Designed for:
- disabled children and young people
- children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families
- Up to £10K for projects or equipment
- Decision within 6 weeks
- Applicants annual turnover must be less than £350K
- Rolling programme (no deadline indicated)
Projects:
- Activities for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
- Activities which support siblings of disabled children or siblings of children with life-limiting conditions.
- Bereavement support for children and young people.
- Family support / parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children.
- Respite which supports the whole family.
- Support for disabled children and children with life-limiting conditions who are shielding or unable to return to school due to Covid-19.
Equipment and Materials:
- Adaptations to services including PPE, digital service provision and physical changes to spaces to make projects Covid-19 compliant.
- Technology to support children and families who are isolated due to Covid-19. (We are unable to make grants to individuals).
- Renovation, upgrading and additional equipment for hydrotherapy pools and multi-sensory rooms.
- Minibuses.
- Specialised play equipment / access to play and leisure for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families
Particularly keen to receive applications from organisations:
- Which work with children and families from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
- Which operate in areas of high deprivation