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Abbey Charitable Trust

Website: Abbey Charitable Trust
Who? Registered, excepted or exempt charities.
What? Projects helping disadvantaged people in at least one of Education & training, Financial advice to help people manage their money or Community regeneration.
How much? Normally £500 - £4,000.

Act Foundation

Website: Act Foundation
Who? UK based individuals and registered charities.
What? Enhancing the quality of life of the mentally and physically disabled.
How much? No limit (largest grant has been £4 million).

Grants generally fall into the following areas:

  • Building - funding modifications to homes, schools, hospices etc.
  • Equipment - provision of specialised wheelchairs, other mobility aids and equipment including medical equipment to assist independent living.
  • Financial assistance - towards the cost of short-term respite breaks at a registered respite centre.

You can apply for a grant at any time. Trustees meet four times a year, but you do not need to time your application to coincide with these meetings. Procedures exist to give approvals between meeting dates, where necessary. 

Adventure Capital Fund

Website: Adventure Capital Fund
Who? Established community enterprises that make money and have been running for at least a year.
What? Helping ambitious community enterprises to become financially sustainable.How much? Mix of loans and grants totalling £50,000 to £750,000, along with a comprehensive package of support.

Alcohol Education and Research Council

Website: Alcohol Education and Research Council
Who? Individuals and organisations dealing with alcohol issues.
What? Research and development of people and organisations.
How much? Research (up to £50,000), Development (between £5,000 and £50,000), Small grants (up to £5,000).

Allchurches Trust

Website: Allchurches Trust
Who? Anglican churches, churches of other denominations and the Christian community.
What? Building and restoration projects; repair of church fabric; church community initiatives; religious charities; charities preserving the UK heritage and other charitable causes.

Allen Lane Foundation

Website: Allen Lane Foundation
Who? Not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of less than £100,000.
What? Work which benefits people in certain groups, or generalist work which includes significant numbers from more than one such group: Asylum-seekers and refugees; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people; gypsies and travellers; offenders and ex-offenders; older people; BME communities; migrant workers; mental health; people experiencing domestic violence.

Anchor Foundation

Website: The Anchor Foundation
Who? Christian charities.
What? Social inclusion, particularly through ministries of healing and the arts.
How much? £500 - £10,000 per year for a maximum of 3 years.

Arts Council England

Website: Arts Council England
Who? Organisations in England.
What? Activities carried out over a set period and which engage people in England in arts activities.
How much? £1,000 - £100,000.

Asda Foundation

Website: ASDA Foundation
Who? UK charities, people and projects that require financial assistance, providing they have support from local ASDA staff.
What? Not towards salaries or general running costs.
How much? Rarely over £1,000.

Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

Website: The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Who? Charitable organisations.
What? Applications are welcomed from projects with the following themes on a three year rotation. 2009: Community, disability; 2010: Children, Youth, the Elderly, Medical; 2011: Music and the arts, Overseas.
How much? £1,000 - £10,000 but normally less than £5,000.

Awards for All

Website: Awards for All
Who? Not-for-profit groups.
What? Improving local communities and the lives of people in need and having at least one of the following outcomes: people have better chances in life; stronger communities; improved rural and urban environments; healthier and more active people.How much? £300 - £10,000.

Baring Foundation

Website: Baring Foundation
Who? Charities and Voluntary organisations.
What? Strengthening the voluntary sector; the arts; international development; parents with learning difficulties; interculturality; climate change.

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Website: Barrow Cadbury Trust
Who? Grassroots, user-led projects are a priority.
What? The promotion of social justice: the Young Adults and Criminal Justice Programme and the Inclusive Communities Programme. Applicants should aim to influence national Government policy or work in the West Midlands.
How much? The average grant is £25,000 per year and £3,000 for small grants.

The Young Adults and Criminal Justice Programme aims to help young adults who are in, or at risk of being in the criminal justice system, to make a successful transition to adulthood and improve their life chances. It particularly focuses on issues around mental health and drug and alcohol abuse; resettlement and employment.

