Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust: Medium and Large Grants (UK)

Deadline: 13-Aug-2024

The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust is currently accepting applications for its medium and large grants.

Focus Areas

• Requests for funding must fit within one of the following areas of EKCT’s remit to:
  • Support beneficiaries located in Sussex, within one of EKCT’s focus areas as follows:
    • Care of the elderly
    • Disability
    • General welfare
    • Hospices
    • Youth
    • Wildlife & environmental conservation
  • Deliver international or UK based wildlife & environmental conservation projects.
  • Deliver international reproductive health family planning projects which have a clear and intended impact on the environment and are delivered in Africa or Asia.

Types of Grants

• Medium Grant — £10,001 to £20,000
• Large Grant — over £20,001

What type of work do they support?

• Funding will be considered for:
  • Start-up costs for a new project within an established organisation
  • Core costs
  • A specific project (capital expenditure or assistance with running costs)
  • Unrestricted funding where all of the charity’s activities fall within EKCT’s funding remit.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be organisations registered with the Charity Commission in England & Wales or Office of the Scottish Charity Register in Scotland.

Ineligible

• The following are unlikely to be considered for funding:
  • Individuals or charities applying on behalf of individuals.
  • Large national charities having substantial fund-raising potential, income from legacies and or endowment income.
  • Organisations which have been registered with the Charity Commission or Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator for less than a year.
  • Charities which are wholly or very significantly funded by local authority, parish council or statutory funding.
  • Pre-school groups.
  • Out of school play schemes including pre-school and holiday schemes.

Deadlines

• Medium Grant: 13th August 2024
• Large Grant: 10th September2024

For more information, visit Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust.