Deadline: 28-Feb-25
The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust is offering grants to those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are most limited.
Priorities
- Grant Rounds 1 and 2
- The Arts: Improving Access
- The focus will be on performing arts projects – theatre, dance or music – that improve audience access and participation.
- The Arts: Improving Access
- Grant Rounds 3 and 4
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Funding Information
- Amount: £1,000
Eligibility Criteria
- They only give grants to UK registered charities or organisations that are exempt from registration. They do not give grants for any other type of not-for-profit organisation, social enterprise or community foundation.
- Minimum operating income: £100,000.
- Minimum operating expenditure: £100,000.
- Maximum operating income: £1,000,000.
- Maximum operating expenditure: £1,000,000.
- To be eligible to apply for a grant:
- your charity’s project must fall within one of the current priorities
- your charity’s income and expenditure must meet the requirements for the relevant Grant Round
- your charity’s project must not be on the list of projects or organisations that they don’t fund
- your charity must be registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (or equivalent body for Scotland and Northern Ireland) unless on the list of exempt charities – they are unable to give grants to CICs or non-profit organisations
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- To be eligible, a project must focus exclusively on refugees and/or asylum seekers as its beneficiaries, without extending services to other groups. They don’t fund salaries for charity staff unless specifically employed for the project concerned.
- The Arts: Improving Access
- They won’t consider applications from non-performing arts projects, or projects focussing on performers. They don’t fund salaries for charity staff unless specifically employed for the project concerned.
For more information, visit The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust.