The Inclusive Communities Programme aims to alleviate poverty and exclusion among marginalised groups. It focuses on the following themes: race and poverty; asylum and migration; independent living for disabled people; supporting the voluntary and community sector.

BBC Children in Need

Website: BBC Children In Need
Who? Properly constituted not-for-profit organisations.
What? Organisations working with disadvantaged young people aged 18 and under.

Grants are distributed to organisations working with children and young people who may have any kind of disability, behavioural or psychological disorders; experienced poverty or situations of deprivation; or suffered through illness, distress, abuse or neglect. Deadlines for applications are in January, April, July and October.

Biffaward

Website: Biffaward
Who? Projects eligible to enrol with ENTRUST as an environmental body and located within 10 miles of a Biffa operation and a landfill site.
What? Site-based improvement works at projects that provide and improve community facilities; conserve wildlife species and habitats; improve biodiversity or cultural buildings.
How much? Small grants: £250 - £5,000. Main grants £5,000 - £50,000.

Biffaward is a multi-million pound fund which awards grants to community and environmental projects across the UK. The fund's money comes from landfill tax credits donated by Biffa Waste Services. Biffaward is managed by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts on Biffa's behalf.

Any rubbish that is thrown away and cannot be recycled ends up in a landfill site. Operators of landfill sites pay tax on each tonne of landfill. The purpose of this tax is to make it more expensive to put waste into landfill, encouraging us to reduce our waste and recycle more.

A small proportion of this tax can be used to support a wide range of environmental projects near landfill sites, through the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF). Biffaward is part of the LCF. The LCF is regulated by ENTRUST.

Bodfach Frust

Website: The Bodfach Trust
Who? Charities across the UK although there is a focus on Mid Wales.
What? Affordable housing; care for the elderly; helping young people; preservation of old buildings; supporting green spaces and public parks.
How much? The majority of grants are under £1,000 and rarely more than £5,000. Practical support is also provided to charities through advice and active involvement in the charities’ activities.

There are four application deadlines each year on 31 January, 30 April, 30 June and 31 October.

Bromley Trust

Website: Bromley Trust
Who? UK registered charities.
What? The reduction in prisoners re-offending, particularly supporting charities that aim to reduce the cycle of re-offending by the furtherance of education and skill training.
How much? Rarely over £15,000.

Grants tend to be unrestricted and are normally made for a period of 2 or 3 years.

Calouste Gulbenkian Fund

Website: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Innovation Fund
Who? Not-for-profit organisations and registered charities.
What? Research & Development funding for innovative projects in the arts, education and social change.
How much? Generally between £10,000 and £25,000.

As a general principle, the Foundation supports projects which are genuinely original in their field and also favours those which take place outside London. Areas not eligible for funding include the purchase of equipment, building costs, basic services, religious activities, scholarships and holidays.

Charles Hayward Foundation

Website: Charles Hayward Foundation
Who? UK registered and exempt charities. Small grant applicants should have an annual turnover of under £250,000.
What? Predominantely capital grants for developmental and innovative projects around: heritage and conservation; criminal justice; hospices; older people; overseas.
How much? £1,000 - £20,000 with small grants of up to £5,000.

Chelsea Building Society Charitable Foundation

Website: Chelsea Building Society Charitable Foundation
Who? Registered charities based and within a 10 mile radius of a Chelsea Building Society branch.
What? Projects that benefit local communities and relieve suffering and disadvantage.
How much? £250 - £5,000.

Projects should be associated with at least one of the following:

  • homelessness
  • housing
  • debt advice – encouraging prudent money management.
  • mental health and learning difficulties
  • all forms of disability
  • children & young people
  • the elderly

Church and Community Fund

Website: Church and Community Fund
Who? Community projects run by parish churches, deaneries, dioceses and other bodies connected to or working in partnership with the Church of England.
What? Community projects run by parish churches, deaneries, dioceses and other bodies connected to or working in partnership with the Church of England.
How much? Usually up to £10,000.

