July’s funding news

Welcome to July’s funding update.

This update is split into two parts. Section A features funders with upcoming deadlines. You’ll find funders with a local or regional focus first, and national funders second. The funders are listed in order of deadline date, soonest first.

Section B features funders who welcome applications at any time. Again, you’ll find funders with a local or regional focus first, and national funders second.

Many grants to support groups and individuals with the cost-of-living crisis have now closed. You will find those that our still open in our previous funding update.

This update can only provide a snapshot of these funders so we recommend visiting the funders’ websites for full details before you apply. Most funders in this list have a website, which you can access by clicking on the name of the funder. Full contact details have been provided for funders that do not have a website.

A. Get in quick – deadlines are coming up!
1. Funders with a local / regional interest

Multiply Small Grants

Deadline: 25th August 2023
Who can apply: Voluntary and community sector organisations who can West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) help reach adults and improve their numeracy skills
Size of grant available: £25,000-£100,000
Priorities: Successful organisations will be expected to identify, target and engage with residents in low paid or insecure employment to help them get onto the Multiply programme to improve their literacy skills. WMCA is looking for organisations to help them:

• Act as an advocate for the Multiply programme, employing a ‘Numeracy Champion’ to engage with employed residents accessing their services to promote the benefit of enhanced numeracy skills and qualifications.
• Identify residents who will benefit from numeracy support
• Design your own programme to engage your audiences with Multiply

How to apply: Full guidance and application form are available on the WMCA Multiply Small Grants website. There will also be two online events on Wednesday 8th August, where you can learn more about the programme:

• 10 – 11am: Book your place
•  3 – 4pm : Book your place

West Midlands – Citizen Local Fund

Deadline: 31st August 2023
Who can apply: Local groups, organisations and charities may apply.
Size of grant available: Grants of between £50 and £3,000 are available.
Priorities: Grants are available to community organisations and charities across the West Midlands for projects that support the well-being of people in communities where Citizen provide social housing.

The aim of the fund is to support Citizen Housing residents and communities to thrive. Grants are available for projects which will promote positive mental and physical health, reduce loneliness, promote community cohesion and being improvements to the local area.

How to apply: The deadline for applications is 31 August 2023 (5pm).

An online application form is available on the Citizen Housing website, alternatively a Microsoft Word format version of the application form can be requested via email.

Contact Citizen Housing for further information.

Citizen Housing
St Thomas House
80 Bell Barn Road
Lee Bank
Birmingham
B15 2AF
Tel: 0300 790 6555
Email: engagement@citizenhousing.org.uk

Bentley Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme

Deadline: 29^th September 2023
Who can apply: Applications are accepted from charities and not-for-profit organisations including:

• Registered charities, including charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
• Constituted organisations and non-registered charities.
• Community interest companies (CICs) and community benefit organisations (where there is a minimum of three unrelated directors).
• Churches and other religious organisations (if the funded activity is not deemed to be proselytising).

To be eligible, organisations must have:

• An annual income of less than £1 million.
• Been running community activities for a minimum of 12 months in the local area.
• Appropriate insurance in place for activities, staff and volunteers.
• Appropriate information, governance, policies, and procedures (such as Data Protection, Confidentiality and Information Security) that are appropriate for the organisation/activity and comply with all current legislation.
• Safeguarding policies and procedures (including DBS checks for staff, volunteers and trustees) that are appropriate for the organisation/activity and comply with all current legislation.
• Health and safety policies, risk assessments and procedures that are appropriate for the organisation/group/activity and comply with all current legislation.
• Equal opportunities policies and procedures that are appropriate for the organisation/group/activity and comply with all current legislation.

Eligible organisations must be based within a 20-mile radius of the nineteen specified Bentley locations across the UK. Dudley is within the footprint of Bentley’s Birmingham location.

Size of grant available: Grants of between £100 – £500 are available.
Priorities: In working to advance life chances, the fund’s priority is to support organisations working with vulnerable people, disadvantaged and under-represented communities. The programme’s areas of focus are:

• Access – Remove the barriers and improve access to services, education and employability.
• Empowerment – Development of the life skills that enable people to be more self-confident, successful and thrive in life.
• Quality of Life – Provide support to live a healthier life both physically and mentally.
• Better Future – Safeguarding the environment, improving nature-deprived areas, drive improvement to ‘place’ and boosting community spirit.

How to apply: Applications are reviewed quarterly. The remaining deadlines 2023 application rounds are:

• 7 July to 22 September 2023.
• 6 October to 22 December 2023.

An online application form is available to complete on the Charities Aid Foundation website.

