝 How You Can Help: We have a fantastic opportunity to double any funds we raise through match funding from the Cheshire West Community Innovation Fund! Although this funding is Cheshire-based, our project will benefit young children across the entire UK. 🚀 Our Crowdfunding Campaign: Our campaign is live until October 15th, and we need a minimum of 20 backers by September 9th! You can support us in several ways: 👍 LIKE our project ✅ FOLLOW our project 💰 BACK our project – even £1 makes a difference and counts toward our 20 backers! 💛 SHARE this project – spread the word to friends, family, and colleagues Together, we can create a more inclusive and understanding world for our children. Thank you for your support! 📖❤️ #InclusiveEducation #DisabilityAwareness #Neurodiversity #SupportOurKids #Crowdfunding

We’re on the final push to raise the remaining funds for Reading for Life’ – an amazing project that will bring stories that embrace positive messaging about disability, celebrate our differences and encourage inclusivity to our children's classrooms 📚 We’ve already raised 79% of the funds and we need some help to raise the last £2,416 by our target deadline of 30th October! If we don’t meet the target unfortunately, we could lose all the funds raised so far! If you're passionate about inspiring young readers and want to help create a more inclusive and understanding world for our children, PLEASE consider making a donation today and spread the word to others who may want to show their support. Every penny and pound makes a difference 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSicjf3U Thank you 💛

Well done to the R&G Team for completing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks last weekend🏔️🏔️🏔️ An awesome team effort and an incredible achievement by everyone involved 💪 Not to mention an amazing amount raised to help support disabled children and young adults. Over £4,000 (including gift aid) and counting! 🙌 To put this into perspective, £4,000 could help us provide up to 4 adapted trikes to help transform the lives of 4 children, who are unable to ride regular bikes, and their families by giving them more freedom to get out and about 🤩 In the words of Filip's mum, Gabriela, this is what it means to them: “I can’t even put into words how happy Filip is since getting this trike. He’s like a different child. We knew that the trike would be great for his physical development, but seeing how much joy and happiness it has brought him as well is amazing. “The pandemic and lockdowns really affected Filip’s mental health and confidence. But since he’s had the trike he’s so much happier and becoming more independent. He’s the smiling, chatty Filip we know and love again." So THANK YOU Team R&G! Your efforts will help #ChangeLives 💛

Huge thanks to Harry, Dan and the rest of the Associated Telecom team for their fundraising efforts in aid of Children Today! Over £200 raised and counting 🙌 Fundraising events like these make a big difference to small charities like Children Today and help us to continue to support disabled children and their families with vital support and life-changing equipment. You can still make a donation to their Just Giving page here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eVEVV2-q Or if you want to take on your own fundraising challenge get in touch and we'll be happy to help - fundraising@childrentoday.org.uk

📣 Amazing news! Today we found out that Cheshire West and Chester Council has pledged £5000 towards our Spacehive crowdfunding campaign for 'Reading for Life' 🙌 We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has already donated, including local councillors Lynne Gibbon and Gareth Gould 💛 Thanks to your donations we're now MORE THAN HALF WAY to reaching our target to deliver this incredible project bringing stories that embrace positive messaging about disability, celebrate our differences and encourage inclusivity to our children's classrooms. If you're passionate about inspiring young readers and want to help create a more inclusive and understanding world for our children, please consider making a pledge today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d9ympZ7v #ChildrensCharity #DisabilityCharity #CheshireWestCrowd #Crowdfunding #ReadingForLife

We did it! 🙌 On Sunday we took part in the Chester Business Club's annual charity walk. We slightly underestimated how challenging 6 (apparently more like 7!!) miles in the rain, mud and puddles would be for our youngest team members (aged 4, 7 and 7) 🫢 7 miles and 4 hours without a single complaint from any of them. To say we're proud is an understatement! ⭐💫🌟 When we arrived at the Chester Racecourse to collect their certificates from Chester Business Club we were asked, "Is anyone behind you? Were you on the short route?" WAIT! WHAT?! There's a short route? The kids' response..."Well, we did it properly. We didn't take the short cut!" 💪 If that doesn't deserve a donation or 2, I don't know what does! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ecQxXtp6

We're looking forward to taking part in @ChesterBusinessClub's annual charity walk this weekend 🚶♀️💛🚶♀️ Emma Prescott, Lexi Heselwood, Sharon Cotterill and their families will be setting off from Chester Racecourse on Sunday to raise funds to help support disabled children and young adults with specialist equipment, like adapted trikes, wheelchair powerpacks and sensory equipment! Now it might not be the longest or most challenging charity walk we've ever taken part in. But (and it's a big but) 6 miles with our young children (ages 4, 7 and 7) and teenagers potentially in the rain may well be one of the biggest (or foolish 🤔) challenges we've undertaken! Fingers crossed this weather improves 🤞 Wish us luck! And if you'd like to show your support and make a donation we'd be very grateful! Thank you 💛 Check out our fundraising page ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ecQxXtp6

Happy International Day of Charity 💛 We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who supports Children Today today and every day. Whether you donate your time, talent or treasure or a little bit of all of these, we're really appreciate it, as do the thousands of children and families we've supported over the last 30 years! Without YOU - our wonderful donors, doers and volunteers - we wouldn't be able to help change lives and help families create lasting memories. So, from everyone at Children Today, THANK YOU 🫶 #InternationalDayOfCharity #ChildrensCharity #DisabilityCharity #ChangingLives #MakingMemories

We had the honour of being invited to @ChesterBusinessClub's AGM this week! It was a lovely evening and wonderful to get to meet some of the CBC members. Great company and fabulous food! We're looking forward to joining CBC members on the charity walk in September as we celebrate our 30th anniversary 💛

Big thanks to Associated Telecom for choosing Children Today as it's chairty of the year! 💛 If you're local to Telford, why not pop into their office on Monday for some tasty treats? 👇