The Children Today Charitable Trust supports children and young people across the UK with disabilities by providing adapted equipment to help them and their families live less isolated lives.
Its ethos is based on a fundamental belief that children and young people with disabilities should be enabled to achieve their potential.
Children Today's Vision is: "a society in which children and young people with disability or illness are enabled to achieve their potential".
Its Mission is: "to improve the quality of life of children and young people with disability or illness throughout the United Kingdom".
Children Today aims to achieve its Mission by:
- Enabling disabled children and young people across the UK get the support they need to access vital adapted equipment.
- Having a simple, supportive application process, allowing the charity to make timely decisions on support needed by the child and their family.
- Raising public awareness of issues affecting children and young people with disabilities, and
- Seeking appropriate partnerships to provide greater access to equipment and services for more children and young people with disabilities.
Families and individuals may apply for grant support to purchase adapted equipment. Please note that the Trust does not accept applications from organisations.
The Trust is aware of the needs of young adults with sickness or disability who may experience difficulties associated with equipment supply. Therefore, young adults aged between 18 to 25 years are encouraged to apply directly to Children Today on their own behalf.
The first stage in the application process is to contact Children Today to check you are eligible to apply
The Trust strongly recommends that it is contacted by telephone in the first instance so that the application process can be explained in detail and the Trust can understand each applicant’s circumstances in order to offer the best advice and guidance.
You can also check eligibility criteria and find out answers to other questions you may have on the Trust’s FAQs section.
Further information about how to apply is available on the Trust’s website. Useful background reading, including some case studies on how the Trust’s funding has supported individuals, can be found in its Annual Report (see page 4 under the heading ‘Feedback’).
The Trust may be contacted at any time for an initial discussion about an individual’s adapted equipment needs.