The funders aim to make decisions within three weeks of the deadline and applicants will be informed thereafter.

Contact the grants team at Charities Aid Foundation for further information.

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
25 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Malling
Kent
ME19 4TA
Tel: 03000 123 000
Email: BentleyALC@cafonline.org

Saintbury Trust

Deadline: 30^th September 2023
Who can apply: Registered charities that are both based and operate (wholly or mainly) within the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and North Gloucestershire are eligible to apply. Dudley groups must be based within the DY1, DY2 or DY4 postcode areas
Size of grant available: Discretionary
Priorities: The trustees have a particular interest in the following:

• The arts
• Heritage
• The environment
• Helping those with disabilities

How to apply: The trustees meet twice a year to consider applications; the usual closing dates for applications for the spring and autumn meetings are 28 February and 30 September respectively. Application forms are available to download from the Trust’s website. Applications should be submitted by email; the Trust no longer accepts postal applications.

The Saintbury Trust
PO Box 464
Abinger Hammer
Dorking
Surrey
RH4 9AF
Email: admin@thesaintburytrust.co.uk

2. National funders 

 Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

Deadline: 1st September 2023

Who can apply: +Applications are accepted from UK registered charities working in the UK or abroad. (Charities with an annual income under £5,000 do not need to be registered to be eligible.)

Organisations should:

• Have independently examined up-to-date annual accounts.
• Demonstrate an active re-homing and rehabilitation policy for animals taken into their care.
• Be involved with conservation of wildlife, where the rescue, rehabilitation and (where possible) release of animals is their main aim.

The Trust favours applications from smaller animal welfare charities.

Charities which also import animals from overseas into the UK must satisfy the additional criteria in order to be able to apply for a grant:

• Support work within the country of origin which benefits animals remaining within that country.
• Ensure each animal is imported legally and in accordance with current DEFRA guidelines applicable to the particular country of origin.
• Ensure each animal has been examined by a vet following its arrival in the UK.
• Have their own permanent premises in the UK suitable for assessing the animal.
• Have assessed the behaviour of the animal both in its country of origin and, for a period of at least three weeks, in its UK premises and found it to be suitable for its prospective adopter.
• Ensure the animal has been neutered or spayed before being rehomed (or have made arrangements to do this once it is safe to do so).
• Have arranged a face-to-face meeting between the animal and its prospective adopter in advance of the animal being rehomed.
• Ensure the new owner is given the option of returning the animal to the charity’s UK premises if it is found unsuitable for any reason. No such animal should then be sent back to its country of origin.

Size of grant available: £1,000 to £10,000
Priorities: The objectives of the Trust are to donate to projects or activities encompassing one or more of the following areas:

• The benefit and protection of animals.
• The relief of suffering in animals.
• The conservation of wildlife.
• The encouragement of a greater understanding of animals.

How to apply: There are three application deadlines annually: 10 January (for the spring meeting), 1 May (for the summer meeting) and 1 September (for the winter meeting).

Application forms and guidance are available on the Trust’s website. The forms (one for new applicants and one for past applicants) can be completed online or downloaded and returned by email.

Kelly Family Charitable Trust

Deadline: 1st September 2023
Who can apply: Registered charities based and working in the UK can apply.

The Trust actively encourages applications from relatively new organisations to help them become established.

The Trust prefers to support charities whose income is below £500,000. However, larger charities with pioneering pilot projects will be considered.

Size of grant available: Grants will generally be worth up to £5,000 but the Trustees will consider requests for higher amounts.
Priorities: The funding is for charities whose activities involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members.
How to apply: Applications must be submitted by 1 March and 1 September each year to be considered at the subsequent meeting.

Application forms are available to download from the Trust’s website and should be returned by email along with the applying organisation’s latest annual accounts.

Trustees take a personal interest in the progress of the charities they support, and projects shortlisted for grants will usually be visited or contacted by the Trust’s Grants Administrator or other representatives of the Trust.

Contact the Kelly Family Charitable Trust for further information.

Stuart Armstrong
Grants Administrator
Kelly Family Charitable Trust
8 Mansfield Place
Edinburgh
EH3 6NB
Email: mail@kfct.org

Grocers’ Charity – Memorial Grants

Deadline: 8th September 2023
Who can apply: Registered charities in the UK with a turnover of under £500,000 are eligible to apply.
Size of grant available: Up to £5,000.
Priorities: The Charity supports the following areas:

• Relief of poverty.
• Children and young people.
• The elderly.
• Disability.
• Health.
• Military.
• Heritage and the arts.
• Environment.

