How to Apply
Eligibility
- To be eligible for a grant you must be a UK registered charity or an organisation deemed exempt or excepted under Charity Commission guidance.
- If you have previously received a grant from us, please leave at least 2 years before you reapply.
- If you have previously submitted an application but this has not been successful, please leave at least 13 months from when we notify you that an application has been unsuccessful.
- We do not fund individuals or medical research.
Before you apply
We recommend you read the following before deciding whether to apply for a grant:
How to Apply
- Please complete our Eligibility Quiz. If successfully completed, you will have access to our online application form. All applications must be made via the online application form.
- You can submit an application at any time, there are no deadlines. We operate a rolling programme where applications are put forward for consideration at the next available meeting. Meetings take place quarterly, normally in March, June, September and December.
- You do not have to complete the application form in one go. By clicking on ‘Save and Resume Later’ you can temporarily save your work but you must then complete and submit your application within 30 days of saving otherwise your work will be lost. Our Application Form Guidance explains how ‘Save and Resume Later’ operates.
- The application form questions are available to view on our website but please remember, we can only accept applications submitted using our online application form.
- When you have completed and checked your application, and uploaded your documents (if any), please click ‘Submit’. It is only after you submit that we can see the information you have inputted.
- Once you have submitted your application, we will send an email to confirm receipt. A copy of your completed application will be attached to our confirmation email. We recommend you save your completed application for future reference.
When will we know the outcome of our application?
We will send an email to notify you of the Trustees’ decision but timescales will vary depending on when you submit your application and when Trustees are next due to meet. For some, an outcome notification may take up to 16 weeks.
If a grant is awarded
If Trustees award a grant, we will email to confirm the grant offer. Trustees do not work on an “all or nothing” basis so they may have awarded a grant at a different level than that requested. By accepting a grant offer, you will be accepting our Grant Terms and Conditions.
To accept the grant offer, please click on the link in our grant offer email. This will open a grant offer acceptance form for you to complete and submit. This form will also ask you to provide your organisation’s bank / building society account details as grant payments will be made by direct bank transfer. The information we request is:
- Name of Bank / Building Society
- Name of your organisation as stated on your bank / building society statements
- Account Sort Code
- Account number
- Building Society roll number (if you have one)
We will also ask you to attach a photo or a scan of a recent bank or building society statement showing the above details (or a copy of a paying in slip) so that we can verify that the bank / building society details belong to your organisation.
When will we receive the grant payment?
When you submit your grant offer acceptance form (with your bank / building society details completed) and, subject to additional conditions being met (if any), we will arrange for the grant payment to be made.
We will email you once the grant payment has been transferred to your bank / building society account. Our email will ask you to check that the payment has been received before you click on the link provided to acknowledge receipt of the payment.
If your application is unsuccessful
If a grant has not been awarded, we will inform you by email.
We are appreciative of the time and effort expended in preparing your application but, due to the large number of applications received, we are not able to provide feedback on individual submissions.
Each year we publish lists of the grants awarded. The lists form part of our Annual Report and Accounts which are available on the Charity Commission website.
Reapplying for further grants
If you have received a grant from us and wish to apply for funding in the future, Trustees require a gap of two years between grants.
If you wish to reapply following an unsuccessful application, please delay reapplying until at least 13 months have elapsed since we confirmed the unsuccessful outcome to you.