Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation is accepting applications for its Small Grants Programme.
Theme focus: Community Support
- Community Services: information, advice and guidance services; community transport schemes; employability training; volunteering; healthy eating and living; foodbanks which support clients out of crisis into long term sustainability; intergenerational projects, befriending, community cohesion.
- CommunityCentres: salary or running costs for community centres or village halls which offer a range of activities for all ages.
- Alternative Education: support schemes for young people struggling in mainstream education;homework clubs; supplementary education classes for vulnerable individuals.
- Training, mentoring, employment and volunteering opportunities.
- Youth: youth clubs and detached youth work; after school and holiday clubs; opportunities for NEETs.
- Counselling: for any age in areas where statutory services are unable to cope with demand. Family Support Services: early intervention, families coping with addiction, prisoners’ families.
- Substance Misuse: recovery projects.
Funding Information
- Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs.
Eligible Projects
- They want to fund work which addresses the challenges of local communities.
- Their preference is for front line organisations working directly with people in need. They are unlikely to support campaigning, organisational development or capacity building
- They will consider new work which is a logical extension of existing work, but do not support work which represents a significant shift away from your existing core aims and experience.
- They will not fund more than 50% of the total cost of the project/ salary/core/running costs. You will need to show a viable fundraising plan for the remaining costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charitable organisations (including CICs, social enterprises, not-for-profit registered companies and voluntary organisations) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Small to medium sized local organisations with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts
- Revenue costs including core costs, salaries, running and project costs
Ineligible
- Organisations whose postcode is not within the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) limits
- Individuals, whether direct or through a third party
- Newly established organisations with no previous annual accounts
- Charities or NGOs registered outside the UK
- Statutory services including state schools, localor nationalauthorities,prisons, NHS hospitalsor services
- Universities, further education colleges andindependent schools
- Organisations with an annual income over £1m
- Hospices
- Grant-making or umbrella organisations
- Organisations that have applied to them unsuccessfully within the previous 12 months
- Organisations which have made their annual returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House late within the past three years
- Organisations which have not reviewed their safeguarding policy and/or held formal safeguarding training/refresher sessions within the past 12 months
- Organisations holding more than 12 months operating costs in reserves.
For more information, visit Trusthouse Charitable Foundation.