How to apply: The closing date for Initial Enquiry forms is 8 September 2023.

Successful applicants will then receive the relevant deadline for their application.

Applicants should complete the online eligibility checklist for the relevant area to access the online enquiry form.

Contact the Grocers’ Charity’s for further information.

 Peter Sell Annual Award

Deadline: 14th September 2023
Who can apply: Eligible organisations must be part of the Scouts or Guides associations.

Proposals that encourage people who have no previous engagement with scouting or guiding are encouraged.

Applications should demonstrate that the award will have a legacy beyond the initial expenditure of the grant.

Size of grant available: Up to £5,000
Priorities: The aim of the Peter Sell Annual Award is to engage and involve young people in the Scout and Guide associations.

How to apply: Applications should be no more than two sides of A4 in 12 point (or larger font) and be submitted by email, and include the following:

• Name of the Scout or Guide Group making the application.
• Contact details.
• Amount requested.
• A brief description of what would be done with the money.
• An explanation of how the money would help to widen involvement with scouting or guides with some idea of the numbers of people involved.
• Why the application is special and should be funded.
• Photos, drawings, or other pictures in support of the application may be included, but not additional written material.

Applicants should contact the Leslie Sell Charitable Trust’s website for further information.

Help the Homeless Grant Scheme

Deadline: 15th September 2023
Who can apply: UK registered charities can apply. Charities must be registered with the Charity Commission in England, Wales or Northern Ireland or with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

This fund is aimed at supporting small and medium-sized registered charities with an annual turnover of under £500,000.

Size of grant available: Up to £5,000
Priorities: Help the Homeless is a small grant maker with limited funds available for giving.

It provides funding for charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.

Funding is targeted at projects to find practical ways to help disadvantaged individuals return to the community through training or residential facility provision, rather than merely providing short term shelter.

The reasons for being homeless vary enormously, but may include ill-health, those who are discharged offenders, addictions, family breakdown or other adverse circumstances.  Homelessness is not just about the people that the public sees and thinks about – principally “rough sleepers” living on the streets – but a whole range of people who lack a stable home.

How to apply: Applications are considered quarterly. The deadlines each year are: 15 March, 15 June, 15 September, 15 December.

Notification of decision within eight weeks of each deadline.

Application forms are available to download from the Help the Homeless website and should be submitted by email with a copy of the organisation’s most recent audited annual accounts.

There should be a minimum period of two years between the receipt of a grant and a further application.

Thomas Wall Trust – Grants for Registered Charities

Deadline: 18th September 2023
Who can apply: To be eligible, applicants must:

• Be a UK charity that has been registered with the Charity Commission for at least three years.
• Have an annual turnover of between £10,000 and £500,000.

Size of grant available: Up to £5,000
Priorities: The Trust views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

The funding is for registered charities that are working to develop communication skills for people from disadvantaged groups who want to improve their employment prospects.

As an inclusive charity, the Trust welcomes proposals which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups demonstrably facing major hurdles to employment, such as women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers.

How to apply: The deadline to apply is 18 September 2023, for assessment at the November 2023 meeting.

There is a two-stage application process.

• Stage one is to complete an online Expression of Interest form (available on the Trust’s website) which requires some basic contact details and a description of what the funding is required for.
• Stage two is by invitation only and involves completing a more in-depth application form and to submit a Project Plan, budget, latest set of financial accounts and any relevant policies.

Successful applicants will be notified in writing along with the terms and conditions of the grant and asked for their payment details.

Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email unless the Trust receives an unusually high volume of applications.

Groups that would like to contact the Trust will need to use the Trust’s online message form which is on Trust’s website contact page.

George Henry Collins Charity

Who can apply: Eligible organisations must be registered UK charities based and working within Birmingham. Sometimes the Trust will award funding to groups who are working within a 25-mile radius of the city centre.
Size of grant available: Most grants tend to range from £250 to £500, with an occasional grant of £1,000.
Priorities: Funding is intended to support charitable projects that relieve the suffering of those who are ill, infirm, old or lonely.
How to apply: Applications can be made at any time.

The Charity does not maintain a website. Contact the George Henry Collins Charity for further information.

Clerk to the Trustees
George Henry Collins Charity
Shakespeare Martineau
1 Colmore Square
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 6AA
Tel: 07799 784019
Email: chrissy@georgehenrycollinscharity.org.uk

Clive Richards Foundation

Who can apply: Local charities, groups, schools, and colleges can make a general UK based application.

The Foundation prefers to focus on smaller charities or projects where if the CRF was not involved it probably would not happen. The ‘strap line’ of “making a difference” is a strong indication of what the Trustees favour.

