Deadline: 01-Dec-2024
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund has launched the General Grant Programme.
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field.
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.
Area of Work
- 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.
Funding Information
- General Grant Programme for appeals of £9,000 and above.
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available only to organisations within and projects based in the UK. Grants are not awarded to individuals.
- Charities and organisations who aim to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability. They consider under learning disability the conditions generally referred to as severe learning difficulties, together with autism. In this area, they consider projects concerning children or adults.
- Please note that they do not give grants for research into or care of those with mental illness, dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, nor ADHD, if they do not also have learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities).
Ineligibility Criteria
- They do not normally 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.
For more information, visit The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund.