Applying for a Grant

The Trust will only accept grants if the following criteria are met:

• Your organisation must be registered with the Charity Commission, be an Exempt or Excepted charity, or a Community Interest Company (CIC)
• With the exception of medical research grant applications, the Trust will only consider applications that directly benefit Yorkshire projects
• Hospice grant applications will only be considered if the application is for medical equipment
• Personal and overseas applications will not be considered

Before making an application, please read the following important Trust documents:

• FAQ
  This contains all the information you will require for your application to be considered and can be found HERE.
• Guidance on How to Apply for a Grant
  This will provide you with all the information you need to correctly complete a grant application form – inaccurate or incomplete forms will not be considered for grants.
  The Guidance sheet can be found HERE.
• Privacy Policy
  This provides information on how the information you provide in your application is collected, stored and processed and can be found HERE.

You must submit the following documents as part of the application process. We regret that applications will not be considered if any document is only partially complete or missing.

• The Trust Online Application Form
• The Trust Checklist (available here in Word or PDF format)
• Your Charity’s most recent and up to date Annual Report and Accounts

To support your application, you may optionally submit the following documents:

• A cover letter
• Detailed project budget or financial forecasts
• Supplier quotes for equipment or services to be purchased
• Impact reports

All documents should be in either PDF, Word or Excel format where appropriate and each file should not exceed 8MB in size and, due to email limits, the total of all attachments should be less than 15mb.

To apply for a grant, please click HERE.

Application Processing

Your completed application form will be submitted to the Trust Administration Team along with any documents uploaded to the form.

Qualifying applications will be considered by the appropriate subcommittee, and they will provide their recommendations to the following quarterly Trustees’ meeting for approval.

Meetings take place in March, June, September and December and all applications must be received by the last Monday of January, April, July and October for the following meeting. Applications received after this time will be included with the applications for the next meeting.

Grants may be awarded for the full or partial amount requested and may or may not be subject to conditions, e.g.: restricted for use on a specific project/agreed milestones for larger grants.

The Trust will respond to each application in writing, whether successful or not, by the end of the month following the meeting at which the application was considered. We regret that due to the volume of applications received, reasons for the rejection of a grant application will not be provided.

Please contact the Trust Administration Team if you are experiencing problems with the online form.