THE WAKEHAM TRUST

Small grants, generally between £125 and £2,500, are available to UK registered charities and community organisations for unfashionable or unpopular projects that may otherwise struggle to secure funding from other grant-providers. Projects that empower local people and communities are favoured.

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o Registration deadline: none – applications may be made at any time, preferably by email,

o Who can apply: small UK registered charities (local voluntary and community groups are also eligible to apply, but must make their application through a local charity)..

o Key words: Unpopular or unusual causes, seed funding, local people and communities, United Kingdom.

The Wakeham Trust is particularly interested in providing small grants to UK registered charities or constituted community groups for small-scale projects that find it difficult to secure funding from other grant-making trusts for causes which are unpopular or unusual, but yet have the ability to contribute significantly to the wellbeing of a local community. The Trust especially likes to provide pump priming, seed funding grants that empowers local people and communities to help get a project up and running. The Trust prefers to support projects that are being run by ordinary people, not professionals.

Grants tend to be for between £125 and £2,500, with the occasional higher amount, to small UK registered charities. Constituted voluntary and community groups may also apply, but must do so through a local registered charity.

The Trust likes to see a matched funding contribution from applicants, or at least evidence that applicants have attempted to raise funding from other sources.

The Trust favours applications where projects have attempted to raise funds themselves, even if the amounts are small.

The Trust will ask the following questions when deciding whether to fund an application:

The Trust will consider the following when looking at what to fund:

1. Is it something new for this particular area? It doesn't matter if the idea is tried and tested in other parts of the country, if it is new for a particular community, it may be of interest to the Trust.
2. Is it small? Grants are normally given to projects where an initial £125 to £2,500 can make a real difference. Generally, the Trust will look at what it is costing per head to reach the people the project is helping.
3. Will it find it hard to get support elsewhere? The Trust tries to help those projects that are too new and experimental to get support through established fundraising channels, or which (if established) are under threat due to changes in national or local policy.
4. Is it run by ordinary people, not professionals? Once a project is big enough to employ staff, it is probably too big for the Trust to fund. The Trust also likes to support projects that empower ordinary non-professional people.
5. Does it have the potential to become self-supporting? The Trust likes to see information that shows how the project will support itself in future years or (if it is a short-life project) over the course of its life, 
and
6. Is it outward looking, rather than being focused on its own members? The Trust is especially interested in supporting 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 other groups in the community as this empowers the volunteers themselves, as well as supporting the project they are working on.

 

Applications, which should ideally be made by email, addressed to thewakehamtrust(at)icloud.com, should contain the following information:

1. Contact name, address (including postcode), telephone number and email.
2. Name and address of the project the applicant is applying on behalf of, plus its telephone number and email.
3. Name and address of a UK charity which is willing to accept a grant on the applicant's behalf, plus the name of a contact the Trust can talk to at that charity.
4. Account name, bank sort code and account number of the charity’s account into which the applicant would like a grant to be paid.
5. Details of the project. Who does it help? How big is it? Is it new, or already established?
6. The amount of money being requested from the Trust.
7. What the money would be spent on. Applicants should give a rough breakdown and overall budget.
8. How else has the applicant tried to raise funds and how successful has this been, and
9. Whether the applicant has ever received a grant from the Trust before.

Applications may be made at any time by email. Further information and guidance is available on the Trust’s website.

Contact details for the Trust are:

Harold Carter
Chair
The Wakeham Trust
c/o Millbank Financial Services
4th Floor
10 Bruton Street
London
W1J 6BX
Email: 
thewakehamtrust(at)icloud.com.
(The Trust does not advertise a ‘phone number.)

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