How We Can Help
Children Today give grants for a wide range of equipment for children and young people with disabilities, that are not funded through the NHS. These include powered, manual and sports wheelchairs, specially adapted tricycles, bicycles, buggies and walking aids as well as specially designed sensory equipment such as Fibre Optic Sprays.
Children Today has three main aims:
- To raise funds to provide grants for special equipment for disabled children and young people
- To raise awareness of the difficulties faced by young people and their families in accessing special equipment that will raise the quality of their lives
- To inform of the need for better services and provision for children and young people with disabilities.
We work hard to ensure that the service we provide for disabled children and their families is as accessible and as wide-ranging as possible.
How We Help
An essential piece of equipment can make the world of difference to a child’s quality of life, helping in a range of practical, functional and social situations.
Children Today relies on voluntary donations. Funds donated by our supporters enable us to provide grants to purchase special equipment such as:
- Electric wheelchairs – individually adapted to give maximum independence
- Walking Aids
- Trikes
- Educational toys – specially designed for children with disabilities
- A wide range of communication aids
- Adapted car seats
- Lifting and posturepaedic sleep equipment
These items and many more specialist aids are designed to improve and enhance the lives of children and young people with disabilities, helping them to become as independent as possible and to reach their potential.
If you would like to apply for a grant, please call us on 01244 335622 to discuss your application. Applications must be for specialised pieces of equipment for individual children (not groups or schools), and must be made by the individual applying, their parent, or legal guardian.
Please note: If you wish to apply for computer equipment, we work in partnership with the Aidis Trust who with their knowledge and experience, will be able to offer advice and assistance in identifying the computer most suited to your child’s needs.
The Aidis Trust is a Registered Charity that was established in 1975. It assesses individuals with disabilities, helping to determine the right computer communications equipment. They work in partnership with most agencies and organisations like ours, with complementary backgrounds throughout the UK.
If you are applying for computer equipment, please contact the Aidis Trust directly on 0207 426 2130.
Did you know?
There are 390,000 disabled people under the age of 16 in the UK with 100,000 of them having more than one disability. There is no statutory right for young people with disabilities to be provided with the equipment they need by the Government or the NHS.
- We deal directly with disabled young people or their parents or legal guardians
- We will help fund any item of equipment, however specific it may be, if it will help the child to reach their potential We work together with other charities, so can often co-fund when necessary.
- We will help any young person, regardless of their condition or disability, up to the age of 25.
- We will help a young person resident anywhere in the UK, including Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.
- We aim to deal with all applications within 28 days of receiving a fully completed application.
If you think we may be able to help please call us.
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