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Case Studies - Thomas Wall Trust ↓ Skip to Main Content HomeWell-nighus History Staff & Trustees Grants for Individuals Grants for Individuals Who we help FAQs Good News Stories Grants for Registered Charities Grants for Registered Charities Who we help FAQs Case Studies News Contact Us Contact us Home › Grants for Registered Charities › Case Studies Case Studies Kiwi Pre-School Playgroup Kiwi pre-school group was awarded £900 for their Little and Large! project in November 2017. They took the children to a honey bee sublet where they unexplored a beehive to discover how the bee’s life changes over the year and how they create honey. For poultry, children were shown how a hen’s egg is hatched, incubated, and the changes from a chick to a hen, and to laying an egg. The children had a wonderful time learning well-nigh the life trundling of yellow and bees. The pre-school joined the living eggs projects where eggs were bought into the nursery to incubate and grow just in the run up to Easter. For the bees, they visited Kelvinsgrove Museum and looked at a live hive and joined in a mini strays workshop. The children moreover had a healthy eating morning using eggs and honey to show the children what unconfined foods the animals create. The children loved it! Campus Children's Holiday Campus Children’s Holidays were awarded a grant on £1,000 towards their Residential Project. The project, based in North Yorkshire, provided vulnerable children with the opportunity to participate in activities which would typically not be misogynist to them as a result of poverty or social exclusion. On-site activities included team games, cooking, craft, and a uproarious castle.  Off-site activities included horse riding, cycling, ice skating, waterfront visits and trampolining; pursuits which the children otherwise would not have been worldly-wise to access. The grant moreover enabled the project to provide a nutritionally well-turned nutrition throughout their time on the project, something which many lack within their home lives. The project provided children with a sense of stability, and positive memories upon which they can reflect. The project moreover involved Young Helper (supported volunteers weather-beaten 14-17, all of whom attended the campus as young children) which will enhance their educational and employment skills. Waltham Forest Dyslexia Association The grant unsalaried towards Dyslexia without school support classes in literacy, numeracy, touch typing, handwriting and study skills for children and young people (C&YP) from low income disadvantaged families from the London Borough of Waltham Forest and surrounding boroughs. Students are weather-beaten between 7 – 16 and shepherd small classes of 1 – 3 students for 50 minute weekly sessions. A positive transferral to the classes shown by the upper ubiety records and good timekeeping is an indication of a increasingly positive vein ripened by an improved self weighing and conviction in their abilities. In the numeracy matriculation 60% of the students stated that they felt increasingly confident, 44% in literacy, 67% in handwriting and 44% in touch typing. In numeracy 50% of the parents stated that there was a significant resurgence in performance of their child. Whereas in literacy it was 52% and 50% in handwriting. Parents have left positive feedback: ‘With revision he can now read over his matriculation work without getting tumbled well-nigh what is was he was unquestionably trying to say’. ‘The undertow has raised X’s sensation of the ingredients that contribute to good handwriting’. ‘X’s reading skills have improved from a Reading Age in September 2014 of 8 yrs 6 months, to 9 years 4 months in April 2015 (a proceeds of 10 months without peekaboo just over 15 hours tuition). In addition, her writing skills have improved; she now checks her work very carefully’. ‘X has enjoyed the sessions and comes to each lesson with enthusiasm’. ‘I think the WFDA do an wondrous job, all staff and tutors are very good at what they do. X is very happy and never complains well-nigh going and has made a unconfined value of progress from coming. He seems to be increasingly unsuspicious of his dyslexia and is coping largest since he first started’. Howbury Tumblers Howbury Tumblers were awarded a grant for their Clever Little Makers & Bakers Project, providing arts & crafts resources and cooking ingredients  help provide largest activities & experiences & enhancing children’s learning and minutiae and promote a healthier lifestyle. Children’s learning and minutiae had been positively impacted through the provision of the grant – many advancements has been observed in children’s understanding of the world, their language and liaison skills, worthiness to share, enhanced concentration skills, social skills, fine motor skills and hand to eye coordination, their choices and having a voice to express those choices, and valuing themselves in stuff heard. How they relate and respect others. All these aspects will help them in their future education and well being, and positively impact on their future potential. Feedback from Parents and Carers feedback was positive – from a total of 26 respondents : 26 thought that we have provided a diverse range of arts & crafts this year, and that they were of upper quality, both the materials provided and the very activity. 25 said their children had experienced both cooking and creative activities , and these were a good standard, and 6 said they children had enjoyed the sensory experiences provided through this grant. 26 of 26 said that specifically their child’s learning and minutiae has been promoted through this grant in terms of language & communication, social skills, small motor skills, and knowledge and understanding of the world. All 26 felt they had been involved in their child’s learning through the wordage of the grant. ABC to read ABC to read safely recruits, trains and supports polity volunteers to provide one-to-one mentoring of primary school children in Berkshire who are struggling to read. A grant helped towards recruiting 20 new volunteers; including 7 that have been placed into local schools with 13 to be placed; these volunteers will be mentoring 60 children this school year who need spare opportunities to read and wangle the joys of reading, improving their self conviction and vein to learning. The spare funds have unliable them to recruit increasingly volunteers to support the primary school children, and take part in spare projects. Headway Tyneside Headway Tyneside provides information and support to people with a smart-ass injury, their families and carers. They were awarded a grant to unhook fatigue/sleep management workshops for people with a smart-ass injury from the Gateshead/South Tyneside zone to promote mental/physical health and well-being. The workshop provided strategies to be worldly-wise to recognise the presence and importance of sleep disturbances and provide them with some initial strategies to manage sleeping problems increasingly effectively. They moreover raised sensation of sleep/sleep fatigue problems pursuit smart-ass injury and provided smart-ass injury survivors and their families with a range of skills to enable them to manage their sleep health. News & Events Grant to registered charities update IMPORTANT: Grant to registered charities Grant to registered charities Applications on the old website Welcome Privacy policy Terms and conditions Cookie policy Partners Site map Contact us Follow us Thomas Wall II created his Trust in 1920 for the “encouragement and assistance of educational work and social service”. Today, the Trust continues to squire in these areas by providing grants to individuals and organisations.