31-05-2025
Herefordshire cash grants to help children with special needs
More than £46,000 has been awarded to support activities for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Council said cash had been awarded to seven groups for activities to enable children and young people to have fun, make friends and learn new sessions, coding workshops and activities in woodland are among the projects Stroud, from Little Play World, which received a grant, said it would make a difference not only to the children, but also for parents who could take youngsters to a safe space and watch them develop.
Councillor Ivan Powell, cabinet member for children and young people, said families would be able to take part in "inclusive fun activities in a safe and supportive learning environment".Organisations that received funds were Dancefest Jigsaw Youth, which provides inclusive dance sessions across Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as well as Herefordshire Autism and Neuro Diverse Support, which provides coding workshops for neurodivergent children and young Community Farm also received a grant, along with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust for its woodland also went to Little Play World which provides pop-up role-play sessions, Look UK which offers family days out for children with visual impairment, and Wordful Speech and Language Therapy Service for its speech and language-focused play sessions for pre-school children.
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