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ACT is a grant making charity. Here you can find out if you are eligible for a grant and if you qualify you can begin the application process.

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July 2008  ACT were delighted to pledge £50,000 to Parity for Disability, a charity providing vital services, information and support for children and young adults with multiple disabilities and their families and carers throughout Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey.  Parity currently runs two day centres in Farnborough and Camberley and are fundraising to build another centre.

July 2008  An application was received for a car seat harness from the parents of a 14 year old girl with microcephaly.  This condition means she has global development delay and needs constant care and attention.  ACT were pleased to donate the £88 required for this vital piece of equipment to enable the family to travel with her in safety.

July 2008  Children of Watamu is a charity based in a coastal village in Kenya who over the past 8 years have renovated and built 3 schools thus providing education to more than 700 children aged 2 upwards.  The charity approached ACT to help with funding towards their latest project, to build a "Happy House", a place to take care of some of the many children orphaned by AIDS / Malaria, etc. or those who have been abandoned and left to fend for themselves.  It is hoped the Happy House will provide these children with a safe home where they will grow as part of a family and care for each other as brothers and sisters.  ACT were pleased to pledge £1,000 towards equipping the Happy House.

July 2008  Rochdale Special Needs Cycling Club provides bicycles and ancillary equipment to enable underprivileged children and children with disabilities to participate in rides into the countryside, etc.  The charity found they were increasingly being asked to cater for children with more severe disabilities and to that end wished to purchase a specialist handcycle for paraplegics and children who are amputees.  ACT awarded a grant of £1,250 for the handcycle.

June 2008  The Friends of Edith Borthwick School in Braintree, Essex supports 120 children with multiple disabilities, many of whom are unable to walk, talk or feed themselves.  The school applied to ACT for help to install a specially designed sensory room with a range of highly stimulating equipment to be operated by the children using a variety of switches.  This equipment will encourage the children to learn to develop their co-ordination and to be able to communicate their needs and the ultra violet facility will help those with visual impairment.  ACT were very happy to pledge £2,500. 

June 2008  The ACT Foundation awarded a grant of £1100 to help a young mother suffering from the latter stages of Multiple Sclerosis to purchase a portable gantry hoist.  This has enabled her family to transfer her with greater ease and safety.

June 2008  We received an application to help a man suffering from HIV and more recently TB and MRSA with a week's respite at a specialist centre, Tyddyn Bach Trust, in North Wales.  Owing to his ill health over the years this father has been unable to spend quality time with his two sons but with a grant of £100 towards his accommodation he will be able to spend time with them thus giving them the opportunity to bond.

June 2008  The parents of a 13 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy applied to us for assistance with accommodation costs to enable them to take their son to the National Athletics Championships where he has qualified to compete in the 100m and Shot Putt event.  This is a fantastic achievement considering his disabilities and his school are very proud of him.  ACT were delighted to award a grant of £165 to enable him to participate.