is a grant making charity that supports causes in the UK and Africa, with a focus of offering grants to small organisations delivering programmes that benefit children and their families, in particular children with disabilities.

The Trust has a number of grant programmes, however only two of these are open for unsolicited applications, these being the Small Grants UK and Small Grants Africa programmes. Across all of their programmes the Trust provides grants of around £2 million each year.

Within the small grants programmes the Trust only supports registered charities.

Small Grants UK

This programme offers grants of up to £10,000 and will only offer one-off grants and very rarely offer grants in consecutive years.

The Trust regularly supports programmes of the following nature:

• Hydrotherapy pools.
• Multi-sensory rooms.
• Mini buses.
• Family support.
• Sibling projects.
• Bereavement support.
• Specialised play equipment

Charities can apply by completing the online application form, or downloading the form from the Trust website and submitting via the post.