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Charitable Funding

There are many charities who specialise in providing funding based on specific criteria.

On this page you will find a list of charities which may be able to help you with the funding of your mobility equipment or contribute to your Personal Wheelchair Budget.

Learn more about Personal Wheelchair Budgets Visit the Disability Grants website

The Association of Charitable Organisations

The Association of Charitable Organisations is the national UK umbrella body for Trusts and Foundations that give grants and welfare support to individuals in need. A network of over 100 organisations, the ACO provides a whole range of services to its members.

Visit the ACO website

Everyone Can

Everyone Can 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.

Visit the Everyone Can website

Cerebra

Cerebra’s aim is to provide high-quality health and social care information for the parents and carers of children aged 0-16 years with neurological conditions. Their  vision is that every family that includes a child with a brain condition will have the chance to discover a better life together.

Visit the Cerebra website

Promise Dreams

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 aim 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.

Visit the Promise Dreams website

Motor Neurone Disease Association

The MND 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 MND Association has launched a new project to help support people living with MND access specialist advice about available funding. 

Visit the MND Association website

The Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion provides lifelong support for the Armed Forces community – serving men and women, veterans, and their families. The Royal British Legion can also help fund wheelchairs and other mobility aids which are not available through statutory sources for Veterans with service attributable injuries.

Visit the Royal British Legion website

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. JRF wants to speed up a transition to an equitable future, free from poverty, where people and the planet can flourish. JRF fund and work in partnership with a range of organisations, collectives and individuals in pursuit of their mission.

Visit the JRF website

Newlife

Newlife supports disabled children and their families across the UK. They provides emergency loans and grants to children in urgent need supplying them with life changing equipment to support their safety and wellbeing. Newlife are the UK’s largest provider of specialist equipment for disabled and terminally ill children across the UK.

Visit the Newlife website

MS Society

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 help towards equipment, adaptions to the home and car, and op funding for respite breaks.

Visit the MS Society website

Cauldwell Children

Caudwell Children exists to make life fair for disabled and autistic children.To change the world so that disabled and autistic children have the choice, opportunity, dignity and understanding they deserve. They provide specialist equipment for disabled children and their families, transforming the lives of disabled children across the UK by acting as a safety net for families who are unable to gain the help they need.

Visit the Cauldwell Children website
Mobility Trust

Mobility Trust

Mobility Trust are a national charity funding mobility equipment for disabled people. The charities main work is focused upon raising funds to supply powered mobility equipment, specifically wheelchairs and scooters, to disabled people who cannot obtain them through statutory or charitable means.

Visit the Mobility Trust website

Bank Workers Charity

Each year BWC help thousands of current and former bank employees and their families through the provision of information, advice, expert support services and in some cases financial assistance. They offer a grant to those who are eligible to help manage the financial impact of unforeseen events or long-term conditions.

Visit the BWC website

Muscular Dystrophy UK

Muscular Dystrophy UK (previously known as the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign) is the charity bringing 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.

Visit the Muscular Dystrophy UK website

Variety

Variety help fund children’s hospitals and hospices, creating environments that are more welcoming and reassuring. 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.

Visit the Variety website

Family Fund

Family Fund is the UK’s largest charity providing grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people. Family Fund believes that families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people should have the same choices, quality of life, opportunities and aspirations as wider families.

Visit the Family Fund website

Boparan Charitable Trust

Boparan Charitable Trust are passionate about transforming the lives of children with disabilities, life-limiting illnesses and those who are 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.

Visit The Boparan Charitable Trust website

AFK

AFK helps children and young people who are disabled or neurodiverse to live more independent, fulfilling lives. AFK provides mobility equipment not available on the NHS, such as bespoke powered wheelchairs, specialised trikes and walkers, to disabled children and young people up to the age of 25.

Visit the AFK website

Children Today

Children Today help change the lives of children and young people with disabilities across the UK every day by providing grants for vital, specialised equipment to families in need, they aim to help give these children more independence and the best possible quality of life – from adapted trikes to a powered wheelchair.

Visit the Children Today website

CHIPS

CHIPS provides wheelchairs for children who would otherwise have no way of getting around on their own. CHIPS funds the wheelchairs that the NHS cannot or will not provide and that the parents cannot afford to buy. The CHIPS Charity committee works for free, no expenses are deducted and every penny raised goes towards providing the quality of life that is the right of every child.

Visit the CHIPS website

Lifeline 4 Kids

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 specialty aids. Any project to improve the quality of life for children born with, or who have acquired a handicap or disability, can be undertaken.

Visit the Lifeline 4 Kids website

Strongbones

Strongbones Children’s Charitable Trust is a national registered charity set up to provide emotional and practical support, increase inclusion by providing disability equipment and educational opportunities including workshops and facilities.They provide manual wheelchairs, specialist buggies, adapted trikes and hand cycles.

Visit the Strongbones website

Ataxia UK

Ataxia UK believe that people with ataxia deserve care, understanding and a cure. We raise funds for medical research into finding treatments and cures for the ataxias, raise awareness, and offer support, advice and information for people living with the condition.

Visit the Ataxia UK website

Aspire

Aspire is a national charity that provides practical help to people who have been paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury. 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.

Visit the Aspire website

Elifar Foundation

The Elifar Foundation is a small charity which helps to improve the lives of children and young adults with severe learning difficulty and associated physical disability. They provide grants for a variety of items including wheelchairs, specialised seating, eating aids, special beds and trikes, hoists, communication devices, sensory equipment and specialist holidays.

Visit the Elifar Foundation website

Blesma

Blesma, the Limbless Veterans charity helps all serving and ex-Service men and women who have lost limbs, or lost the use of limbs or eyes, to rebuild their lives by providing rehabilitation activities and welfare support. Since 1932, Blesma have been the only national Armed Forces Charity that supports limbless veterans for the duration of their lives.

Visit the Blesma website

Fashion & Textile Children's Trust

Fashion & Textile Children's Trust are a charity who give grants to children of families who work, or have worked in the past nine years, in the fashion and textiles industry. A significant number of larger grants go towards funding equipment, education or therapy for children with disabilities.

Visit the FTCT website
Whizz Kidz

Whizz Kidz

Whizz Kidz are the UK's leading charity for young wheelchair users. Creating opportunities for young wheelchair users to get the equipment, skills and confidence to go further.

Visit the Whizz Kidz website