Wakeham Trust (UK) - Deadline: Rolling
The Trust have been established since 1975, their core goal is to help small groups of people who are getting together to make a difference in their communities, on the whole they do not support big or established charities.
They are especially interested in helping groups that are starting up and need a little seed money to help to get them going.
They usually make very small grants to very small projects because they often find it hard to appeal to larger and more funding bodies.
The only exception to this is that they have made occasional large grants to support excellence in teaching, especially in the humanities.
They continue to support the original objective of the Trust supporting projects that encourage community service by young people to their own neighbourhoods and communities.
These are the sort of issues they tend to look at when they decide what projects to back:
• Is it something new for the particular area – it does not matter if the idea is tried and tested in other parts of the country, if it is new for the community the Trust is interested in hearing about it,
• Is it small – they normally give grants where an initial £125 to £2,500 can make a real difference. In general, they look at what it is costing per head to reach the people the project is helping,
• Is it run by ordinary people, not professionals? – this is partly a function of size, once a project is big enough to employ staff it is probably too big for them,
• Will it find hard to get support elsewhere? – they try to help those projects that are too new to get support through established fund-raising channels, or which (if established) are under threat due to changes in national or local policy,
• Does it have the potential to become self-supporting – they like to see information that shows how the project will support itself in future years or over the course of its life,
• Is it outward looking rather than being focused on its own members? – they are especially keen to help groups who are usually considered recipients of voluntary action (for example old age pensioners, refugees, or young offenders) when these people become involved in helping the community,
• Does it have a UK charity number, or can it find a charity to accept funds on its behalf?
More information at: https://thewakehamtrust.org/what-sorts-of-projects-do-we-help/