Deadline: 01-Aug-20
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is seeking applications for its Grant Programme 2020.
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund provides grants for general and research work with people with learning disabilities. “Learning disabilities” is the same as “intellectual disabilities”; these terms are inter-changeable.
Funding Information
Grants are awarded for amounts from £250 and depend on a number of factors including the purpose, the total funding requirement and the potential sources of other funds including, in some cases, matching funding.
Areas
The following areas of work normally fall within the Fund’s current policy providing they benefit the learning disabled:
- Capital building/renovation/refurbishment works for residential, nursing and respite care, and schools;
- Employment schemes including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture;
- Play schemes and play therapy schemes;
- Day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs;
- Support for families, including respite schemes;
- Independent living schemes;
- Support in the community schemes;
- Snoezelen rooms.
They does not fund
- Hospices;
- Minibuses except those for residential and/or day care services for the learning disabled;
- Advocacy projects;
- Conductive Education projects;
- Arts and theatre projects;
- Swimming and hydro-therapy pools;
- Physical disabilities unless accompanied by significant learning disabilities.
- Grants for acquired brain injury unless the resulting learning disabilities occur early in the developmental period (i.e. birth, infancy or childhood), impacting on brain maturation and development and learning in childhood.
- Appeals which are ethnically or religiously selective which the Fund defines as therefore not benefitting the wider community.
Eligibility Criteria
- People with learning disabilities have these three things:
- global intellectual impairment (intelligence quotient less than 70), and
- need for support/help to fulfil ordinary daily activities, and
- onset before the age of 18 years.
- Learning disabilities may have a recognised cause, e.g. Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, but often the cause is not known.
- Children, young people, and adults with learning disabilities often also have other physical and mental health conditions, disabilities, and/or impairments as well as having learning disabilities.
- People with the following conditions alone, are outside the remit of the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, unless some of them additionally have learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).
- Autism/autism spectrum disorders/Asperger syndrome
- Specific learning disabilities (as this is an overarching term for conditions like dyslexia, dyscalculia)
- Dyslexia
- Dyscalculia
- Specific language disorders
- Dyspraxia
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Blind
- Deaf
- Epilepsy
- Specific motor disorders
- Head injury in adulthood
- Stroke in adulthood
- Alzheimer disease or other dementias in adulthood
- Learning difficulties (as this is a broad term that includes other conditions as well as or instead of intellectual disabilities)
- Developmental disorders (as this is a broad term that includes other conditions as well as or instead of intellectual disabilities)
- Additional support needs (as this is a broad term that includes other conditions as well as or instead of intellectual disabilities)
- Special educational needs (as this is a broad term that includes other conditions as well as or instead of intellectual disabilities)
- Many of these conditions impair learning, and/or are disabling, but that is not the same as having “learning disabilities” (intellectual disabilities).
For more information, visit http://www.bailythomas.org.uk/grants/general-programme/general-guidelines