Charities Supported By Charlotte Grobien and Give It Away

The beneficiaries of the profits from Give it Away Limited will be focused on registered Charities dedicated to the help and support of children and young people in need.

Small Steps – a pre-school totally charity funded operation attached to Greenmead Primary school in Putney, providing the only environment for severely disabled children from 0 years to 5 years and their parents, in West London with a place to learn how to cope with their special needs. Give it Away will be able to provide additional teaching staff and much needed amenities.

Whizz- Kidz – providing customised mobility equipment for disabled children to give them the freedom to live their lives to the full.
Give it Away will be able to purchase a number of customised chairs for children currently on waiting lists.

React provides quick and practical assistance to improve the quality of life for children with life limiting illnesses living in financially disadvantaged families throughout the UK. Give it Away will help us provide more children and their families with the vital support they need; from domestic or specialist medical equipment to play equipment for stimulation, or even a much need break in one of our mobile homes in seaside
locations around the UK.

Fairbridge – nationwide charitable organisation who provide support to youngsters facing educational or social exclusion across the country. They provide, support, counseling, drug therapy, mentors and life skills for employment and further learning opportunities. Give it Away supports the two London Centres at Kennington and Hackney, funding projects designed to engage young people in active meaningful life experiences. From 13 to 25 years age group.

Polka Theatre is one of the few venues in the UK which is dedicated exclusively to producing and presenting high quality theatre for young audiences. Since our doors opened in 1979, this unique venue has offered children a first taste of the thrilling, challenging and inspiring world of theatre.

Ambitious about Autism is the national charity for children and young people with autism. We provide services, raise awareness and understanding, and influence policy. We exist to enable children with autism to learn, thrive and achieve. Through TreeHouse School we provide specialist education. Our ambition is to make the ordinary possible for more children and young people with autism.  Give It Away funded the library in TreeHouse School which is based in the Pears National Centre for Autism Education in Muswell Hill.

South London Actionnaires is a multi-activity club for blind and partially sighted children based in Tooting, South London.  Set up and run by national charity Action for Blind People the club gives visually impaired children the chance to try out sports in a safe and supportive environment. The impact of the club is huge, as it gives children who have been excluded from mainstream activities and sport, the chance to build self esteem and confidence which is invaluable to them in later life. Give it Away’s donation will go towards the running of this club, and will help give blind children the best start in life.

Charlotte recently had the idea of recording a John Grisham book for the RNIB Talking Books division. This famous crime author has written a book for the teenage market, entitled Theodore Boone and with the help of the famous American actor Jeff Harding it was recorded at Camden Studios earlier this year. John Grisham is hoping to make it a series and Give it Away would support further recordings. Find out more …

London Early Years Foundation Research clearly shows that high quality care and education makes a huge difference to the long term success of all children, especially those from more vulnerable backgrounds or in poverty. By investing in a child’s learning from the start, we not only reap great benefits as a society but also enable children and their families to contribute directly back into their own communities.

Yes to Life (Y2L) is a new initiative which aims to provide treatment to cancer patients which compliment the orthodox treatments or offer a viable alternative to these. By opening up the possibility of direct dialogue between oncologists and practitioners of alternative tumour-destructive therapies, yes to Life aims to create conditions within which individual sufferers gain the widest possible support and benefits and also within which progress towards some desperately needed improvements in results is accelerated.

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London is home to one of the largest and most successful pediatric cardio-respiratory teams in the world. Every year they care for more than 7,000 children and babies with complex heart and lung conditions and share their expertise with other hospitals across the world to help many thousands more. However, despite their success the cardio-respiratory team have to contend with being housed in outdated, overcrowded facilities that is preventing them from breaking new ground even faster.

The Tick Tock Club was set up in 2006 to address this by raising £10 million towards a new Heart and Lung Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. This urgently needed cardio-respiratory Centre will enable the cardiac team to treat greater numbers of children, develop more pioneering techniques and ultimately save the lives of more young patients affected by life-threatening heart and lung disorders.

Shooting Star Children’s Hospice – provides essential respite, palliative and end of life care to terminally ill children, young people and their families. We strive to ensure that quality of life is enhanced for the whole family throughout the course of a child’s illness. Every year, we must raise £2.5 million in order to sustain our essential care service, which can be provided both in the hospice and in the family’s own home. With no statutory government funding we rely on voluntary donations. Give it Away’s contribution will be put towards the provision of nursing staff.

NSPCC – Give it Away Limited will be making every possible purchase for the property development via the Bank of Scotland NSPCC sponsored Mastercard .  This card carries an automatic donation of 0.3% of the monthly spend to the NSPCC. The total at the end of each project will be calculated and included in the Donations to Charity listing in our Annual Accounts.

Bag Books exists to help enrich the lives of children, young people and adults with the most profound intellectual impairments.  We provide multi-sensory story-packs: stories which can be enjoyed without being understood. They offer a way for those without language to learn, communicate and enjoy the simple fun of a story.

The Special Yoga Centre is the UK home of Yoga for the Special Child™ offering yoga therapy and classes for infants and children with special needs. The Centre also offers yoga to all adults and children, regardless of age, disability, economic status, ethnic background and religion. Yoga classes include; yoga for children aged two to teen, yoga for adults, mums and babies, baby massage, family and expectant couple’s yoga. Children with special needs are included into mainstream classes wherever possible. All classes are offered at concession rates. The Centre’s teacher training programmes consist of: Yoga for Children with Special Education Needs (Autism, ADD, ADHD, Global Development Delay), Teaching Yoga to Children, Yoga for Teenagers and Yoga for the Special Child™. The Centre also promotes yoga in schools and in children and community centres.