Deadline: 24-Jan-2025
The Robertson Trust is inviting Small and Large Grant applications through an open call within the new theme of Nurturing Relationships.
This theme aims to support nurturing relationships within families and communities to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and support recovery.
Priorities
- The open call will focus on funding work which addresses the following priorities:
- Preventative support for families in poverty (including children and their caregivers), to help build and maintain strong family relationships, and reduce the risk of intergenerational trauma.
- Whole family support for families (including children and their caregivers) in care, or on the edges of care, to address the impacts of persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma. They will also fund services for care experienced young people who are not in a family setting under this priority.
- Crisis support at the point of family breakdown, including support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.
- Recovery and restorative approaches to address the impacts of childhood trauma, homelessness, substance misuse and/or offending.
Funding Information
- Large Grants: Offers unrestricted or restricted revenue funding of between £20,000 and £50,000 per year, typically for three years, but may be considered in exceptional circumstances for up to five years.
- Small Grants: Offers unrestricted or restricted revenue funding of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, typically for three years, but may be considered in exceptional circumstances for up to five years.
What they fund?
- They provide funding for organisations and initiatives that address:
- Financial Security: tackling the financial and material effects of poverty on people and communities
- Education Pathways: equipping people for the future by supporting learning and skills
- Work Pathways: ensuring paid work is a more reliable route out of poverty and removing barriers so that more people can access fair work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Small Grants are for registered charities working in Scotland, with an annual income of between £30,000 and £200,000, who are working to support nurturing relationships within families and communities, to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and support recovery.
- Large grants are for registered charities working in Scotland, with an annual income* of over £200,000 and up to £2 million, who are working to support nurturing relationships within families and communities, to help break the cycle between persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma, and support recovery.
- Currently, the responsive Funds are aimed at constituted community groups and registered charities who are working to alleviate poverty and trauma in Scotland, and who have an annual income of under £2 million.
- Charities with an annual income of more than £2 million a year, housing associations and Arms’ Length External Organisations (ALEOs) are not currently eligible for the Large Grants, Small Grants, Wee Grants or Transport Grants.
- The Programme Awards are available to charities with an income over £2million per year.
For more information, visit The Robertson Trust.