Who we can help:
There are criteria that need to be met in order for the trustees of the charity to be able to consider an application for assistance. These are:-
1. The applicant must be a resident of the City of Lichfield or live within 2 miles of Lichfield Cathedral (which includes Elmhurst and Streethay).
2. Qualification on this ground is a need for assistance because of temporary or long term hardship but also anyone who does not have access to the normal things in life which most people take for granted (as defined by the Charity Commission).
3. Qualification can be on the basis of physical ill health but also people suffering from mental health issues or an addiction.
The trustees of the charity can agree to give assistance in the manner which they consider is most appropriate and this can include: the supply of special foods and medicines, medical comforts, medical surgical appliances, extra bedding and fuel; the provision of domestic help; money to defray the cost of convalescence.
Recent grants were given for:
- A new wheelchair.
- Specialised child’s car seat – where the rear door opened and the child’s seat swivelled round and out of the car making it more accessible for the parent to take the child from the car seat and into a wheelchair.
- Providing equipment for their sensory rooms at Saxon Hill school.
- Bathroom improvements – we’ve replaced a toilet and cistern and carried out a deep clean of the toilet area .
Grants can be given to individual applicants or to institutions or organisations that provide or undertake to provide services or facilities that will provide assistance or benefit to individuals.
An application can be made at any time, but the trustees only meet four times per year usually in January, April, July and October. Details of the dates of meeting can be found here as can the identity of the Trustees.