Typical projects supported by the CCF might include employing a youth worker, renovating an old church hall for use as a community centre or providing hot meals for the homeless in a church room. We welcome applications which show imagination in responding to needs.

The CCF awards over £500,000 in grants every year. All CCF grants seek to take the church out into the community, bring the community into the church and strengthen the relationship between the two. Trustees meet quarterly, usually in March, June, September and December. 

Clore Duffield Foundation

Website: Clore Duffield Foundation
Who? Registered charities.
What? Museums, galleries and heritage sites (particularly for education spaces); the arts; education; health, social care and disability.
How much? From sums below £5,000 to sums in excess of £1 million.

The following are funded only very rarely:

  • Projects outside the UK
  • Staff posts
  • Local branches of national charities
  • Academic or project research
  • Conference costs

The Pilgrim Trust

Website: The Pilgrim Trust

Who? UK registered charities 

What? Projects that seek to conserve historical buildings, monuments and collections, and projects that promote awareness either by making collections more available or by supporting academic research. It also considers projects that support addicts and those in prison.

How much? Average grant size in 2008 was £18,000

Young Person's Volunteering Trust (SITA)

Website: Young Person's Volunteering Trust

Who? Projects must be led and delivered by 14-25 year olds, in England and Wales.

What? Volunteering projects which transform community amenities and green spaces.

How much? Up to £10,000

Westhill Endowment Fund

Website: Westhill Endowment Fund

Who? Supports community-transforming projects, including chairities, trusts, and churches.

What? Provides advice and grants which reflect and promote the Christian religion, or projects that support educational interchange between the Christian church and those of other faiths.

How much? Between £1,000 and £20,000

Marsh Christian Trust

Website: Marsh Christian Trust

Who? Registered charities.

What? Funds projects working in the fields of social welfare, literature arts and heritage, environmental and animal welfare, healthcare and medical research, education and training and supports a small number overseas.
 

How much? £250 - £4,000

Sir Halley Stewart Trust

Website: Sir Halley Stewart Trust

Who? Registered UK charities, or projects connected to a UK charity.

What? Applications must fall within the Trust's priority areas. Currently these areas are religious, social and educational, and medical.

How much? Various

Porticus Fund

Website: http://www.porticusuk.com/index.php

Who? UK registered charities only

What? Areas of need which work to strengthen family relationships, enrich education, transform through faith, or projects which consider more seriously ethics in practice.

How much? Most grants between £10,000 to £25,000

Veolia Trust

Website: Veolia Foundation

Who? Community and environmental projects in the UK that are near some of the landfills and facilities operated by Veolia Environmental Services (UK) plc.

What? The project must come under one of five criteria. These are:

  • Projects that involve the reclamation of land
  • Projects that reduce of prevent pollution
  • Projects which provide or maintain public amenities or parks
  • Projects which help deliver biodiversity conservation for UK species habitats
  • Projects to restore or repair buildings of architectural interest

How much? Average grant size between £25,000-£40,000

The Jerusalem Trust

Website: The Jerusalem Trust

Who? Projects and organisations that promote the Christian faith or advance Christian education and learning.

What? The trustees consider proposals which do overseas relief work and evangelism, work in Christian media, work in Christian education, Christian art, or projects supporting Christian mission and evangelism in the UK. 

How much? Various

The Henry Smith Charity

Website: The Henry Smith Charity

Who? The organisation must have charitable aims. Companies limited by shares and commercial organisations are not eligible to apply.

What? Priority given to groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage. Applications can be made for revenue and capital activity.

How much? There is a small grants programme (under £5,000) and a large grants programme (over £10,000).

Bodfach Trust

Website: Bodfach Trust

Who? UK registered charities. The Trust is particularly keen to support smaller organisations.

What? The Trusts considers grants to charities involved in affordable housing, care for the elderly, work to help young people, the preservation of old buildings, or work being done to protect and improve green spaces and public parks.

How much? Normally less than £500

Trustees meet twice a year. Applications should be received by 28th February or 31st August.

Concertina Charity

Website: Concertina Charity

Who? UK registered charities, especially smaller organisations.

