Kelly Family Charitable Trust

Objectives of Fund

The funding is for charities whose activities involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members. The overall objective is to reinforce the potential benefit and support that family members as a unit can give to each other.

The three principal areas that the charity wishes to support are:

• Interventions that support families and help them in ways that prevent the fracture of the family unit, eg relationship counselling, mediation.
• Families where sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drugs abuse threaten the integrity of the family unit.
• Prisoners and in particular their families, during and after the period of imprisonment.

Previous Success

Examples of previously funded groups include:

• Families Outside
• High Peak Women's Aid
• Home Start Barnet
• Longmead Community Farm
• Mediation Plus
• Ormiston Child and Farm Trust
• Rape Crisis Centre
• Southampton Rape Crisis Centre
• Voice of the Child
• Women's Work Derby

Value Notes

Grants will generally be worth up to £5,000 but the Trustees will consider requests for higher amounts.

Applications are considered for repeat funding.

Match Funding Restrictions

Applicants are expected to show what other sources of funding have been sought and secured.

Who Can Apply

UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply.

The Trust actively encourages applications from relatively new organisations to help them become established.

The Trust prefers to support charities whose income is below £500,000. However, larger charities with pioneering pilot projects will be considered.

Unsuccessful applicants must wait one year before resubmitting.

Location

United Kingdom

Restrictions

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Non-registered charities.
• National charities as only regional projects will be considered.
• Individual requests for grants.
• General appeals.
• Organisations with specific religious or political agendas.

Eligible Expenditure

The Trust offers both capital and revenue grants.

Applications are also considered for core funding from relatively new organisations seeking to become established.

How To Apply

Grants are awarded twice a year with application deadlines of:

• 1 March
• 1 September

Application forms are available to download from the Trust's website and should be returned by email along with the organisation's latest annual accounts.

Trustees take a personal interest in the progress of the charities they support, and projects shortlisted for grants will usually be visited or contacted by the Trust's Grants Administrator or other representatives of the Trust.

Contact the Kelly Family Charitable Trust for further information.