True Colours Trust - UK Small Grants

Background

The True Colours Trust provides grants to help support families, children and young people in the UK with complex disabilities and/or life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The Trust seeks to bring about better lives for children and their families through a broad mix of research, advocacy, service delivery and innovation.

The Trust works in the UK and Africa and its grant-making is focused on the following three areas

• Improving service delivery and support offered to children with complex disabilities, their families and siblings in the UK.
• Strengthening palliative care services for children and their families in the UK.
• Promoting and developing palliative care for adults and children in Africa including improving access to appropriate pain relief.

Objectives of Fund

The UK Small Grants programme supports local organisations and projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.

Value Notes

Grants of up to £10,000 are available, although many grants are smaller than this.

The Trust aims to support as many organisations as possible and is unlikely to fund any organisation in consecutive years. Successful organisations should wait at least a year after the completion of their funded project before reapplying.

Match Funding Restrictions

Match funding is not a specified requirement.

Who Can Apply

Applications are accepted from UK registered charitable organisations and community interest companies that:

• Have an annual income of less than £350,000.
• Are delivering projects in the UK.
• Are working with children and young people aged from 0-25 years.
• Are open to children and families of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures.

The Trust is particularly keen to receive applications from organisations which operate in areas of high deprivation.

Location

United Kingdom

Restrictions

Funding is not available for:

• Organisations which have received a small grant within the last 12 months.
• Local authorities.
• Residential schemes.
• Schools.
• Condition-specific organisations.
• Organisations seeking funding for wish-granting activities.
• Organisations which are registered outside the UK.
• Projects taking place outside the UK.

Eligible Expenditure

Grants can be used for the following:

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 and families bereaved of a child.
• Family support / parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children.
• Respite which supports the whole family.

Equipment and Materials

• 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.

How To Apply

Applications can be made at any time. The Trust aims to respond to applications with a final decision within eight weeks.

An online application form is available from the Trust's website.