Welcome
Downright Excellent provides educational therapies and quality play experiences for children with Downs Syndrome and their siblings, plus education and support for parents and carers. We currently run weekly speech and language therapy classes for children age 0-4, and introduced services for school age children (5-9s) in 2010. Our aim is to expand all of our offerings as funding and resources allow.
We follow the established teaching programme of the Down Syndrome Educational Trust who visit and evaluate our group.
Members enjoy:
- Age appropriate Speech and Language Therapy groups
- Stay and play for children (when not in their SLT group)
- Informal parents support group during stay and play
- Occupational Therapy specialising in sensory processing
- Small lending library of publications and DVDs
We meet on Fridays and Saturdays during term-time from 10-1pm, – see ABOUT US for more information.
Families attending Downright Excellent contribute £10 per week towards running costs. Contributions are waived for families receiving state benefits and we provide hands-on support and advice to all families in obtaining grant support where possible. We aim to provide the best possible service to all of our families, regardless of their financial circumstances.
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Congratulations to Lucy (our former chair) for being nominated for the Divine Women Awards:
Here’s a couple of photos from the awards ceremony – Lucy and Debs and Lucy and Livia Firth (a member of the judging panel).
Downright Excellent is a limited company, registration number 6249083.
Registered Charity number 1120863.
Cerebra is a charity that offers grants of up to £500 towards Speech and Language Therapy for children who have not accessed SLT in the last six months. New families who have not yet accesed our SLT programme may like to apply here
Generous donation from Golden Lane Nursery trustees
Mark Pudge and Sandra Tucker of City.Comm present a cheque for £4750 to Lucy Newham and Debra Carlin. The money is from the surplus left after the winding up of the old Golden Lane nursery in the Barbican which Downright Excellent is hoping to take over and renovate in the future.