What? The grants are used to support charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly.

How much? Normally under £500

Applications are reviewed twice a year. The deadline for applications are April 30th and October 31st

Dulverton Trust

Website: Dulverton Trust

Who? Registered charities or those with officially recognised charitable status

What? National, regional, and local charities in the UK where there is a siginficant amount of deprivation.

How much? Major and minor grants available. Major grants up to about £40,000, minor grants no more than £3,500.

Please note that the Trust is rarely able to support charities whose main beneficiaries live within Greater London or in Northern Ireland. 

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Website: The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Who? Applications are accepted from social enterprises, self-help groups and other similar not-for-profit organisations. If you are applying for a grant for an overseas project, you must be a UK registered charity.

What? Projects in the UK which address issues in Rural Communities and/or areas of Urban Deprivation. Within these two main headings, the Trust is interested in helping established projects which work in the fields of Community Support; Arts, Education & Heritage; Disability & Health Care

How much? £5,000 - £30,000 depending which type of grant you apply for. Running costs will only be funded for up to £9,999.

Garfield Weston Foundation

 Website: Garfield Weston Foundation

Who?  Will only accept applications from UK registered charities. It will also consider a limited number of exempt organisations - churches, educational establishments, hospitals and housing corporations. In general, the Trustees look for organisations to have raised the majority of funding through local or statutory sources before an approach is made.

What? With the exception of animal welfare charities, the Foundation supports a wide range of organisations across the UK and the Trustees do not consider one area to be of higher priority than another. The Foundation does not fund individual salaries and positions but will consider making grants towards general / core running costs.

How much? There is no limit on the size of grant. Every application is considered on its own merits as the organisations the Foundation supports vary significantly in size and scope.

The Rank Foundation

Website: The Rank Foundation

Who? Organisations in the UK approved by the Charity Commission.

What? The Rank Foundation concentrates on work that:

• Encourages and develops leadership amongst young people
• Supports disadvantaged young people and those frail or lonely through old age or disability
• Promotes Christian principles through film and other media

How much? Major grants - over £7500, minor grants - less than £7500

Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund

Website: Alan and Babette Charitable Trust

Who? Registered charities or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes.

What? Community-based health and social welfare initiatives, projects supproting asylum seekers and refugees, and projects encouraging participation in the arts.

  How much? Various

Drapers' Charitable Fund

Website: Drapers' Charitable Fund 

Who? UK based charities

What? Projects working in the relief of need, (including, for example, work with the homeless, young offenders and prisonsers, and the elderly), and projects working within education and training.

How much? There is no minimum or maximum grant, but most grants are for less than £10,000, and rarely for more than £20,000

You can apply at any time of the year. The Charities Committee meets four times a year.

The next three meeting dates are:

  • 18 January 2011
  • 19 April 2011
  • 28 June 2011

In order to be considered, completed applications should be submitted at least four weeks before these meeting dates.
 

Josephine Butler Memorial Trust

Website: Josephine Butler Memorial Trust

Who? Projects that link Christian faith and social action

What? Projects that engage with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in society and particularly those relating to women

How much? Grants to organisations and projects are usually no more than £3000

Applications for funding should be made and lodged with the Secretary between 1st January and 31st March in year in which application is made

Santander Foundation Group

Website: Santander Foundation Group

Who? Organisations with charitable status for their work within the UK

What? All of the funding must directly help disadvantaged people through one or both of these charitable priorities - education and training, or financial capability. Examples of education and training could include independent living skills, anger management, or improving self esteem. Examples of financial capability could include budgeting skills, accessing affordable credit as well as managing the challenges that arise from being a carer, unemployment, disability or relationship break up.

How much? Grants of up to £10,000

William A Cadbury Charitable Trust

Website: William A Cadbury

Who? UK registered charities 

What? The trust is particularly interested in social welfare projects based in Birmingham and the West Midlands. It also considers nationally, projects working with offenders and ex-offenders.

How much? The small grant scheme offers grants of up to £2000. There is also a large grants programme which offers larger amounts.