Bee Community Minded

Bee Community Minded is a not-for-profit project providing therapeutic and wellbeing services to children, young people, and families/carers. We are responding to increasing demand for mental health and emotional wellbeing support, offering services ranging from specialist trauma therapy to wellbeing, social inclusion, and family based interventions. Many of the families who approach us cannot afford private therapy and may not qualify for statutory funding. As the cost-of-living crisis continues and support needs grow, we are committed to ensuring children and families can access the right help when they need it, without unnecessary delays. 

How you can help: We are hoping to generate a core service budget from microdonations which will be used towards delivering our service goals. Regular commitment to funding also helps us to plan and set services out longer term which is what children and families need when they are struggling. Alongside this we will continue working hard to generate bigger grants  - but we hope that microdonations will help the core service to operate while we keep working on this. 

We would be grateful for: 

• Ongoing donations from individuals and businesses - Any contribution is able to be put to good use!

• One-off donations – these can be used for specific projects of pieces of work. For example, we have had donations to fund workshops for carers, groups for children, short therapy packages for children and sensory equipment for our rooms
• Making donations of services or goods which we can use for fundraising purposes i.e. raffles and fundraising events. We particularly need donations of soft toys for an ongoing project
• Individuals or organisations/teams who would like to fundraise or take donations on our behalf
• Providing professional time, mentorship, advice or guidance to support us to achieve our aims

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Fundraising Aims:

Our immediate fundraising aims will focus on helping us to offer therapeutic support to the families who need this now. We want to accept more referrals from the families and professionals who are getting in touch, as well as continuing packages of support for children who need more help. All of our charitably raised funds are directed towards what is needed to meet the below aims:

* Offer direct therapies and wellbeing interventions for individuals and groups - our team specialise in supporting young people and their families where there has been developmental traumas and/or complex needs are presenting. We offer individual and family based work for both children and adults.

*Parental/Carer Interventions: Our NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) group aims to offer specific support to families where there are struggles managing aggressive, violent, or self-destructive behaviour by increasing parental presence and confidence. Every time we get funding to offer this group we receive significantly higher demand than available funding can meet. Feedback from families lets us know that we must keep trying to make this support available and accessible on an ongoing basis.

• Offer specific services to children and their families/carers in areas we know are low in available support such as children struggling to access school, with neurodivergence, disabilities and/or sensory needs.

• Offer consultation to parents and carers to understand and support their children’s needs.

• Develop useful tools and self-help resources to help families who cannot access direct interventions.

• Understand what is available locally and work with other services, projects and teams so that we can do more together.

• Offer training and professional development to local teams and services to share skills and knowledge. 

Eden House Community Links C.I.C was developed in 2021 in response to a significant unmet need, with a shared desire to provide low-cost or no-cost therapeutic services to those in need of support. Between 2021-2023, we were fortunate enough to receive funding from The National Lottery, Persimmon Homes, South Yorkshire Police and the Crime Commissioner, Screwfix, and other generous projects and individuals. We remain committed to expanding our not-for-profit services. In 2025/26, we will build on the success of our service, diversify our team of Directors and volunteers, launch our 'Bee Community Minded' (BCM) project/s. BCM will continue working with local partners to address the unmet needs in our community, with the vision to deliver high-quality and accessible therapeutic and wellbeing services and resources.