Charitable Grants
This page lists the grants that Donations With A Difference has awarded since achieving registered charity status in July 2014*. To apply for consideration for a future grant, first please refer to our grant-making policy, then apply online.
Claire Moss
Claire’s mum Lyn May contacted us asking for a donation of £500 towards a wheelchair for her daughter Claire. She had been tirelessly fund raising for an electric wheelchair for her daughter Claire, 47. Claire had spent many years in a manual wheelchair due to having both legs amputated above the knees in 2012.
Before that she spent many years in excruciating pain with gangrene in both legs after first having her toes removed and the wounds not healing added to which she has a protruding disc in her lower back. Donations With A Difference were thrilled to step in and agree to help Lyn with her mission by funding the remaining £2,100 needed for Claire’s new electric chair.
Lucy Bowen
Following on from a grant towards the end of 2019 for Lucy to have a Delichon Delta off road buggy we have now funded a further £468 to provide Lucy with a cycle conversion kit.
To further Lucy’s development we supported an additional request for a specialist trike to enable Lucy to become more independently active in outdoor spaces.
Stephanie Kemp
Stephanie has been ill with encephalitis and epilepsy since 2001 and also has functional neurological disorder and spinal issues.
Stephanie came to us with a request for a manual wheelchair to ensure she has mobility all of the time as her electric wheelchair is far too heavy to get in and out of cars, needs to be able to get around her home more freely and she requires the flexibility to not be housebound in the colder and wet months of year when it is far safer to use a manual compared with electric wheelchair.
Rachel Lewis
Rachel is 10 years old and suffers from a defective gene, Tub 3, that has caused a congenital brain abnormality and continuing associated difficulties. Rachel was born with a club foot and wears AFO’s on both feet to enable her to walk short distances.
Rachel had a conventional wheelchair but it wasn’t able to cope with any terrain other than a smooth pathway which meant the family were not able to take many days out as a family. Donations with a Difference were delighted to fund an all-terrain buggy which is used all the time giving Rachel much more freedom.
