# Empowering Nicu Families Charity

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1219888 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1219888)
- What it funds: General charitable purposes, Education / training
- Who it helps: Other defined groups
- How it gives: Makes grants to organisations, Provides services, Provides advocacy / advice / information, Sponsors or undertakes research
- Area of operation: Throughout England
- Trustees: 3
- Last verified: 2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/empowering-nicu-families-charity

Empowering NICU Families Charity has the following objects:I. To relieve the needs of parents, carers and families of infants who are receiving, or have received, care in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and who are in conditions of need arising from the emotional, psychological, practical or financial challenges associated with neonatal hospitalisation, by providing s

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> Object 1: to relieve the needs of parents, carers and Families of infants who are receiving, or have received, care in a neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu), and who are in conditions of need arising from the emotional, psychological, practical or financial challenges associated with neonatal hospitalisation, by providing support, advice, information and guidance.object 2: to advance education by promoting the understanding of neonatal care, parental wellbeing and family resilience, and by providing information, training, research and the dissemination of the useful results thereof.

## What it funds

Empowering Nicu Families Charity is registered under the Charity Commission purposes education / training for the general public and other defined groups; the register records that it makes grants to organisations, provides services, provides advocacy / advice / information and sponsors or undertakes research.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as England.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from Empowering Nicu Families Charity in its sources (last checked 6 Nov 2026). It may fund by invitation only, or through programmes that OpenGrant's sources do not cover. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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