Wallace and Gromit's Children's Foundation

Overview

Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity supports projects in children’s hospitals and hospices throughout the UK to enrich and enhance the lives of patients.

They support regional and local children's hospitals and hospices, and ensure that their grants benefit local communities throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

They fund projects that ensure that whilst in hospital and hospice care, children can still play, socialise and recuperate from treatment in a child-friendly environment. They also support parents and siblings as we know how vital it is to care for the whole family during extremely difficult times.

Funding Principles:

• Grants must enrich and improve the quality of life of sick children in hospital or hospices in any area in the UK.
• Preference is given to projects conceived by, and developed in children's hospitals and hospices.
• Grants will only be made to registered charities.
• The Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity will enhance but not replace NHS or other statutory funding.

Criteria for Support

The Trustees will consider any project which seeks to improve the quality of life of sick children. Some examples are:

• Arts, music, play and leisure programmes.
• Facilities to support families of children treated in hospitals or hospices.
• Welcoming and accessible environments.
• Care and facilities in hospices.
• Promoting education and information programmes.
• Supporting children with physical and emotional difficulties.
• Medical equipment (when it can be show that funding is not available from statutory sources.

Selection of Beneficiaries

The Board will award grants in amounts and distribution entirely at their discretion.

1. Preference will be given to distributing grants directly to children’s hospitals and hospices in regional centres around the UK, who meet the following criteria:

• Provide a geographically regional healthcare service to a wide range of children in a hospital/hospice.
• Do not discriminate on the grounds of wealth, race, sexuality, religion or disability.

2. Applications from organisations working within hospitals and hospices will be considered but will require a supporting reference from the hospital/hospice itself. Please note: No hospital or hospice will receive two awards within the same financial year

Recent Grants

Grant sizes range between £100 and £10,000.

For examples of projects funded visit the website here.