Social grants
Social grants are primarily awarded for under-funded causes, rather than those with higher profiles that gain a lot of public attention and may find it easier to attract funding.
To be eligible for a Social grant, applications:
- Must be from service-delivery charitable organisations, although these could be in partnership with others, including academic organisations.
- Can only be accepted from organisations with an annual income of up to £3,000,000.
- Should demonstrate imaginative and wide-ranging dissemination of the results to reach beneficiaries, practitioners, policy makers and / or researchers as appropriate.
Social priorities:
The Trust welcomes proposals for catalysing Social initiatives in the UK that are either practical on-the-ground projects (development projects) or focussed on the practical impact of research findings (research projects), which attempt to:
- Prevent and resolve conflict, promote reconciliation, encourage re-connection between family members.
- Help people to ‘move beyond disadvantage’.
- Help people who may be vulnerable and/or have been exploited.
The Trust also funds a small number of innovative international development projects in the above subject areas. Such projects must be administered by UK-based charitable organisations, and must involve partnership with in-country staff, volunteers and beneficiaries.
In relation to development projects, Trustees normally expect:
- Beneficiaries to be involved in the design of projects and their continuing governance.
- A positive impact that includes and goes beyond the immediate beneficiaries of the project.
- Sustainability plans to be in place if relevant.
Social grant examples:
Examples of recently funded project themes include the family and social aspects of:
- Housing policy and / or homelessness
- Human trafficking and / or modern-day slavery
- Child and family welfare
- Mental health and addiction
- Criminal Justice
Recently awarded social grants
The Women’s Liberation Collective
The ‘Own My Life’ project. In 2017 the Trust awarded £55,310 to the Women’s Liberation Collective to develop an innovative program to support women subjected to partner violence.
Dundee Rep
In 2022 the Trust awarded £57,000 to Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre for the “Beside Me” project at HMP Perth.
