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
The Leathersellers’ Foundation has provided funding of £15,000 a year for four years for Visyon, a charity supporting the emotional health of children, young people and their families in Cheshire East, as well as an additional £15,000 in recognition of the cost-of- living crisis.
Our funding is enabling Visyon to help prevent and reduce the occurrence of the long-term negative consequences of ACEs by providing therapeutic services to children and young people.
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Funding data
In the first year of the five year giving strategy focusing on ACE charities (2022-23) there were:
