At The Edward Gostling Foundation, we believe that people living with a mental and/or physical disability or a long-term illness should have the same choices, quality of life opportunities and aspirations as others. To help us achieve this goal we provide financial support to several charity partners who, through their day to day operations, strive to bring about transformational change to enhance the quality of the lives of people in need.

We like our grants to have a significant impact across one or more of our 4 life “themes” and priority is given to organisations that clearly demonstrate this within their application for grant funding. Our themes are broad ranging and we support a number of activities within each theme. In your application we ask you to select the theme you believe best fits your grant application and to provide us with a detailed brief of the outputs and change you hope to bring about with our support. To help you, we provide a brief description of each theme below and some examples of the outputs/services that you will be able to deliver with our grant support:The Foundation provides grants to other charities that support people of all ages living on low incomes who have a physical and/or mental disability or long-term illness.

Themes:

• Health and Wellbeing – the funder is looking to support partner charities in providing access to community facilities offering support services that maintain, improve and advance the health and welfare of people living with disabilities and/or long-term illnesses.

• Independent Living at Home - the funder is looking for charity partners that need funding to support people who wish to remain living in their own home for as long as is practically possible.

• Respite – the funder is looking for partner charities providing facilities in the UK where either the person living with a disability and/or long-term illnesses or the individual caring for them can go to access sports and leisure activities or simply enjoy fun, friendship and the opportunity to socialise and share with others who may be in a similar situation.

• Transition – includes projects that provide a journey through education, training or personal development into employment, long-term volunteering, or other meaningful day time activity, leading to independence, affordable housing and/or supported living.

UK registered charities with less than 6 months of free reserves can apply for grants of up to £10,000. Deadline: Ongoing Contact information: Tel: 01753 753 900

FUNDS AVAILABLE  :-

Small Grants - limited to small and medium-sized charities with a gross annual income of £3M or less. Under this programme we aim to fast track applications and make decisions within 1 month of the application date.  This programme is aimed at charities needing urgent grant support of up to £5K to help maintain an existing service.  Any grant awards made under this programme are unrestricted and may be used to meet the cost of any charitable activity, however the grant must be spent within 6 months of receipt.

Capital Grants - open to all charities with a gross annual income of £5M or less wishing to apply for a grant in excess of £5K towards the cost of funding a new project.  Any grant awarded under this programme will be restricted and may only be used towards the cost of the project to be delivered.