Benefits and grants advice
This page is a directory of grants that you or your family may be eligible for. Use the filters to choose the type of grant you’re interested in and select the relevant age range. If you’re an organisation that would like to be featured, please do get in touch.
Ukem LivWarm
Free solutions to improve your home's energy efficiency
Blind in Business
Careers Advice, employment training and support for visually impaired adults and their employers
Disabled Person’s Railcard
Get 1/3 off adult rail travel with a disabled person's railcard
TV License Reduction
50% reduction in TV License for people registered as severely sight impaired
Family Action Welfare Grants
Financial support for individuals and families to help prevent immediate crisis.
BT Home Essentials
Help with home essentials.
The Brighton Fund
The Brighton Fund Charity provides one-off awards to residents of Brighton and Hove
Buttle UK
SWEF
We're a grant-making organisation that backs young people from less advantaged backgrounds to start and grow their own businesses.
The Vegetarian Society
Vegetarians and vegans aged below 25 who need financial assistance, such as help with educational courses or essential items. Parents can apply on behalf of vegetarian children. Grants are not usually greater than £500. Grants are also considered for organisations, but only if the project exclusively helps vegetarians and/or vegans under the age of 26.
The Starr Trust
We remove roadblocks for young people to help them succeed and thrive in whatever they put their minds to.
Gardners Trust for the Blind
Offers one-off grants to registered blind and partially sighted individuals in the UK towards education, training, household items, and potentially pensions.
Heinz, Anna & Carol Kroch Foundation
The Foundation makes grants to assist people experiencing severe poverty and financial hardship who also have ongoing medical problems.
Octo Assist Fund
Octo Assist is a £40m customer help fund and a collection of support schemes designed to help customers who need it most keep on top of their energy, and keep warm without worrying. Includes free electric blankets, standing charge waivers and more.
The Hospital Saturday Fund
The Hospital Saturday Fund is a registered charity whose aims are to provide assistance for registered health charities, hospices, medical organisations and individuals with a medical condition or disability.
Help for Households
Signposting to Government funded support.
The Snowdon Trust
Scholarships for disabled young people in education
Brighton and Hove Household Support Fund
Extra help is available for households in Brighton and Hove struggling to pay for food, energy and other essential costs this year.
Turn2Us
Free Benefits and Grants search tool
Southern Water Hardship Fund
Providing assistance to households experiencing financial hardship, including grants towards home appliances like white goods, fridge freezer etc
New Life – The Charity for Disabled Children
Provides a range of essential specialist equipment for disabled children to increase quality of life and encourage independence.
MACS Helping Hand Grant
Grants for people with MACS for tech, equipment and activities designed to encourage independence and wellbeing.
Bardet-Biedl Syndrome UK
Offers practical and financial support to assist with the purchase of devices including laptops, tablets and computers, to support with access to education, medical and social care appointments and social opportunities
Independence at Home
Provision of Computer equipment / large screen monitors / specialist wheelchairs in addition to other types of grants, e.g. home modifications etc
British Wireless for the Blind Fund
Provides adapted radios and audio players on free loan to registered blind and partially sighted people in need across the UK
Ablekidz
Provides grants for assistive technology or limited extra tuition to support disabled children's academic education.
VICTA
VICTA grant scheme for children and young adults who are severely sight impaired
Individual Technology Solutions
At the forefront of communication support for those with vision impairment.
Guide Dogs
We help children and young people access a world of technology designed to suit their vision impairment.
RNIB
If you have sight loss and are on low income there is financial help available for you to buy items you need to help you in your daily life.
The Powell Family Foundation
The foundation helps children and young people with a visually impairment up to the age of 25 through the provision of grants.
