Making Donations
Providing a service based around a fully qualified professional, supported by a clinical receptionist and both clinical and managerial supervision, offered in a discrete, accessible location is extremely expensive.
While CHeCC and its member agencies receive funding from public bodies and grant sources, this never covers the full running costs. Public donations are, therefore, important in making sure this service is available to all young people that need it.
As young people facing the greatest difficulties (depression, crime, drug abuse) often receive more attention from the big funders, donations will often help those young people who are most overlooked (these are real cases, but with the names changed):
To make a donation contact your local service using the map in the top right hand corner.
Mark, a 13 year-old from a close, caring family, came to counselling with anxiety and sleeplessness because of bullying at school for being clever and for coming from a ‘normal’ family. His father recently recovered from cancer and he felt he must perform well at school to be able to care for his family if his father dies. A course of five weeks of counselling helped him understand his feelings and find ways to focus on his future in a way that he realised his father would want.
The price of a daily newspaper will pay for someone like Mark to receive a course of five counselling sessions to get their life back on track. (Direct Debit of £17.50 a month plus Gift Aid).
Sarah is 14 years old and lives with her disabled mother and her mother’s ex-partner who is her mother’s main carer. She feels unable to participate in ‘normal’ teenage activities because of caring for her mum, is bullied at school because of her weight and is treated rudely and sometimes violently by her mum’s ex-partner. Since her grandmother died two years earlier she has been trying to fill her grandmother’s role of keeping the family together.
A ten week course of counselling led her to learn healthy cooking and make new friends through attending a local drama group. She and her mother got more help from social services so she had more spare time and could join the ‘Young Carers’ project. She became less ‘prickly’ in her manner and appearance. Whilst not perfect, she now sees herself as 'normal' rather than a ’14 year-old grandmother’.
The price of a family round of drinks a week will pay for someone like Sarah to receive a course of ten counselling sessions to get their life back on track. (Direct Debit of £35 a month plus Gift Aid)
