SENSE, THE NATIONAL DEAFBLIND AND RUBELLA ASSOCIATION

Refurbishment to create Hub in Belfast supporting people with complex disabilities

Sense Kinetic

This project will provide at least thirty physical activities, in at least sixteen community locations over twelve months. This will enable 30 unique young people with complex disabilities, between 11 and 18 years living in Cornwall to take part in ....more

This project will provide at least thirty physical activities, in at least sixteen community locations over twelve months. This will enable 30 unique young people with complex disabilities, between 11 and 18 years living in Cornwall to take part in a range of activities, with support from 20 volunteers and two specialist physical activities coordinators.

Funding will be used for a new national early intervention and play programme for children aged 0-8 with complex disabilities and their families. The project will be facilitated by expert practitioners and volunteers offering face-to-face and ....more

Funding will be used for a new national early intervention and play programme for children aged 0-8 with complex disabilities and their families. The project will be facilitated by expert practitioners and volunteers offering face-to-face and digital activities including sensory play sessions peer support for carers family days and workshops.

The Children’s Multi-Sensory Impairment Team at Sense team provides specialist support to young people up to the age of 25, who have a combination of hearing and sight loss, and their families. These young people need specialist help to ....more

The Children’s Multi-Sensory Impairment Team at Sense team provides specialist support to young people up to the age of 25, who have a combination of hearing and sight loss, and their families. These young people need specialist help to communicate, learn, and play, and their families need training and support too.

Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift

The project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with complex disabilities locally. It will combat loneliness and isolation.

This project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with disabilities and promote inclusion, celebrating their work in the community.

We will deliver professional music workshops, using technology to break barriers. It will focus on combating loneliness and isolation and mental wellbeing for people with complex disabilities.

This project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with disabilities and promote inclusion, celebrating their work in the community.

The project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with complex disabilities. It will combat loneliness and isolation in the region.

The project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with complex disabilities locally. It will combat loneliness and isolation.

The project will provide professional dance workshops promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with complex disabilities. It will combat loneliness and isolation.

The project will provide professional dance workshops, promoting positive mental and physical wellbeing for people with complex disabilities locally. It will combat loneliness and isolation.

Towards project costs for developing a model of local arts hubs as shared, inclusive places for disabled and non-disabled people to co-create artistic programmes for the whole community

Creation of a hub in Loughborough supporting people who are deafblind or have complex disabilities

Sense & National Trust Partnership : Internal Garden

Loughborough Hub

A new Sense Hub at Loughborough

Pears DCMS Volunteering Futures Fund

We would like to provide an inclusive arts programme to create opportunities and positive role models for people with complex disabilities locally, as well as to change attitudes towards disability.

We would like to provide an inclusive arts programme to create opportunities and positive role models for people with complex disabilities locally, as well as to change attitudes towards disability.

We would create an inclusive arts programme providing opportunities and positive role models for people with complex disabilities, and changing attitudes towards disability.

We would like to provide an inclusive arts programme to create opportunities and positive role models for people with complex disabilities locally, as well as to change attitudes towards disability.

WF Covid-19 Support Fund

This project will deliver online events and groups for children with sight or hearing impairments experiencing poor mental health and isolation due to Covid-19. This will result in improved skills and children being able to manage their emotions.

We plan to organise and run an activity holiday for deafblind children in the area.

"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."

Learning Hub at Disabled Children's Partnership

"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."

Funding under Sport England's Funded Partners funding programme for a Revenue project titled Specialist Partner Investment. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

Digital Arts and Wellbeing programme

Sense will bring specialist staff off furlough to support adults aged 18+ with complex disabilities. They will increase the number of beneficiaries able to access their day centre in Caerphilly. The centre provides opportunities for beneficiaries to ....more

Sense will bring specialist staff off furlough to support adults aged 18+ with complex disabilities. They will increase the number of beneficiaries able to access their day centre in Caerphilly. The centre provides opportunities for beneficiaries to learn develop their communication and living skills promote independence and develop social networks and friendships. The project will be providing IT and sensory packs for beneficiaries and an ongoing outreach support programme across South East Wales offered within people’s homes. Additional training and support will be offered to staff to enable them to deliver new virtual services. £99831 over six months will cover staff equipment PPE learning and development Bydd Sense yn dod â staff arbenigol yn ôl o ffyrlo i gefnogi oedolion 18+ oedd sydd ag anableddau cymhleth. Byddant yn cynyddu nifer y buddiolwyr a all gyrchu eu canolfan ddydd yng Nghaerffili. Mae'r ganolfan yn darparu cyfleoedd i fuddiolwyr ddysgu datblygu eu sgiliau cyfathrebu a byw hybu annibyniaeth a datblygu rhwydweithiau cymdeithasol a chyfeillgarwch. Bydd y prosiect yn darparu pecynnau TG a synhwyraidd i fuddiolwyr a chaiff rhaglen allgymorth barhaus ei chynnig ar draws de-ddwyrain Cymru mewn cartrefi pobl. Bydd hyfforddiant a chefnogaeth ychwanegol yn cael eu cynnig i staff i alluogi nhw i gyflwyno gwasanaethau rhithwir newydd. Bydd £99831 dros chwe mis yn talu am staff cyfarpar PPE dysgu a datblygu.

