Deadline: 2-May-23
The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is currently seeking applications for the Breath of Life Fund to help in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients in hospital, in clinics and at home, where statutory funding was not available.
Breath of Life funds research into the causes, prevention, diagnosis, cures and treatments of respiratory diseases, also providing equipment for use in research and by patients, whether in hospitals, clinics, GP’s surgeries or at home.
The support for asthma patients has included part-funding the local arm of a piece of international research which pinpointed one of the genes that causes asthma. More recently they have supplied one of the first of a new generation of machines to the Royal Stoke University Hospital to improve diagnosis and treatment of asthma in the area.
Funding Information
Respiratory equipment does not always cost a huge amount of money and some of the equipment that makes a big difference can cost as little as £250.
Beneficaries
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Beneficiaries they Can Support – In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary:
- People with breathing difficulties
- People with medical conditions affecting the lungs
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Beneficiaries they Cannot Support – This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are:
- Not suffering from respiratory problems
Geographic Reach
The Foundation will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people int he following local authority areas:
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Staffordshire Moorlands
Eligibility Criteria
The Foundation will support the following types of organisation:
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises
- Statutory Agencies
Criteria
Your project must meet one of the following criteria:
- Increase or enhance your services to those with breathing difficulties
- Make your organisation more efficient, more sustainable or more resilient
- Be used to improve facilities for your service users
- Be used to provide projects that alleviate or ease the symptoms that your service users may be suffering from
For more information, visit Community Foundation.