The Leche Trust Grant Program – United Kingdom

Deadline: 27-Aug-21

Applications are now open for the Leche Trust Grant Program.

The Leche Trust is a registered charity (225659). It was founded in 1950 and endowed by the late Mr. Angus Acworth, CBE and operates under a Deed of Settlement dated 1 February 1963.

Focus Areas

They offer grants in two areas:

• Performing Arts
  • Their priorities for music, theatre and dance are:
    • Excellence in professional performance;
    • The production and performance of new work;
    • The development of young, professional artists aged 18 or over.
  • They aim to achieve a broad balance between music, theatre and dance projects, and take into account the number and location of the audiences and/or individuals likely to benefit.
• Conservation
  • They support the conservation of historic objects, collections and features of buildings and designed landscapes which are pre-Victorian in date, i.e. pre-1830s.
  • In the case of churches, they will consider supporting the conservation of items such as monuments, wall paintings, stained glass, and historic furniture and fittings.
  • They prefer to give grants to smaller projects, or specific elements of projects, where their contribution can have a greater impact.
  • Projects may include conservation surveys and preventive measures as well as remedial work, and they will consider grants towards the acquisition of items for collections.

Funding Information

• As trustees they meet three times each year and at each meeting have an allocation of around £30,000 for performing arts projects and £30,000 for conservation projects.
• They will consider offering grants up to £5,000 but, because of demand, £5,000 grants are exceptional. The average grant was £2,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be UK registered charities, public authorities or public institutions. They do not accept applications from Community Interest Companies (CICs) or individuals.

Ineligible

• Performing Arts
  • They do not normally fund:
    • projects that will commence less than six weeks from the published date of the decision meeting concerned
    • amateur/non-professional performance
    • general arts programmes submitted without specific details of activities and events
    • training and development projects aimed at under 18 year-olds
    • projects with the primary purpose of health, therapy or social welfare
    • visual arts projects
    • capital developments at arts venues or purchase of equipment
    • recording projects
• Conservation
  • They do not normally fund:
    • structural repairs to buildings;
    • new buildings or the installation of modern facilities and services;
    • general appeals for funding without details of specific, eligible works
    • displays and exhibitions;
    • general heritage education, outreach and audience development projects;
    • organ conservation, unless instruments are substantially pre-1830s in date and the aim is to conserve an original action and casework;
    • bell restoration projects, unless the bells and their fittings are substantially pre-1830s in date and the aim is to conserve these as far as possible, consistent with safe use.
• They are unable to fund:
  • Buildings and objects in private ownership;
  • Schools and school buildings;
  • Natural environment and wildlife projects;
  • Health, medical or social welfare projects;
  • Projects promoting religion.

For more information, visit http://www.lechetrust.org/funding-guidelines.htm