The Grant Pot campaign
When the right help is out of reach, your gift can bring it closer.
FND means Functional Neurological Disorder. It can affect movement, speech, sensation and cause seizures. Your donation helps fund practical support people cannot get in time.
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Practical support can mean more independence, connection and ordinary life.
Recorded for the Grant PotGifts on this page are tagged to the campaign. They are not folded into a generic donations total.
UK applications assessed fairlyRequests are considered against the same published criteria. A gift is not matched to a named person.
Awards follow our published policyDecisions, limits and safeguards sit in the Grant & Support Policy, in public.
What a gift can fund
A trip outside. A clear sentence. A safe shower. The chance to start the right therapy before another year of waiting.
Functional Neurological Disorder changes how the brain sends and receives information. Symptoms are real and can be severely disabling. The practical help someone needs may still be unavailable locally, delayed, or outside standard eligibility rules.
The Grant Pot exists for that gap. It makes assessed, discretionary awards for practical FND-related support when statutory and other routes cannot meet the need adequately or promptly.
Eligible support
Every award is considered case by case. These are the kinds of support a campaign gift can move closer.
Wheelchairs, walkers, sticks, orthotics and other mobility support that can restore access to home, work, family and community.
Intended benefit: more independence in the ordinary places where life actually happens.
Assessed against the published policy. A donation is not tied to one named item.
Communication aids such as AAC tools, cards and equipment for people whose FND affects speech or makes communication unreliable.
Intended benefit: a more reliable way to be understood at home, in appointments and in daily life.
Equipment and cards are considered where speech or communication is unreliable.
FND-informed physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychological support, therapy tools or equipment where appropriate.
Intended benefit: specialist help when the local route cannot meet the need in time.
Clinically appropriate support. Not a promise of ongoing private treatment.
Time-limited, clinically appropriate practical support when an NHS, local-authority or other route is unavailable, unsuitable or cannot meet the need promptly.
Intended benefit: the next practical step while it can still change daily life.
Statutory routes should be used where they are adequate and prompt.
The fund is not emergency care, a replacement for benefits, or a guarantee of private treatment. Awards are limited, discretionary and governed by our Grant & Support Policy.
Why a Grant Pot is needed
“I cannot leave home safely.”
Statutory support should be used where it is adequate and prompt. Eligibility, referral, local availability and waiting lists do not always meet the week the need is sharpest. That space between the need and the route is the gap.
The Grant Pot is the bridge: an assessed award for the next practical step. Your donation can help make that step possible. It does not replace the NHS, and it is not a guarantee that any one request will be funded.
Grow the pot
A gift joins the pot. Together, those gifts become the next assessed award. Choose an amount to fill the donate form at the top of this page. You can change it or add a message before secure Stripe checkout.
Donations made through this campaign are tagged and reported as Grant Pot campaign income. They support the discretionary Grant & Support programme described on this page and in our published policy.
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From gift to grant
A warm invitation to give. A recorded process for every award.
The donation record is linked to the Grant Pot campaign rather than disappearing into a generic total.
They explain the FND-related need, its effect on daily life and what other routes they have explored.
Eligibility, need, financial circumstances, alternatives and evidence are reviewed consistently. A person makes the final decision.
Approved support is tracked and impact can be reported without turning a beneficiary's private life into fundraising content.
Straight answers
No. People should use NHS, local-authority and other statutory support where it is adequate and available. The Grant Pot considers assessed gaps when those routes cannot meet an eligible FND-related need adequately or promptly. It is never emergency care.
No. Gifts join the Grant Pot rather than being matched to a named person or item. This protects applicants' privacy and lets the team assess needs fairly. Awards remain limited and discretionary.
The target is a milestone, not a cap. The campaign is the long-term engine for the Grant Pot, so eligible awards can continue as funds become available.
Yes. UK applications are open through the Grant & Support application. Funding is never guaranteed, even when someone is eligible.
Our plain-English description of FND and its treatment needs is grounded in NHS inform's FND guidance and NHS England's minimum neurology service specification. Grant decisions follow FND CONNECT CIC's published Grant & Support Policy.
Safety: FND Connect does not diagnose or provide emergency medical care. New, sudden, severe or unusual symptoms need urgent medical assessment through 999, NHS 111 or the appropriate local service.
One practical act
Grow the Grant Pot. Fund the next practical step.
Other ways to help
Prefer to support FND Connect every month? Become a Friend from £5 a month. That can help keep SeizeControl free for people living with FND, practical grants like wheelchairs, or tech and research for better futures. Monthly gifts are not included in the Grant Pot total above.
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