Equitable Charitable Trust Grants
by Nakhat Zahir (Funding Advice Worker)
26 July 2010
The Equitable Charitable Trust is an education charity. It makes grants to towards projects for children and young people under the age of 25 who are from disadvantaged backgrounds or disabled.
Priorities:
education projects or services that support the learning and development of disabled children and young people in the UK; formal education projects for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK that support delivery of the National Curriculum (i.e. curriculum enrichment projects) or that deliver accredited vocational learning that will increase employability; education projects that will help increase participation in, or improve the quality of.
Grants can be made for project costs, capital expenditure, equipment and/or the salary costs of a post.The length of funding can range from one to three years.
The size of grants ranges from £2,500 to £30,000. Most are for sums between £5,000 and £20,000. It is rare for a multi-year grant to exceed £10,000 p.a. and most multi-year grants will be for sums between £5,000 and £7,500 p.a.
Applications can be submitted at any time and are considered monthly by the Trustees. The Trust does not have an application form, it is important for people to read the full guidelines on the website, including the list of exclusions, before making an application.
www.equitablecharitabletrust.org.uk/
The Equitable Charitable Trust, Sixth Floor, 65 Leadenhall Street, London EC3A 2AD Tel: 020 7264 4995/4993 Fax: 020 7488 9097 Email:
jennielong@equitablecharitabletrust.org.uk
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