The True Colours Trust

Sibs

Sibs is the UK’s leading charity supporting siblings of disabled adults and children. Sibs recognises that children with a disabled sibling often have support needs of their own and provides information and support for siblings and training for parents and professionals.

Jessie May

Jessie May is an innovative service with a reputation for providing exceptional palliative care and support to children with life-limiting conditions, and their families, in their own homes.

Changing Places

The Changing Places consortium campaigns for fully accessible toilets to be installed in public places. Over 250,000 people in the UK need Changing Places toilets in order to access days out, public places, attend work or do other daily tasks.

True Colours Data Champion

Accurate and useable data on disabled children and young people is crucial to allow us to understand where disabled children are, their needs and what services they are accessing.

Childhood Bereavement Network

The Childhood Bereavement Network is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK.

Together for Short Lives

Together for Short Lives is the UK’s umbrella organisation for children’s palliative care. It works with its members to champion, improve and support children’s palliative care services and professionals.

Contact

Contact is the national charity which supports families with disabled children. The organisation offers direct support to families through events and advice and campaigns to improve the lives of disabled children and their families.

Medical Mediation Foundation

The Medical Mediation Foundation is delivering a project in hospitals across the UK to embed the use of conflict management and mediation skills.

Heart n Soul

Heart n Soul provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autistic people to explore their talents, make high quality work, access new opportunities and influence change in their own lives and the lives of others.

Acorns Children’s Hospice

True Colours is thrilled to be providing funding for a pilot project in the West Midlands which is intended to devise a service model to provide access to specialist children’s palliative care advice for clinicians, including out-of-hours.

Guidelines for those working with parents

King’s College London, in partnership with academics from the Universities of Leeds and York, has developed a suite of new resources to support the healthcare, charity and academic sectors to engage safely and responsibly with parents of seriously ill children and bereaved parents.

SLOW – Surviving the Loss of your World

SLOW supports families following the death of a child. The charity provides an informal, quiet space for bereaved parents and siblings to meet with others, share their experiences, take time out or simply be with others who felt isolated in their grief.

Oily Cart

Oily Cart creates highly crafted, interactive, sensory theatre that tours across the UK as well as home-based theatre for children who are not able to access traditional theatre settings.

Signal/Sign Health Uganda

Signal supports people who are Deaf or who have a hearing impairment. Its work in Uganda improves access to education for children who have a hearing impairment, many of whom miss out on school due to their disability.

African Palliative Care Association

The African Palliative Care Association’s mission is to ensure palliative care is widely understood, integrated into health systems at all levels and underpinned by evidence in order to reduce pain and suffering across Africa.

Najojo Better Living Mission Association

Najojo Better Living Mission Association is a small NGO based in Berea in western Lesotho. The organisation delivers palliative care, advocacy and health education.

ATLANTES

Atlantes is a partner centre of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Global Monitoring of Palliative Care Development. It monitors and analyses palliative care development globally and shares information on palliative care to inform health planning.

Island Hospice and Healthcare, Zimbabwe

Island Hospice and Healthcare provides palliative and bereavement care services including pain management, symptom control services and counselling. True Colours is supporting a project working in the province of Mashonaland East, integrating palliative care into health systems.

Projects we're supporting

Sibs is the UK’s leading charity supporting siblings of disabled adults and children. Sibs recognises that children with a disabled sibling often have support needs of their own and provides information and support for siblings and training for parents and professionals.

Jessie May is an innovative service with a reputation for providing exceptional palliative care and support to children with life-limiting conditions, and their families, in their own homes.

The Changing Places consortium campaigns for fully accessible toilets to be installed in public places. Over 250,000 people in the UK need Changing Places toilets in order to access days out, public places, attend work or do other daily tasks.

Accurate and useable data on disabled children and young people is crucial to allow us to understand where disabled children are, their needs and what services they are accessing.

The Childhood Bereavement Network is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK.

Together for Short Lives is the UK’s umbrella organisation for children’s palliative care. It works with its members to champion, improve and support children’s palliative care services and professionals.

Contact is the national charity which supports families with disabled children. The organisation offers direct support to families through events and advice and campaigns to improve the lives of disabled children and their families.

The Medical Mediation Foundation is delivering a project in hospitals across the UK to embed the use of conflict management and mediation skills.

Heart n Soul provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autistic people to explore their talents, make high quality work, access new opportunities and influence change in their own lives and the lives of others.

True Colours is thrilled to be providing funding for a pilot project in the West Midlands which is intended to devise a service model to provide access to specialist children’s palliative care advice for clinicians, including out-of-hours.

King’s College London, in partnership with academics from the Universities of Leeds and York, has developed a suite of new resources to support the healthcare, charity and academic sectors to engage safely and responsibly with parents of seriously ill children and bereaved parents.

SLOW supports families following the death of a child. The charity provides an informal, quiet space for bereaved parents and siblings to meet with others, share their experiences, take time out or simply be with others who felt isolated in their grief.

Oily Cart creates highly crafted, interactive, sensory theatre that tours across the UK as well as home-based theatre for children who are not able to access traditional theatre settings.

Signal supports people who are Deaf or who have a hearing impairment. Its work in Uganda improves access to education for children who have a hearing impairment, many of whom miss out on school due to their disability.

The African Palliative Care Association’s mission is to ensure palliative care is widely understood, integrated into health systems at all levels and underpinned by evidence in order to reduce pain and suffering across Africa.

Najojo Better Living Mission Association is a small NGO based in Berea in western Lesotho. The organisation delivers palliative care, advocacy and health education.

Atlantes is a partner centre of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Global Monitoring of Palliative Care Development. It monitors and analyses palliative care development globally and shares information on palliative care to inform health planning.

Island Hospice and Healthcare provides palliative and bereavement care services including pain management, symptom control services and counselling. True Colours is supporting a project working in the province of Mashonaland East, integrating palliative care into health systems.