Our Charity

The Brook Special Children's Fund
Help Us Build Brighter Futures

Charity Number: 280180

It’s been a busy time at The Brook as we settle back into school life; our School has been working hard and partnering with some amazing people to raise much needed funds towards critical projects to keep our incredible enrichment projects running. Take a look at some of our endeavours and see if you can join our community in sponsoring projects, volunteering, or donating towards our incredible initiatives.

What are some big recent successes?

Our amazing Minibus arrived in September 2024!

This minibus is a lifeline for our community projects - like our Warburton’s and felix projects food distribution schemes as well as taking our pupils on daily outings, trip and residential visits. It also provides bespoke transport runs and supports our All Aboard holiday and respite scheme. Arriving at the perfect time as our two other buses has reached the end of their 19 year life! 

We’re now looking to raise money towards two new buses  £18,750 per bus to make the application so we’re keen to get going and see how quickly we can get to target  – are you a business looking to sponsor a charitable project, or an organisation that can support or do you know someone who has a handy minibus lying around!! Get in touch to see how you can support!!

Thank you to our friends at Variety for all they do and thank you to the incredible teams at St James’ Place and The Victoria Foundation for their continued support and friendship. 

Softplay Refurb Commencing January 2025

Thank you to the amazing fundraising efforts of our community, including a very motivational marathon run by Mohammed Areeb Ullah son of our incredible SNA Fahmidah Ullah, as well as the generosity of The Tottenham Grammar Foundation, we have raised £26,000 towards our new softplay making this essential resource safe and accessible for all of our BILC community. 

We’re looking forward to sharing the final product with you when work completes in early 2025.

Black History Month

Spearheaded by our incredible colleague Anthony Egbinola, we celebrated an incredible Black History Month thanks to the generosity of parents, staff and an £800 grant from our friends at Tottenham Grammar Foundation who raised funds towards a truly inspirational programme of events, including storytellers, musicians, and artists. It also covered the cost of ingredients to support West African-themed cooking lessons and provided cover for staff to plan and prepare lessons. Additionally, it allowed us to host a celebration at the end of October to tie the whole event together. We were also fortunate to have a guest speaker deliver CPD to the staff. We are especially proud that we were able to include inclusive sessions for learners in the children's centre and Willow Primary School, with whom we share our inclusive learning community.

With all of the lessons and activities provided, our pupils gained a meaningful understanding of Black history and its ongoing influence in society. With a focus on inclusivity and accessibility, the activities were tailored to meet the needs of our students, ensuring that they could participate fully and meaningfully.

Talk to us about how you could be involved in sponsoring similar enrichment opportunities across the academic year and volunteering/corporate volunteering opportunities for these amazing events!!

TFL’s IT Influx!

We were blown away to receive an incredible donation of 16 laptops as well as an amazing number of iPads and refurbished Phones from our generous friends at TFL.

The difficult financial positions schools find themselves in mean that there is little resource to repair, rebuild or replace equipment once it reaches the end of its natural life. To say that this donation is life changing is not superfluous. We have 16 classes so the donation means that each class now has a class laptop which was not the case.  iPads are like gold dust in our school and not having to share resource, timetable or beg favours will increase output and efficiency, allow for greater engagement opportunity as those pupils who access learning more effectively through visual or online tools will have easier and more ready access to equipment. The phones will also enhance practice allowing us to increase communication when offsite and capture more evidence of pupil achievement for our assessment tools (operating within our IT and safeguarding frameworks of course!) Thank you so much to our amazing friends at TFL and to our incredible colleague Anthony Egbinola for arranging it!

Do you have unused IT equipment that still has plenty of life in it? Could you support the school by donating to us? Talk to us about a potential partnership. 

