Goal: To meet the need for specialist education for children withautism.
Funding: Two thirds from local education authorities, one third fromfundraising.
Contact: 020 8815 5424.
The TreeHouse school for children with autism opened with four pupils in1997 at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Following a somewhat nomadic existence, it found itself in Muswell Hill,where it now educates 40 children aged three to 12.
However, over the next 10 years, the charity plans to expand the schoolsignificantly to 80 pupils aged three to 19.
To this end, TreeHouse is planning to build a National Centre for AutismEducation on a site acquired in Muswell Hill.
The centre will aim to improve the standards of teaching of autisticchildren, as well as providing education and training facilities, ofwhich, the charity says, there is a "desperate shortfall".
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