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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£11.9K
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Spending
£10.6K
Public benefits
The direct benefits are are having a social space specifically for children with ASD. Users benefit from the social groups promoting social skills, social interaction and enhancing communication. Our environment has had a positive effect on our users social, emotional and mental wellbeing. Our family members and carers benefit from the work in
AUsome Kids as we provide social, practical and emotional support to them. The benefits can be demonstrated by having provision of a safe, inclusive social and recreational space in Cookstown, which is accessed by children with ASD and their families. The returning users and their positive feedback following sessions demonstrates the support to the children and their families. Our families, parents and carers have reported positive improvement with their children's social, emotional and mental wellbeing. Our own observations are also extremely positive. The volunteers within AUsome Kids also benefit from working with the children. They have a better understanding of autism and the challenges surrounding that. This benefits them, in their everyday life, in work and in college. The volunteers can develop practically (Makaton/speech and language) as well as socially. Other charitable organisations pass many families onto our service. eg Autism NI, Network personnel, SOFT project, Sunflower Support. No harm arising from our purposes. The beneficiaries are children age 4-12 within the Mid Ulster area and their families/carers. There is no private benefit from the purposes. Any benefit would be incidental.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
We offer support to children (with ASD or going through assessment) and their families in various ways. We run various activities within our community space. We run sessions for the kids to have fun while developing social skills and making friends. These range from painting, cooking, music, yoga, Lego therapy and wellbeing. All our activities have
an aim of impacting positively on wellbeing, whether that be social, emotional, mental. We also run sessions for parents/carers from coffee mornings, The Arts, wellbeing, training and social evenings, these bring families and parents together all while reducing isolation. We have a sensory room for everyone, with various pieces of equipment to work on our senses, including proprioception and vestibular (which kids with autism often struggle with)
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Carers
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- Parents
- Sensory disabilities
- Volunteers
How the charity works
- Arts
- Community development
- Disability
- Education/training
- General charitable purposes
- Volunteer development
- Youth development
