Brainwave and applying to charity

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Applying to the Caudwell Trust to help pay for Brainwave. The form asks you to list all incoming money and all outgoings.
Any tips. If I say our outgoings are little (like we never buy clothes etc) will they say oh you have spare cash, but if I say we spend hundreds on clothes and food will they tell us to tighten our belts?
Not sure how to balance it. We usually have 50 quid left each month but maybe they'll say I should turn the heating down, eat less and stop wasting money on organic food?

My experience (we got independent charity funding for ds1 at BIBIC, ds3 is on a part funded BIBIC place where I pay what I can afford monthly) is that its important to be honest. £50 a month left over is nothing anyway- what happens if your boiler goes, or Ds's shoes get broken or soemthing?

And I have never yet (and did work for a charity that gives funding- Macmillan, though not in that dept.) heard of them suggesting a person shoudl turn their heating down or anything!! Especially in this weather- are you amd??

Just be straight- can't see you would have any problems tbh. And some charities (the ones we used- occupational charity) don't count DLA either.