Pharmaceutical company Shire, which sells a leading treatment for children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the US, has donated the money to the charity to fund research into how trauma affects the development of children's brains.
The research will examine why disturbed children find it hard to manage their behaviour. Kids Company believes it is because their brains are hypersensitised to stress as a result of their formative experiences and want to see if sport and alternative therapies can calm down the parts of their brains that are constantly over-aroused.
Shire's cash will help pay the salaries of seven Kids Company staff and fund a programme of physical therapies and sport activities for children taking part in the research. The therapies include massage, reflexology and osteopathy. There will also be a gym programme for young people with a martial arts specialist and boxing instructor.
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