The Woodland Centre Trust is a registered charity (278681), established in 1980. It operates a single site, Camp Mohawk; a specially equipped, accessible multi-activity day centre in Berkshire that supports over 1,000 children and young people affected by special needs - both physical and cognitive - and their families. Children visit from all over the South East of England. Through our four projects we aim to help reduce isolation and exclusion, build confidence and resilience and improve quality of life for young people with special needs, their siblings and parents. We do this by encouraging social interaction, offering accessible adventures, providing space to relax and helping build social skills - all in a positive, inclusive, supportive environment. Visits may last an hour or a day but the benefits can last a lifetime.
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0Camp Mohawk currently supports over 500 registered families and 42 special needs groups, schools and residential centres from across the South East of England with over 1,000 individual children benefiting from our service each year. The majority of our service users live in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire as well as parts of Surrey and west London. In a 'normal' (pre pandemic) year we receive over 10,000 visits.
The children, young people and families we support are affected by a variety of diagnosed conditions including Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), Downs Syndrome, sight and/or hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, brain injury, genetic disorders and various other life-limiting inherited, acquired or medical conditions. We support families right from the beginning of the diagnostic process, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and we also support families where the children are young carers.
Caring for a child with special needs can place enormous pressures on a family - financial, practical and emotional. For many families, because of their child’s needs, we are the only fully accessible, affordable - and understanding - day centre to which they can bring their child. For others the rare chance to visit and relax as a family - where the needs of the special needs child, their siblings and parents can be met is, as many explain, a ‘lifeline’, and extends the impact of our work well beyond our site boundaries.
