Grants policy guidelines
Categories eligible for grant
The Trust provides financial assistance to 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.
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 2007/08, 46 grants were awarded
from our normal programme totalling £604,000, as well as two exceptional grants totalling £110,000.
In the current financial climate, commitments to make future payments
are given only in exceptional circumstances, with grants normally being
one-off annual grants. Charities which have received a grant in one year 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 more than three successive years. This does not however mean that a
charity that has received three 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 confined to charities that we
know well and have supported for some time. There is no separate grants
programme for this, and contenders will be identified from the normal grant
round.
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