The Kaleidoscope Foundation

Transforming lives by empowering disabled people

Registered Charity Number : 1187266

Our Purpose

The relief of poverty and unemployment of disabled people through the provision of education, training, business support and grants to enable individuals to achieve sustainable and self-supporting livelihoods.

This means we aim to promote the disabled community, providing them with the confidence to deal with everyday life and the skills to either find employment or to set up their own business.

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The Kaleidoscope Foundation welcomes donations from individuals or organisations that are aligned with our Vision and Mission.

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What we do

Sharing Circle

Incubation Program

KF Sharing Circle is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your life, struggles and triumphs and connect with like-minded others.

Our sharing circle is a safe place to share experiences and listen to others.

We aim to tackle the increasing problem of loneliness this Covid pandemic has created and offer peer support through our sessions.

Peer support is when people use their own experiences to help each other. There are different types of peer support, but they all aim to:

bring together people with shared experiences to support each other
provide a space where you feel accepted and understood
treat everyone's experiences as being equally important
involve both giving and receiving support.

The circle runs fortnightly on a Wednesday lunchtime. If you are keen to be involved please contact us.

Incubation Program

We provide an incubation program to help disabled entrepreneurs create businesses which are non-commercial, e.g. charitable, voluntary organisations, community enterprises or small, lifestyle businesses enabling the entrepreneur to become self-supporting.

The program will take you from the early days of formulating a business idea, help you improve self-confidence, understand how to structure your business right through to putting together a business plan and how to bring you idea to fruition.

Entrepreneurs can join in at any stage of the program depending on where they are with their idea.

The Incubator program runs fortnightly and is a rolling program, so it doesn't matter where you are currently with your business plans.

Each weekly session will last approximately 1 hour depending on the level of interaction.

Different aspects of disability and its relevance will be a core thread that will be discussed throughout all modules.

Our long-term objective is to help to create operational, successful businesses where the businesses and the entrepreneurs adhere to the same core principles as The Foundation.

Please contact us if you would like to be involved in incubator sessions.

Training

We offer a wide selection of educational training programs ranging from self-confidence training to specific skills training to self-employment skills training to completing a business plan.

Whether you are looking to start your own business or acquire the confidence and skills to look for employment, there will be a training program for you.

Many of the trainers are disabled themselves so are able to provide advice based on personal experience.

Grants

Training

We offer grants of up to £1,000 to individuals looking to start social enterprises or small life-style businesses enabling the individual to become self-supporting.

To be eligible for a grant:

1) Either you or a member of your team must be disabled according to the Equality Act 2010.
2) Your organisation must be based in the UK.
3) Applicants must be 18 years of age or over.
4) Your organisation should have a social purpose or objective.

Background

Eshan was born in November 2006. During the birthing process complications led to a severe brain injury. This opened my eyes to the world of disability and to the many challenges and unfair judgements that accompanied it, in particular the lack of self employment / employment opportunities disabled people were offered.

Many disabled people were looking to set up businesses which were non-commercial - e.g, Charities, voluntary organisations, enterprises to help communities or small life-style businesses enabling the individual to become self-supporting. Others just wanted the opportunity to work in mainstream employment and be treated equally.

It was my desire to help these people fulfil their dreams that gave birth to the Kaleidoscope Foundation.

Hardeep Rai (Father)

The Kaleidoscope Foundation

Our Purpose

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What we do

Sharing Circle

Incubation Program

Incubation Program

Incubation Program

Incubation Program

Incubation Program

Training

Training

Training

Grants

Training

Training

Feedback from Sharing Circle Participants

Our Trustees

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Contact Us

Whilst we have limited funds available, we would love to be able to help you. Please complete the form below and tell us how our funds will make a difference to your cause. Thank you.

Email: Jo@TheKaleidoscopeFoundation.org

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