The Maypole Project

Who we are

About Us

The Maypole Project supports families with children and young people who have complex medical needs, special education needs and disabilities (SEND) by providing early interventions that promote wellbeing, resilience, and better life prospects. We support children either with or awaiting diagnosis, as well as their siblings and parents/carers, through comprehensive family assessments and customised plans. Our services include counselling, play therapy, and a range of inclusive activities such as Maypole Active, youth clubs, holiday programs, a buddy scheme, and access to our sensory cabin and garden. We offer ongoing support for families, helping children to gain confidence, make friends, and overcome everyday challenges.

Mission and Vision

Every year, 12 to 17 of every 10,000 children are diagnosed with an illness and/or disability that threatens or shortens life,65% of these families will need to seek professional support.  The diagnosis itself is life-shattering and stressful for each and every family member.

Our promise to be alongside families every step of the way, creating a package of emotional support tailored to their needs.  We offer the whole family support for as long as it is needed.

Our vision is for all families who have a child with a complex medical illness to have access to a Maypole Project Support Worker at this time of great need.

Our culture and values

Values

Our service is based around developing positive family relationships. Our way of working is to find ways and resources to help build resilience and coping mechanisms so that family members are empowered to navigate the challenges they face, even in the darkest times.

We build therapeutic relationships that are confidential, empathic, genuine, professional, boundaried, and non-judgemental, creating a trusting foundation for support. 

The Maypole Model of Support was developed through research and evidence-based knowledge and experience.  Our deep understanding of the multilayered impacts of a child’s disability or illness helps us provide a unique and specialist service, tailored to each family and individual client according to their circumstances and how their child’s diagnosis affects and impacts their lives.  This ethos is reflected across all our services.

The Maypole Project values embodied by its team of staff, trustees and volunteers are to provide services underpinned by being: safe, accessible, person centred, confidential, innovative and collaborative. 
 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

The Maypole Project is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to actively ensuring that our employees and the people we serve are not discriminated against on the basis of any protected characteristic: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, as well as employment status, responsibility for dependants, trade union activities, social and economic status or unrelated criminal convictions.

TMP is committed to ensure that:

• It is a fair and reasonable employer of paid staff and volunteers

• Every service user has fair and equal access to our services within the resources available.