Deadline: 22-Apr-24
The CB & HH Taylor 1984 Trust is now open for new applications for the Spring 2024 grant round to support communities and development with a focus on Quaker concerns.
The CB & HH Taylor 1984 Trust is trying to create a paperless office, and they would be very grateful if you are able to email all reports and invitations to them. This makes it much easier to distribute them to Trustees.
Areas of Support
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- A substantial proportion of the grants awarded by the CB & HH Taylor Trust are given for the work and concerns of the Religious Society of Friends. Projects with a defined link to Quaker work or supported by Friends will be considered regardless of location. Please enter the country you work in on the application form in the Location box.
- Birmingham & West Midlands County
- The CB & HH Taylor Trust provides support to charitable organisations serving the West Midlands county (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull & Walsall). Please enter one of these locations on the application form in the Location box. If you work across the West Midlands, you can enter this in the Location box. Please be mindful that priority is given to applications from small charities which are locally run and led or specific local projects of national charities in areas where there is no local charity offering similar support. Trustees would like to support schemes intending to solve local problems and improve the quality of life within communities. Trustees are particularly interested in funding specific projects, rather than general running costs. Examples of the types of work supported can be found below:
- Social welfare
- Children and young people;
- Older people;
- People with disabilities;
- Homelessness;
- Women-led initiatives;
- Counselling and mediation; and
- Hospice and bereavement services.
- Education
- Adult literacy schemes;
- Employment training;
- Youth work; and
- Mental health education.
- Penal Affairs
- Work with offenders and ex-offenders to reduce re-offending and help reintegration;
- Support for families of offenders;
- Police backed initiatives; and
- Youth projects.
- Social welfare
- The CB & HH Taylor Trust provides support to charitable organisations serving the West Midlands county (Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull & Walsall). Please enter one of these locations on the application form in the Location box. If you work across the West Midlands, you can enter this in the Location box. Please be mindful that priority is given to applications from small charities which are locally run and led or specific local projects of national charities in areas where there is no local charity offering similar support. Trustees would like to support schemes intending to solve local problems and improve the quality of life within communities. Trustees are particularly interested in funding specific projects, rather than general running costs. Examples of the types of work supported can be found below:
- Overseas
- Trustees are focussed on supporting charities based in Africa and the South Asia. Please enter the country you work in on the application form in the Location box;
- Trustees are not able to support charities unless they are registered with the Charity Commission in the UK. If you are a charity registered outside the UK they will not consider your application.
- Trustees prefer to support small, local area initiatives, as opposed to large organisations working in multiple locations;
- Trustees have a keen interest in social, ecological and agriculture initiatives;
- Trustees will not consider charities applying through the Overseas strand which have an income over £1m per annum;
- Please share any social media so Trustees can see the great work you are doing!
- Additional Areas
- Aid for humanitarian emergencies is always considered. Please enter the country the emergency is in on the application form in the Location box.
- Donations may be made to charities which do not fall into the above categories but which are known particularly to a trustee.
Eligibility Criteria
- If you are considering submitting an application for funding to the trust, please read the following:
- The CB and HH Taylor 1984 Trust will only support charities registered with the Charity Commission in the UK or from UK based organisations legally exempt from the need to register. Trustees will not consider applications from charities registered outside the UK.
- The Trust will not consider applications from individuals.
- Applications for specific projects and development are preferred.
- Trustees are unlikely to fund general running costs/Revenue funding.
- Applications should be concise and to the point.
- If you have previously received a grant from the Trust it would be helpful if you could include a brief outline of the project for which you received funding and an assessment of its successes and weaknesses.
- Trustees usually meet in May and November each year. Please note that it is not usually possible to include applications received after mid April for the May meeting, or mid-September for the November meeting. Deadlines will be advertised on the How to Apply pages.
- Repeat applications will not be considered within a two year period.
- It is essential that successful applicants provide written acknowledgement upon receipt of donation.
- Trustees appreciate receiving brief reports of the activity carried out with 9-12 months of grants being received. As these are circulated to trustees, electronic reports are preferred.
For more information, visit CB & HH Taylor 1984 Trust.