Newby Trust: Grants for Individuals and Families in Crisis
Overview
The Newby Trust funds applications on behalf of individuals must be made by an eligible organisation. Applicant organisations must be supporting the individual or family and capable of assessing their needs.
Eligible organisations include social services, housing association support services, probation services, charities such as Citizens Advice Bureau, Family Action, schools and children’s centres or cancer and other support charities.
Grants are normally only given to support individuals whose poverty is exacerbated by additional misfortune including bereavement, divorce, abuse, homelessness, addiction, disability or ill health. The Trust accepts applications only where there is a proven need as demonstrated by a financial statement.
Who can be funded?
Recipients include:
- vulnerable young people aged 25 and under living independently who are estranged from their families, orphaned or who have spent time being looked after by the local authority
- victims of domestic abuse
- single older people
- young families or single parents
- people who are working
- people suffering from physical or learning disabilities
- people suffering from physical or mental ill health
Clients with a drug or alcohol dependency must usually be in recovery to be eligible for a grant.
Clients without indefinite leave to remain are unlikely to receive a grant but small grants of £50 may be made to assist those who are destitute.
The Trust would expect all clients to have claimed all eligible benefits and applied to all available local authority discretionary funds.
What is funded?
Grants are made to ensure that an individual’s basic needs are met, such as
- bed, sofa, table and chairs
- cooker, fridge/freezer or washing machine
- kitchen equipment and other essential household items
- emergency clothing, school uniforms
- baby equipment.
Occasionally grants are made to assist with
- Rent deposits
- Household repairs or adaptations particularly for older or disabled people
- Travel costs
- Course fees or training equipment
- Respite breaks in the UK
- Mobility equipment
Grants are not normally made where the household income is in excess of £1,000 a month.