Trust and foundations

Epilepsy Action is fortunate enough to receive generous donations from many grant-making trusts and foundations. These charitable bodies represent a major source of income for the charity and we are very grateful for their continued support.

The support that we receive from is extremely important in enabling us to continue providing our services to thousands of people living with epilepsy.

Donations from grant-making trusts can be allocated towards any of Epilepsy Action’s current projects and services. These include our freephone epilepsy advice and information phone and email helpline, or funds can be allocated to help towards on-going costs. They can also be directed into our education work or to help cover the costs of updating and reprinting our epilepsy information literature.

Having made a grant to Epilepsy Action, trustees are kept informed about the progress of the charity.

Trusts donating to Epilepsy Action can choose to receive the charity's magazine Epilepsy Today or our quarterly newsletter, and they automatically receive the annual report.

We are keen to increase the number of trusts and foundations that are interested in, and dedicated to what Epilepsy Action does, and to develop relationships with trusts. If you are interested in a particular area of our work, or a particular aspect of epilepsy, then contact us to find out how you could get involved in working with us and supporting people with epilepsy. Email us at trusts@epilepsy.org.uk or telephone 0113 210 8800.

What your donation will pay for:

• £50 would supply a branch with literature about epilepsy to give to people affected by epilepsy in their local communities

• £100 would provide us with 10 copies of one of our information leaflets in Braille

• £500 would train and support an Accredited Volunteer for their first year

• £1,000 would sponsor one of our Regional Conferences with specialist speakers talking about issues relating to epilepsy

• £2,000 would fund photography for a year's worth of publications including Epilepsy Today and our advice and information materials

• £3,000 would enable us to send out press releases and to respond to press enquiries on a single campaign

• £4,000 would provide 20,000 copies of our advice and information booklets to send out to our members

• £5,000 would pay for the printing costs of our quarterly magazine Epilepsy Today which is sent out to all our members

• £10,000 would allow us to mail all doctors' surgeries in the UK with information about epilepsy

• £30,000 would fund one Epilepsy Action Sapphire Nurse for one year offering specialist care to people diagnosed with epilepsy, based in a UK hospital

• Epilepsy Action's annual review