Get Changed Theatre Company - our £6,000 grant is helping towards the core costs of delivering drama workshops for adults with learning disabilities in Devon.
Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association - our grant of £3,000 over 3 years is helping towards the running costs of a drop-in facility near Nottingham town centre where the local community can access advice, social activities and learning opportunities.
Spider Y-Ltd - our £3,000 grant is contributing towards the running costs of this charity in Leeds which offers opportunities for wheelchair users to participate in the sport of basketball.
We only offer grants to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000 who are undertaking work with our priority groups:
- Elderly people
- Children and young people aged 5 – 25
- People with disabilities or mental health problems
- Moral welfare – people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)
- Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)
We will not fund work that does not focus on one of the above priority groups.
We only make grants for core funding. We define core funding as the costs associated with regular activities or services that have been ongoing for at least a year. We can not fund new projects, extra services or additional delivery costs. This includes creating a paid post for work that is currently undertaken on a voluntary basis or rent for premises that are currently cost free.
We can only offer grants to registered charities that have been formally established for a minimum of three years. Newly registered charities may apply but the organisation must have appointed a management committee and adopted a governing document at least 3 years ago.
To ensure that our grants offer some realistic help we will not contribute towards organisational budgets with a shortfall in excess of £10,000 in the first year.