To be eligible, applicants must be:

• Located within 100 mile radius of Hereford City Centre. Applicants should consult the map on the Foundation’s website to confirm they are within the 100 mile radius of Hereford.
• Demonstrate that they need the amount they are requesting and that it will provide important benefits.
• Show other sources of funding that are being contributed either by the applicant or other sources.
• Be able to provide a copy of their latest audited accounts or for very small organisations a copy of the latest bank statement.
• Provide a copy of their main policies to give confidence in their legal and regulatory compliance and adoption of best practice.
• Have a UK bank account in the organisation’s name.

Size of grant available: Discretionary
Priorities: Formerly the Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity, the Clive Richards Foundation (CRF) is a Hereford based charity committed to supporting Education, Healthcare, Heritage, Arts and Overseas Education.

The Foundation aims ‘to make a difference’. The funding is intended to provide support to charitable organisations, especially where it can seek to be a catalyst to unlock other funding sources for good causes and ensure sustainability and transformational change.
How to apply: The first step to apply for funding is to complete the initial tick box request on the Foundation’s website, under ‘How to Apply’. Once the Foundation agrees that the group appears to be eligible for funding, a two-stage application process is initiated.

• Stage 1 – the relevant application form will be emailed to the prospective applicant. The completed forms are reviewed at monthly meetings throughout the year and applicants will be notified as soon as possible.
• Stage 2 – the Trustees will invite those who are successful at stage one to provide further information. Full Trustee meetings are hold every two months.

The guidance notes can be found on the Foundation’s website. They provide a full explanation of the application process and should be read before starting the application process.

Contact the Clive Richards Foundation by email for further information.

Administrator
Clive Richards Foundation
Lower Hope
Ullingswick
Herefordshire
HR1 3JF
Email: admin@cliverichardsfoundation.com

Moto in the Community

Who can apply: Applications will be accepted from charities, schools and Community Interest Companies (CICs) if they:

• Have received the endorsement of an employee of Moto Hospitality Ltd.
• Are located within a 15-mile radius of a Moto site. For Dudley borough, the nearest site is Frankley services on the M5.

Size of grant available: Discretionary
Priorities: The Moto in the Community Trust, a grant-making charity launched in 2005, aims to make a ‘real difference’ to the communities within 15 miles of one of the Moto sites. It does this by supporting local charities and community groups with funds raised at Moto locations across the UK.

Funding supports a wide range of projects that are located within 15 miles of a Moto site.
How to apply: Applications may be made at any time and will be considered on a monthly basis.

Application forms are available to complete online at the Trust’s website.

2. National funders 

Andor Charitable Trust

Who can apply: Applications are accepted at any time.

The Trust does not have a website or a standard application form.

Organisation should contact the Andor Charitable Trust for information on the application process.
Size of grant available: £3,000
Priorities: The scheme aims to fund a wide range of charitable projects, including those focusing on:

• Medical and ancillary services (including medical research).
• Education.
• Helping the disabled.
• Helping the aged.
• Providing sheltered accommodation.
• Relieving poverty.
• Developing the arts.

How to apply: Applications are accepted at any time.

The Trust does not have a website or a standard application form.

Organisation should contact the Andor Charitable Trust for information on the application process.

Enquiries
Andor Charitable Trust
Blick Rothenberg LLP
16 Great Queen Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2B 5AH
Tel: 0207 544 8865
Email: robin@blickrothenberg.com

American Express – Community Giving Programme

Who can apply: Grants are made to organisations that are able to provide documentary evidence of not-for-profit status.
Size of grant available: Discretionary
Priorities: The Foundation provides support to not-for-profit organisations whose work aligns with its priorities. Grants are available for projects in the following areas:

• Backing equal futures: programmes helping empower more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces and communities.
• Backing small: programmes building inclusive economic growth and empowerment through financial literacy, mentoring and training for diverse small business owners and individuals.
• Backing low-carbon communities: programmes advancing climate innovation and action to address climate challenges and promote resilient communities globally.

How to apply: The Foundation does not actively solicit applications for grants and new partnerships. However, interested organisations are invited to submit details about their work at any time by email.

These submissions will be reviewed each year between November and January and those organisations that align with the funder’s priorities may be contacted for further information and invited to submit a grant application.

Only one form entered per organisation will be considered and organisations that submit multiple entries will be disregarded.

American Express Foundation
200 Vesey Street
48th Floor
New York 10285
Tel: 1 212 640 4648
Email: communitygiving@aexp.com