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'' is the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury. The Children's Trust runs a range of specialist care, education and therapy services for children and young people from across the UK, including the UK's largest rehabilitation centre for children with acquired brain injury (ABI) and is based at Tadworth Court, Tadworth,
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within the
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. The Children's Trust's celebrity Ambassadors are
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, Phil Tufnell, Joely Richardson, Adam Hills,
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, Amanda Burton, Elaine Paige,
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,
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, Nicholas Owen and
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. In 2012 The Children's Trust launched an online support centre for families of children affected by acquired brain injury
The Brain Injury Hub
This website offers a wealth of practical advice and information about a condition that's often misunderstood. There is also an online forum giving families the opportunity to share their stories and experiences. In May 2022 a coroner criticised The Children's Trust over the death of a five-year-old while under its care. An inquest concluded Connor Wellsted died in 2017 following "entrapment by a loose cot bumper" at the Children's Trust facility in Tadworth, Surrey. Coroner Dr Karen Henderson also criticised the trust for what she said was a "lack of transparency" over the death.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-61494777 The Children's Trust is a UK registered charity, number 288018.


Services

The Children's Trust's services include: * Residential rehabilitation for children with an acquired brain injury * Therapy-led support in the community for children with an acquired brain injury *
Special education Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...
for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties, or PMLD, at The Children's Trust School, Tadworth * Residential short breaks * Transitional care for children who are technology dependent (e.g. require long-term ventilation or have a tracheostomy) *
Palliative care Palliative care (derived from the Latin root , or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Wit ...
* The Brain Injury Hub (www.braininjuryhub.co.uk) - an information website and discussion forum for parents of children with acquired brain injury as well as teachers and health professionals.


Awards

Recent awards won by The Children's Trust: * Quality Improvement Award (Top Hospitals 2019) * Institute of Fundraising Best use of data and insight in a small to medium charity (Insight in Fundraising Awards 2019) * Highly Commended, 2019 BMA Patient Information Awards for Brain Injury Community Service animation and leaflet. * Highly Commended, 2019 BMA Patient Information Awards, Concussion in children and young people booklet * Winner 2018 BMA Patient Information Awards User Engagement Award * Charity Shop of the Year (Charity Retail Awards)


History

From 1927 until 1983, Tadworth Court was the country branch of
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. In 1984, the Department of Health transferred management control to the newly created charity, The Children's Trust. Tadworth Court was the
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of the manor of Tadworth which lay within the parish of Banstead, by
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, a horse-racing racecourse in the 17th century. Banstead was well known as an airing place at this period, where Londoners sought fresh air, being 600 feet above sea level. The attractions of Epsom Spa to the west prompted the first settlements other than isolated farmhouses on this part of the widest section of the
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stretching from Banstead village to Walton-on-the-Hill to the south. Tadworth Court on the south of the site is a
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for architecture in the highest category as a country house of circa 1700, with "rustic
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s, stone dressings (renderings)..steep (and richly decorated)
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....high panelling and rococo plasterwork...Boxed room with early C10 panelling,".
Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
described it as a ’splendid house’ and ’one of the most elegant in the whole country’. He was amazed that such a house so close to London was virtually unknown — no pictures of the house are known before the 20th century. The owners of the house: The first owner, Leonard Wessel, a merchant, purchased the estate in 1694. He was Sheriff of the County in 1700 and a Member of Parliament in 1701. Whilst of a Dutch family, his great grandfather was born in England in 1557. Recent work to the house revealed that it does not incorporate an earlier building, but in common with all buildings of this period contains some reused beams due to the growing shortage of timber. 1694 is the likely construction date of the house and by 1698 the Banstead Court Rolls record that Wessel applied for leave ’to plant rows of trees on the Heath, fronting his dwelling house and leading towards the Warren.’ One of these, a large poplar, survived until the 19th century. Wessel died in 1708. The house appears on contemporary maps, and Celia Fiennes in 1712 describes it as one of ’several good houses in or about Epsham’, though by then in the possession of Sir Thomas Scawen, Alderman of London, his brother-in-law.


References


External links


Official websiteThe Brain Injury HubJosh's Story (as seen on BBC's Children in Need)BBC TV news story about a girl who has received residential rehabilitation at The Children's Trust following a stroke aged sixArticle from The Guardian newspaper about the highly specialised education offered by St Margaret's School at The Children's TrustArticle from The Sunday Times Magazine about The Children's Trust's services
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