Schroder Charity Trust

Background

The Schroder Charity Trust is an independent grant-making Family Trust that has been supporting the UK charity sector for over 70 years.

Objectives of Fund

The Trust aim to support charities in the UK who are working in the areas of education and young people, communities, environment and conservation, health, arts, culture and heritage.

Value Notes

The Trust generally makes grants of up to £5,000. Grants are for a one-year period rather than over multiple years.

Last year, the average grant was £4,075.

Please note more than 1,000 applications are received each year and of those approximately 100 charities receive grants (only one out of every 10 applications will receive a grant).

Who Can Apply

Registered charities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are eligible to apply.

Location

United Kingdom

Restrictions

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Charities registered outside of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Organisations with a status other than registered charity, ie, CICs and social enterprises.
• Individuals - including applications made by an organisation on behalf of an individual, or where the grant will only have one beneficiary.
• Political organisations.
• Statutory organisations.
• Newly established charities that cannot provide a full year of accounts.
• Charities with an annual income below £50,000.
• Charities with an annual income over £2 million.
• Charities who have applied to the Trust unsuccessfully in the past 12 months.
• Charities who have received a grant from the Schroder Charity Trust in the past 24 months.
• Animal Welfare – other than those which are purely focussed on environmental or conservation issues.
• General and round-robin appeals.
• Hospices.
• Festivals and one-off events (time limited fundraising events).
• Major Capital Appeals/Large Capital Expenditure.
• Medical Research.
• Work that takes place outside of the UK.
• Requests over £5,000.
• Endowments.
• Multi-Year funding.
• Retrospective funding (work that has already taken place or nearly finished).

Eligible Expenditure

The funding aims to support work under the following categories:

• Arts, culture and heritage.
• Education, training and employment.
• Environment and conservation.
• Health and wellbeing.
• Strengthening communities.

The Trustees are particularly interested in applications which can demonstrate the following:

• Building strong communities and an understanding on how to engage with intended beneficiaries.
• Replicable and sustainable work, rather than one off events.
• Value for money.
• Maximising the use of volunteers.
• Support of older people.
• Support for marginalised/vulnerable younger people.
• The use of helplines and information support services.
• Sustainability of funding i.e. the charity will not be solely reliant on a grant from the Schroder Charity Trust for their work.

Grants can be used to cover both core costs and project costs, but not large capital appeals.

How To Apply

Applications can be made at any time. Decisions can take up to nine months.

Applications should be submitted via the online form on the Schroder Charity Trust website.

Applicants should be aware that if they have not heard from the Trust within 12 months of submitting an application they should assume they have been unsuccessful.