MVA's October 2025 Disability & Health Themed Funding Round-up

Charity Funding from Barchester Healthcare Foundation

The Barchester Healthcare Foundation awards grants to small community groups and small local charities who seek to make a big difference to the lives of the elderly.

They also provide funding to similar organisations that deliver services to other adults with a disability or mental health problems in their community.

The Foundation say grants can be used for:

• Activity projects
• Equipment and materials for use by members
• Member transport, and
• Day trips, outings and group holidays in the UK

At the time of writing, there was no recognised deadline, suggesting this is a Continuous Rolling Programme and applications can be accepted at any time.

More information and how to apply can be found at the Foundation’s website.

Better Access to Active Travel Experiences and Equipment from Motability

The charity Motability offers various grant programmes for charities and similar organisations which support the transport needs of disabled people living in the UK.

Their Better Access to Active Travel Experiences and Equipment Programme is designed to improve active travel options and access to equipment for disabled people.

This support is intended to be outside of the support offered by their current Motability Schemes.

This programme focuses it’s funding on: 

• Active travel equipment hiring
• Grant programmes for active travel equipment
• Services supporting disabled people to engage in active travel
• Training for disabled people that want to engage in active travel
• Pilot activities to test new models or solutions

At the time of writing, the next deadline for Expression of Interest enquiries is 15^th December 2025, with further dates possible in later seasons.

More information and how to apply can be found at the Motability website

Bursaries for Hospice Staff from Masonic Charitable Foundation

The Masonic Charitable Foundation (MFC) is organising financial support to help the professional development of individual staff in Hospices across the UK.

The funding is intended to improve the quality of care given to patients, their carers and their families through offering hospice staff the opportunity to participate in additional learning and training.

Facilitated by Hospice UK, bursaries are offered from MFC towards the costs of fees for accredited courses

To qualify, the organisers do advise that applicants should be members of Hospice UK, holding a position in an eligible organisation as a:

• Nurse
• Healthcare Assistant
• Doctor
• Allied Health Professional
• Social Worker
• Bereavement Counsellor
• Administration Staff (HR, Finance, Fundraising)
• Spiritual Care Worker
• Pharmacist, or
• Complementary Therapists

At the time of writing, there was no specified deadline, suggesting applications could be accepted at any time.

More information and how to apply can be found at the Hospice UK website.

Relaunching in Early 2026 - Blood and Transplant Community Grants Programme from NHS

The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) continue their commitment to build support for donations amongst Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic communities.

Their Community Grants Programme is a scheme that funds community-based, faith-based and similar organisations to raise awareness and behaviour change for blood and organ donation within Black, Asian, mixed heritage, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities.

The programme aims to address health inequalities and build trust by empowering grassroots organisations to educate and recruit more donors, as ethnically matched blood and organs provide the best treatment, particularly for conditions like sickle cell and for transplant patients from these communities.

At the time of writing, the application window for the latest funding has closed, but the next round is due for relaunch in 2026.

More information and how to apply can be found on the NHSBT website. For further enquiries, you can also email the funding organisers at community.funding@nhsbt.nhs.uk.

Guide to Disability Grants

The Care Workers Charity has produced an online service which aims to provide free accessible information on grants to support disabled adults and parents, as well as carers of disabled children.

More information can be found at their dedicated website.

Funding Programme from The Adamson Trust

The Adamson Trust offers grants to community organisations and charities to help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years) with physical, mental, or emotional impairments.

For this season, the deadline for applications is 31^st December 2025 with further dates to be announced in later seasons.

For more information and how to apply, visit the Trust’s website.

Due to the varying nature and progress of public policies and other related activity, MVA do advise that some of the information below may have changed since the time of its issue, and whilst every effort has been made to provide up-to-date details, they ask that readers please check with each organisation’s website for the latest news.