Core Costs

Sense will receive œ500,000 to support children and families and adults with complex disabilities. The funding will enable them to expand and scale up their Connect 4 Service which helps disabled people form social connections and includes buddying ....more

Sense will receive œ500,000 to support children and families and adults with complex disabilities. The funding will enable them to expand and scale up their Connect 4 Service which helps disabled people form social connections and includes buddying services, online activities for young carers, specialist virtual childcare and family sessions and activities sent through the post.

funding to selected disabilities charities for support in respect of COVID

To pair young blind and partially sighted peole with additional difficulties with a buddy who can help them take part in activities.

Funding under Sport England's Disability Investment funding programme for a Revenue project titled Specialist Partner Investment. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

To develop an inclusive programme of activities at TouchBase Pears

This project will offer children and young people, who have deafblindness, a week’s residential offering accessible activities. This activity will allow the beneficiaries to have fun, improve their confidence and communication, and make new ....more

This project will offer children and young people, who have deafblindness, a week’s residential offering accessible activities. This activity will allow the beneficiaries to have fun, improve their confidence and communication, and make new friends.

Expanding Sense College at TouchBase Pears, Selly Oak

Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sporting Sense. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

£154,000 over three years (£78,500, £55,500, £20,000) for 50% of the f/t Programme Development Manager in years 1 and 2 towards the running costs of the 'Amaze' programme supporting 105 young people aged 16 - 25 with complex sensory and ....more

£154,000 over three years (£78,500, £55,500, £20,000) for 50% of the f/t Programme Development Manager in years 1 and 2 towards the running costs of the 'Amaze' programme supporting 105 young people aged 16 - 25 with complex sensory and communication needs to transition towards adulthood.The grant in years 2 and 3 is conditional on sufficient funds being raised to make the initiative viable.

Community liaison and marketing capacity at TouchBase Pears

This project will run a facility where the community interacts with disabled people – supporting and learning from each other. The facility will provide opportunities for people to meet, develop and take part in community activities, ....more

This project will run a facility where the community interacts with disabled people – supporting and learning from each other. The facility will provide opportunities for people to meet, develop and take part in community activities, improving their health and wellbeing.

Music is a vibration

Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Get Active in Cambridge. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

This project will provide support for deafblind children and young people. They will increase their ability to communicate, increase their independence, and be better able to express their wishes and make choices about the services they want to use.

Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Sporting Sense'. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sporting Sense. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

Sense Touchbase Barnet sensory garden

‘Touching Lives - Transforming Families’ is a five-year project for families across NI with a child aged 12 or under where the child or a parent is affected by a deafblind or multi-sensory impairment. Services offered include support to ....more

‘Touching Lives - Transforming Families’ is a five-year project for families across NI with a child aged 12 or under where the child or a parent is affected by a deafblind or multi-sensory impairment. Services offered include support to ensure the family receive a correct diagnosis, 1:1 work with a child and parent, techniques for interaction and ideas to support learning, home visits to assess individual and family needs and tailored support packages. Sense is working with the five HSCTs on the project.

New Sense centre in Selly Oak, Birmingham

Towards the salary of the head of arts and wellbeing to develop programmes and strategies to increase access to the arts for people who are deafblind.

Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Deafblind Active'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.

Sense will provide tailored support for 50 deafblind/multi-sensory impaired (MSI) young people aged of 14-25 across South-East Wales. Using peer support, residential programmes, activities and an information bank it will help them to develop new ....more

Sense will provide tailored support for 50 deafblind/multi-sensory impaired (MSI) young people aged of 14-25 across South-East Wales. Using peer support, residential programmes, activities and an information bank it will help them to develop new relationships and acquire self advocacy, decision and fact finding skills to better understand and influence information about their care. This will help improve their resilience, self-confidence and independence during their transition to adulthood.