Moments That Matter- Small Grants Scheme

1. Ensure all your personal details are complete.
2. Ensure that you have signed and completed the consent questions. Please read our Privacy Statement.
3. Explain how the grant will help you – giving as much information as possible about your circumstances, why you are asking for a grant.

You can apply for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

If you are applying for yourself, you must meet the minimum criteria listed below.

If you are referring someone else, you must be a professional person (referrer) and know the applicant and their circumstances well.

Please note – households can only receive one grant award in any 6-month period to a maximum of three in any two-year period.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, just an indication of the sorts of things our Trustees are willing and able to provide funding for.  Remember that our Moment’s That Matter small grants scheme is about making life just a bit better, so we fund the non-essentials that brighten up your day.  Here’s some examples of what we’ll pay for:

1. Help to pay for training or work tools, if you can supply details of the tools or training course you want to apply for and can demonstrate that it will help you to secure employment.
2. The cost of school trips, if there is a compulsory payment for the trip and there is no bursary scheme available from the school.
3. Sports equipment or kit for you or your children.
4. A day out or short break for you and your family.
5. Toys and games for your children.
6. Community Projects that promote social inclusion in your street or neighbourhood.

Our grant awards range from £50.00 to £750.00 however our average grant award is expected to be less than £350. Please apply for a realistic amount or your application may be rejected.

Our grant awards are normally made in the form of vouchers, bank transfer or direct to a supplier.  Where we can, we’ll buy the item or experience for you, rather than sending you cash.

Because we only fund the non-essentials in life, we have taken the decision not to accept applications for things that other charities already provide.  For that reason, we don’t accept applications for items such as:

1. Help to buy white goods e.g. fridge, freezer, microwave, washing machine or cooker
2. Help to buy essential household goods e.g. bedding and beds, bedroom furniture, kitchen equipment.  
3. Help to buy food or clothing.
4. Help to pay for priority debts including Gas, Electric, Water and Council Tax.
5. Help to pay for bankruptcy costs or a debt relief order.
6. Help to pay for rent or the deposit for your next home.
7. Help to pay off your rent arrears.

In exceptional circumstances you may apply for help to buy a disability aid if you can supply details of the aid you want to buy and show that a government grant is not available. Grants towards electric wheelchairs will not be funded.

All applicants must have UK citizenship or been granted leave to remain.  They must be over 18 years old and have been resident in the UK for at least 12 months.

In addition, they must be in receipt of all state benefits they are entitled to (except where you are waiting for benefit to be awarded for example PIP or appealing against a decision of the DWP to refuse or withdraw a benefit)

Lightning Reach – free online portal that connects financial support from various sources to the people that need it, quickly and securely – Visit website here >

Turn 2 Us – free Benefits Calculator; Grants Search; details about Turn2us’ direct grant-giving funds; and links to other sources of information and help – Visit website here >

The Association of Charitable Organisations – free directory of benevolent organisations which make grants. These are especially relevant if you have worked in a particular trade or industry – Visit website here >

Your privacy and the confidentiality of your application are very important, and More Than A Roof has adopted privacy and data protection policies to protect them. These are set out in full in the document Data Protection Policy which is available on our website or on request from the Charity’s office.

If you, or someone on your behalf, completes the application form an electronic file will be opened for you which will contain the information in the application form and any subsequent correspondence with you, your doctors, referees, or others such as advice workers and social workers. The file might, also, contain other information about you which is already in the public domain. The Charity is collecting this information so that it can consider your application for financial assistance on the basis that you have given your consent for your personal data to be used in this way. You can withdraw your consent at any time, but this is likely to mean that your application will not be able to be considered. The file(s) will be kept securely and in strict confidence and be used only in connection with your application. Data will not be passed to any other individual or organisation without your consent, except where required to do so by law or as explained in the next two paragraphs.

Information in your file(s) may be shared with other charities to whom you have applied for help, and to charities which are currently providing you with support or which have supported you in the past. Information may also be shared with your referees and with any of your advisers and helpers named in the application, and with any other person for which you have given your permission. Should the Charity agree to provide you with any goods or services then relevant information in your file will be shared with the Charity’s supplier(s).

You have data protection rights, including the right to see a copy of your file(s) except for any information held within it about another person, and to erase or correct any errors. A copy of your file(s) will be sent to you within one month of receiving a request from you. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. For further information please refer to our Data Protection Policy. Your file(s) will be destroyed six years after your last contact with the Charity.