Earnix at Christmas

Every year we try to raise funds to ensure each pupil receives a Christmas gift. This is a wonderful celebration at school and we are joined by Santa with his elf (and this year a guest star of the Grinch, which delighted our pupils). It's a really important event in our calendar and such a source of wonder, joy and celebration. with tightening budgets and financial constraints it can be tough to get the money together. However, this year the generosity of Earnix and their amazing donation 100 gifts were presented to us and that made a world of difference to our Christmas campaign. Thank you Earnix and our friends at Variety for their friendship and support this year!

Upcoming Projects - What are we fundraising towards in the short term?

Dark Room Refurb - TARGET £3,000

We are raising £3,000 towards the Refurb of the Dark Room - this important space is currently unfit for use and needs a total refurb. Could you donate funds towards this programme? Do you know someone with a corporate giving programme who may be interested in sponsoring this initiative? Do you have exciting items we can auction off towards fundraising? 

How would your donation help?  For our pupils, different sights, sounds, smells and textures can be overstimulating which makes it difficult to feel comfortable. Sensory Dark room helps regulate pupils through movement and touch in a specially designed space promoting improved learning, self- regulation and increased understanding of self. By donating towards this project we can reach our target sooner and our pupils can access this important resource sooner!

Art Interventions - TARGET £2,500

Art focus workshops are a successful form of interventions for special education students with other behavioural, emotional or wellbeing challenges. It allows pupils to express themselves in non-verbal ways through the use of art media, tools and supplies. Art interventions focuses on a child with special needs gaining new skills and being able to regulate and process complex emotions while limiting environmental distractions and unproductive behaviour. Using Art as a tool to promote wellbeing can enable children with special needs to express themselves freely and on their terms.

The incredible work of some of our pupils has been auctioned off as part of a charity auction partnership with our friends at The Victoria Foundation, raising £345 toward resources- but we need more to make sure we’re reaching all the pupils we can. 

We’re aiming to hit a target of £2,500 to maximise the reach and scope of this project and to raise funds for our inclusive Big Draw & Art Week in Spring 2. 

Trampolines and Seated Swing Chairs - TARGET £3,000

We are raising funds of £3,000 towards the purchase and maintenance of Trampolines and Seated Swing chairs for therapeutic input and movements breaks for our pupils on our terraces and in outdoor spaces- Rebound and movement therapy promotes self-regulation and improves physical health as well as improving access to learning.  These benefits can include an improvement in cardio respiratory fitness, stimulation of the sensory system, improving balance as well as posture. Rebound Therapy also helps to improve kineasethetic awareness leading to improved body image and spatial awareness. Swinging and jumping is also fun and relaxing, it develops confidence and wellbeing in our pupils. Most importantly it provides our pupils with the sensory input they so desperately need so that their sensory needs can be met. This improves their moods, behaviour, sense of self and ability to function in the classroom.

Annual Easter egg hunt - TARGET £300

We run our annual Easter egg hunt in spring 1 to celebrate the festival and improve children’s communication and orientation this whole school initiative costs £300 for the eggs but the joy and fun is exponential. If you know a store of business who’d like to donated 140 eggs please do get in touch!

How can you donate?

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you can donate directly via our charity account:

The Brook Special Children’s Fund
Account number: 65505207
Sort code: 08 92 99

Thank you on behalf of all of us at The Brook for your generosity, friendship and constant support of our pupils and community.

Please contact us if you want to talk to us about corporate sponsorship or large donations.

Other ways to help

We know that fundraising at such challenging times is difficult which is why we are asking you to sign up for Give as you Live and nominate The Brook Special Children’s Fund – Help Us Build Brighter Futures as your chosen charity. Once you’ve signed up and you’re shopping on line a pop-up will appear; all you have to do is click on it and your purchase will result in a donation to The Brook at no extra cost to you.  Hazera is ready to help you with signing up! She can be contacted on:  hazera.begum@thebrook.haringey.sch.uk.

www.giveasyoulive.com

How about asking family and friends to sign up too?  That would be brilliant.

Donations of healthy snack foods are also greatly appreciated as well as any books in good condition.  We are also very grateful for any monetary donations people can make – as an advert on television tells us ‘Every Little Helps’.

School donation form