# New funding partnership will support UK fashion & textile workers with disabled children

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/27/new-funding-partnership-will-support-uk-fashion-textile-workers-disabled-children/
- Published: 2017-03-27T10:18:30+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Two charities have partnered to provide funding help to parents of disabled children
who work or have recently worked in the UK fashion and textile industry.**

 

[Caudwell Children](http://www.caudwellchildren.com/) and the [Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust](http://www.ftct.org.uk/)
will provide shared funding for a range of mobility and sensory equipment, therapies
and treatments; including specialist wheelchairs, buggies, car seats, tricycles 
and light sensory packs. The funding is available for items with a cost of £750 
or more.

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To be eligible for funding, the family must either have at least one parent or carer
working in the UK fashion and textile industry, or have one parent or carer who 
has worked in the industry within the last nine years, and who must have worked 
in the industry for at least one year.

 

Funding requests must be received by Saturday 31^(st) June, 2017 with those interested
asked to phone or email Caudwell Children’s Applications team on 01782 600266 and
ap**********@**************en.com.

 

Anna Pangbourne, director of the Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust, said:

 

> “We are absolutely delighted to be working in partnership with Caudwell Children
> to reach many more UK families with disabled children; families who may not realise
> they are eligible for our support because of where they work.”

 

Image: Mother and daughter with a Caudwell Children family support worker

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