Grants 2022 | Owl Financial. With you through life.

Home-Start Kettering Area

We provided funding of £10,000 to contribute to the salary of the Home start Kettering Scheme Manager, to continue to recruit, train and support peer mentor volunteers to enable them to support vulnerable families.

Romsey Young Carers

We provided funding of £10,000 to be used towards the salary of a family link and outreach worker to support outreach and family support work.

Wood Street Mission

We provided funding of £10,00 to improve children’s literacy across Manchester and Salford and inspire an enjoyment of reading, through the ‘Books Forever’ project and Book Roadshow events at local schools and children's centres.

Maggie's

We provided funding of £10,000 to contribute towards the salary of a Clinical Psychologist and Counsellor, to provide 1:1 psychological support for people with cancer and their families and friends.

Carlisle Youth Zone

We provided funding of £10,000 towards improving the café, to create a warm, safe, community meeting and teaching space where young people in Carlisle can get together in the evenings to have a meal or learn to cook.

The Ideas Partnership UK

We provided funding of £9,978 to remove barriers to the education and well-being of 50 kindergarten children, 250 school-age children and girls at risk through provision in our newly built and sustainable community centre in Kosovo.

Seashell Trust

We provided funding of £9,720 to provide a ‘Sensory Nook’, which is an emotive space that can be used when students are feeling overwhelmed and displaying behaviours due to social and emotional challenges.

The Unicorn School

We provided funding of £9,005 to establish a Sixth Form (The Phoenix) in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, for students with needs on the autism spectrum.

AFK - Working With Disability

We provided funding of £7,061 to provide specialist mobility equipment for disabled children and young people aged 0-25 around the UK.

Well Child

We provided funding of £9,094 to transform their garden into a safe, accessible, sensory space for children and families to enjoy.

Lancashire Mind

We provided funding of £9,194 to be spent on salaries, direct project costs to fund the Bounce Forward resilience programme, providing activities to boost children's resilience and wellbeing.

Focus Charity

We provided funding of £15,000 for 'Breathing Space' which provides a range of support and activities to young people and young adults at their unique allotment space.

Disability Challengers

We provided funding of £15,000 to deliver the Guildford Playscheme for disabled children aged 4-12. The project runs every weekend and during the school holidays, providing a fun and safe place for disabled children to have fun and make friends.

Bloomin' Arts

We provided funding of £15,000 to be used towards the Bloomin’ Arts Theatre Company Shakespeare Project, to devise and produce a Shakespearean comedy to tour.

Molly Olly's Wishes

We provided funding of £15,000 to fund the cost of wishes for children in the UK under 18 years of age with life-threatening illnesses.

Woking & Sam Beare Hospice

We provided funding of £15,000 to provide additional support from Community nurses to patients in North West Surrey. Providing specialist advice for family and carers, to cope with their loved one's illness and their own bereavement.

Longfield Community Hospice Care

We provided funding of £15,000 to increase capacity of Longfield's Hospice at Home team to care for growing numbers of adults in Gloucestershire, at end of life, who want to die at home with dignity.

Sight for Surrey

We provided funding of £7,500 to run a learning activity led weekend residential for children/young people who are vision impaired/multi sensory impaired and family members at Juniper Hall in Surrey.

Rockinghorse Children's Charity

We provided funding of £15,000 towards a mental health and wellbeing service for children and young people faced with the trauma of a cancer diagnosis and needing emotional support to help them cope through diagnosis, treatment and beyond.

The Money Charity

We provided funding of £9,600 to deliver 16 two-hour Money Workshops, providing up to 120 refugees and asylum seekers with bespoke, invaluable financial education, improving financial wellbeing and supporting them to avoid money stress.

Blue Smile

We provided funding of £15,000 to support the cost of delivering a year of arts-based therapy to approximately 18 children at Orchard Park Primary School, one of their most deprived and longest standing partner schools in Cambridgeshire.

Stoke City Community Trust

We provided funding of £10,000 to increase opportunities for participants who have Cerebral Palsy, hearing impairments and Visual impairments providing sporting opportunities for all.

Youth Adventure Trust

We provided funding of £13,821 to be used to support 17 young people from Swindon on their 6-day Forest camp and the October Pathway Day, using outdoor adventure to build resilience, develop confidence & learn skills that will last.

Transitions UK

We provided funding of £14,700 to be used to support a training programme for outreach staff to have specialist knowledge , thereby enabling more impactful engagement with more complex and vulnerable young people.

Villiers Park Educational Trust

We provided funding of £15,000 to support 150 young people experiencing social and economic disadvantage, to participate in our Future Leaders programme in Swindon over one year.

Children 1st

We provided funding of £15,000 to support the Community Pathways project in North Ayrshire; it will increase the youth work capacity to respond to urgent and increasing needs in the community of Bourtreehill.