There’s 3 ways you can give to Acorn Alternative Provision…

- When you donate to the Central Fund, your support helps strengthen and grow our work Acorn-wide.
Your gifts will help us:
- Develop our expertise – providing research-based training for our team in SEND and therapeutic care;
- Provide life-changing, adventure-based residential experiences for our young people each year;
- Open new Centres and work with more young people;
- Grow our reach and impact by strengthening our external communications.
2. If you’d prefer your donation to make a difference locally, you can choose to support a specific Acorn Centre. Your gift will fund enrichment activities that go beyond the core curriculum, directly enhancing the Acorn AP experience for young people in your chosen Centre.
Your gift will help fund:
- Use of specialist facilities, such as local sports and fitness centres;
- Specialist tutors and visitors to meet specific learning or wellbeing needs;
- Professional counselling or therapy for individual young people;
- Regular off-site trips and visits.


3. The Compassion Fund helps us respond to the wider essential needs we sometimes see in our young people and their families, with timely acts of kindness, whenever required, throughout the year.
Your donation enables us to provide:
- Emergency food parcels;
- Essential items and care packages, such as clothing or bedding;
- Other kinds of practical support when unexpected needs arise.

