2025 Charities
About Steps
We offer a free and unique service following the principles of Conductive Education for children with conditions that
cause motor impairments or motor development delays. Steps caters for young children with Cerebral Palsy,
chromosome disorders including Down Syndrome or other conditions which affect the acquisition of motor skills.
Our goal is to develop the skills the children need to progress and maximize their potential. At the same time, we
provide parents with the knowledge, confidence, and resilience they need to understand how they can enhance the
development of their child.
Steps sessions are based on the principles of Conductive Education and follow the Early Years Foundation Stage
Curriculum. This Early Intervention is carefully planned for small groups of children and their parents. Our
professional team encourages and motivates the parent and child groups through a structured programme, designed
to help each child achieve individualised developmental steps. Within each group session, children work through a
series of stimulating and challenging tasks addressing every aspect of a young child’s development; physical, social,
cognitive, communicative and emotional, focusing on the whole personality. The children are encouraged to take an
active part in their learning, planning and solving problems for themselves.
The Steps team offers vital support to hundreds of families, working with children to help them learn and grow by
offering consistent kindness, guidance and support to parents and extended families. The team’s help during the
difficult early years of a child’s diagnosis is a lifeline for countless families who access services at Steps.
About Wishes4Kids
Wishes 4 Kids has been created to grant a wish for children and youngsters in Leicestershire who are life limited,
terminally ill, have experienced life-changing physical or emotional traumas and have suffered major abuse. The
Charity grants wishes for those of eighteen years and below.
Wishes 4 Kids has already granted thousands of wishes for local children.
Sadly we do not have a magical cure for the suffering of these youngsters, however, we can bring a short period of
respite. The time when a child has a wish granted is a moment that will be treasured by them for the rest of their
life. It is also a time which parents will remember – that time when their child forgot the suffering.
There is nothing more amazing than a child’s face when their wish is being granted. To see the excitement overtake
the suffering of a child is to see the real objective of a wish being achieved.
Please help us to grant many more wishes whilst we still have time.