Deadline: 01-Feb-2025
The Cambridgeshire Community Foundation is pleased to announce its Harry Cureton Fund to support healthcare in Peterborough and the area covered by Peterborough and Stamford hospitals (postcodes PE1 – PE11).
The fund supports both individuals requiring medical equipment and organisations who carry out healthcare activities.
Funding Information
- The fund offers grants of up to £20,000.
Eligible Area
- Peterborough (+15 mile radius)
Eligible Activities
- Applications for both capital and revenue costs for healthcare activities are invited covering:
- Preservation and promotion of good health and education about health issues;
- Provision of palliative care in relation to terminal or chronic conditions;
- Research into the causes, treatment and care for of all forms of illness (which can be undertaken anywhere in the UK);
- Relief and treatment of all forms of physical and mental illness and rehabilitation from such illness.
Ineligible Activities
- Grants will not be made for the following:
- Capital or revenue costs for healthcare activities relating to the delivery of Directed Enhanced Services (DES);
- Where the activity could be paid for by a surgery, the NHS or another source;
- Where the grant will result in financial benefit to a person or group of people, through for example improvements or alterations to a property;
- To cover expenditure already incurred.
Eligibility Criteria
- Medical professionals on behalf of individuals and non-profit organisations.
- Criteria for grants for an individual
- Applications for grants to assist an individual should be made by an occupational therapist or other medical professional who has knowledge of the individual’s overall health and financial position.
- Requests will be considered for money towards a piece of equipment or a small adaptation to a home to help an individual with their disabilities.
- Criteria for grants for an organisation
- Whilst this list is not exclusive or binding for the fund, the panel will apply the following criteria in deciding whether to award grants. Preference will be given to:
- Capital equipment rather than support with running costs;
- Grants where matching funds are available;
- Activities that will benefit the greatest number of people;
- Pump priming grants, e.g. initial support for a medical post if that will lead to funding for the post being taken over by the NHS.
- Whilst this list is not exclusive or binding for the fund, the panel will apply the following criteria in deciding whether to award grants. Preference will be given to:
For more information, visit Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.
