CHESTER-BASED CHILDREN’S CHARITY RECEIVES DONATION FROM THE TK MAXX AND HOMESENSE FOUNDATION

Children Today Charitable Trust, based in Chester, has received a grant for £500 from The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation’s Community Fund programme which supports local communities.

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation was set up in 2015 and its mission is to support children and young people to achieve their potential within their local communities. The Community Fund programme is dedicated to helping local grassroots charities and since March 2020 has been working particularly hard to support those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Associates (employees) from TK Maxx and Homesense stores, processing centres and offices across Europe, nominate local charities to receive grants that are doing great work in supporting the most vulnerable. In 2021, The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation made over 1,655 grants to support local communities and charities, such as food banks and mental health organisations, with £791,793 donated.

The grant for Children Today was applied for by an associate from an employee at Broughton Park’s Homesense store. This grant will now help Children Today continue to support disabled children and young people in Chester and throughout the UK.

The charity provides vital adapted equipment, such as adapted trikes, adapted buggies, sensory equipment and more to help children and young adults with a disability live the life they choose. 

Chester school-girl, Olivia, who has global development delay, ADHD and epilepsy has benefitted from the charity twice.

Her mum Nicole, describes how the adapted trike Children Today funded has helped: “Olivia has always had a love of the outdoors and that has only grown as she gets older, but as she can’t walk far we usually have to take her adapted buggy out with us. It’s nice to have a different, more fun, option with the trike.

“It also opens up social opportunities, as we often bump into friends and class mates on our favourite routes on the Greenway cycle path, which is great for Olivia as she’s such a vivacious little girl – she loves people and is very sociable!”  

Emma Prescott, charity director at Children Today Charitable Trust comments: “On behalf of everyone here at Children Today I want to thank The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation for the generous donation. As a small charity we rely solely on donations from individuals and organisations, so grants like these go a long way to helping children, like Olivia, access adapted equipment that is often truly life-changing.”

The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation comments: “We are delighted that The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation has been able to support so many charities. We are proud that our grants are making a difference to local communities where it really matters.”

About Children Today

• Children Today was founded in 1994 and provides children and young people with disabilities up to the age of 25 with specialised equipment to help them enjoy a better quality of life and greater independence.
• Relying entirely on voluntary donations, Children Today provides equipment for disabled children and young adults such as individually adapted electric wheelchairs, walking aids, trikes, specially adapted car seats and more.
• Registered Charity No. 1137436

About The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation’s ‘Community Fund’:

• The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation is passionate about supporting local communities. One of the ways it does this is through its Community Fund, which is funded and administered by The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation. This enables TJX/TK Maxx/Homesense associates to support causes they are passionate about.
• In 2021, the TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation awarded 1,655 grants to charities nominated by TJX/TK Maxx/Homesense associates to support local charities across Europe and support The TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation's mission of helping vulnerable children and young people achieve their potential.
• Through its Community Fund, the TK Maxx and Homesense Foundation has donated over £2.7 million to local charities in UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Austria.

Pictured - Olivia, from Chester, has benefitted from Children Today Charitable Trust twice.