Previously, the Boots Charitable Trust focused its grant-making on charities and voluntary groups in Nottinghamshire (Boots UK Limited, formerly Boots the Chemists, trading as Boots, is a British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain that was founded in Nottingham in 1849). This year, while still prioritising charities in Nottinghamshire, charities and voluntary groups across the UK are invited to apply for a grant. 50% of all funding on offer will be made available to charities and voluntary organisations outside Nottinghamshire.
The Trust will make awards to UK registered charities against the following priorities:
1. Health - community healthcare, includes community healthcare services, home care, continuing care, after care support for sufferers of medical conditions and people with disabilities. Health education and prevention, includes promoting knowledge and awareness of specific diseases or medical conditions.
2. Lifelong Learning - helping people of any age to achieve their educational potential through supplementary schooling, literacy and numeracy projects, community education, vocational/restart education for the unemployed or alternative education for excluded school pupils.
3. Community Development - helping groups to organise and respond to problems and needs in their communities or networks. This includes organisations such as Councils for Voluntary Services and self-help groups.
4. Social Care - personal social services, including providing assistance to individuals or families to overcome social deprivation (such as those who are homeless, disabled persons and their carers, lone parents, childcare groups and other family support groups). Social preventive schemes, including activities to help prevent crime, dropping out of education and general delinquency. Plus providing social care outreach work and social health and safety awareness schemes. Community social activities, including activities to promote social engagement for vulnerable people, mitigating against isolation and loneliness.
Grants of between £100 and £10,000 are available for registered charities, The occasional larger grant is sometimes awarded. Please note that the Trust likes to see evidence that applicants have sought and secured matched funding for their project.
In addition, voluntary organisations with an annual turnover of less than £5,000 per annum who are not registered with the Charity Commission, may apply for a grant of up to £5,000.
Funding is not available for:
o Capital projects, including large building projects or construction.
o Charities seeking funds to redistribute to other charities.
o Individuals.
o Organisations which are not registered charities and which have income or expenditure of more than £5,000 per year.
o Projects for which there is a legal statutory obligation or which replace statutory funding, or
o Projects with ongoing maintenance costs that would be dependent on Boots Charitable Trust funding for delivery to continue.
There will be 4 application windows during 2024:
1. Thursday 1st February to Wednesday 28th February 2024.
2. Wednesday 1st May to Friday 31st May 2024.
3. Thursday 1st August to Saturday 31st August 2024, and
4. Friday 1st November to Saturday 30th November 2024.
The first application deadline for 2024 is therefore on Wednesday 28th February.
All applications must be made through the Charities Aid Foundation’s Application Portal. New users will be required to create an account.
Further information about the Boots Charitable Trust can be found on its website.
