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Financial support & equipment funding

There are additional costs to living with a disability, whether you are an individual with cerebral palsy or a family raising a child with cerebral palsy. Below are some links to organisations offering financial support to individuals with cerebral palsy and families of children with cerebral palsy.

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Turn2us Grants Search

The Turn2us Grant Search is a free tool that helps people find charitable grants and financial support based on their situation, such as disabilities, low income, or specific needs.

 

Funding – Children

The Adamson Trust

The Adamson Trust provide financial assistance for holidays / respite care for young disabled people aged seventeen and under with either a physical or a mental disability.

The Boparan Charitable Trust

The Boparan Charitable Trust aims to help children and young people up to the age of 18, throughout the UK, who are disadvantaged either through poverty, disability or life-limiting conditions.

Cash for Kids

Cash for Kids provides grants for children aged up to 18 years. You can apply online through your local Cash for Kids team

Dream Big Trust

We are a grant-giving charity created in the Summer of 2020 to improve the lives of vulnerable children, young people and adults. We look for opportunities to help someone take their next steps, learn new skills and build a bright future.

Dreams Come True

Dreams Come True helps children and young people with serious and life-limiting medical conditions. They also provide vital sensory equipment, wheelchairs or specially adapted bicycles as well. The only wish granting charity specifically supporting children living in the highest areas of deprivation across the UK.

The Family Fund

The Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled children and young people. They provide grants for a wide range of items such as washing machines, sensory toys, bedding, and family breaks, tablets, outdoor play equipment, clothing and computers.

REACT Children’s Charity

For families of children who will live a shorter life, REACT provides financial assistance for the purchase of specialist equipment, respite and holidays.

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity

Grants of up to £500 are available to enable families to access a variety of support including; Equipment or expenses so children can join in activities with their friends, access to social communications technology, car seats, walkers, bicycles, pushchairs, mobility chairs and specialist furniture or household appliances required as a result of applicant’s health condition. You can contact the charity by emailing enquiries@roalddahlcharity.org.

Sunny Days Children’s Fund

Sunny Days Children’s fund make small grants to enable them to help as many children and their families as possible, whether it be for day trips, medical equipment, respite, hospital travel, or sadly making children’s remaining time as comfortable as possible, to include where achievable, children’s last wishes.

The Talisman Trust

The Talisman Trust assist individuals of small means, who the trustees consider to be deserving and may be described as “going short”. From time to time, the trust also assists other charities with similar objectives to their own. In general, the relief of poverty includes grants for education, health, housing, disablement or disability.

Equipment funding – Children

Action for Kids

Action for Kids provides grants for specialist mobility equipment and wheelchairs to help children and young people (up to 25) become more independent. Currently applications are closed, but due to reopen in Mid February 2025.

The Boparan Charitable Trust

The Boparan Charitable Trust aims to help children and young people up to the age of 18, throughout the UK, who are disadvantaged either through poverty, disability or life-limiting conditions.

Cash for Kids

Cash for Kids provides grants for children aged up to 18 years. You can apply online through your local Cash for Kids team.

Caudwell Children

The main goal of Caudwell Children is to change the futures of all disabled children by providing access to the equipment, therapies, services and treatments they need.

Children Today

Children Today is a charity that raises funds to provide specialised equipment and services for children and young people with disabilities throughout the UK.

CHIPS

The CHIPS charity provides grants for wheelchairs that the NHS will not provide funding for, or that parents cannot afford to buy themselves. If successful, wheelchairs will be custom-made according to the child’s needs, even the colour can be at their request!

Crackerjacks

Crackerjacks helps families and children with disabilities. The charity’s goals include ensuring that children with disabilities have the same opportunities and experiences as other children. They offer grants to parents, guardians, and care workers.

Designability

Designability provide Wizzybugs free of charge to families in the UK. They are fully funded by donations which enables them to give Wizzybugs to young children to use until they outgrow it.

Dreams Come True

Dreams Come True helps children and young people with serious and life-limiting medical conditions. They also provide vital sensory equipment, wheelchairs or specially adapted bicycles as well.

The Elifar Foundation

The Elifar Foundation is a small charity which helps to improve the lives of children and adults with severe learning difficulty and associated physical disability. The foundation fund the purchase of a wide range of highly specialised equipment, which would otherwise be unavailable because of a lack of funds or because there is no statutory provision.

Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust

Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust provides grants to help people of all ages who are ill, convalescent, or disabled. They fund medical items, including wheelchairs, which improve quality of life.

Handicapped Children’s Action Group

Handicapped Children’s Action Group is a registered charity working to provide specialist equipment for children with disabilities, learning difficulties and other special needs.

Independence at Home

Independence at Home is a charity that provides grants to people of all ages who have a physical or learning disability or long term illness and who are in financial need. This financial help enables them to obtain mobility and disability equipment, home adaptations and other essential items to make an immediate, practical and positive effect on daily life at home.

