Financial support

The Adamson Trust: can give financial help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children aged between 3 and 17 with physical, mental or emotional impairments.

Anthony Nolan Grants: can financially support patients before, during, and after a stem cell transplant or CAR T-cell therapy. They offer small one-off grants to help with any unexpected costs you may have.

Bone Cancer Research Trust: their Financial Assistance Grants are one-off, non-means-tested payments to help with the extra costs that bone cancer treatment can bring.

The Brain Tumour Charity: their Benefits and Money Clinic helps people affected by a brain tumour access the financial support they’re entitled to, as well as advice on how to make the most of their money. 

Cancer is a Drag: a charity helping people living with cancer,, inclusive of partners, family and friends, to overcome the difficulties they face on a day-to-day basis – by providing financial support where it is most needed, freeing up our beneficiaries and their families to deal with the disease and its treatments.

Cash First Referral Leaflets: website with directories to help find advice and support to maximise income through local 'Worrying About Money?' resources.

Challenger Children's Fund: can provide “aids to, and the maintenance, clothing, education, outfit in life or otherwise for the general benefit and well being” to any child under the age of 18 years, who is long-term and significantly disabled through a physical impairment of the musclo-skeletal, neurological or cardio-respiratory system of the body. A high rate for DLA mobility would generally be looked for when considering applications.

Douglas Hay Trust: offers financial assistance to individual children in Scotland who have a physical disability who are no more than 18 years old at the time of application. By physically disabled the Trust means a long term physical impairment of the musculo-skeletal, neurological, or cardio-respiratory system of the body and those who are registered blind.

Energy Saving Trust: helping households to use Scottish Government grants and funding to improve their lives at home. 

Family Fund: offer grants to families on a low income whose child or young person has a high level of additional support needs arising from a long-term disability or disabling condition or a serious or life limiting illness. 

Hair and Beauty Charity: can provide financial assistance to those in the hair and beauty industry for reasons including becoming ill or disabled, having a terminal illness, becoming carers for children, spouses/partners or other dependents and suffering a bereavement which has adversely affected their financial circumstances.

Henry Dancer Days: offers help to children and young people 18 years and under who are living with active treatment for Primary Bone Cancer (primarily Osteosarcoma or Ewing’s Sarcoma) or in palliative care as a result of Bone Cancer. Families can choose to use the donation in the way they feel is most appropriate. 

Home Energy Scotland: is an advice service funded by the Scottish Government and managed by Energy Saving Trust.

Hospital Saturday Fund: can give grants to individuals for specialised mobility equipment, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, car adaptions, medical appliances and aids, hearing aids, nebulisers, specialised vision aids, specialised computer equipment, therapeutic equipment/treatment, orthopaedic beds, mattresses or pillows, riser /recliners chairs, lift hoist/aids. Also Physiotherapy, Hydrotherapy, Acupuncture, Speech Therapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic treatment, Reflexology, Massage Therapy and Aromatherapy. Also for home adaptations, walk in showers, accessibility adaptations to bathrooms, access ramps, non-slip flooring, stair lifts. 

Independent Living Fund Scotland: give financial support to disabled people so they can live independently. Their Transition Fund helps young disabled people in Scotland with the transition after leaving school or children’s services. Open to people between 16-25.

Jordan Houston Trust: offers help to children suffering from cancer and their families. They work directly with social workers who work within the children’s cancer ward. They can give grants to fund social recreational activities for children, to families dealing with bereavement from a child who suffered from cancer and to families who are in financial need. 

Kayleigh's Wee Stars: provides financial support for families where a child has a terminal illness. Applications are submitted by the health professional on behalf of the family with details of the support required, and subject to approval, are typically turned round in 48 hours to ensure families receive the help at the time they need it most.

The Kirk Murdoch Charitable Trust: aim of the trust is to provide much needed financial support to young people in Scotland, whose lives have been impacted by cancer, who participate in sport. This can mean those who perform in their chosen sport to a very high level and others for whom sport is part of their life but more of an enthusiastic pastime. 

LoveOliver: work closely with the Young Live vs Cancer Social Workers to provide supermarket vouchers and financial grants for all families, healthy frozen meals for parents of children going through long inpatient stays and quality digital thermometers for each family facing childhood cancer. 

Macmillan Cancer Support: help with the cost of living webpages

Mummy's Star: a charity in the UK and Ireland dedicated to women and birthing people diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within 12 months of giving birth, and their families. They provide non-means-tested financial assistance to families in the form of a small grant. These grants are intended to support a family struggling with the costs and financial strain of cancer in or around pregnancy.

Our Aim Appeals: offer small grants to help with the cost of illness and disability. Applications are made via hospital services departments, GP's, hospices, various other institutions and charities. 

The Rob George Foundation: offers practical and/or financial support to young people with life threatening or terminal illnesses. 

SGN (Scottish Gas): the Help to Heat scheme could help you switch to gas central heating by offering a cheaper or free gas connection. Eligibility is based on the circumstances of the resident or tenant of a property. This means that landlords and local authorities can benefit from the funding if their tenant applies and is eligible. 

Social Security Scotland: webpages from the Scottish Government providing information on benefits

Together for Short Live's Butterfly Fund: provides a one-off payment of £300 to families following the death of a child. 

Turn2us: is a national charity providing practical information and support to end financial insecurity.

Young Lives vs Cancer: aim to help with everything from accessing PIP and DLA, as well as support with travel and accommodation costs near to hospital for young cancer patients.