Charity Support
Every year Princesshay supports a local charity. From April 2025 – March 2026 the Charity partner for the year will be Vranch House.
About Vranch House:
Vranch House is an Independent Day School for children aged 2 to 19 with significant complex physical difficulties from all over Devon. Many of the children who attend Vranch House experience associated difficulties including visual impairment and/or hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, speech, language and communication needs, severe, multiple and profound learning needs or complex medical needs. We are all about ‘Making the difference’ to our pupils’ lives, some of which are very short due to life limiting conditions, meaning every day needs to be meaningful and fun.
Our school pupils access our very own curriculum ‘The Vranch House Individual Education and Wellbeing (VIEW)’ Curriculum, which is the mainstay of our educational provision and describes at every step an individual’s assessed needs and projected areas of development as they progress through the school and college. This curriculum was devised with each child being the centre and the focus of what we do day to day at Vranch House, ensuring we are meeting the needs of every one of our very special pupils in a creative, fun and meaningful way.
Vranch House School offers a varied enrichment experience consisting of music therapy, rebound therapy, hydrotherapy, hippotherapy, rebound therapy, personalised programmes for speech, language and communication, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing care and pupils have access to 24 hour postural management. Where appropriate, pupils access a very high level of nursing and therapeutic input to support their health needs throughout their day. We also undertake a multidisciplinary approach, hosting a large range of medical clinics on site, such as: paediatrician, orthopaedic, dietician, dental and continence clinics.
Within our Secondary provision we have the capacity to help continue the developmental journey of our pupils into adulthood. This builds upon all the knowledge and skills our pupils have acquired in the lower school, or primary and junior phases in another setting, to access information and make informed decisions about the things that really matter to them. The approach we use is aimed at helping our pupils gain access to the world of work, be that supported paid employment or voluntary work.
Vranch House also has a Therapy Centre which provides clinical services for children and young people aged 0 – 19 years with a wide range of physical difficulties from mild to very complex. We treat over 2000 outpatients every year covering North, West, East and Mid Devon. Many young people attend Vranch House as outpatients for therapy/treatment, others are pupils at Vranch House School or one of the other special schools in the area. Children are also visited at their mainstream school and at home as necessary.
The charity provides important and essential equipment for each pupil and many outpatients to support the children and young people’s physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, as required and as per professional recommendations during their time at school/on our service. The provided equipment includes Standing frames, Walkers, adapted seats and tables, complex recliners, couches and some IT equipment (in relation to recording and producing written work and communication).
View the Vranch House video here
Get in touch with the Vranch House team;
Website: www.vranchhouse.org
Email – Fundraising@vranchhouse.org
Vranch House, Pinhoe Road, Exeter, EX4 8AD.
01392 468333
Charity number: 1002700
