Legacy giving

Leaving a gift in your will - Legacy giving

Kindred are a wonderful support. Their empathetic and supportive work is invaluable. They literally prop you up when it feels like the world around you is collapsing. I will feel forever indebted to Kindred.
Parent

Looking after a child with a long term serious, sometimes life limiting illness or disability brings practical and emotional demands for parents. That emotional energy of focusing on a child’s medical condition and prognosis, combined with the practicalities of a sudden drop in income because a parent can no longer work can be overwhelming. Siblings may worry about their brother or sister and can miss out on time with their parent/parents, who are focused on the child who is unwell

Your legacy gifts help families to cope at a difficult time.

Gifts in wills help families to build their resilience, spend time with their sick child and their siblings and enable Kindred to continue supporting around 700 families every year.

Legacy gifts mean so much to us. They pay for our workers to give emotional and practical support in the hospital, online and in the community. To be in the spaces where Kindred families are.

We understand that writing a will is a very personal statement of your wishes for the future. Once you have provided for your loved ones, please consider leaving a gift to Kindred, allowing families to enjoy their precious time together.

By leaving a gift in your will, you’ll touch the lives of those families who need our support and give them a happier future, one filled with the practical and emotional help which brings comfort and creates spaces to build family memories.

For more information on how to leave a gift in your will, find more information here

If you'd like advice on leaving a legacy gift, please contact us

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Social Work Assessment (Section 23)

If your child has a disability or long-term health condition then you are likely to require additional help with family life. The Social Work department of your local authority has a duty to assess the needs of your child. This is called a Section 23 Assessment.
Accessing grants

Details of different funds and grant-giving trusts/charities that you can approach if needed, and some handy hints on applying.
Our vision and aims

Kindred's vision is to transform the lives of families of children with complex needs in Scotland.
Benefits

There are many different sources of financial support available to children with disabilities. Kindred may be able to support parents to apply for some of these benefits.
Contact us

You can contact Kindred by phone, email and by post.
Education

Children with additional needs may need extra support in school, or you may feel that your child needs to attend a different school provision such as a language unit, another mainstream school or a special school. Depending on where you live, Kindred may be able to assist you with finding the right provision for your child.
Fife Team

Kindred's Fife Team is based in Dunfermline, providing a service throughout Fife to parents of children with complex needs including advocacy, information and emotional support.
Child’s Planning Meeting (and YPPM)

CPM stands for Child’s Planning Meeting and YPPM stands for Young Person’s Planning Meeting.
Refer to us

For a referral please contact us by phone or email.
Our history

Kindred began supporting families in 1991 from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. We were known then as SNIP or Special Needs Information Point. We started with a founding team of two parents who each had a child with additional needs, keen to share their knowledge. Now we have a team of 12 staff over three bases in Scotland, and we are still a parent-led organisation.