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Gympanzees – A world of fun & fitness for all disabled children

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A world of fun & fitness for all disabled children

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Our Mission

To create fully inclusive spaces that improve health outcomes for disabled children and young people by offering regular exercise and therapeutic play while addressing the isolation faced by these children and their families.

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Why We Help

There are 90,000 young people with disabilities within an hour of Bristol and over 1.5 million in the UK.

77% of children with disabilities cannot access regular leisure facilities so can’t play, exercise or socialise in the same ways as their peers.

Why We Exist
Image shows two adults helping aid a young boy rolling a brightly coloured ball on a larger round drum led on the ground.
"You've opened up a world in which we can just exist exactly how we need to."
A young child in a dark sensory room with lights and colourful cloths.

Our Appeal

Gympanzees Project Home Appeal logo with a roof- like line at the top, broken up with the 'G' from the Gympanzees logo with the words, 'Project Home,' underneath.

Help us make this building a home

We are fundraising to open the UK's first fully accessible exercise, play, and social centre for disabled children and young people.

We have already fundraised to secure a building and, now we need to raise £8 million to make the necessary renovations to open a purpose-built facility by Summer 2026.

Our Appeal
An image of a building on some green land from a birdseye view.
The image shows a large a outline of the Gympanzees G with a thermometer to the left of this totalling up to £8million for the fundraising target. The top text reads 'Gympanzees Fundrasing for Project Home so far', with the bottom reading £3.1million to purchase the site and reads 'Opening our doors,' at the top of the thermometer.

Our Funders and Supporters

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Our Awards

The image is of a logo that read 'Points of Light' for the award given by the current Bristol Mayor. There's a star shape to the top right made of small circles.
The Queens Award for Enterprise Innovation, with a small shaped crown, the letter 'E' in the middle with a winged accent and the words underneath that read 'The Queen's Awards for Enterprise Innovation 2021.'
Markel 3rd Sector Care Awards with a dark circle reading 'Markel 3rd Sector Care Awards 3' with a banner underneath reading 'Winner,' and then '2019' underneath this.
The image shows a 'World Cerebal Palsy Day' logo, with a star to the left with a band around this. The text to the right of this reads, 'Winner, World Cerebral Palsy Day, Awards 2019.'
The image is of the 'Natwest 2018 Winner' with a geographic logo for Natwest in the top left. 'Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards' in small print to the right of that. 'GBR' with union flag design within the letters to the right again. Below that reads '2018 Winner, Wales and the South West.' Then 'Stephanie Wheen, Gympanzees in smaller print below that. With the final line at the bottom reading 'Entrepreneur for Good Award.'
The image is of a darkly coloured background with lighter words on top. The first line is in bold colours reading 'Winner.' Below this to the left reads, in smaller print, 'Best Community Group Construction to sport and Physical Activity. Then to right of this also in smaller print, Groundwork Community Awards 2019.' There is then a triangular lined shape to the right of that.

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Gympanzees CEO and Founder Stephanie Wheen, smiling at a young girl in a hoisted sling smiling back at her.
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A young child smiling for the camera playing with metal sensory ball.
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A young girl sat cross-legged in a seated small hammock-like sling smiling at the camera.
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Image of a young boy with a dark tree patterned t-shirt sat on a stool in front of some drums with headphones on and a drumstick in one hand and his other hand holding the headphones to his head. This is in a classroom setting in the background.
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