Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Waterloo Foundation is seeking applications for its Small Grants Programme to support smaller organizations delivering development work at a smaller scale.
Grants will be prioritised for small UK charities led by committed individuals, especially those based in Wales, which are working to deliver projects in developing countries.
Eligible Fields
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- In-country financing improvement
- Improving the reach of successful, evidence-based SRH initiatives
- In-country capacity building
- Nutrition
- To help prevent and tackle global under-nutrition, TWF’s current priorities are:
- Promoting good nutritional practices, with a particular focus on mothers and children during the ‘1000-day window’;
- Providing micronutrients for young children and their mothers and de-worming drugs for young children
- Providing micronutrients through food fortification for all.
- Education
- TWF’s current priorities in this area are:
- Improving the quality of secondary, primary and early childhood education
- Increasing the enrolment and retention of pupils at both primary and secondary level, especially girls and young women.
- TWF’s current priorities in this area are:
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- TWF believes that safe sanitation and good hygiene is of equal importance to access to a clean water source. The Foundation is keen to support programmes which take an integrated approach to addressing access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.
Funding Information
- They do not accept applications for over £10,000 under our Small Grants Programme. The majority of their grants will be delivered over a one to two year period.
- Longer-duration projects will be considered for bursary applications to enable the support of students throughout a specific stage of education.
- They will consider applications from organisations with an annual income of less than £20,000 or that are newly established within the last 2 years; but in these cases they can only consider applications below £5,000.
- Applicants’ requests should always be in keeping with their organisation’s annual income; they do not usually provide grants which total more than 25% of an organisation’s annual income.
- Small grants are usually provided as a one-off donation. In exceptional circumstances some organisations may be invited to reapply.
Eligibility Criteria
- UK-based organisations only
- Requesting under £10,000 in the field of:
- Sexual and Reproductive Health; or
- Nutrition; or
- Education; or
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
- Typically have an annual income below £300,000
- Deliver projects at a local scale, for example supporting just one or a small number of communities, schools or groups
- Tend to plan and deliver projects over a one-two year time frame
- Can demonstrate successful project delivery and the ability to monitor project outputs and outcomes
- Have waited at least 18 months since last unsuccessful application
For more information, visit http://www.waterloofoundation.org.uk/WorldDevelopmentApplications.html
