Deadline: 15-Jun-22
The Toy Trust Fund welcome applications from small UK based children’s charities – working for the benefit of children across the UK. As part of your application you will be asked which area of the UK you work.
Priorities
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Toy Trust funds help disadvantaged children and their families to:
- Alleviate suffering
- Support children through awful experiences
- Encourage achievement through adversity
- Purchase vital equipment
- Provide care
- Bolster existing initiatives
- Initiate brand new projects
- Satisfy basic needs.
Funding Information
- Be for less than £5000 unless a compelling case can be put forward.
Evaluation Criteria
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All applications should:
- Be supported by a registered Charity number
- Be in support of disadvantaged children aged below 13 years
- Have supporting up to date financial accounts
- Be in support of children and projects regardless of faith, sex or disability
- Come from a charity that has been running for a minimum of one full year
- Show real benefit for relieving hardship and suffering to beneficiaries
- Not be for individual cases without compelling reasons
- Be for equipment and services but generally NOT for salaries, wages and research
- Demonstrate effective fund raising effectiveness by the applicant
- Not be for books or publishing unless for compelling reasons
- The applicants accounts must show a ratio of administration & overhead costs (including wages & salaries) to income of less than 30%
- The applicants accounts must have unrestricted net assets of not more than £200,000 or of less than one year’s income
- Should the applicant not provide a set of accounts by the time the applications are submitted to the committee for approval that application will be declined.
- Applications are accepted from organisations based in the UK and Ireland but applications will also be considered from organisations around the world who have a UK based office.
- Successful applicants cannot reapply for funding for 2 years. This in turn will allow the Toy Trust to distribute funds fairly given the large volume of applications they receive.
For more information, visit Toy Trust.
For more information, visit https://www.toytrust.co.uk/apply/