Time 4 Hope

Award: £3635.00

Awarded to: Time 4 Hope

Date of award: 08/07/2021

Time 4 Hope are a not-for-profit Organisation carrying out projects to support, enhance and strengthen communities.  Time4Hope has been established during my fifteen years experience of working with parent/carers who have children with additional needs. I have found that the families of children who have additional needs find themselves having to go the extra mile to meet those needs in order to enhance their day to day lives, further their development and help them fulfil their potential. In doing so the parent(s) and indeed other family members can forget that they too need to take care of their own emotional well-being and this can lead to them struggling to meet their child’s needs and ultimately if left unchecked to carer burn-out. Counselling can help parents/families identify the day to day pressures that raising a child with additional needs can bring and to determine how they might better look after themselves to build up their resilience to face the challenges that life can bring. Time4Hope believe that if such an intervention were offered earlier on in the child’s journey for example at or around the time of diagnosis then the parent’s resilience could be made stronger from the outset.

The Town Council awarded a Community Grant to Time 4 Hope to directly assist 9 Kenilworth families who were on the waiting list for counselling sessions.