THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION
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No images? Click here  GRIN #3854 – Wednesday 18th June 2025 THE TREE COUNCIL: TREES OUTSIDE WOODLAND FUND – CORRECTION – many thanks to all who pointed out that the Key Words provided for the new Outside Woodland Fund in yesterday’s bulletin were incorrect. This should have read ‘Capital, Tree Planting, Environment, Improving Tree Canopies Outside of Woodlands, Hedgerows, England‘ rather than ‘Disability, Art, Artists, Painting, Special Needs, Children and Young People, Financial Hardship, United Kingdom’, which appears to be a hangover from the previous day’s bulletin. In today’s bulletin (click on the title of the grant provider below to go directly to their website or to the Charity Commission for those that do not have a website): o THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION – revenue grants. usually for under £5,000, are available for local and national UK and overseas not-for-profit organisations, including Community Interest Companies (CICs), libraries, schools, colleges and sports groups, for projects that benefit visually impaired people. The next deadline for applications is Monday 15th September 2025. On our website today (scroll down to the ‘Latest News‘ section): o OPPORTUNITIES AT COMMUNITY COUNSELLING CIC – previously Wellington Community Counselling in Somerset, the organisation has changed its name to Community Counselling CIC to reflect its growth. Community Counselling CIC’s mission to make counselling available for anyone who needs it, when they need it, putting individual and community wellbeing at the heart of what it does and how it does it. The CIC is currently seeking a Chair and non-Executive Directors to take the organisation forward. The deadline for applications is midday (12 noon) on Sunday 20th July 2025. The direct route to today’s website item is via this LINK. WEDNESDAY’S LOCAL GRANT SCHEME – ESSEX, LONDON o THE JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION: EDUCATIONAL VISIT GRANTS – the Foundation’s Educational Visit Grants support schools and youth organisations with the costs of making visits to museums, theatres, science shows, historic sites, nature-based trips, stadium tours and many more (see the flyer on the Foundation’s website for further examples). The aim of the grant scheme is to help young people to develop a wide range of valuable personal and social skills, as well as providing the chance to learn outside of the classroom. Grants of up to £1,200 per visit are available. To apply for a grant, organisations need to be running the Foundation’s Achievement Award Scheme. Schools and youth organisations can then apply for two grants per year, per scheme, of £1,200 per trip, maximum £20 per young person (SEND schools/organisations, Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Education Provisions can apply up to £60 per young person for day trips and £100 per young person for residentials trips). Applications may be made at any time. Further information is available on the Foundation’s website. THE ULVERSCROFT FOUNDATION – Revenue grants. usually for under £5,000, are available for local and national UK and overseas not-for-profit organisations, including Community Interest Companies (CICs), libraries, schools, colleges and sports groups, for projects that benefit visually impaired people. o Application deadline: MONDAY 15th SEPTEMBER 2025. The Ulverscroft Foundation is a significant funder of UK and overseas not-for-profit organisations that are working to improve the quality of life of people who are blind, partially sighted and visually impaired. Its primary objects, as recorded in its original Trust Deed, are to: o Promote or conduct medical research and to provide and assist in the provision of facilities for the treatment or alleviation of sick or handicapped persons, and Any organisation with (a) an appropriate safeguarding policy for vulnerable children and/or adults and procedures to implement and monitor the policy, and (b) an equal opportunities policy may apply for a grant of between £100 and £500,000 (although awards towards the upper end of this scale are extremely rare). The vast majority of grants made are for less than £5,000. Applications from public libraries managed by local authorities will be considered if these are additional to the local authority’s core service. Volunteer-run libraries may be grant funded if they are supported in cash or in kind by the local authority (libraries operated by private companies are not supported). Grants can be used for (please note that this is not an exclusive list): o Academic and clinical research. The Foundation likes to see evidence that applicants have sought and secured matched funding as part of their application. During the year ended 31st October 2023, the Foundation awarded 39 grants totalling £814,000 (2022: 32 grants totalling £481,000) A list of grants made during the year can be viewed on page 26 of the Foundation’s annual accounts. Applications may be made by downloading, completing and posting the application form available on the Foundation’s website, where further information and guidance about the Foundation’s grants can also be found. Applications are also accepted by email. The Foundation meets quarterly to consider applications: in January (deadline 15th December), April (deadline 15th March), July (deadline 15th June) and October (deadline 15th September). The next application deadline is therefore on Monday 15th September 2025. Contact details for the Foundation are: Joyce Sumner |