Support NESS - Trusts and Foundations

Partners in Delivering Impact

Without the support of Trusts, Foundations, and Grant Awarding Agencies we would be unable to deliver our vital range of Added Value Services, and we are extremely grateful for all funding received.  The award of repeated and multi-year grants is an indication of our funding partners’ satisfaction with our performance, and faith in our ability to make a positive impact on the lives of those we support.

Our Added Value Services are funded by a cocktail of charitable, trust and foundation funding, from a wide range of sources.  Every grant awarded, of whatever size, plays a vital part in ensuring our ongoing service delivery – and we would like to thank every funder for their support of NESS.

Current Funders

Please find below a list of the current funders of each of our Added Value Services.  Please follow the links to each Service page to read about the practical and emotional support we provide, and the impact on the lives of our service users.

Hospital Information Service

• RNIB
• Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO
• The Hospital Saturday Fund

Employment Service

• Fairer Aberdeen Fund
• The Robertson Trust
• The Mathew Trust
• Miss Violet Murray Lessel’s Trust

Angus & Dundee Social and Peer Support Groups

• Angus Society for the Blind
• Alexander Moncur Trust
• The Murdoch Forrest Charitable Trust
• The Williamina McLaren Trust
• Walter Craig Charitable Trust
• The Anne Herd Memorial Trust
• Leach Family Charitable Trust
• Colin Grant Charitable Trust
• Aberbrothock Skea Trust

Young Peoples Sensory Service (YPSS)

• BBC Children in Need
• The National Lottery Community Fund – Young Start Fund
• David and June Gordon Memorial Trust
• Boshier-Hinton Foundation
• Birkdale Trust for Hearing Impaired Ltd.
• Mrs Elizabeth S Wilson’s Trust
• Dr Allan Brebner Trust Fund
• Aberdeen University Student Show
• Evelyn Ferris Mudie Charitable Trust
• Tay Charitable Trust
• The Russell Trust
• The W M Mann Foundation
• The Tillyloss Trust
• The White Top Foundation
• The R J Larg Family Trust
• The Sylvia Aitken Charitable Trust
• The Powell Family Foundation
• The Adam Family Foundation
• Scottish Children’s Lottery
• The Gertrude Pattullo Trust
• Tesco Community Grants
• CNOOC International

Connect, Include and Support (CIS)

• The ALLIANCE Self Management Fund
• Garfield Weston Foundation
• Health & Social Care Moray Third Sector Support Fund
• Caroline Jane Spence’s Fund
• Shell UK Community Grants

‘ICT for All’ Service

• Bank of Scotland Foundation Change Grants Programme

Support for All Added Value Services

• The Milne Family Foundation
• John Gordon’s Charitable Fund
• The Thistledown Trust
• The Hugh Fraser Foundation

Support for our Resource Centre

• Asda Foundation Cost of Living Grants
• NHS Grampian Charity Community Grants

Support for our Charitable Running Costs

• The Thomas Primrose Trust
• The Meikle Foundation
• Mary Chalmers’ Trust

To find out more about how Trusts and Foundations can fund our vital Added Value Services, please contact

Caroline Rutherford, Fundraising Manager: caroline.rutherford@nesensoryservices.org