Downright Excellent provides educational therapies and quality play experiences for children with Downs Syndrome and their siblings, plus education and support for parents/ carers. We currently run weekly speech and language therapy classes, and occupational therapy appointments for children age 0-4. We are planning services for 5-9s in 2009-2010. We follow the 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 Therapist specialising in sensory processing issues
- Small lending library of publications and DVDs
- Free sandwiches from Pret a Manger!
We meet on Fridays during term-time from 10-1pm.
Spring Term 2010: Friday 8 January to Friday 26 March
Half term: 19 February
Families attending Downright Excellent pay a donation of £10 per week towards our running costs. The service is free to all families living on benefits. If people are in financial difficulties we do not wish to add to their stress and they can always talk to the trustees about paying what they can afford, or not paying at all during the period of difficulty.
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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
Read the Downright Excellent story here. From the latest edition of the Big Lottery Fund magazine.
A staged reading of Lou Stein’s version of Dostoevsky’s thriller THE POSSESSED, starring Paul McGann and Susannah York, was held at Wilton’s Music Hall on Sunday, 05 July. Proceeds are to be donated to Downright Excellent. We would like to thank Lou, Deidre, Ethan and everyone at Wiltons for making the night a fantastic success.
Below: our media correspondent Ethan congratulates Susannah York on her outstanding performance.
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.
Islington MP Emily Thornberry came to meet us in October 2008.
Emily said: “Downright Excellent is living up to its name in helping children with Downs Syndrome and their parents or carers. It is a great group to have at the Golden Lane Children’s Centre”
Emily Thornbury MP visits Downright Excellent
