Financial Assistance
We are keen to assist care experienced people in developing good budgeting and financial management skills so please do not hesitate to speak to one of our support workers.
 
We have an annual budget with which we can offer financial assistance to care experienced people who are in need.  Please do bear in mind that we receive a high level of requests for financial support and unfortunately, we are unable to help everyone. If your request is unsuccessful, we will always try and signpost to other sources of support wherever possible.
 
Please note that as part of our charity’s responsible giving policy we do need to verify your current or former care status therefore you will be required to give us details of who we can speak to about your application.

Crisis Payments
We aim to help care experienced people who find they are in financial crisis, you can apply for a small crisis payment to help out in emergency for things like gas or electric and essential travel costs. And if short of food we can provide grocery gift vouchers.
To minimise cash payments we will always try to purchase the goods you need. Only in exceptional circumstances will we make cash payments and we then respectfully request that you let us have copies of the receipts from your purchases for our records. If you are still eligible for support from the Local Authority Leaving Care Team then we will, wherever possible, help you to access that support where appropriate.

Apply for a crisis payment

We will try our best to respond to you within the same or next working day.
Click here if you need help in a crisis.

Grants
We may be able to help care experienced people with grants for other ‘essential’ items where no other support is available. We often help with grants for training courses to help care experienced people into employment.  Please note that due to the high number of requests we receive we are unable to help everyone, and where grant applications are declined, we will do our best to help signpost to other potential sources of support.

Apply for a grant

Click here to make a grant application up to the value of £500
We will do our best to get back to you to discuss your application within 7 days.

Grants to support further and higher education

Rees Foundation are keen to support grant applications from care experienced adults specifically to help with careers development and Higher Education where no other funding sources are available. We may help you with living costs whilst attending further or higher education, dependent on circumstances.
We understand that sometimes, care experienced people are not confident to pursue further or higher education at an earlier age, but may feel more able to fulfil this as a mature student so there is no upper age limit for people applying to our grants project.
Please note, we will only contribute to the cost of Further or Higher Education courses, or Training courses where all other educational grant, bursary or subsidy entitlements have been exhausted. We will usually pay any grant that we award direct to the supplier of the goods or services.

Apply for a further or higher education grant

Please click here to fill out a grant application form for further or higher education, over the value of £500.
Thank you so much, this grant means that I can do my Masters!  I cannot tell you how grateful I am!