THE DAVID RIDDELL MEMORIAL CIO
Grants, generally for £15,000 or less, are available to small UK registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations and Community Interest Companies for innovative projects in the area of suicide prevention and programmes and activities that aim to support, maintain and improve the mental health and well-being of young people aged 10 to 23 years.
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o Application deadline: none – applications may be made at any time following the guidance on the charity’s website.
o Funder: The David Riddell Memorial CIO (founded 2021. Charity number 1196817. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 March 2024: £436,744 (2023: £562,316)).
o Who can apply: charities, including CIOs, and Community Interest Companies limited by guarantee registered in the United Kingdom. Applications from smaller charities are particularly encouraged. Charities with income of more than £1 million, or with unrestricted reserves of more than 12 months, are unlikely to be successful.
o Key words: Suicide Awareness and Prevention, Education, Mental Health and Well-being, Children and Young People Aged 10-23, Innovative Projects, United Kingdom.
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The David Riddell Memorial CIO was established to reduce the number of people who take their own lives by educating people about suicidal thoughts and informing them of ways to prevent suicide, particularly people working in the financial services sector and associated industries. It also provides support to charities that share its vision to reduce deaths by suicide. Small charitable organisations with an annual income of under £1 million with an innovative project are favoured.
The Charity’s charitable objectives are to:
o Provide grants of financial assistance to preserve and protect the mental health of people working in the financial services sector and associated industries.
o Make premises available to registered charities to enable them to operate in and around Didcot, Oxfordshire, and
o Provide grants of financial assistance to UK registered Charities.
During the year ended 31st March 2024, the David Riddell Memorial CIO awarded 30 grants totalling £436,744 (2023: 15 grants totalling £562,316 – this included a single grant of £500,000 to the James’ Place Charity, which offers free support to suicidal men in Liverpool).
Most grants, which are listed on page 13 of the Charity’s annual accounts, were for £15,000 or less.
Applications must be for charitable purposes that fall into one of the following categories:
o Small Grants – programmes and activities that aim to support, maintain and improve the mental health and well-being of young people (from 10 to 23 years old). o o Large Grants – are made at the instigation of the trustees to fund charities which the trustees believe will directly impact the Charity’s mission to lower the number of deaths by suicide.
The Charity has a 2-stage application process. The first stage is to send a brief memo (no more than 2 sides of A4 in font of 11 or larger) to grants@davidriddell.org following the guidance on the Charity’s website. Successful applicants at this stage will be invited to submit a full application.
Applications are accepted all year round and assessed on a rolling basis. It is expected that the turnaround time for a successful application from submission to funding will be around 3 months.
Contact details for the Charity are:
The Trustees
The David Riddell Memorial CIO
Mill Swathe
Mill Lane
Sutton Courtenay
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
Email: grants@davidriddell.org