Harry Cureton Fund

The fund supports healthcare in Peterborough and the area covered by Peterborough and Stamford hospitals (postcodes PE1 – PE11). It supports both individuals requiring medical equipment and organisations who carry out healthcare activities.

The Harry Cureton Fund exists due to the generosity of the late Harry Cureton, who for many years lived at Eye, near Peterborough and donated a large lottery win to help local people.

Applications for both capital and revenue costs for healthcare activities are invited covering:

• Preservation and promotion of good health and education about health issues;
• Provision of palliative care in relation to terminal or chronic conditions;
• Research into the causes, treatment and care for of all forms of illness (which can be undertaken anywhere in the UK);
• Relief and treatment of all forms of physical and mental illness and rehabilitation from such illness

Applications for capital or revenue costs for healthcare activities relating to the delivery of Directed Enhanced Services (DES) will not be considered.

Criteria for grants to benefit an individual:

Applications for grants to assist an individual should be made by an Occupational Therapist (or other medical professional who has knowledge of the individual’s overall health and financial position).

Requests will be considered for money towards a piece of equipment or a small adaption to a home to help an individual with their disabilities.

Grants will not be made:

• where the activity could be paid for by a surgery, the NHS or another source;
• where the grant will result in financial benefit to a person or group of people, through for example improvements or alterations to a property;
• to cover expenditure already incurred While there is no limit to the size of grants, the Fund would like to spread the benefit as widely as possible and are likely to give precedence to applications for grants up to £20,000. However, this should not discourage applications for larger awards, where the applicant considers they can demonstrate a justifiable reason for a large grant.

Conditions may be attached to the awards of grants. In order to promote awareness of the Fund to enable it to bring knowledge of its work to its target audience and to acknowledge Harry Cureton’s generosity, it will normally be a condition of a grant that there will be public acknowledgement of the grant incorporating the Fund’s name.

Criteria for grants for an organisation:

While this list is not exclusive or binding for the Fund, the panel will apply the following criteria in deciding whether to award grants: Preference will be given to:

capital equipment rather than help with running costs; grants where matching funds are available; activities that will benefit the widest number of people; pump priming grants, e.g. initial support for a medical post if that will lead to funding the post being taken over by the NHS Grants will not be made:

-. where the activity could be paid for by a surgery, the NHS or another source;

• where the grant will result in financial benefit to a person or group of people, through for example improvements or alterations to a property;
• to cover expenditure already incurred Grants may be either single grants or rolling grants.

While there is no limit to the size of grants, the Fund wishes to spread the benefit as widely as possible and are likely to give precedence to applications for grants up to £20,000 in any year. However, the Fund does not wish to discourage applications for larger awards, where the applicant considers they can demonstrate a justifiable reason for a large grant.

Conditions may be attached to the awards of grants. In order to promote awareness of the Fund to enable it to bring knowledge of its work to its target audience and to acknowledge Harry Cureton’s generosity, it will normally be a condition of a grant that there will be public acknowledgement of the grant.