Independence at Home
- Carer Tools
- Carers
- Chronic Conditions
- Housing and Care Homes
- Older Person Support
- Other Chronic Conditions
If you have a long-term illness or disability – or a member of your family has – and you need financial help towards the cost of living independently at home, we may be able to help.
You must be in financial need and unable to:
- afford the equipment or building work yourself, or
- obtain the funding that you require from statutory services.
- We only accept grant applications from health or social care professionals, or advisors or support workers from other organisations or charities.
If you believe you might be eligible for a grant, please ask your physiotherapist, occupational therapist, mental health nurse, GP, or social prescriber, social worker or an advisor from your local Citizens Advice Bureau or another charity or organisation to act as your Referrer.
Eligible Medical Conditions
This list is indicative but not exhaustive. If the medical condition in relation to which you are seeking a grant is not listed, please email iah@independenceathome.org.uk for guidance.
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Brain Trauma, head injury
- Cerebral Ischaemia
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chronic enduring mental health conditions and problems
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Chronic Lung Disease
- Complex Cardiac Problems
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
- Down’s Syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes, Hypermobility
- Epidermolysis Bullosa
- Global Developmental Delay
- Hydrocephalus
- Life-Limiting Conditions e.g. cancers
- Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Severe Learning Difficulties
- Severe Epilepsy
- Severe Arthritis
- Severe Sensory Impairment e.g. sight, hearing
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Stroke
- Traumatic, life-changing injury
Grant Categories and Allowable Items
Your application to the charity Independence at Home for a modest grant must be in relation to ONE of the Categories and Allowable Items which we support. Please read ‘How To Apply’ for more information. If,
having done so, you are still unsure, please email iah@independenceathome.org.uk for assistance.
Home Adaptations
- House adaptation
- Kitchen adaptation
- Ground-floor accomodation
- New building
- Central heating
- Ramp
- Driveway
- Hard standing
- Dropped kerb
- Disabled parking bay
- Automatic garage door
- Through floor lift
- Stair lift
- Step lift
- Scooter storage
- Storage shed
- Doorway widening
- Walk in shower/level access shower
- Wet room
- Over bath shower
- Shower
- Closomat toilet
- Side opening bath
- Special bath
- Height adjustable bath
- Bidet
- Hi lo bath
- Hi lo basin
- Whirlpool bath
- Spa Birth
- Urgent house repairs
House repairs of all kinds:
- Window repair
- Door repair
- Roof repair
- Electrical repair
Where there is a strong medical case of need
Mobility Equipment
- Electrically powered scooter
- Electrically powered wheelchair
- Manual wheelchair
- Folding wheelchair
- Lightweight wheelchair
- Lightweight powered wheelchairs
- Specialist wheelchair
- Standing wheelchair
- Power add-on for wheelchair
- Indoor- outdoor wheelchair
- Therapeutic trike
- Specialist disability buggy or pushchair
- Walking aid
- Walking frame
- Car adaptations
- Car hoist
- Specialist car seat
- Specialist car harness
- Wheelchair hoist
- Wheelchair safety harness
- Scooter battery
- Wheelchair battery
- Power pack
- Wheelchair cushion
- medi-motion wheels
- Hoist (etc) repair
- Therapeutic exercise machine
Disability Equipment
- Special seating
- Portable hoist
- Bathroom hoist
- Bath lift
- Ceiling tracking
- Hoist (etc) repair
- High backed chair
- Riser-recliner chair
- P-Pod seating
- Stander
- Profiling bed
- Adjustable bed
- Orthopaedic mattress
- Waterproof mattress
- Safe space bed
- Safe space
- Sensory bedding
- Sensory equipment
- Body splint
- Body suit
- Postural support aids
- Nebulizer
- TENS machine
- Environmental control equipment
- Door entry system
- Tough furniture
- Aids for daily living
Communication Aids
For people with visual and hearing impairment or who are socially isolated because of their medical condition:
- Computer hardward
- Computer software
- Tablet computer
- Monitor
- Reading aid
- Magnifier
- Light writer
- Scanner
- Speech aid
- Communication aid
- Mobile phone
- Large button phone
- Epilepsy alarm
- CO2 detector
- care-phone alarm
- CCTV
Essential Household Goods *
- Cooker
- Hob
- Oven
- Fridge
- Freezer
- Washing Machine
- Tumble dryer
- Washer dryer
- Bed base
- Mattress
- Mattress topper
- Sofa bed
- Flooring
- Carpet
- Furnishing
- Blinds
- Only where there is a strong medical case of need e.g. to enable a move to independent living accommodation
Cost of Living
- Heating and fuel costs- only in exceptional circumstances, and only in winter months
Miscellaneous
- Removal expenses- only to enable a move to more suitable/independent living accommodation
- House clearance- only to enable a move to more suitable/ independent living accommodation
- De-cluttering- only if there is a diagnosis from a specialist medical professional of a recognised neurological condition and a plan agreed with and supported by a social work professional to ensure that the result is then sustainable
- Holidays- only for people with a diagnosis from a specialist medical professional of a recognised neurological condition
Not in Scope
- Medication
- Equipment available from the NHS
- Groceries