The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust’s Ann Rylands Small Grants programme offers grants of up to £5,000 for small to medium sized registered charities across the UK that are working to provide support and services for:

o Older people.
o People facing challenges with mental health, social exclusion or homelessness.
o People needing palliative and end of life care, and
o People with disabilities or living with serious illness.

While the Jules Thorn Charitable Trust has been a constant supporter of hospices over the years, particularly through its Hospice Fund (see pages 31-33 of its annual accounts for the year ended 31st December 2021), it supports a much broader range of charitable causes through its Ann Rylands Small Donations programme (awards are listed on pages 35-42 of the Trust’s annual accounts).

Hospice Grants, including care at home services, tend to be for £5,000, while awards made through the Ann Rylands Small Donations programme are normally for up to £1,500. There is no specific requirement for matched funding.

During the year ended 31 December 2021, the Trust received 874 (2020: 920) applications for grant support and awarded 451 grants (2020: 472) totalling £5,311,844 (2020: £2,016,480).

Funding is not available for:

o Charities that have been registered in the UK for less than two years.
o Charities which have fee reserves equivalent to 12 months or more of annual expenditure.
o Charities which have received funding from the Trust within the previous 12 months.
o Charities whose annual income is under £50,000 or exceeds £2 million.
o Charities who have applied to the Trust within the last 12 months.
o Charities whose operational area is outside the UK.
o Community Interest Companies (CICs).
o Individuals or community groups which are not registered charities within the UK.
o Organisations which work principally to support members of a particular faith community or whose charitable objects refer to a particular faith, or
o Village and community halls, uniformed groups (such as Scouts and Guides), carnivals and arts festivals, ammonising charities (for example, those that give grants to others) and charities that are engaged in political activism.

Further information, guidance and an online application form for the Ann Ryland Small Grants programme is available on the Trust’s website. Please click on the 'Programmes' tab for on the Trust's homepage for details of its other grant programmes.

Applications may be made at any time. Decisions tend to take up to 8 weeks.