True Colours Trust: UK Small Grant Scheme
UK Small Grants Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in our UK Small Grants programme.
This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with:
disabled children and young people;
children and young people with life-limiting conditions;
and their families.
It provides grants of up to £10,000, although many grants are smaller than this.
The programme is open to applications at any time. We aim to respond to your application with a final decision within six weeks.
We aim to support as many organisations as possible, and therefore are unlikely to fund any organisation in consecutive years. If you are successful in receiving a grant, please wait at least a year after the completion of your project before reapplying. If you are unsuccessful, we also ask that you wait at least one year from the date of your application before reapplying.
What we fund:
Every grant we make is intended to support disabled children and children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
We will consider applications from organisations working with children and young people aged from 0 – 25 years.
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.
Family support / parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children.
Respite which supports the whole family.
Support for disabled children and children with life-limiting conditions who are shielding or unable to return to school due to Covid-19.
Equipment and Materials:
Adaptations to services including PPE, digital service provision and physical changes to spaces to make projects Covid-19 compliant.
Technology to support children and families who are isolated due to Covid-19. (We are unable to make grants to individuals).
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.
Who we fund:
We fund UK registered charitable organisations and CICs which are delivering projects in the UK.
We fund organisations whose annual income is less than £350,000.
We are committed to working towards a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We will fund organisations which share our goal and which are open to children and families of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures.
We are particularly keen to receive applications from organisations which operate in areas of high deprivation.
We regret that we cannot consider applications from the following:
Local authorities
Organisations which have received a small grant from us within the last 12 months
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
For more information, and to apply, visit: https://www.truecolourstrust.org.uk/small-grants-uk/