Special Grants
As well as giving grants at Christmas, Cash for Kids supports organizations that work with underprivileged children. We can help fund their special projects or buy them vital equipment.
Sense Scotland works with children affected by deaf blindness, sensory impairment, learning and physical disabilities. A grant of £6,000 helped their new TouchBase centre in Glasgow provide specialist toys and other equipment.
Riding for the Disabled in Summerston in Glasgow provides horse riding for disabled children. Barney is the Cash for Kids pony, and we still support him and his friends at the centre.
Toys on The Road is a mobile toy library for children with special needs. Run by Glasgow’s Centre for Under Fives, a Cash for Kids grant helped them take the service out to Drumchapel, Possil, Gorbals and Bridgeton.
Calside Primary School in Dumfries received a grant of £4785 to create a Rainbow Sensory Room for children with communication difficulties and a Cash for Kids grant helped Georgetown Primary buy a therapy bench, massage mattress and wheelchair accessible computer workstation.
The Craighalbert Centre in Cumbernauld is Scotland’s National Centre for children with motor impairments. A Cash for Kids grant of £42,500 will help them get about in a brand new minibus (above) with special seating.
Ronald McDonald House provides free accommodation for families of patients at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Cash for Kids continues to support their work with a grant of £26,000.
