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Gas Safety Trust Invites Grant Applications

The Gas Safety Trust has invited potential partners to apply for a grant to fund a project. Applications must match the trust’s key objectives and interests, including an all-fuel focus on carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and an increasingly international outlook.

Nigel Dumbrell, head of charitable operations for the Gas Safety Trust, said: “The trust has funded a variety of work since its foundation, which has ranged from small grants for the provision of equipment, such as CO alarms, through to bigger grants to fund academic research and the collation of the official annual CO incident figures. We have had some early bird applications for 2011, which have been approved and will be announced in due course, but we’d like to keep momentum going and encourage more.”

The trust’s key objectives of gas safety research, equipment donations and gas safety training and education regularly attract funding applications. However, the trust’s latest CO hotspot and incident reports also highlighted the risk of low level CO exposure to households and the level of CO exposure undiagnosed by medical practitioners.

Nigel said: “Over the last five years, we have awarded in excess of £800,000 to a variety of programmes and projects relating to gas safety and carbon monoxide. However, since the establishment of the consumer facing Gas Safe Charity, we no longer fund consumer awareness work, preferring to focus on the research that informs and shapes campaigns of organisations with a public awareness remit.”

Contact the Gas Safety Trust on 01256 548020 www.gas-safety-trust.org.uk

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