Are you worried about your child’s mental health?

Standing in the Gap is here to help your family manage the big emotions of fear, anxiety, anger and grief.

We are a UK charity with a global reach.

Based in Bloxham, Oxfordshire we offer evidence based facilitated online workshops for children and families to help them to understand and manage big emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger and grief and key transitions such as starting or changing school.

We have worked directly with over 4000 parents and children, and every program is rooted in empathy and designed to make a lasting difference.

Our Mission is to support children and families by providing tools to build emotional wellbeing and good child mental health

Our Vision is for every child to be emotionally healthy and able to flourish

We work in empowering partnerships with families and their communities

We bridge the gap in child mental health support with a programme of facilitated talks, workshops, online resources and bespoke support.

We work in empowering partnerships with parents and schools to achieve emotional wellbeing in preschool and primary aged children.

If you are able to donate to help support us in this vital work please do

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What support do we offer?

We are quite unique as a charity in that we work with parents AND children together. We believe that both are important together for good child mental health.

Managing Anxiety (4–11 year olds)

Is your child anxious and worried and you aren’t sure how best to support? Come along to our monthly online workshops for children and parents. Click ‘explore’ below for more information and how to join us at the next workshop.
100% of parents who attended felt better equipped to manage their child’s anxiety
100% of parents would recommend the workshop to another parent
“The workshop contained lots of information and practical tips” Parent
Our Managing Anxiety workshop is supported by a resource pack, of the same name, to enable families to practically use the interventions we recommend.

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Managing Anger (4–11 year olds)

Does your child get angry and you aren’t sure what to do? Come along to our online workshops for children and parents.
Together find out about practical tips to help you both understand and manage any BIG feelings.
Parents told us:
100% felt more confident in managing their child’s anger.
“The workshop is clear and easy to understand, it feels doable”
“The workshop is well balanced for parents and children”
Click ‘explore’ below for more information and how to join us at the next workshop.
Our Managing Anger workshop is supported by an excellent resource pack, to enable families to practically use the interventions we recommend.

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Managing Grief

Losing a loved one is never easy at any age whether this is a grandparents, relative, friend or family pet.
As a parent knowing what to do, what can help and how to support your child can be hard.
This fantastic resource contains a series of videos supporting you through this time along with a beautiful illustrated book, The Teddy with the Hole in its Heart.
Click Explore to find more information

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Starting Primary School

We know Starting school can be an anxious time for parents and children. We have designed and delivered our Starting Primary school talk specifically for parents whose children start school in September.
NEW for this year we have the talk available at any time for parents to watch by video.
Please click explore to find out more information

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Preparing for Secondary School

Evidence shows that the transition from primary school to secondary school is one of the most crucial events in a child’s life, if they struggle, it impacts their educational capacity as well as their emotional and mental health. To assist with this, we have our Preparing for secondary School talk, which is very well evaluated by parents and students.
We run these as live events, so you can ask questions from May-July each year.
If you would benefit from the information NOW you can access our NEW video presentation via the Explore button below.
This is also supported by our Preparing for Secondary School resource pack which parents tell us is very useful.

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Bespoke Support

Sometimes children and parents need more support which we can provide through our unique programs: Frameworks 2 Flourish and TLC: The Lifeboat Centre.

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