Grants, generally for under £20,000, are available to small national and local UK registered charities working in the UK and/or overseas to promote the education, and to relieve the needs, of children who suffer from difficulties with hearing, speech, language or communication or who have complex needs.
The Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation (SLHF) supports UK charities working in the following areas:
- Children who have hearing impairment, speech delay, language or communication difficulties, or who have complex needs.
- Medical innovation and new developments relating to these children, and
- Research in all topics relating to these children.
The Foundation lists its principal objectives as:
- Promoting the education, and to relieve the needs, of children who suffer from difficulties with hearing, speech, language or communication or who have complex needs (whether in the UK or elsewhere); and
- Promoting research in all topics related to children who suffer from difficulties with hearing, speech, language or communication or who have complex needs provided the useful results of such research must be published.
The Foundation concentrates its funding on small national or local charities. Its Trustees are unlikely to support large national charities which enjoy wide support.
The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Foundation has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
To apply, UK registered charities should email a brief outline of their project proposal to the Foundation’s Administrator. This should include the applicant’s charity registration number or that of its supporting charity, together with a few short paragraphs outlining the project, its overall cost, the amount sought from the Foundation, and the period over which it will be spent.
Further information and guidance is available on the Foundation’s website.