Grants for Individuals in Need (CAMBRIDGESHIRE and PETERBOROUGH)
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Grants for individuals in need (CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH) This is a short directory of grant help available locally for people who are experiencing hardship. For more comprehensive information go to the full directory of ‘Grants for Individuals in Need’. This is published annually by the Directory of Social Change. It can be purchased or you can consult it at your local Citizens Advice Bureau. There is also a grants directory on https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Find-Benefits-Grants. PLEASE NOTE – NEARLY ALL GRANTS MUST BE APPLIED FOR BY RECOGNISED CHARITABLE OR STATUTORY ORGANISATION ON BEHALF OF AN INDIVIDUAL Name of fund Eligibility What is available Contact details How to apply GENERAL (NATIONAL) Family Action To preserve and Small grants to assist Email: grants.enquiry@family- Online Charity N0: 264713 protect the good health recuperation and action.org.uk https://www.family-action.org.uk/what-we- (in particular mental independence and/or do/grants/welfare-grants/ health) of individuals prevent problems Telephone: 020 7254 6251 and families and the spiralling (from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Wed prevention and relief of and Thurs) poverty. R. L. Glasspool UK individuals in need, Small one off grants to Grants Team, Second Floor, Online Charity Trust hardship or distress. Or help to overcome short Saxon House, 182 Hoe Street, https://www.grantsplus.org.uk/ Charity No: 214648 those who are sick, term crisis with practical Walthamstow, London, EH17 Applications must be made by eligible referring convalescent or infirm. support, e.g. beds, white 4QH. 02085204354. agencies. Must demonstrate that goods clothing, travel Email: [email protected] exhausted other costs www.glasspool.org.uk sources of help, e.g. Local assistance scheme / benevolent schemes Heinz, Anna and People experiencing Grants for equipment, Heinz, Anna and Carol Kroch By letter on organisations headed notepaper. Carol Kroch severe poverty or adaptations and Foundation Estimates for household goods must be based Foundation hardship and who have household items PO Box 327 on Argos prices and include product code. Charity No:207622 medical problems or Hampton Applications can only be made by professional fleeing domestic London working with an individual. No emergency violence TW12 9DD assistance – grants can take several weeks Telephone: 02089790609 and payment is to the organisation Email: [email protected] Newby Trust Vulnerable individuals. One of grants of up to www.newby-trust.org.uk Online via website Limited Children, young people, £250 for household [email protected] https://www.newby-trust.org.uk/on-behalf-of- Charity No: 227151 elderly, disabled. essentials, furnishings, Applications by third parties an-individual/ Must demonstrate clothing, school uniforms, only. Cheques made payable to applied to Local footwear, mobility aids. sponsoring organisation. Assistance first. Help Grant funds close as soon as to overcome crisis. funding for financial year used so may not always be available The Talisman People in the UK living For education, health, Mr Philip Denman, The Applications on sponsoring organisation’s Charitable Trust on a very low income housing, disability related Talisman Charitable Trust headed notepaper setting out circumstances – Charity No: 207173 for the relief of poverty. issues. Grant applications Lower Ground Floor Office see website for description are not acknowledged and 354 Kennington Road http://www.talismancharity.org/ only hear outcome if London successful SE11 4LD Tel: 0207 820 0254 Website: www.talismancharity.org The Vicar’s Relief Any vulnerable person Small grants up to £350 The Vicar's Relief Fund The sponsoring agency must first register on- Fund (This is part who is homeless or at (average £200) available St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity line before being allowed to make an of the St Martin’s In risk of being homeless within 2 days of St Martin-in-the-Fields application on behalf of their client. Volunteers The Field Charity or previous experience application for household Trafalgar Square may not register. No: 1156305) of being homeless and goods, to avoid eviction, London Online trying to maintain a help with move from WC2N 4JH https://smitf.flexigrant.com/ tenancy temporary accommodation Telephone 020 7766 1125 The office is usually open Monday to Friday from 9am until 4pm.All applications must be made online. For more information visit their website at https://www.smitfc.org/grants/ ACTS 435 A national charity run at Grants of c. £100 for Cambridge Community Church, Applications only through the ‘Advocates’ at Charity No: a local level by essentials and for DRO Cambridge, 14 Alpha Terrace, the individual churches. 