True Colours Trust: Africa Small Grants

Overview

The Africa Small Grants Programme supports projects which deliver palliative care in Africa. The programme is open to registered hospices and palliative care providers which are based and managed in Africa. Applications should focus on the immediate delivery of palliative care.

All applications must address one or more of the following primary priority areas:

a) Palliative care medicines. Medicines from the approved IAHPC and WHO lists of palliative care medicines will be considered.
b) Equipment for palliative care. Equipment from the WHO approved list of palliative care equipment will be considered.
c) Transport for the delivery of palliative care services (fuel, bicycles etc.)
d) Data or mobile technology for the remote delivery of palliative care services.
e) Bereavement support.

In addition, applications may address any of the following secondary priority areas, if these are delivered in conjunction with one or more of the areas above:

f) Training in palliative care delivery for providers, volunteers or home-based care workers.
g) The provision of food for palliative care patients.
h) Additional costs associated with the delivery of home-based palliative care.
i) The delivery of psychosocial or spiritual support for palliative care patients and their families.
j) The delivery of rehabilitation for palliative care patients.
k) Core costs (up to a maximum of £750 per application).

Applications which only include the secondary priority areas will not be successful.

Priority will be given to the following:

• Projects which are providing palliative care to children.
• Projects which are providing palliative care to vulnerable populations e.g. people with disabilities, refugees, older persons, prisoners.
• Projects which provide palliative care irrespective of the condition or disease of the patient.
• Organizations with an average income of $500,000 USD and above over the last three years are not eligible to apply. However, small palliative care units which operate within hospitals or larger institutions, but which do not have separate financial accounts, are welcome to apply, provided the application is exclusively for the provision of palliative care services.

Grants are intended for use over a maximum 12-month period and the programme will not consider multi-year funding