The Trust

A unique charity for your unique child, which is why the programme is unique!

The Sunflower Trust was established in 1996 to offer the Sunflower Programme to children with learning and behavioural difficulties and is a registered charity (1055712).

The Aims and Objectives of the Charity:

• To promote greater public awareness of the Sunflower Programme and its value and success in treating children with learning and behavioural difficulties.
• To make Sunflower Programme available to children whose parents could not otherwise afford the treatment.
• To facilitate on-going independent research for evaluating and developing the effectiveness of treatment.
• To provide comprehensive training for new practitioners.

The Trust understands that the pressures of everyday living impact on our children in many different ways. We also understand how to alleviate the physical, emotional and neurological symptoms that can result from school and life stresses. About one in five children in the UK is thought to suffer from a learning difficulty of some kind. Despite vast investment in the educational and health systems, this situation is shown to be getting worse year by year. There is no single reason for this as every child is different, as are their environments, parents and personal histories. The Sunflower Trust is committed to raising public awareness of this fact.

The Trust's charitable funds were significantly boosted as we were fortunate to receive a large and unexpected bequest from a generous benefactor. This coupled with our own fundraising efforts has now put the Trust in a more secure position to move forward to meet its main objectives, namely: to award grants to treat more financially needy children who would not otherwise be able to benefit from the programme.

The Trust is developing detailed research procedures to provide the evidence required to ensure the Sunflower Programme is more readily accepted by more traditional establishments.

The Trust has grown over the years. It has trained nearly 100 postgraduate practitioners, both in the UK and in Germany, who are already qualified in a full-time medical field.

The Trust will continue to strive to help as many children as possible in the future - the need for our work is great and the opportunities extensive!