Breath of Life Fund in the UK

Deadline: 5-May-22

The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is pleased to announce 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.

Types

Research: 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.
Children and young adults: They help children with lung disease and have raised funds so that youngsters with Cystic Fibrosis can have a more comfortable and homely stay in hospital when they have to remain in isolation for some time. They have also provided funding so that babies and children can have the breathing monitors and equipment that they need to safeguard them at home.
Equipment donations: Patients have benefited from a number of pieces of equipment they have provided to the Royal Stoke University Hospital to help patients who have respiratory conditions. They have also produced a series of information leaflets for patients with COPD and lung cancer.

Aims

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