South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau 
Information Sheets 

Last updated September 2007 

Grants for 
individuals 

SYFAB doesn't keep information about 
grants for individuals. Try your local 
advice centre, or look up the Citizens 
Advice Bureau in the phone book for 
help. If you are a student, talk to the 
student welfare officer or careers officer 
at your college who might have copies of 
useful books. 

The following information is about 
sources of money for educational grants 
and for individuals in need. Copies of 
books may be available at your library. 

Funderfinder 

FunderFinder is a small charity producing 
software and other resources for grant-
seekers. They produce a number of free 
leaflets about funding and fundraising 
such as Money for Individuals, Awards for 
Artists, Gap Year Projects and several 
more. The leaflets are available to 
download online. 

FunderFinder People in Need 

A computer software package that helps 
identify charitable trusts that make grants 
to people in need or wanting money to 
study. Available for public access in South 
Yorkshire: 

Barnsley Central Library, Shambles 
Street, S70 2JF, Tel: 01226 773 929. 

Rotherham Career Exchange, Bank 
House, 86-90 Laughton Road, 
Dinnington, S25 2PS, Tel: 01909 564 888. 
(Only funded for clients aged 20 years 
plus). 

Doncaster Central Library, Waterdale, 
DN1 3JE, Tel: 01302 734 320. 

Sheffield Arts and Social Sciences 
Library (in Central Library), Surrey Street, 
S1 1XZ, Tel: 0114 273 4747/8. 

Contact Funderfinder for details of other 
places to use it. 


A Guide to Grants for Individuals in 
Need by Gemma Lynch, Rebecca Ryland, 
and Alan French, DSC, 10th edition, 
2006/07, £34.95. 
Lists over 2280 trusts and gives details of 
a range of funds and other support 
available for the relief of individual 
poverty and hardship. 


The Educational Grants Directory by 
Alan French and Tom Traynor, DSC, 9th 
edition, 2006/07, £34.95. 
Lists over 1100 sources of funding. Gives 
details of a range of funds and other 
support available for schoolchildren and 
students in need up to and including first 
degree level. 


www.grantsforindividuals.org.uk 

A Guide to Grants For Individuals in Need 
and The Educational Grants Directory 
have been combined in this online 
database by DSC. There is an annual 
subscription charge. See website for 
further details. 

Family Welfare Association 

Details of financial and other help 
available from statutory and voluntary 
sources. Need to be referred by a 
professional (eg social worker) or 
voluntary agency (eg Citizen's Advice 
Bureau) and initial contact to be made by 
professional worker on an application 
form available online. 

The Educational Grants Advisory 
Service 

A national organisation giving 
information and advice to post-16 
students seeking educational and training 
grants. The service prioritises those who 
are disadvantaged. The Guide to Student 
Funding provides advice and information 
on sources of funding for education and 
training (including loans, grants, benefits, 
hardship funds, bursaries and charitable 
trusts) and is published on the EGAS 
website. 

EGAS also offer a Trust Fund Search for 
students to identify educational trusts 
they may be eligible to apply to, this 
service can be accessed online or by post. 

Lions and Rotary Clubs and Round 
Tables 

Sometimes make grants to individuals in 
need. Your local reference library may 
have a list of contacts. 

Charity Search 

Offers a free confidential advice service to 
elderly people in need, linking them with 
charities that may be willing to help 
them. 

Contacts 

FunderFinder 

65 Raglan Road 
Leeds 
LS2 9DZ 
Tel: 0113 243 3008 
Website: www.funderfinder.org.uk 

The Directory of Social Change (DSC) 

24 Stephenson Way 
London 
NW1 2DP 
Tel (local rate): 0845 077 7077 
Tel: 020 7391 4800 
Fax: 020 7391 4808 
email: enquiries@dsc.org.uk 
Website: www.dsc.org.uk (has an online 
bookshop) 

Family Welfare Association 

501-505 Kingsland Road 
London 
E8 4AU 
Tel: 020 7254 6251 (advisory service open 
2-4pm Tues/Weds/Thurs only) 
Fax: 020 7249 5443 
email: grantsenquiry@fwa.org.uk 
Website: www.fwa.org.uk 

The Educational Grants Advisory 
Service 

Contact details are the same as Family 
Welfare Association (advisory service 
open 2-4pm Tues/Weds/Thurs only) 
email: egas.enquiry@fwa.org.uk 
Website: www.egas-online.org 

Charity Search 

Freepost (BS6610) 
Avonmouth 
Bristol 
BS11 9TW 
Tel: 0117 982 4060 
email: info@charitysearch.org.uk 
Website: www.charitysearch.org.uk 

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Advice Bureau 

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Tel: 0114 249 4343 
email: enquiries@syfab.org.uk 
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