Deadline: 30-Sep-25
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Funds United Kingdom Registered Charities operating in the UK in the fields of the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement
The Trust supports a diverse range of charities seeking in some way to enhance and improve people’s lives.
Focus Areas
- The Arts
- Access and participation in the arts for those who have least access to them with emphasis on choirs and singing to build community and bring people together
- Support for charities seeking to engage with, and inspire, young people on the fringes of society through music and drama projects to improve their employability and diminish the risk of social exclusion
- Performance development opportunities in the performing arts for those in the early stages of their careers
- Medical Welfare
- Music and art therapy and non-clinical interventions that use singing, drama and musical techniques to aid recovery from illness and improve quality of life and mental wellbeing
- Support for charities concerned with alleviating the suffering of adults and children with medical conditions who have difficulty finding support through traditional sources
- The welfare of those who care for others through the provision of breaks for carers, with an emphasis on projects and schemes assisting young carers
- The Environment
- Social and therapeutic horticulture projects that embrace nature as a tool for mental wellbeing by using gardening or other environmental activities to bring about positive changes in the lives of those who are livingwith disabilities or ill-health
- Active involvement in hands-on conservation activities, particularly those that bring about positive changes in the lives of young people living at the margins of society to improve their skills, build their confidence and break down barriers to their employment
- Rural crafts and skills in heritage conservation, with emphasis on increasingly rare skills that would otherwise be lost
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be UK Registered Charities operating in the UK for the benefit of UK residents, and the organization’s annual returns to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland must be up to date.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The Trust is unlikely to fund:
- Capital projects and routine maintenance
- Community transport organisations or services, air ambulances, requests for vehicles
- Conferences, Exhibitions, Seminars, Expeditions
- Counselling and psychotherapy services
- Drug abuse or alcoholism rehabilitation
- Feasibility studies
- General and round-robin appeals
- Hospitals and individual hospices
- Individuals
- Large well-funded national charities
- Mainstream schools (and projects linked to the national curriculum)
- Medical Research
- Nurseries and Playgroups (other than those for special needs children)
- Organisations that are not Registered Charities (or accepted as Exempt Charities)
- Projects starting within 3 months of a meeting date, unless 75% of funds have already been secured
- Projects taking place or providing benefit outside the UK
- Recordings and commissioning of new works
- Retrospective funding
- Religious causes and activities
- Sport
- Universities
For more information, visit DCT.
