Deadline: 17-Mar-23
The Charles Plater Trust is inviting applications for its Large Grants Programme to support leadership, social action and applied research projects.
Priority Themes
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The Trust now makes grants for projects aligned with any or all of their three priority themes:
- Leadership for lay people: Proposals for grant aid should be aimed at deepening the awareness of Catholic Social Teaching and Thought to better equip people to take on leadership roles in tackling poverty, exclusion, economic inequality, or environmental concerns, both within and outside the Church.
- Social Action: Grants for this theme need to demonstrate how the applicant’s project will deliver tangible outcomes to tackle poverty, exclusion, economic inequality or environmental concerns
- Applied Research: Grants will be awarded to projects which seek to develop and apply Catholic Social Teaching and Thought, in partnership with those who are working in and delivering social action work, with a view to ultimately improving practice and public policy.
Funding Information
- Large Grants Programme (£5,001- £60,000): Grants awarded are typically around £30,000 – £50,000, to be spent within two years. However, for exceptional projects the Trust may, at the trustees discretion, consider higher levels of funding for up to £60,000. A full online application form with supporting documentation and an external reference must be completed for this type of grant.
Exclusions
- Projects that are outside their three priority themes – leadership for laypeople; social action and/or applied research.
- Work that is not legally charitable.
- Work that does not have a direct benefit in England or Wales or where the applicant organization is not based in England or Wales.
- Grants to individuals Please note that the Trust will consider applications to fund an individual’s postgraduate scholarship on a relevant topic, providing that the applying academic organisation ensures that it holds an open competition to select a candidate to undertake the grant-funded research.
- Organisations without at least three non-executive trustees or directors.
- The Trust will consider applications from organisations seeking to use a Plater Trust grant as match funding as part of a larger project, but only if it contributes to the effective delivery of The Charles Plater Trust mission.
- Applications from a consortium of organisations will be given consideration if the project has a clearly listed chief contact from the lead organisation and fulfils all eligibility criteria.
For more information, visit Charles Plater Trust.