Aims/priorities: The funding aims to:
- Fill current gaps in provision for groups of people who are excluded from receiving help from existing sources/providers.
- Enable charities and organisations to help individuals by topping up self-funding.
- Raise awareness of the challenges faced by disabled people in obtaining suitable, quality and affordable wheelchairs.
- Support programmes to help fund high quality and affordable equipment.
- Supports schemes, programmes and initiatives that already exist, and which provide best practice solutions, but need further support to remain operational or scale up the service they can provide to help more disabled people.
Who can apply? Medium and large charities and not-for-profit organisations with well-established ways of working may apply.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be an incorporated organisation, overseen by, and subject to the rules of a regulator such as the Charity Commission or Companies House. Organisations should have a charitable purpose.
- Be based in the UK.
- Have been active for at least three years.
- Have had an annual income of at least £150,000 per annum over the last three years.
- Hold reserves equivalent to between three and twelve months of operating costs.
Priority will be given to organisations who:
- Have well-established ways of working that make a demonstrable difference to the lives of disabled people.
- Are making both an immediate and longer term impact on the lives of disabled people.
- Can demonstrate that their application takes into account the views and needs of their beneficiaries and that they will continue to be involved during the delivery of the work.
Grant amount: Grants of £100,000 to £4 million are available until March 2025.
They can be split over one, two or three years.
The final payment date can be beyond 31 March 2025.
Application process: Motability Foundation is asking organisations interested in applying for funding to submit their Stage One application by 8 October 2024. New Stage One applications for this round of funding cannot be accepted beyond this date.
There will be a new application round in 2025. Information on the application window will be provided when it becomes available.
There is a two-stage application process:
- Stage One application form - decisions expected within around eight weeks.
- Stage Two application form - issued to successful applicants, with a timeframe for decisions confirmed by a member of the Grants Team.
The time taken to assess an application will vary depending on the amount of funding requested. All decisions to award grant-funding are made by dedicated sub-committees, and applications will be tabled at the next available opportunity once checks have been completed.
Applications for grant-funding of:
- Less than £1 million are assessed by a sub-committee that meets on a monthly basis.
- More than £1 million are assessed by a sub-committee that meets quarterly
Full guidelines and the Stage One application form can be found on the Motability Foundation website.
Deadline: Tuesday 8 October 2024.
Contact information: Email: GrantstoOrganisations@motabilityfoundation.org.uk
Website: Wheelchair Grant | Charitable Grants | Motability Foundation