Health and Disability Awards (December 2014)
Health and Disability Awards (December 2014)
The following grants were awarded by the Wolfson Foundation in December 2014.
For news of other grants awarded in December, please go to the relevant joint programme announcements, or to the funding pages of our other main grant areas, Science & Medicine, Arts & Humanities and Secondary Education. Grants are awarded in each area in June and December every year.
A full list of all grants awarded in 2014 is available on our Grant Data page.
Disability and special needs
Sense (£152,000)
Family area in Day Centre for deafblind people in Birmingham
Percy Hedley Foundation, Newcastle upon Tyne (£80,000)
New Hydrotherapy Centre and Children’s Residential Home
Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education, Devon (£79,000)
Secondary school classroom in rebuilt school
Moor House School and College, Surrey (£70,000)
Expansion and refurbishment of special school and college
East Park, Glasgow (£65,000)
Expansion of education and accommodation facilities at residential special school
Avalon School, Somerset (£50,000)
Multi-sensory hydrotherapy pool
SeeAbility (£50,000)
Bathroom in new specialist accommodation building, Aldershot, Hampshire
Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh (£50,000)
New Centre for people with disabilities and long-term illness
Action Mental Health, Northern Ireland (£43,000)
Refurbishment of centre in Enniskillen, County Fermangh
Vale of Evesham School, Worcestershire (£40,000)
Extension to special school
Enable Glasgow (£33,000)
Van for project providing employment for people with learning disabilities
Haven Products (£25,000)
Document scanners for project providing employment for people with disabilities, Falkirk, Scotland
Henshaws Society for Blind People, Manchester (£25,000)
Refurbishment of Ribble House (to create autism centre)
Methodist Homes (£25,000)
New elderly Care Home in Shirley, Croydon
Share Community, SW11 (£23,000)
Refurbishment of classroom into sensory learning space for people with learning disabilities
Barnet and Southgate College, N14 (£20,000)
Equipment for Drama studio in Centre for students with learning difficulties and disabilities
Ellie’s Haven, Cornwall (£20,000)
Refurbishment of respite accommodation
Exeter Gateway Centre, Devon (£19,000)
New training kitchen for people with learning disabilities
MK SNAP, Milton Keynes (£16,000)
Refurbishment of kitchen in centre providing training opportunities for people with learning disabilities
Cowal Elderly Befrienders, Argyll and Bute (£15,000)
Minibus for elderly people with dementia
Drake Music Project, Northern Ireland (£15,000)
Equipment for music studio for people with disabilities in Derry
Girlguiding Cymru, Powys (£15,000)
Refurbishment of Brownie House in Broneirion
Handicapped Children’s Action Group, Essex (£15,000)
Specialist equipment
Maypole Project, Kent (£15,000)
Arts and Crafts space in centre for young people with disabilities, Orpington
Northallerton and the Dales Mencap Society, North Yorkshire (£15,000)
New Centre
Belfast Activity Centre (£10,000)
New log cabin (for programmes relating to people with visual impairment)
Palliative care and hospices
Highland Hospice, Inverness (£80,000)
Two family en-suite bedrooms in redeveloped inpatient unit
Sue Ryder (£80,000)
New hospice building at Thorpe Hall, Peterborough
Naomi House Children’s Hospice, Hampshire (£50,000)
Refurbishment
Rowans Hospice, Hampshire (£50,000)
Therapy rooms in new Outreach Centre
St Peter and St James Hospice, East Sussex (£20,000)
Boilers
Butterwick Hospice Care, Stockton-on-Tees (£12,400)
Refurbishment of Hydrotherapy Pool