Deadline: 25-Aug-25
Trefoil has launched the Organisational Grants Programme to support young people with additional support needs, both physical and mental, in order to improve their independence, community relations, education, or social and moral development.
Eligible Projects
- Trefoil offers funding to organisations who align with the charity’s objective: to better the lives of young people with additional support needs.
- Trefoil will consider funding projects which:
- promote education, health and social welfare;’
- encourage team building activities;
- provide education;
- provide therapeutic activities which are not funded by the statutory authorities; and
- are new development and startup costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Trefoil welcomes applications from the following types of organisations:
- formally constituted and registered charities; and
- organisations which are not charities and whose aims are to provide education, health and social welfare.
- All applicant organisations must be able to demonstrate their financial propriety, solvency and two years of audited/independently inspected accounts.
- Projects will only be considered if the beneficiaries are
- based in Scotland or if the project benefits young Scottish people with additional support needs;
- All beneficiaries are young people with additional support needs, which may be psycho/social or of a physical nature which impacts upon their development.
Structure
- The grants will be provided to organisations.
- The project or event should be structured in order to provide an evaluation criterion which is agreed in advance of the award.
- The criteria must be mutually agreed between Trefoil and the organisation. The level of the award will be at the discretion of the Trefoil trustees and will only be subject to appeal under extreme circumstances.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Trefoil will not consider applications where the following conditions exist:
- organisations with a turnover above £500,000;
- commercial organisations or purposes; or
- agencies or purposes which should be supported by statutory funding for the purpose for which the application is made.
- Trefoil will not provide funding for the following:
- salaries or subsistence costs except as entirely incidental to a specific project and to the extent proportionate to other funding;
- core property costs which support the administration of the organisation e.g. rent, lease, legal;
- disbursement to other agencies;
- core administration costs; or
- general appeals.
For more information, visit Trefoil.