About Grants

The Fund receives requests for assistance on a regular and wide ranging basis. Here are just some of the things we have provided help with over the years:

Disability

• An 'autolift' bath chair for a retired member of staff with Parkinson's Disease.
  
• Help to establish a former member of staff's handicapped child in purpose-built accommodation.
  
• An electric wheelchair.
  
• Fund special school fees for a child with severe learning difficulties
  
• A paraplegic member of staff who needed assistance with the cost of a special car.
  
• A disabled member of staff who needed a car conversion to remain mobile.
  

Illness

• A stay in a convalescent home following major surgery.
  
• The cost of sheets and other essential items associated with hospice care.
  
• Overnight accommodation and travel for individuals, parents and spouses when medical treatment is provided away from home.
  
• A kidney patient who was in urgent need of a portable dialysis machine.
  

Poverty / Old Age

• The installation of a 'Help The Aged' panic alarm.
  
• Numerous cases of assistance with essential maintenance and repair for those, usually pensioners, on very low incomes.
  
• A disabled pensioner given help to purchase a special electrically powered armchair to assist with standing and sitting.