The True Colours Trust Small Grants Programme

The Small Grants programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with:

• disabled children and young people;
• children and young people with life-limiting conditions;
• and their families

It provides grants of up to £10,000, although many grants are smaller than this.

The programme is open to applications at any time.

They aim to support as many organisations as possible, and therefore are unlikely to fund any organisation in consecutive years.

They will consider applications from organisations working with children and young people aged from 0 – 25 years for:

Projects:

• Activities for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families
• Activities which support siblings of disabled children or siblings of children with life-limiting conditions
• Bereavement support for children and young people and for families bereaved of a child
• Family support / parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children
• Respite which supports the whole family

Equipment and Materials:

• Renovation, upgrading and additional equipment for hydrotherapy pools and multi-sensory rooms
• Minibuses
• Specialised play equipment / access to play and leisure for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families

They fund:

• UK registered charitable organisations and CICs delivering projects in the UK
• Organisations whose annual income is less than £350,000
• They are committed to working towards a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. They will fund organisations which share their goal and which are open to children and families of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures
• They are particularly keen to receive applications from organisations which operate in areas of high deprivation

They cannot consider applications from the following:

• Organisations which have received a small grant from them within the last 12 months
• Local authorities
• Residential schemes
• Schools
• Condition-specific organisations
• Organisations seeking funding for wish-granting activities or regranting
• Organisations which are registered outside the UK
• Projects taking place outside the UK
• Newly registered organisations which do not yet have a full year of accounts
• Individuals