Knowledge Base
Grants for equipment (mobility and things like beds)
| Barchester’s Charitable Foundation | Provides grants to adults 18 + with a physical disability, learning disability, or mental health condition. Grants of £100-£600 are given towards the cost of buying or adapting mobility equipment for outdoor use. This includes wheelchairs, mobility scooters, bikes/trikes and car adaptations. Applications are made on the foundation’s website and must be submitted by a third party, such as a health care professional, social worker or charity/support representative. |
| Boparen Charitable Trust: | Work directly with families providing financial grants for key items that assist the children. In addition to providing grants for specialist equipment, we donate money towards therapies. We are one of the country’s most efficient charities with a turnaround time of 2 – 4 weeks for funding under £5,000. Our streamlined application process means that once fully completed applications are received, they are individually reviewed within a 14-day period by our specialist board and Trustees. |
| Caudwell Children’s Trust | Provides funding for disabled/chronically ill children under the age of 19 years, for mobility and sensory equipment. The trust also provides grants for children/young people up to the age of 25, for sports equipment. Equipment which can be funded includes powered wheelchairs, therapy trikes, car seats, buggies and more. To be eligible, the child must be from a household with an overall income of less than £45,000 a year. Grants can pay for up to 70-80% of the cost of equipment. Parents/Guardians may apply for their child, though a supporting letter from the child’s physiotherapist or occupational therapist is needed. |
| Children Today | Charity that raises funds to provide specialised equipment and services for children and young people with disabilities throughout the UK. |
| CHIPS | 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. |
| 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. |
| Elifar Foundation | 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 | Provides grants to British citizens, who are disabled or in ill health. Funds are offered to pay for medical and household aids to help with independent living. Examples of items funded include wheelchairs, nebulisers, computers, washing machines and more. |
| The Hospital Saturday Fund | Provides grants to people with a disability/health condition to pay for a wide range of mobility equipment, medical aids, home adaptations and therapeutic treatments such as physiotherapy. The Fund will not correspond with individuals, so a professional needs to submit the application on your behalf. |
| Independence at Home | Provides grants to people of any age who are disabled or have a long term health condition, to help them live independently at home. To receive a grant you must be in financial need, have an ‘eligible’ health condition, and be unable to obtain funding from statutory sources. Grants are provided for mobility and disability equipment, home adaptations, communications equipment, general furnishings, beds and more. |
| Mobility Trust | Provides powered wheelchairs and scooters to severely disabled people, of all ages, who can’t get the equipment through other means. The Trust sources the equipment; it does not give grants for applicants to buy the equipment themselves. An occupational therapy assessment is arranged and paid for by the trust, before equipment is provided. |
| Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children | 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. |
| 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. |