Vegetarian for Life Grant

Please note that grants from this charitable fund are only available to vegetarians or vegans, aged over 60, who are in financial need. If you have complex health and/or social care needs, please approach The Vegetarian and Vegan Fund through a medical body or appropriate social care professional. Please ensure that you have included the following information with your application. This will help us to consider your application fully and sympathetically.

Essential

• A letter containing as much background information as possible – why you need the grant and how it would improve your life. • Evidence of age. • Evidence of financial need (e.g. bank statements/proof of benefits). • Evidence of commitment to vegetarianism or veganism (e.g. grocery receipts/cookbooks).

Where appropriate and practical

• A supporting letter from a medical or social care professional, for example a doctor, social worker or occupational therapist. • Estimates to justify the amount of grant applied for (three quotations will be required for building works, adaptations etc). • Photographic evidence if applicable

To be eligible fo -In financial need (i.e. with a relatively small regular income and relatively low savings – we follow the limits used for eligibility for means-tested state benefits)

• A practising vegan or vegetarian.

Further information

• Grants are awarded on a one-off basis. They are not suitable for ongoing expenditure.
• Grants are normally made to assist ‘independent living’, for example: to provide ramps, grab handles, minor kitchen/bathroom adaptations, stair lifts, mobility scooter or perhaps respite care (a short stay in a care home for a person being cared for at home, to provide a break for the carer).
• Applications for other uses will be considered – as long as the grant will benefit one or more older vegetarians or vegans.
• Individual grants are normally subject to an upper limit of £3,000, but this may vary if the grant would benefit more than one eligible person or, at the Trustees’ discretion, if there are other extenuating circumstances.
• Each application will be judged on its individual merit by the Trustees of Vegetarian for Life, whose decision is final.