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Over the Wall

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Over The Wall
Langstone Technology Park
Langstone Road
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 1SA
GB

Over the Wall is a fun, forward-thinking and creative UK charity that has been transforming the lives of seriously ill children, and their families, for more than 20 years.

Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, but for children living with a serious illness, it’s a very different story. Their lives can be filled with regular hospital visits with often gruelling periods of treatment and painful recovery. Children and their families tell us that friendship, fun and happiness are in short supply and being socially isolated is commonplace. The anxiety of being ill, coupled with loneliness and a sense of being different, often leads to other depressive symptoms which adversely affects both quality of life and personal development at a critical stage in childhood.

Founded by the late Paul Newman, we provide life-changing free-of-charge activity camps and on-line programmes for these children and their families. The most common feedback we receive from parents is that they don’t know what we have done but we’ve given them back the happy son/daughter they thought they had lost to illness.

We actively encourage applications from the broad spectrum of diversity reflected in our beneficiaries, both in terms of visible and non-visible characteristics. We aim to ensure that regardless of where you are in our community, any difference you have is valued.

We also recognise that while work is a serious business and very important to us, so is our life outside of work. We aim to be an Employer of Choice and provide working arrangements that can fit into people’s lives rather than the other way round. To find out more about us take a look at our website at www.otw.org.uk for more information about us and how you could be a part of our team.

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