Funds and grants

In this section we have listed different ways for you to find out more about available funds and grants.

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Contact details of organisations that provide funding

Here's a list of organisations that provide funding to disabled people, people in need or sick children.

  • BDF Newlife - Provides grants to people with congenital conditions and for equipment related to care
    Tel: 0870 0707 020
    Website: www.bdfnewlife.co.uk
  • Family Fund - Provides grants to assist independent living for families with children with an income less than £22,000 per year.
    Tel: 0845 1304542
    Website: www.familyfundtrust.org.uk
  • Family Welfare Association - Provides grants and social work support to people of all ages.
    Tel: 020 7254 6251
    Website: www.fwa.org.uk
  • React - Helps the families with children with life-limiting illness.
    Tel: 020 8940 2575
    Website: www.reactcharity.org


Factsheet - Raising Funds

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has produced a factsheet called 'Raising Funds' which is aimed at individuals with muscular dystrophy.

Read the factsheet

Help to find a funder - the Funder Finder form

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign can help you to find further organisations that may be able to to provide you with funding. You can download the form as a Word document: Funder Finder form (53 kb) [doc].

Either attach the completed form to an email and send it to
info@muscular-dystrophy.org or post it to Information and Support Officer, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, 61 Southwark Street, London SE1 0HL. If you have any problems with this form, please call our Information and Support Line on 0800 652 6352.


Joseph Patrick trust

Since 1986 the Joseph Patrick Trust, the welfare fund of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, has given grants worth more than £3 million to over 5,000 people with muscular dystrophy and related disorders.

Joseph Patrick Trust