Applications open for Chapman Charitable Trust Grant Program – UK

Deadline: 28-Feb-2025

Applications are now open for the Chapman Charitable Trust Grant Program.

Focus

• Preferred focus of the CCT trustees in the three main sectors are:
  • The Arts
    • The CCT trustees favour applications from charities which aim to increase accessibility to the cultural arts and the national heritage.
    • They prefer projects aimed at groups who don’t normally have the opportunity to participate in music, drama, dance or other areas of the arts.
    • In many of the projects they support arts organisations such as theatres in reaching out to schools, including special needs schools.
    • They also support programmes which use the arts, especially music, to help improve mental wellbeing, for example for dementia sufferers.
    • They support a limited number of community arts festivals.
  • Wellbeing
    • The CCT trustees favour applications for Wellbeing projects which target future improvements in physical and mental health, for example through education, research projects or programmes which counteract adverse trends in wellbeing.
    • Specific examples are:
      • projects which may enhance physical and mental wellbeing at the same time, for example sports activities
      • research into narrow medical conditions which may not receive mainstream charity funding
      • community programmes aimed at enhancing wellbeing
      • the future mental health of young people
      • charities helping deprived or affected sections of the community, such as disabled children, refugees new to the UK, ex-offenders and dementia sufferers
    • They do also make grants where the object is the continuing care of the disadvantaged, the old or the sick but the proportion of new grants in that area is low.
  • Nature conservation and the Natural Environment   
    • The CCT Trustees favour applications for projects which aim to conserve and protect wildlife species and habitats, through:
      • direct management of sites
      • research, particularly into causes of decline and potential solutions
    • They also support projects which seek to reduce human impacts on biodiversity and natural systems, particularly through reducing waste and reducing use of fossil fuels.

Funding Information

• Most of the grants are £1,000, £2,000 or £3,000.

Geographic Focus

• They will support:
  • National charities, including Scottish charities, if they operate across the UK
  • Local charities only if their beneficiaries or activities are located in the areas shown in red on the map, ie in North Wales or South East England. The South East means Greater London, Herts, Cambs, Essex, Kent, East and West Sussex, Surrey and Hants.

Eligible Activities

• They focus new grants on charities:
  • promoting physical and mental wellbeing
  • conserving the natural environment and promoting the sustainable use of resources
  • increasing the accessibility of the arts, especially for young people
• They prefer to support charities which address the root causes of problems. For example, although they do make new small grants under the wellbeing heading for care and counselling these are normally made to organisations which seek to address underlying problems and where they think the grant can make a real difference.

Eligibility Criteria

• They only support registered UK charities and if you are not a UK charity then regretfully, they cannot consider an application from you (unless you are an educational or research establishment with charitable status).
• They particularly welcome applications from research organisations.
• They do not generally consider making further grants to successful applicants until at least 18 months have elapsed.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Examples of applications they will not consider include those related to:
  • Individuals and their welfare, whether in the UK or abroad, including sponsorship of education, research or travel
  • Community Interest Companies (CICs)
  • Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs)
  • Cooperative Societies and not-for-profit organisations

For more information, visit Chapman Charitable Trust.