If you are a provider of any of our approved therapies or training, and have families who cannot meet the full costs, we may be able to assist with funding.
We offer grants to families with children who are adopted or have additional needs. The families will have a household income below £50k. We offer grants three times a year with closing dates at the end of January, May and September.
What you or your organisation offers must be a direct benefit to the child and your recommendation must make clear what you expect the outcome to be.
Grants are only available for a limited time so if they are not taken up the money will be retained in the charity. If there are significant waiting times for services this needs to be taken into account.
You will be required to demonstrate you operate a safeguarding policy appropriate to the service provided.
We also expect that you are members of a national professional body appropriate to the service provided (where one exists).
How the grant process operates
As a part of the application vetting, Sophie’s Moonbeams Trust will contact a new service provider to establish a working relationship, to check that the service is appropriate and to make sure the payment process is clearly understood.
When an application has been approved and all necessary checks completed successfully, the Trust will issue a purchase order to you (the service provider). This purchase order details the name of the person receiving the service, the amount of the grant and the period for which the purchase order is valid.
Once provision of the service is complete you will raise an invoice for payment. The Trust aims to pay all invoices within a few working days of receipt of the invoice (often on the next day).
If service provision occurs over a lengthy period, we can discuss pro rata part-payments on a case by case basis.
