The Sussex Heart Charity

Criteria for Successful grant applications to the Sussex Heart Charity

1. The first underlying principle of the Sussex Heart Charity is to improve the quality of cardiac patients' lives and their families.
2. With respect to governance issues and the Charity Commission, the Sussex Heart Charity is not able to supply equipment or services which are clearly the statutory responsibility of the Brighton University Hospital Trust to provide.
3. In the community with respect to governance issues and the Charity Commission, the Sussex Heart Charity is not able to supply equipment or services which are clearly the statutory responsibility of the PCT to provide
4. All requests for equipment should be for additional items of equipment, facilities or services, and not for replacement of existing items or equipment.
5. With respect to equipment grants the applicant will have to guarantee mechanisms are in place for ongoing financial support for maintenance of the equipment.
6. The request must meet the Sussex Heart Charity's criteria for making the lives of cardiac patients more comfortable and more convenient.
7. No retrospective claims will be considered.
8. Incomplete forms will not be considered.
9. Applications need to be submitted with the appropriate information, and monies only paid retrospectively upon submission of appropriate receipts.
10. With respect to the education conference bursaries, a ceiling of £250 support per person in any academic year is allowed. Therefore several applications may be made in any given academic year, but only to a total amount of £250 support.
11. Education and conference bursaries will require counter signing by your line manager.
12. There are named bursaries for other larger requests and these are:
    1. The Equipment Bursary
    2. The Service Bursary
    3. The Research Bursary
    4. The Small Study Bursary
13. These will be considered at the Sussex Heart Charity Director's meetings and awarded on an annual basis
14. Grant application meetings are held bi-monthly.
15. All applications will have a time limit of 6 months from date of being awarded. After this date the funding will be withdrawn and a new application would be necessary.

Downloads

Educational/Conference Bursary Application Form

Sussex Heart Charity Grant Application Form