This best-selling funding guide, now in its ninth edition, gives details of a wide range of funds and other support available for the relief of individual poverty and hardship. It is a key reference book for advice and social workers, as well as individuals themselves and those concerned with their welfare. The comprehensive listings include: details of over 2,500 national and local charitable trusts which give over GBP338 million a year towards the relief of individual poverty and hardship, a rise of GBP49 million on the last edition. sources of funding from service and ex-service charities, sickness and disability charities. essential advice on applications for each source: eligibility; types of grant given; annual grant total; address and other contact details including email addresses. The guide also provides a model of how to make an effective application and advice on how to find the right sources of funding to apply to.