Community cohesion

Registered charities based and operating within England and Wales may apply and applications are reviewed four times a year.

Funding can be used for a wide range of charitable projects and activities.

The application process is ongoing and interested applicants may apply at any time.

Application is by letter to the Cayo Foundation stating the purpose for which the funding is needed.

Applicants may call the Cayo Foundation for details about how to make a submission, but all other enquiries should be made in writing to:

This grants programme is intended to help the Arts Council achieve its mission of ‘Great art and culture for everyone’. It also provides a means to support a broad range of not-for-profit projects that create and sustain quality work and help people across England to engage with arts and culture.

The programme supports development by allowing artists, cultural practitioners and organisations to work in new ways and to get their work out to new audiences.

All organisations need to have a bank account in the organisation’s name, with two signatories.

The John Ellerman Foundation was set up in 1971 as a generalist grant-making trust. It is a 'responsive funder'.

The Foundation aims to advance the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world. Support is available for charitable work in the arts, environment and social action. The Foundation is keenly aware of the connections between these areas and their effects on each other and on people’s health and happiness.

The Whitaker Charitable Trust offers grants to registered charities working in the UK, particularly Nottinghamshire. Applications can be made at any time.

The scheme is intended to support organisations with general charitable purposes.

In particular, the scheme wishes to support:

• Local charities in Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands.
• Music.
• Agricultural and silvicultural education.
• Countryside conservation.
• Scottish charities.

Applications must be made in writing to:

Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including: health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services.

Grants are available to UK registered charities for a range of charitable projects, particularly the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; and for the advancement of education, the advancement of the arts, culture, and heritage.

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust offers grants to UK registered charities.

The objects of the Trust are to foster and promote the education of the general public in the appreciation of the arts and music, to relieve poverty and to support other purposes recognised by the law of England and Wales to be charitable.

Within these objectives, the Trust focusses on funding cultural and heritage preservation projects in the UK, especially in East Anglia.

Grants are available for medical, socially supportive, educational and cultural charities in England and Wales.

The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust offers grants to UK registered charities.

In particular, the Trust wishes to support projects with the following themes:

• Education.
• Cultural activities.

This Trust does not maintain a wesbite. Applications must be made in writing.

Address:

Basil Samuel Charitable Trust 
c/o Smith and Williamson 
25 Moorgate 
London 
EC2R 6AY

This small trust supports charities working in Scotland and overseas – focusing on children and young people, community arts, social justice, international development, health and wellbeing and community outreach programmes.

The Trust will consider applications for grants from charities registered in the United Kingdom, with preference being given to charitable organisations operating from Scotland and with an annual income of less that £500,000. 
 

The Trust can support a wide range of charitable projects. Preference given to causes within Perth & Kinross with emphasis on the sphere of education, music and the arts. There is a preference to fund start up projects or improvements to projects.

The maximum amount is normally £5,000.

Apply to: Messrs Miller Hendry Solicitors, 10 Blackfriars Street, Perth, PH1 5NS