Making an Application

Before you start your application for a grant please read the following:

1. An essential part of the application process is to fully appreciate the details given on this web page.

2. Ensure you have other sources of funding or can match any funding the Trust might provide. Audited accounts and detailed budgets will be requested.

3. Do contact the Secretary of the Trust directly for advice by email or by telephone. Note that the Trustees will only consider a grant application if the Secretary submits them at the quarterly Trustees' meetings.

4. A visit by the Secretary to your project may be necessary.

The Trustees only consider applications from UK registered charities; they do not consider appeals from individuals or from registered charities for the benefit of named individuals.

Please note there is no application form. Applications must be sent in hard copy and NOT by email.

On-going commitments, combined with the fact that the Trustees are taking an increasingly active role in identifying projects to support, means that uncommitted funds are limited and it is seldom possible to make grants in response to unsolicited appeals.

If applicants consider that their work might fall within the Trust's grant-making policy, click here on areas of interest to double-check, the following information is required:

1. Charity name and charity registration number;
2. An outline of the project for which funding is sought;
3. A budget and costings for the life time of the project;
4. Details of the amount already raised, or irrevocably committed, towards the target;
5. Full details of grant applications made to other external funders and details of the amount committed from your own resources;
6. A copy of your most recent annual report and audited accounts (full set, not summary pages).

Applicants must set out the essential details of a project on no more than two sides of A4 paper, with more detailed information being presented in the form of appendices. The principle of matched funding is very much part of any application - if you are in any doubt what this means please contact the Secretary.

If you are a Methodist Church applying for funding, in addition to the requirements shown in points 1-6 above, click here for further information.

In normal circumstances, papers received before the beginning of February, May, August and November may be considered in March, June, September and December respectively. Visits to appeals may have to be made by the Secretary and Trustees.

All appeals are acknowledged and the applicants advised that if they do not receive a reply by a specified date it has not been possible for the Trustees to make a grant.

(page updated 3rd January 2012)