Cocoon Kids CIC's
fundraising news & stories
We're a not-for-profit Community Interest Company
Your kind fundraising, support, grants and awards provide fully-funded and low cost sessions.
Our sessions are fully-funded and low cost sessions for local families on low incomes, on benefits and living in social housing. 100% of your donation provides personalised, longer-term sessions, and ongoing support and resources for local children, young people and families.
Find out why this is important to us here
Please get in touch if you're able to donate, no matter how big or small, and would like to be included on our Fundraising News and social media pages.
GoFundMe and Local Supporters Newsflash!
Scroll down to the end of the page to read our latest VERY exciting updates... including a sky jump!
A huge thank you to the Community Foundation for Surrey, Peter Harrison Foundation, and Shepperton and Pinewood studios for their very kind donation of £7,000!
This will help us to make such a fantastic difference to many local children, young people and families' lives.
We're thrilled to be nominated in two Crest23 Business Awards, for our Smarter Transport and Community Impact!
We can't wait to attend the awards evening on the 26th of October... see you there!
Give us a wave if you see us!
We're thrilled to receive nearly £5,000 from LoCase Kent and Surrey
and £1,000 from MidasPlus...
for our EAV refurbished, recyclable and emission free eCargo Trike.
It means we can reach many more families.
Winners of Two Stars at Spelthorne Business Awards, 2022...
Runner Up New Start Up of the Year
&
Runner Up Best Business in
Staines Upon Thames and Laleham
Massive THANK YOU to London Borough of Hounslow Council's from ourselves and local children, young people and families, for continuing to support us by funding our sessions for our Feltham, Hounslow project, over the summer holidays and beyond.
We're hugely grateful for your generous £15000 award!
This award provides 273 long-term sessions, meaning that local disadvantaged children and young people and their families know that the costs of their sessions are full-funded by you.
Our sessions for disadvantaged children and young people are funded by Heathrow Community Trust’s Projects for Young People.
Thank you for your very kind award of £7,500!
This award provides 166 long-term sessions, meaning that 13 local children and young people and their families know that the costs of their sessions are covered.
Supported by
A huge thank you Santander Universities and the University of Roehampton for your amazing Start-Up Grant award of £2250 to put toward our digital project.
We're VERY excited at this!
We can't wait to get started and update you with it progress too.
Thank you #SantanderUniUK #WeAreUR #HelloRoe @RoehamptonUni
A massive thank you to
The Woodward Charitiable Trust, for their very kind donation of £1500!
We'll make sure that this is put to very good use.
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Massive thank you to the London Borough of Hounslow Council for awarding us £998 from their Thriving Communities Small Grant Fund!
This is 22 fully-funded therapeutic sessions and an additional 2 Play Packs.
A huge 'Thank you so much!' to the London Borough of Hounslow Council for supporting local disadvantaged children, young people and their families through providing these free sessions.
A huge thank you to the Community Foundation for Surrey and their very kind donors, for donating £5,000!
In the words of one of the local organisations that we support through these sessions, "Wow! What a difference this will make to our families!"
It will! In fact, £5,000 provides 111 fully-funded therapeutic sessions and Play Packs for local disadvantaged children and young people.
We can't wait to share this news with the local families who use us...
we'll be sharing their feedback with you very soon no doubt!
...and, for the second year running - our project received £500
Yes, twice now!
We received a Magic Little Grant through the partnership between Localgiving and Postcode Society Trust. Postcode Society Trust is a grant-giving charity funded by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery.
Localgiving is the UK’s leading membership and support network for local charities and community groups.
Click on the links below to find out more, or support the People's Postcode Lottery at http://www.postcodelottery.co.uk/
Thank you so much Magic Little Grants for being so supportive twice over! xx
The Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Start Up Programme, in partnership with the School for Social Entrepreneurs, and jointly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, has kindly supported this project.
We're grateful for this opportunity and know that the £1,000 we've been awarded from the programme will help us to make a huge and positive difference.
... and an anonymous donation of £150,
from a company that supports organisations working with LGBTQIA+ children and young people.
Thank you so much!
We're so grateful, because that's another
3 fully-funded sessions and 3 Play Packs!
We just been awarded £2,760!
That's a WHOPPING - 61 fully-funded sessions for local children and young people...
as well as 64 Play Packs!
All of the children and young people at Cocoon Kids have asked us to say a "HUGE THANK YOU" to A2Dominion Communities funders at the A2Dominion and GGT Solutions Entrepreneurs Programme.
GoFundMe, PayPal Donations and Crowd Funding
We've reached our first £1,000 total!
We're so grateful to all of our GoFundMe donators - Thank you xx
That's another 22 free sessions and 24 Play Packs for a child or young person, as well as our additional family support.
Amazing news...
Adele's April sky dive for Cocoon Kids CIC raised £1,150 towards our sessions for local children, young people!
We're so grateful to you for your donation through the daring feat that you did for Cocoon Kids and east to west. Thank you xx
That's over 20 of our fully-funded sessions and 55 Play Packs for a child or young person,
as well as our family support.
Local Support and Play Pack Sales
Local schools and organisations very kindly invite us to sell our Play Packs through them. They know that all of surplus from our sales go toward providing more sessions for under resourced* children and young people locally (*previously called disadvantaged).
We're grateful to each of the schools and organisations that support our work in this way xx xx
In fact, the £252 that we raised through a school fair at Ashford Church of England Primary School has brought our total to date to over £1,000!
Jack, one of the young people who comes to Cocoon Kids CIC, has asked us to,
"Say a MAHOOSIVE thank you" from him!
He especially wants you to know that your money has meant he can have telehealth sessions in the evening. This really helps Jack and his family, because he looks after his little brother when his mum is working.
Your money also means he can still have his sessions, even in the holidays.
Thank you from Jack and from Cocoon Kids CIC, too!
Number of sessions correct for each fund, at time of award.