S.C.C.T. is a national registered charity set up to help alleviate the pain, suffering and financial burden of families who have children suffering from brittle bone disease, bone cancer, scoliosis, arthritis, and all other conditions of the bone.

The charity has now been registered for nine years, which gives us years of experience in our field. This experience has allowed us to assist children and their families with guidance on how to make their conditions more manageable and enhance their quality of life to an optimum level.

Our aims are to take children out of social isolation and give them the ability to participate in every day life. We also relieve the families financial burden whilst they come to the realisation that their child has a long-term incurable disability that will have a life changing impact on the whole family.

A majority of the children we encounter come from the most poverty stricken sections of society coupled with the fact that many of these parents have had to give up employment to provide round the clock care for the life altering conditions of their children.

We are sure you appreciate it takes much strength and resilience to care for a disabled child, and we often feel society overlooks this as a whole, leaving carers and their children feeling severed from the outside world.

Below is an extensive list of the work we carry out, but the trustees are always open-minded to innovative projects exclusive to children under our criteria.

• We provide sensory equipment, sensory rooms and practical advice regarding construction of sensory rooms.

• We provide walking frames, wheelchairs, specialist buggies and adapted trikes to enable children to gain access in the community.

• We provide outdoor play equipment and the installation of soft play areas, to enable children to play with optimum safety.

• We provide advice to families in accessing welfare benefits. This includes disability benefits and disabled facilities grants that they may be entitled to receive.

• Adaptations to properties and medical equipment to be installed, this allows families to live as normal as possible. We also build extensions to homes to enable children to be cared for on ground floor level where the use of stairs is inappropriate.

• We purchase and install hydrotherapy baths to provide pain relief.

• We provide funds for social activities/day trips to take children out of social isolation.

• We own respite homes that are fully adapted for children with disabilities on the coasts of the U.K.

• We also provide vital medical equipment such as sleep systems to enable children to sleep with the correct posture and aid pain relief.

• We purchase specialist computers and laptops with expert educational software, to enable children to be home educated and continue tutoring at home whilst in recovery periods or unwell.

• Hardship grants to help with essential bills, household appliances and clothing.