1131305 churches. Church fees. Can apply up to 3 Cambridge CB2 ‘Advocates’ apply on times a year. 9HT.Phone:01223 844415 See website for list of all the churches involved behalf of those in need, Email: [email protected] in ACTS 435. money is raised Website: www.cthree.org through a http://acts435.org.uk/how/the-charity ‘Crowdfunding’ Christ the Redeemer, approach and grants Cambridge, Chaplain are awarded to the Cambridge 104 Squadron ATC, individual. Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8RL Life Church Peterborough, Peterborough, 139b Fletton Avenue, Peterborough, PE2 8BY Phone: 01733 552227 Website: http://life-church.eu Open Door Church, Peterborough, 73 Hallfields Lane, Gunthorpe, Peterborough, PE4 7YL Phone: 01733 708090 Email: tellmemore@opendoorchurch- uk.com Website: http://www.opendoorchurch- uk.com St. John the Baptist, Stanground, Peterborough, Church Street, Stanground, Peterborough, PE2 8HF Phone: 01733 981003 The Fens Circuit, The Methodist Church, Upwell, Upwell Methodist Church, Town Street, Upwell, PE14 9DQ Phone: 01945773567 Email: [email protected] The Royston Foodbank, Royston, PO Box 259, Royston, SG8 1DZ Email: [email protected] Website: www.royston.foodbank.org.uk GENERAL (LOCAL TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE , PETERBOROUGH & WEST NORFOLK ) Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Living on low income Vouchers for recycled [email protected] for THE FUND IS CHANGING IN APRIL Local Assistance and under exceptional furniture and white goods details of your local CLAS champion 2017 – for more information email Scheme (CLAS) pressure and home decoration. through whom applications must be [email protected] (new scheme from Supermarket vouchers made. 01/04/17) for food and clothing No applications from individuals. Cookers The Foundation of Women: One off and recurrent The Clerk to the Trustees, To apply and for more information Edward Storey Aged over 40 living in grants. The Foundation of Edward Storey, contact the Clerk to the Trustees. Charity No: 203653 the county of Occasional small Mount Pleasant Email [email protected] Cambridgeshire. pensions for those over Cambridge CB3 0BZ A home visit is necessary to assess 60. Telephone: (01223) 364405 need. Must be ‘financially Amounts vary depending Email: [email protected] unsupported’ (i.e. on need. single, separated, divorced or widowed) The Ebyon Trust Those in acute financial Makes grants to Trustees: Contact trustees: Charity No: 1049453 deprivation in the organisations for the Mr Robert Thorndike & Mrs Carol Anne Mr Robert Thorndike, or Mrs Carol county of benefit of individuals in Thorndike, 10 Tennyson Avenue, St. Anne Thorndike, Cambridgeshire. need. Ives, PE27 6TU Tel: 01480 468998 Young, elderly, abused, Tel: 01480 468998 homeless, those in violent homes. The Radley County of Small grants for essential Correspondent: By letter or email from the social Charitable Trust Cambridgeshire. items only. JENNIFER JANE WHEATLEY worker, support worker etc. The letter Charity No: 208313 Prevention and relief of Grants to other charities 12 JESUS LANE will outline the case of need and other poverty. or voluntary bodies (for CAMBRIDGE funding streams that have been Children, young people, individuals in need). CB5 8BA approached. elderly, disabled. Email: [email protected] You can contact the charity by email: Grants to other Website: [email protected] charities or voluntary www.radleycharitabletrust.wordpress.co bodies for individuals in m need. Cambridgeshire For families or young Grants typically £100- [email protected] Download from website at Children’s Fund people living in crisis - £150 for basic everyday http://www.cambscf.org.uk/cambridge (Cambridgeshire must be facing social needs – payment made http://www.cambscf.org.uk/home.html shire-childrens-fund.html Community welfare issues as well by cheque to Foundation) as financial hardship organisation applying Charity No: 1103314 Stay Well Fund For vulnerable families / Grants up to £300 for http://www.cambscf.org.uk/Stay- Apply online at address given – the (Cambridgeshire people living in Cambs future heating costs – Well.html fund has limited resources so may not Community facing fuel poverty. they will not pay for always be open for applications. Foundation) Includes homeless historic debt http://www.cambscf.org.uk/Stay- Charity No: 1103314 people Well.html Nichol-Young People in need who are Grants up to £500 and Nichol Young Foundation Applications considered quarterly. Foundation in full time education, may be for up to five Nichol Young Trust No telephone enquiries. Charity No: 259994 (with a preference for years. For books, and PO Box 4757 Application by letter. those who live in East other costs associated Windsor Person in need must make the Anglia.) with higher education, for SL4 9EE application. educational