Variety Equipment Grants
Posted: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 11:12
We provide grants for specialist disability equipment that isn't available through statutory services. This includes, but isn't limited to:
- In-home and mobile hoists
- Orthopaedic beds, cots, and seating
- Personal monitors and alarms
- Sensory equipment
- Car seats
- Standers, walkers and gait trainers
- Specialist sports equipment
- Communication aids and software
- Bathing, showering, and toileting adaptive equipment
- Sleep systems and travel pods
- Tough furniture
- Defibrillators
- Electrotherapeutic, lycra and scoliosis suits
- Oxygen generators and airway clearance systems
- Through-floor lifts
- Splints
Applications for wheelchairs should be made via our wheelchair grants programme.
Eligibility
You are eligible to apply for a personal grant provided that the beneficiary:
- Is a child or young person aged 18 or under
- Has a recognised disability or long term health condition
- Is permanently resident in the UK
SEND and mainstream schools and non-profit organisations that work with children and young people are also eligible to apply for a Variety equipment grant.
More information: https://www.variety.org.uk/what-we-do/equipment-grants