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Older People
Surviving Winter Fund
The ‘Surviving Winter’ Fund has been created to help anyone over 60 years old in Kent & Medway who cannot afford to heat their home and maintain a reasonable standard of living during the winter. Funds are available to organisations working with older people in need, to manage hardship grants and for project activities.
Grants available from £250 to £3,000 No Deadline
For further information visit Kent Community Foundation
Grocers' Company
The charity supports nine distinct deserving groups:
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Churches |
Medicine |
| Youth |
Disability |
Heritage |
| Relief of Poverty |
Elderly |
The Arts |
For further information and details on how to apply please click here
| The Ireland Fund of Great Britain |
| The IFGB’s primary focus is to raise and distribute money to groups that specifically help the many vulnerable and elderly Irish in the UK. They provide funding to Irish community organisations throughout the UK and Ireland, whose focus is to support those in health, housing, social or psychological need. |
| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Barchester Healthcare Foundation |
Grant Value: up to £5,000 |
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The Barchester Healthcare Foundation is a registered charity that helps adults with a disability. Their focus is helping older people (65+) in our community, to improve mobility, independence and quality of life.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Vegetarian for Life Grants |
Grants up to £3,000 |
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This charity aims to support and enhance quality of life for older vegetarians and vegans. Grants are normally made to assist ‘independent living’, for example: to provide ramps, grab handles, minor kitchen/bathroom adaptations, stair lifts, or perhaps respite care.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here. |
| Fuserna Foundation |
Grant Value: £5,000 - £15,000 |
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The Fuserna Foundation revitalises and supports charities and charitable projects that are subject to financial constraints and have a combined lack of exposure and publicity in relation to their charitable cause. The Foundation will usually issue grants between £5,000 and £15,000. Applications can be submitted at any time.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| H.B. Allen Charitable Trust |
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This is a general charitable trust. The Trustees have no restrictions on them as to the kinds of project or the areas they can support. The Trustees are prepared to fund core costs as well as capital projects, but they are unlikely to provide initial funding for newly established organisations
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Charles Hayward Foundation |
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Make grants to charities which are registered in the U.K. They support projects in the following categories:
- Heritage and Conservation
- Criminal Justice
- Hospices
- Older People
- Overseas
- Small grant scheme up to £5,000
They place great emphasis on funding projects that are developmental or innovative with a preferred area of impact at community and neighbourhood level.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
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The Clothworkers' Foundation
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The funds work to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities facing disadvantage.Applications to the Main Grants Programme and Small Grants Programme must fall under one of the following areas:
- Encouragement of Young People - Preference is given to organisations working with economically disadvantaged youth in deprived areas.
- Social Inclusion - Support for organisations which tackle such problems as substance abuse, homelessness, offending and family breakdown.
- Elderly - Priority is given to projects focusing on those in need or at risk of social exclusion.
- Disability - Support for organisations tackling the needs of disabled people, and people with mental health issues, but not work purely to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act.
- Visual impairment - Support for organisations addressing the needs of blind or visually impaired people.
- Textiles - UK academic institutions involved in textiles, technical textiles and colour science. Heritage projects involving textiles collections, particularly those of national importance.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
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| The Childwick Trust |
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| The Childwick Trust provides funding to registered charities to assist people with disabilities, the promotion of health, the elderly in need and for the welfare of people involved in the horse racing world. |
| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| Handicapped Aid Trust |
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The Handicapped Aid Trust has helped over 4,000 people with disabilities to take a break, in many cases allowing the permanent carer the benefit of much needed, if short, relief from those they care for every day. They welcome applications from those who would like to take a break but cannot afford to pay the extra expenses of essential helpers.
Applications are reviewed and funds allocated twice a year 1st February for summer holidays and by 1st August for winter holidays.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
| The Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise |
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PRIME is the only national UK charity that helps the over 50s get back into work through self-employment.
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| For further information please click here |
| The W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation |
Grant Value: up to £5,000 |
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The foundation has been set up to benefit older people.
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| For further information including details on how to apply please click here |
The Concertina Charitable Trust
Concertina makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly. This not only brightens up their lives, but also provides a therapeutic benefit to their health and well-being.
Concertina is keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding.
For further information including details on how to apply please click here
Closing dates: 30th April and 31st October
The Sir Cliff Richard Charitable Trust
Grants are made by the Trust every quarter, with about 50 different registered charities benefiting each time. Priority is given to charities working in medical research, with children and the elderly, and those involved with the physically and/or mentally disabled. While these form the main focus, obviously other charities, which Cliff would also like to encourage, do receive help from time to time.
For further information please click here
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Trusthouse gives grants for running costs or one-off capital costs to charities and not-for-profit organisations. They accept applications which address the following issues:
Rural community projects, urban deprivation, community support, drugs and alcohol rehabilitation, elderly support and respite for carers, ex-offender projects, young people - life skills and employment, physical and mental disability, palliative care, arts projects, education and heritage.
For more information and how to apply visit www.trusthousecharitablefoundation.org.uk
The Percy Bilton Charity
Large Grants of £2,000 and above & Small Grants of £500
The Percy Bilton Charity is a grant-making trust and company limited by guarantee founded in 1962.
Grants are made to organisations and individuals in need throughout the U.K.
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Organisations assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities and older people may apply for grants towards capital expenditure.
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Social workers may apply on the behalf of individuals who have a disability or mental health problem, or who are over 65, for grants to purchase basic furniture, equipment and clothing.
For more detailed information please click here....
Allen Lane Foundation
The foundation is interested in funding organisations in the following area's:
Asylum-seekers and Refugees, Gay, Lesbian and Bi-sexual, Gypsies and Travellers, Migrant Workers, Offenders and Ex-Offenders, Older Peoples, People experiencing Mental Health Problems and Peoples experiencing Violence or Abuse.
Grants of £500 - £15,000
For further information visit www.allenlane.org.uk
Aid for the Aged in Distress
AFTAID consider applications for a wide variety of grant requests to help the elderly in financial distress but the beneficiary of the grant MUST be of state pensionable age, a UK citizen, on a lower income and have minimal savings.
They mainly take applications from individuals, however most contact is made by caring professionals and members of voluntary organisations.
For more information and details of how to apply click here…
Garfield Weston Foundation
The foundation is delighted to support a wide range of organisations but will only consider applications from UK registered charities.
It will not fund one off events or make a commitment to fund over several years. Grants made are typically for a single year.
For more information click here...
Yapp Charitable Trust
The Yapp Charitable Trust make grants to small registered charities to sustain their existing work with: elderly people, children and young people aged 5 -25, people with disabilities or mental health problems, people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical origin - such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending.
They also make grants to sustain small registered charities' existing work in the fields: education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged whether adults or children.
To see if you are eligible to apply please click here...
For visit www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk for more information
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards
The Tesco Charity Trust Community Awards Scheme Provides one-off donations of between £1,000 and £4,000. The funding they give goes towards providing practical benefits, such as equipment and resources for projects that directly benefit children, the elderly and adults and children with disabilities, living in the local communities around their stores in the UK.
There are two categories of Community Awards:
1. Grants to support children's welfare and/or children's educations (including special needs schools)
Applications can be made between:1st December & 31st January or 1st May & 30th June
2. Grants to support elderly people and/or adults and children with disabilities
Applications can be made between: 1st February & 31st March or 1st August & 30th September
Applications can be made via the website or click here for the application guidelines
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