We are proud to support The Dandelion Time our 2024 charity of the year.
Charity Partner of the Year 2024
We are delighted to announce Dandelion Time, as our new charity partnership for 2024.
Volunteers from the charity will be working in partnership with us throughout the year across a variety of activities and events to raise money.
Stay tuned for the activities on this page as they launch throughout the year.
Who are Dandelion Time?
Dandelion Time assist children with challenging emotional issues, often resulting from adverse childhood experiences, such as domestic violence, loss, abuse or neglect. Their systemic and trauma-informed approach, focuses on the family as a whole unit, helping them to recover from life events and improve relationships.
Complex and difficult lives
The families of the children referred to Dandelion Time are often struggling in different ways. Parents may have had their own childhood difficulties such as mental health issues, neglect, drug and alcohol dependency, or been subject to domestic abuse.
A child’s emotional landscape is often bleak, their difficulties culminating in repeated exclusions from school and a breakdown in relationships at home. They often show aggressive or withdrawn behaviour and suffer from depression or anxiety. They may have struggled to form strong attachments within their family or maintain friendships at school. They support children and their families to re-build self-belief and create new beginnings.
Helping the whole family
Without an intervention tackling the root causes of emotional difficulties, children are unlikely to overcome troubling feelings and behaviours. These are then likely to recur or even worsen through adult life.
The key to the success of our approach is recognising the family context to a child’s difficulties, and helping the whole family in order to bring about sustainable change.
Dandelion Time look to break the cycle of poor attachment, trauma or abuse through a change of context, gentle, practical activities and helping each family to feel valued.
Change that lasts
Dandelion Time are highly flexible in meeting each child’s own needs and tailor our programme to each individual family. Families set their own specific goals and we closely monitor the outcomes on each child’s emotional wellbeing, behaviour and relationships using internal and external evaluation methods.
They work closely with other professionals who are close to the child. Evidence shows positive and long-lasting change as a result of coming to Dandelion Time, as children start to feel understood and can blossom.
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