The John Primrose Trust

Grants available to individuals who are connected to Dumfries and Maxwelltown either by parentage or by living there. Application form available upon request.

Lenzie Benevolent Society

c/o AAB Group
133 Finnieston Street
Glasgow

The Society is established for the benevolent or charitable purpose of assisting in relieving poverty and that by grant or otherwise to any necessitous case of hardship, provided such persons have had some connection with Lenzie through parents or otherwise. There is no website for the charity, but they can be contacted at the above address.

Lifeline 4 Kids

Lifeline for Kids provides grants for a variety of mobility equipment, including wheelchairs, to children under 19 years old. You can find more information about their grants on their website.

Mobility Trust

Mobility Trust provides powered wheelchairs and scooters for UK residents who have severe disabilities and who cannot obtain such equipment through other means. They aim to reach and help people who, quite simply, have nowhere else to turn.

Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children

Newlife is the UK’s largest charity funder of children’s specialist disability equipment. They provide grants for essential equipment such as: pain relieving beds, wheelchairs, communication aids, and much more.

REACT Children’s Charity

For families of children who will live a shorter life, REACT provides financial assistance for the purchase of specialist equipment, respite and holidays.

REMAP

The equipment and adaptations created by the volunteers at REMAP are designed to help with mobility and access challenges.

Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity

Grants of up to £500 are available to enable families to access a variety of support including; Equipment or expenses so children can join in activities with their friends, access to social communications technology, car seats, walkers, bicycles, pushchairs, mobility chairs and specialist furniture or household appliances required as a result of applicant’s health condition. You can contact the charity by emailing enquiries@roalddahlcharity.org.

Sunny Days Children’s Fund

Sunny Days Children’s fund make small grants to enable them to help as many children and their families as possible, whether it be for day trips, medical equipment, respite, hospital travel, or sadly making children’s remaining time as comfortable as possible, to include where achievable, children’s last wishes.

The Talisman Trust

The Talisman Trust assist individuals of small means, who the trustees consider to be deserving and may be described as “going short”. From time to time, the trust also assists other charities with similar objectives to their own. In general, the relief of poverty includes grants for education, health, housing, disablement or disability.

Variety

Variety can provide grants from anywhere between £100 and £6,000. They aim to provide whatever is needed, whether it be   equipment needed for basic care or equipment needed for medical or play purposes.

Whizz-Kidz

Whizz-Kidz provides a range of mobility equipment to children and young people with a physical disability to give them independence at home, at school and at play.

Funding – Adults

Dream Big Trust

We are a grant-giving charity created in the Summer of 2020 to improve the lives of vulnerable children, young people and adults. We look for opportunities to help someone take their next steps, learn new skills and build a bright future.

The Talisman Trust

The Talisman Trust assist individuals of small means, who the trustees consider to be deserving and may be described as “going short”. From time to time, the trust also assists other charities with similar objectives to their own. In general, the relief of poverty includes grants for education, health, housing, disablement or disability.

Equipment Funding – Adults

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation

The Foundation favour applications that help improve people’s mobility, independence and quality of life. Grants range from £100 up to £5,000, and are available for adults aged 18 or over with a physical or mental disability.

The Elifar Foundation

The Elifar Foundation is a small charity which helps to improve the lives of children and adults with severe learning difficulty and associated physical disability. The foundation fund the purchase of a wide range of highly specialised equipment, which would otherwise be unavailable because of a lack of funds or because there is no statutory provision.

Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust

Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust provides grants to help people of all ages who are ill, convalescent, or disabled. They fund medical items, including wheelchairs, which improve quality of life.

The Hospital Saturday Fund

Offers assistance to individuals with medical conditions or disabilities, aiding in the purchase of specialised equipment.

Independence at Home

Independence at Home is a charity that provides grants to people of all ages who have a physical or learning disability or long term illness and who are in financial need. This financial help enables them to obtain mobility and disability equipment, home adaptations and other essential items to make an immediate, practical and positive effect on daily life at home.

The John Primrose Trust

Grants available to individuals who are connected to Dumfries and Maxwelltown either by parentage or by living there. Application form available upon request.

Lenzie Benevolent Society

c/o AAB Group
133 Finnieston Street
Glasgow

The Society is established for the benevolent or charitable purpose of assisting in relieving poverty and that by grant or otherwise to any necessitous case of hardship, provided such persons have had some connection with Lenzie through parents or otherwise. There is no website for the charity, but they can be contacted at the above address.

Mobility Trust

Mobility Trust provides powered wheelchairs and scooters for UK residents who have severe disabilities and who cannot obtain such equipment through other means. They aim to reach and help people who, quite simply, have nowhere else to turn.

REMAP

The equipment and adaptations created by the volunteers at REMAP are designed to help with mobility and access challenges.

The Talisman Trust

The Talisman Trust assist individuals of small means, who the trustees consider to be deserving and may be described as “going short”. From time to time, the trust also assists other charities with similar objectives to their own. In general, the relief of poverty includes grants for education, health, housing, disablement or disability.

 

 

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