Applications are considered under the following categories: General Welfare, Medical Welfare, Youth and Culture. The Goldsmiths’ Company also sponsors a number of educational initiatives. These are directed towards primary and secondary education, science, and literacy and numeracy programmes. Categories of Small Grants (up to the maximum of £5,000): Culture; General Welfare; Medical Welfare/Disabled Guidelines and Limitations for General […]

Applications are received for quarterly deadlines from registered charities are first assessed by the Foundation office, with a shortlist of approximately 20 of the strongest and regionally representative applications put forward for consideration . There is approximately £200,000 available to distribute each quarter. Applications working in the areas of education or health with one of our three […]

“MINDSPACE” below are some suggestions from my psychology of funding training courses on how you can use psychology to strengthen funding applications and requests to donors   Messenger – we are heavily influenced by who communicates a message to us; therefore, we want to be liked and trusted by the reader o   Can you associate […]

The Landfill Disposals Tax Communities Scheme is a new Welsh Government funding programme managed by WCVA. The scheme will support local community and environmental projects in areas affected by the disposal of waste to landfill. Grants of between £5,000 and £49,999 will be available for projects that meet scheme criteria. The fund size is £1.4 […]

The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. Grants are only given to registered charities. Projects must meet all of the following criteria: For children and young people under the age of 25 who are disadvantaged Consist of educational activities that develop learning, […]

The Rural Programme (Round two) is for projects that will make a positive impact on the lives of people and communities living in poverty in rural Wales. This programme will fund partnerships that understand the connection between the causes and effects of poverty, and propose solutions and services which use a joined-up approach to tackle […]

Have you thought about text giving? Having been looking for this for a client, I’ve found that there is very little helpful information and many providers do not make their costs easy to find. Two providers that regularly come up well are: JustTextGiving In 2011 JustGiving teamed up with Vodafone to create JustTextGiving, a free […]

I just found out today that another successful grant application has been made, this time to the Tudor Trust for almost £90k, this brings the amount raised for the year to over £1 million If I can help you next year with our funding please get in touch  

They support a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting better understanding of the countryside. Past grants have ranged from £500 to £10k. Multi year grants are also given. More info on their website    

The SLF supports strategic legal work in the UK which benefits vulnerable young migrants. They define this as: Migrants or the children of migrants, Who are under 25, Who are living in poverty, and Who face significant disadvantage or discrimination in connection with their (or their parents’) migration status. The SLF funds strategic legal work in any area of […]