Kent Community Foundation

Kent Community Foundation, a grant-making charity, manages several funds which offer grants to individual children and young people from a financially disadvantaged background, specifically:

• young carers
• CYP with disabilities, long-term illness, life-limiting conditions, special needs
• disadvantaged, vulnerable, marginalised or at risk CYP.

We are aware that school staff are ideally placed to identify children or young people who would benefit from a grant for a particular item or activity, and are extremely keen to spread the word about the funding that is available, and to encourage applications from teachers, SENCOs, FLOs.

Please spend a few minutes looking through this information, and then cascade it through your school. If you would like a handful of leaflets for distribution, please contact Joanne on the details below and we’ll send some out to you.

Grants can be spent on specific items e.g. uniform, sports kit, laptop etc. or activities which would otherwise be out of the reach of the child e.g. school trips, extra-curricular activities. Funding will also be considered for disability aids, equipment and home refinements which will be of direct benefit to the health and wellbeing of the child.

Amounts awarded range from £100 - £3,000, average grant is around £600.

Applications cannot be made by the potential beneficiary or their family member, they must be made by a professional with some insight into the CYP’s and family’s situation e.g. teacher, SENCO, FLO, social worker, GP etc. We aim to get a decision back to the nominator within six weeks.

For more information visit the Kent Community Foundation website

Contact Joanne on 01303 815152 or joanne@kentcf.org.uk for further information.