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The following organisations may be helpful for families who are looking for help with the costs of training, services, and products for their child. We will continue to update this page as new resources become available. Please note, Pyramid Educational Consultants is not affiliated with any of the below organisations.

The Boparan Charitable Trust
We are a charity created with the sole aim of improving young peoples’ lives. We provide funding to children with disabilities, life-limiting illnesses and those who are in extreme poverty across the UK. Our grants can fund specialist equipment such as wheelchairs, trikes, sensory toys not available on the NHS, and treatments such as a Speech & Language Therapy and Behavioural Therapy. If you know a child that could benefit from our support, we invite you to apply for funding.

Family Fund
The Family Fund helps to support the families of children and young people with additional support needs arising from a disability or disabling condition or with a serious or life limiting illness. One area they support in particular is communication. Children and young people do not need a diagnosis to meet Family Fund criteria, but their additional support needs must arise from a disability or disabling condition.

The Nihal Armstrong Trust
Provides children who have cerebral palsy with essential pieces of equipment, communication aids or specific services that their local authority does not provide.

Pyramid Educational Trust
The Trust aims to support parents and carers to receive training and support to implement PECS and the Pyramid Approach to Education. The Trust does not accept applications from professionals.

Variety – The Children’s Charity
It costs almost £600 more a month to look after a disabled child compared to one who is non-disabled. Our equipment grants are designed to help alleviate some of the financial pressure of funding specialist equipment for families who don’t have the means to pay for it themselves. We provide grants for specialist disability equipment that isn’t available through statutory services. This includes communication aids and software.

The Sequal Trust
Provides funding for those in need of specialist communication aids. To apply, the individual should be non-verbal, have incoherent speech or severe learning difficulties.

Cash for Kids
Cash for Kids support children from birth up to and including 18 years of age who are vulnerable, come from disadvantaged backgrounds or are living with an illness or disability. The value of a grant is typically from £1,000 to £3,000.