Adverse Childhood Experiences
The prevention and mitigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are the strategic focus of our multi-year grants to charity partners. Learn more about who we fund and how to apply.
Focusing our charity main grants on ACEs, a high need area, means our funding is changing the lives of some of the most at risk children and young people in the UK.
Natalia Rymaszewska, Head of Grants, Leathersellers’ Foundation
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences
Each child, young person and adult requires tailored support to meet their unique set of circumstances and needs. We proudly support a diverse range of approaches and interventions, including counselling, arts therapy, outdoor activities, play therapy and parental support, to help prevent and tackle the consequences of ACEs.
To learn more about the life-changing work of our grantees, please watch these videos, created in collaboration with three of our charity partners.
Body & Soul
“Really important for us is the whole family approach. We try and disrupt ACEs that are passed down from parent to child and even more historic and ancestral adversity and trauma, and so the work we do here is very preventative.”
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Valleys Kids
“Valleys Kids is a place based community development organisation – we have parent and toddler groups, afterschool play, youth centres, a charity shop, facilities for older adults – what a community needs cradle to grave and everything in between. How do we really change prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences? That’s where our community development approach comes in.”
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Sister System
“All of our programmes are co-curated and facilitated by care-affected girls. Girls graduate from programmes with their qualifications, which then enable them to become paid Big Sisters. It’s basically about creating a self-sustaining peer support cycle.”
Watch moreImpact: Helping to prevent and mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences
Creative Healing
Meet two Leathersellers’ Foundation grantees using music, art and drama to address adverse childhood experiences and break cycles of trauma.
Read moreThe Power of Play
How physical activity is helping to build transformative relationships with young people who have experienced trauma.
Read moreSupporting Young People’s Mental Health in Cheshire East
The work of Visyon, a charity for young people, shows the power and potential of community-focused approaches.
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Funding data
In the first two years of the five year giving strategy focusing on ACE charities (2022/23-2023/24) there were:
Search through our previous grants using the filters below.
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