We make grants to small registered charities to sustain their existing work with:
- elderly people
- children and young people aged 5 - 25
- people with disabilities or mental health problems
- people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin - such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending
We also make grants to sustain small registered charities' existing work in the fields of:
- education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)
We are not able to fund work which does not come into one of the above categories
We give grants for running costs and salaries for up to three years. Grants are for a maximum of £3,000 per year.
Most of our
grants are for more than one year because we give priority to ongoing needs.
Like most other funders we have many more applications than we can fund.
In the past year we have only been able to make a grant to 1 in 5 of the applications we have received.
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Within our charitable objects, the Trustees focus on making grants to small
charities registered and working in England and Wales.
Applicants must have a total expenditure budget
of less than £60,000 a year for the whole charity.
We concentrate on sustaining existing work rather than funding new work
because many funders prefer new projects.
We are happy to fund the core costs of small charities whose work falls totally within our objects.
The Trustees give priority to charities:
- tackling work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders
- helping to improve the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged or isolated people
- able to demonstrate effective use of volunteers.
We receive far more applications than we can fund. In practice only charities whose work meets at least one of the above priorities are likely to receive a grant.
Please look at the page of recent grants to see examples of the sort of work
we have funded recently.
At present the Trust is not inviting research proposals. This is because our funding capacity is relatively small, and research projects are usually expensive. The trustees therefore accumulate funds to enable us to offer a larger grant to one project.
Our funds are currently committed to research into supporting young people with depression.
