Specialist Seating Funding
Many charities specialise in providing specialist seating funding based on specific criteria. Here, you will find a list of charities that can advise/help you regarding funding specialist equipment.
The Association of Charitable Organisations is the national UK umbrella body for Trusts and Foundations that gives grants and welfare support to individuals in need. A network of over 100 organisations, the ACO provides its members with various services.
It helps disabled people communicate more effectively, supplying communication aids, computers and assistive technology for people with disabilities. Everyone can also provide advice, assessment, and installation of communication equipment, gaming, assistive technology, and more.
Cerebra aims to provide high-quality health and social care information for the parents and carers of children aged 0-16 with neurological conditions. Families with children who have brain conditions face challenges every day. Learning, playing, making friends, enjoying, and experiencing the world can be difficult or impossible. The Cerebra vision is that every family with a child with a brain condition will have the chance to discover a better life together.
ACT grants generally fall into the following areas: building (funding modifications such as stairlifts, bathroom adaptations and vehicle adaptations), equipment (provision of specialised wheelchairs, other mobility aids and equipment including medical equipment to assist independent living) and financial assistance towards respite breaks.
The motor neurone disease association is the only national charity in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland focused on improving access to care, research and campaigning for those people living with or affected by MND.
The Royal British Legion funds wheelchairs and other mobility aids unavailable through statutory sources for veterans with service-attributable injuries. The Legion provides lifelong support for the Armed Forces community, serving men and women, veterans, and their families.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. Uniquely, we also run a housing association and care provider, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
Newlife supports disabled children and their families across the UK. They provide emergency loans and grants to children in urgent need and supply them with life-changing equipment to support their safety and well-being. Newlife is the UK’s largest provider of specialist equipment for disabled and terminally ill children.
The Multiple Sclerosis Society provides help and guidance on obtaining grants and financial aid from charitable and statutory funds. The MS Society branches can support individuals with financial assistance towards equipment, adaptions to the home and car, and op funding for respite breaks.
They provide specialist equipment for disabled children and their families. Caudwell Children transforms the lives of disabled children across the UK, acting as a safety net for families who are unable to access the help they need.
A national charity funding mobility equipment for disabled people. The charity’s primary work is raising funds to supply powered mobility equipment—specifically wheelchairs and scooters—to disabled people who cannot obtain them through statutory or charitable means.
Each year, BWC helps thousands of current and former bank employees and their families by providing information, advice, expert support services, and, in some cases, financial assistance.
Muscular Dystrophy UK (previously known as the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign) is a charity that brings individuals, families, and professionals together to fight muscle-wasting conditions.
They bring together more than 60 rare and very rare progressive muscle-weakening and wasting conditions, affecting around 70,000 children and adults in the UK.
We help fund children’s hospitals and hospices, creating more welcoming and reassuring environments. Children cared for at home are given specialist equipment to alleviate the symptoms of chronic conditions, improve their everyday care and help reduce stress for both children and parents.
Promise Dreams is a national charity that aims to make a real difference to children who are seriously or terminally ill. Every child has a dream, and whatever it may be, we strive to make it come true – whether it be to go on the holiday of a lifetime and spend time with their siblings following extended hospital stays, the chance to meet their celebrity hero, a specially adapted trike to enable them to join in on family bike rides, or essential equipment and resources for their home.
Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity that provides grants to families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. Last year, we offered 88,407 grants or services worth over £33 million to families across the UK.
The Boparan Charitable Trust is passionate about transforming the lives of children with disabilities, life-limiting illnesses, and those in extreme poverty across the UK. The Trust prides itself on being flexible, accessible, and efficient, providing help and support to children and their families. www.theboparancharitabletrust.com
My AFK provides mobility equipment unavailable on the NHS, such as bespoke powered wheelchairs, specialised trikes and walkers, to disabled children and young people up to age 25. The right equipment can mean the difference between playing outside with friends or watching from the sidelines, between working and going to college, and between relying on others for everything. It can also help with pain management, muscle strength, and independence.
At Children Today, we are proud to help change the lives of children and young people with disabilities across the UK daily.
By providing grants for vital, specialised equipment to families in need, we aim to help give these children more independence and the best possible quality of life – from adapted trikes so they can ride a bike for the first time to a powered wheelchair so a young person can get around university.
Lifeline 4 Kids helps such distressed families. The charity has worked tirelessly to help children aged from birth to eighteen. Many millions of pounds have been used to buy equipment for hospitals and homes, purpose-built wheelchairs and speciality aids. A hoist may be installed to facilitate getting a heavy child into a bath, and an adjustable lifting and turning bed may be provided to give a teenager independence. Any project to improve the quality of life for children born with or who have acquired a handicap or disability can be undertaken.
Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust is a nationally registered charity that provides emotional and practical support and increases inclusion by providing disability equipment and educational opportunities, including workshops and facilities. They provide manual wheelchairs, specialist buggies, adapted trikes and hand cycles. www.strongbones.org.uk
We believe that people with ataxia deserve care, understanding, and a cure. We raise funds for medical research into finding treatments and cures for ataxias, raise awareness, and offer support, advice, and information for people living with the condition.
Aspire is a national charity that provides practical help to people whose Spinal Cord Injury is paralysed. A spinal cord injury can happen to anyone at any time, and no one is prepared for how it will change their life. Aspire exists because there is currently no cure.
The Elifar Foundation is a small charity that helps to improve the lives of children and young adults with severe learning difficulties and associated physical disabilities. We provide grants for a variety of items, including electronic wheelchairs, specialised seating, eating aids, special beds and trikes, hoists, communication devices, sensory equipment, and specialist holidays.
Since 1932, we have been the only national Armed Forces Charity that supports limbless veterans throughout their lives.
Blesma, The Limbless Veterans charity, helps all serving and ex-servicemen and women who have lost limbs or the use of limbs or eyes rebuild their lives by providing rehabilitation activities and welfare support. www.blesma.orgÂ
A charity that gives grants to children of families who have worked in the fashion and textiles industry in the past nine years. Many larger grants fund equipment, education or therapy for children with disabilities.
Stanley Stein Deceased Charitable Trust (for those over 75 years old)
Foundation Funding For Disability Projects & Grants for Accessibility & Disabled People https://www.charityexcellence.co.uk/grant-funding-for-disability-projects/
