Sources of Funding and Grant Money for families and individuals

The League of the Helping Hand helps those who are living on a very low income, receiving the appropriate welfare benefits and who have exhausted all other funding sources including statutory funding, occupational, local and specialist charities. We help those: with physical and diagnosed mental health conditions, learning disabilities and people caring for an adult or child with a disability.

The Glasspool Trust is one of the few national charities making grants to individuals which has no restrictions on the type of beneficiary. Our aim is to provide timely, life-enhancing support to people in need; short-term involvement for long-term impact. 

The Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust provides grants to help people in need who are ill, convalescent or disabled. These are used to provide medical and household aids that make a huge difference to people’s ability to manage at home and live as independently as possible. 

The Boshier-Hinton Foundation exists to improve quality of life for people with disabilities or learning difficulties, and their families, in any part of the country, by making donations to charitable institutions providing facilities and advocacy for children and adults with special educational or other needs: or by making donations to other registered Charities: or by making donations to local community charities or other agencies in any part of the country whose objects are no wider than the charity’s own, or to any charity for particular purposes which fall within the Foundation’s objects.

Boshier – Hinton Foundation
Yeomans
Aythorpe Roding
Great Dunmow
Essex CM6 1PD

01245 231032

boshierhinton@yahoo.co.uk

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a registered charity that helps older people and other adults with a disability across England, Scotland & Wales. This year our focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community.

info@bhcfoundation.org.uk

• To assist those with an acquired physical disability, as a result of an accident or birth injury to improve their physical, psychological and emotional well-being via the provision of grants to address individual needs.

• To support registered charitable organisations in England whose objectives are solely related to the provision of services to people with an acquired disability as a result of an accident or birth injury.

Criteria and Application for Individuals

Individual Application Guidelines click here

Individual Application Form click here

Caudwell Children provide family support services, equipment, treatment and therapies for disabled children and their families across the UK.

They also run an Enable Sport programme for talented disabled athletes and their Destination Dreams holiday for children fighting life threatening conditions.

Passionate, positive and practical, they are motivated to improve the lives of the estimated 770,000 disabled children living in the UK, starting with the 400,000 living in or on the margins of poverty.

What makes them special:

• They don’t believe in waiting lists for children
• They treat families and their children as individuals
• They’re a national charity with a local heart

Apply for Support 

Application: Equipment, S.T.E.P Programme (Cerebral Palsy & Brain Injury), A.C.T Programme (Autism), SDR / Proton Beam Special Fund 

Application: Enable Sport – specialist equipment for disabled athletes

Application: Destination Dreams – holidays of a lifetime for children fighting life threatening illnesses and their families

Treatment and surgery not available in the UK

To apply for Treatment not available in the UK, then please contact ben.sutcliffe@caudwellchildren.com or call 0345 300 1348

Access: Family Support – support in times of crisis at home or at hospital

A Guide To Our Family Services For Disabled Children

Access: Short Breaks – activities to access fun and provide children with confidence

British Gas Trust fund

Funding is available for clients to apply for grants to clear their debts and to purchase essential household items.

The service is provided free and confidential and you do not have to pay anything back if you receive an award.

This is a British Gas Trust Fund but you do not need to be a customer to apply, and there are no boundary limits within Merseyside to applying.

Successful applications in the past have included such awards as Gas/Electric arrears, funeral expenses, washing machine, tumble dryer etc.

For more information on what you can and cannot apply for and help with applying for a grant contact Michael Egan at St Helens Citizen Advice Bureau, telephone 01744 751 380 or use our contact form under ‘contact us’