Funding for Stair lift

ASG_2

Please can anyone help?
My friend is 30yrs old, married with 2 children and desperately needs a new stair lift as the old one is broken beyond repair (her husband has been fixing it for years) and she is no longer able to get up stairs due to her arthritis.
Social Services will provide and install a new stair lift for £1400 and give her a grant for £700.

Any ideas where she can get the other £700.

Ideally this would be a grant. The credit union can lend her £200, but TBH their finances are stretched enough as it is.
Many thanks.

Poppycat

Has she worked previously. As some employers do contribute to charity funds to workers past and present.

A friend of mine got some monies because they were unable to work and was in dire straights, there ex employer for both parties contributed for financial assitance, one was a large retailor (supermarket)

oldtoolie

If I were in this situation, I would want to look in the book, A Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need 2006/07. This is a new edition and it is published by the Directory for Social Change at https://www.dsc.org.uk . Here are some more details|:

"Given a five-star rating in Community Care magazine, this best-selling funding guide, now in its tenth edition, gives details of a wide range of funds and other support available for the relief of individual poverty and hardship. A key reference book for social workers and the individuals themselves.
The comprehensive listings include:

details of more than 2,280 national and local charitable trusts which together give over £300 million a year towards the relief of individual poverty and hardship
essential advice on applications for each source:
eligibility, types of grant given, annual grant total, and address and other
details including email.
Also provides a model of how to make an effective application and advice on sourcing the type of funding to apply to.

'A key reference book both for social workers and individuals in need.' Voluntary Sector

ISBN 1 903991 74 9
A4, c. 424 pages
November 2006
Price: £34.95 "

You might find it at the library, Citizens Advice Bureau or a charity helping people.

If the library doesn't have it, ask and maybe they will order it.

Or despite the apparent cost, buy it because if the information solves your problem, it will be a cheap investment. Especially if you sell it on via Amazon or eBay.

Amanda65

I work for an occupational benevolent fund and some of the occupational charities will offer financial support for items such as these. If you go to
https://www.joblinks.org.uk you can search under either her previous occupation or her husbands and it will detail charities that support that working sector. Hope this helps!

Laura_Ellis

You might like to consult Turn 2 Us, a new charity that helps people to access the money available to them through benefits, grants and other help. See their website at http://www.turn2us.org.uk/ for more information.

You could also use GuideStar UK, www.guidestar.org.uk, to find charities in your area that offer support for this kind of illness. Using the advanced search facility you can search by keyword, area of benefit and several other filters.

I hope that this is useful for you.

norvin

Your friend could well be eligible for a Disabled Facilities Grant. The grant is means tested but most people are assessed as having no contribution. Try contacting the Environmental Health department in your local council for more details.

pocket_dragon_princess

Hiya in situations like this you may be able to get help from the Severn Trent Water Trust Fund The forms are downloadable online and they will let you know within a couple of weeks
http://www.sttf.org.uk/
I hope this helps you if not I believe that British Gas have a independant charity but I dont know a web site address for it x

louise3965

Has she (or her dh) ever served in the Armed Forces? If so www.ssafa.org.uk can help