The Dulverton Trust Grants
An independent grant-making charity supporting UK charities and CIOs tackling a range of social issues, protecting the nature and preserving heritage crafts.
We support charities working across the UK (excluding greater London and Northern Ireland), Kenya and Uganda. Grants to UK charities operating in Kenya and Uganda are restricted to those with whom we have an existing relationship.
We fund a wide range of activities and core costs. Our eligibility quiz includes details of what we don’t fund.
Provided by:
The Dulverton Trust
Funder website:
Current status:
Open for funds
Maximum value:
35000.00
Who can apply
We look to support charities and CIOs working within our funding categories, and prioritise those that are medium-sized (with income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.
We support charities working across the UK (excluding greater London and Northern Ireland), Kenya and Uganda. Grants to UK charities operating in Kenya and Uganda are restricted to those with whom we have an existing relationship.
We fund a wide range of activities and core costs. Our eligibility quiz includes details of what we don’t fund.
Restrictions
We don’t fund work primarily for the benefit of residents of London or Northern Ireland.
How to apply
As a first step, we ask applicants to complete an online form - https://www.dulverton.org/#apply
If your application is eligible, we will conduct extensive desk-based research. We will likely ask for further financial and impact measurement information. This stage normally takes 2-3 weeks.
The staff team will review your application alongside others in the pipeline. Our review will vary depending on the nature of the work, but will prioritise those that fit most closely with the Trust’s funding categories, make a credible case for achieving the outcomes intended (taking into account the charity’s track-record and learning and evaluation processes), represent value for money and demonstrate that they work effectively in the ecosystem.
If we decide to take the application forward to the Sub-Committee, we will be in touch to arrange a visit or online meeting. If we decide not to take the application forward, we let you know as soon as possible and will endeavour to provide feedback. This decision is made by the staff team – although Trustees are often consulted and all declined applications are ratified by the full Board.
In early June, October and February, a Sub-Committee of Trustees meets to discuss the appeals that have been visited by staff and decided which to take forward to the Board meetings later in those months. This decision is based on a consideration of the staff team’s recommendation.
We let all applicants know the outcome of their appeal via email, including those that are unsuccessful. If you haven’t heard from us after one month, please check you spam/junk folder, as occasionally emails sent via our CRM are caught in spam filters. Otherwise, please feel welcome to telephone the office to ask or an update.
If you are awarded a grant, we will let you know shortly following the Board meetings in February, June and October. You will be ask for information so that we can make a payment to you. Once this information has been received, it usually takes a week for the payment to be made. Once a payment has been made, we aim to be in touch when we can be helpful. We ask for a formal report when the funding has been expended (normally 12 months following each payment).
The Trust currently offers funding across five categories:
YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES
This is our largest category and supports work that engages people primarily on the basis that they are from lower-income backgrounds (the charities we fund tend to work with children in receipt of Free School Meals or Pupil Premium funding, or live in geographies that sit in the 20% most deprived on the IMD scale). We fund initiatives that support young people to develop the life skills (e.g. employability skills, skills to succeed at school, improving social and emotional skills) to enable them to thrive.
GENERAL WELFARE
We support a wide range of charities that work with people from lower-income households and in communities with high levels of poverty with particular interest in:
strengthening and supporting family relationships
work with offenders, especially young offenders, with a focus on desistance
helping young homeless people to move forward
maintaining active living and independence for older people (note: this does not include help with medical and mental health)
the welfare of those who care for others
developing tolerance and understanding between faiths and communities and the promotion of social cohesion
CONSERVATION
We support charities working to support the health and resilience of the UK’s wildlife habitat. This work focuses on:
protecting, planting and sympathetically managing trees and native woodlands
protecting coastal and marine environments
Please note that we rarely consider applications for projects concerned with a single species.
HERITAGE
We support the development of craftsmanship in the traditional techniques of repair and restoration and have a strong interest in:
heritage skills training, particularly where it may benefit a disadvantaged group
cathedrals (Trustees generally make one award to a cathedral per year)
Please note that annual grants are awarded to the National Churches Trust to disburse to churches on our behalf, and as such, we are not able to support applications from individual churches.
KENYA AND UGANDA
This category is currently restricted to UK registered charities operating in Kenya or Uganda, which already have a long association with the Trust. Our priorities in these locations are:
community development (in particular, the provision of water and power, and the encouragement of farming, common market gardening and enterprise)
wildlife conservation
The Trust is currently focusing on a major development and conservation project in the Murchison Falls area of Uganda. As a result, funding for other overseas projects, including Kenya and Uganda is restricted and we recommend that you contact us in advance of submitting an application.
INTERNATIONAL STABILITY AND RECONSTRUCTION
The Trust does not accept appeals to contribute to disaster relief appeals. Instead we fund charities that:
(a) Provide support facilities or expertise to organisations engaged in disaster preparedness, or
(b) Are engaged in peace intervention.
As with our other funding, we prioritise work that is specific and practical, and where the Trust’s contribution makes an identifiable difference. As with our other categories, it is very unlikely that we would support work that focuses on research.
Source: Third Sector Support Wales