Grants policy guidelines
Categories eligible for grant
The Trust provides financial assistance to UK registered or exempt
charities whose activities fall within the following four categories, mainly
within the United Kingdom:
Please follow the links to our further guidelines for these categories.
For application deadlines see ‘How to apply’.
Other categories
A small proportion of the Trust’s income may be allocated to
assistance in other fields, but this is rare and reserved for causes that
have come to the attention of individual Trustees. It is therefore only in
very exceptional circumstances that the Trustees will respond favourably to
requests from organisations whose activities fall outside the categories
listed above.
Research
It is unlikely that applications relating to academic research
projects will be successful. The Trustees recognise the importance of
research, but lack the resources and expertise required to judge its
relevance and value.
General
Grants are awarded only to UK registered or exempt charities which
must have proven track records of successful work in their field of
operation or, in the case of newer charities, convincing evidence of ability.
Grants will only be awarded in response to direct applications from the
charity concerned.
The Trust will consider grants to charities of all sizes. Accordingly,
grants vary in amount, but generally fall within the range of £5,000 to
£20,000. The total amount awarded varies from year to year according to
available funds. As a guide, in the year 2008/09, 44 grants were awarded
from our normal programme totalling £491,000. No grants were awarded in this
year from the exceptional grants programme.
In the current financial climate, commitments to make future payments
are rarely given, with grants normally being
one-off annual grants. Charities which have received a grant are encouraged
to apply in the next and subsequent years, but should note that only rarely
will grants be given to the same charity for four successive years. This does not however mean that a
charity that has received three successive grants will not be eligible in future years,
just that we would not generally award a grant in year four.
Exceptional grants
The Trustees may occasionally consider larger
exceptional grants, but this is unusual and generally confined to charities that we
know well and have supported for some time. There is no separate application
process for this, and contenders will be identified from the normal grant
round.
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