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Grant application guidelines


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Cancer care

The Trust awards grants to UK registered or exempt charities whose work fulfils the criterion:

Care of and services for people suffering from cancer, and their families.

The Trust welcomes applications but receives far more than it can afford to support. In a typical year we are able to respond positively to around 1 in 6 applications in this particular field. Around 13 charities are supported each year with grants varying from around £5,000 to £20,000.

Charities whose work is primarily the provision of care for people with cancer and their families are most likely to succeed, but the Trustees will consider other charities where projects are specifically aimed at the cancer care element of their work.

The Trustees are unlikely to respond positively to requests for running costs of organisations, preferring instead to support new or capital projects. The Trust supports charities of all sizes. Examples of recent successful applications are given below.

Hospice was given £10,000 towards the £70,000 cost of refurbishing bathrooms in their inpatient unit.

Charity was given £10,000 towards the £18,000 cost of upgrading its IT system and purchase of laptop computers.

Hospice was given £10,000 towards the set-up and initial £28,000 running costs of a new bisphosphonate clinic.

Hospice was given £15,000 towards the £67,000 cost of a pilot home night service.

Hospice was given £10,000 towards a £2.0m capital appeal to fund the building of an extension to house a new inpatient unit.

National charity was given £10,000 towards the costs of employing a specialist nurse to develop a new comprehensive information, advice and support service.

Small cancer support centre was given £10,000 towards its running costs because it was able to demonstrate exceptional and temporary circumstances affecting its ability to cover its annual costs.

National charity was given £20,000 towards the development costs of an information resource pack for adults with learning disabilities who develop cancer.

If you wish to discuss a particular project before submitting an application, please email or telephone the Grants Administrator.

Applications should be submitted from June and by 31 August at the latest.

Please try and get your application to us before the final deadline, as large numbers received on 31 August may mean that these applications do not get our fullest attention.