Deadline: 3-Jun-25
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust is pleased to announce its grant program to support the advancement of the arts, medical welfare, and environmental protection or improvement.
Priorities
- 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 living with 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
Required Documents
- In order to make an application, you will need to be able to provide the following information and documents:
- Your organisation details including your legal status (i.e. charity commission registration number, company number or charity exempt regulator)
- The amount you are requesting
- A contact for this application
- The purpose of the grant including details of who will benefit, timescale (NB: if applying for project funds, the start date should be at least three months after the meeting date), funds already raised and balance required
- The UK region it will benefit and which of the funding priorities it applies to
- Your charitable objects (as stated in your governing document) and charitable activities
- The names of Trustees or committee members
- A financial summary of the organisation’s most recent accounts including income and expenditure
- Declaration of any relationship or connection with any Trustee of The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
- A completed Bank Details Form
- Confirmation of your charity’s bank account (e.g. a pre-printed paying in slip for your account, a voided cheque or a redacted bank/building society statement)
- Details of other funders you have approached for this project or application
Exclusions
- 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 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 The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.