SEESAW

To support the delivery of grief counselling in Oxfordshire to children and young people and their families when a close family member is dying or has died.?

Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province

Unrestricted core funding for small charities

SeeSaw received a Cost of Living Core Grant to help cover the cost of staff salaries.

Grief support for children and young people

The support we provide is tailored to the needs of each child or young person and much of this work is delivered by our team of VSWs. This grant will help fund our VSWs for 6 months. We have recently completed the recruitment and training process ....more

The support we provide is tailored to the needs of each child or young person and much of this work is delivered by our team of VSWs. This grant will help fund our VSWs for 6 months. We have recently completed the recruitment and training process for a new group of 10 VSWs, doubling our team working throughout Oxfordshire. By increasing our VSWs we are responding to the emerging needs of our beneficiaries, increasing our capacity to offer support at the crucial time of need, whilst keeping the overall increase in operating costs to a minimum. On average, the cost of providing support to a child is just £547. Our service is strengthened with the time our VSWs dedicate to working with bereaved children and their families and attending training and supervision. They are immensely skilled and knowledgeable, with lived experience or a background working with children and young people. SeeSaw invests time in the recruitment, training and supervision of our VSWs to ensure they are motivated to provide the best possible level of service whilst benefitting personally from the volunteer experience. This message from one of our new VSWs highlights this: “I feel so lucky to have been able to take part in your VSW Training Programme. The quality and content of your teaching was uniformly excellent, with a very good mix of theory and practical skills. It was clear that an enormous amount of thought and preparation had gone into the smooth presentation of every single session. You also managed to make the course really enjoyable, enabled us to learn from and support each other, and to form strong friendships and a cohesive group. I’ve attended many courses in almost 30 years as a GP in Oxford, and yours has definitely been the best learning experience I’ve had.”

Core Funding

The Golden Award was given to SeeSaw to help create new training and website content by young people for young people, affected by bereavement.

Fund their pre-bereavement service where a young child is coming to terms with knowing their parent or sibling will pass away soon.

Support of our running costs, specifically the ongoing adaptation of our clinical service delivery (because of the pandemic).

Core Funding

Towards bereavement support for children – COVID19 response

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Grant to SeeSaw

Towards the costs of its bereavement support service for children