Support

Our range of services is unique and gives support where and when it's needed, enabling people to move forward with their lives. Services are free, funded by voluntary donations.

More than 1000 people call our 24-hour, nurse-led, freephone helplines every month.

Our financial grants programme (not yet available in Ireland) now exceeds £140,000 a year. Levana lost her legs at 18 months. With funding for swimming lessons, 5 years later she won her first swimming award and made her mum very proud. Grace lost her hearing but now communicates with her parents using sign language, with the Trust funding sign language lessons for the family.

We provide approximately 1000 professional counselling sessions a year across the UK and Ireland. Working with qualified counsellors, people can work through their experience, trying to come to terms with what has happened.

Over a third of our staff is based in their own local communities, enabling us to offer information and support to individuals and organisations throughout the UK and Ireland.

The Trust’s 'one to one' service provides the opportunity to talk to someone who has had a similar experience. This helps to let people know that what they are feeling and experiencing is normal, and that there is a future after meningitis.

Our Family Days bring together families who have been affected by meningitis. The children have fun, parents and grandparents can talk to each other and to members of the support team from the Trust.

If you want more detail about any of the services that the Trust offers, please go to 'How we help.'