Charitable Funding & Research Grants : How To Apply
Charitable Funding proposals should address the objectives of the Nineveh Charitable Trust ("supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public") but other aims may receive consideration, guided by the Trustees' views on what Professor and Mrs James would have supported.
An application for charitable funding need be no longer than 2 pages (single sided):
- We prefer to pay grants to UK registered charities.
- But individual applicants may be considered if the outcome benefits are clearly defined
Three copies of your proposal should be sent with a stamped self-addressed envelope to:
RGH Lewis
The Nineveh Charitable Trust
Park Farm,
Frittenden Road,
Biddenden,
Ashford,
Kent TN27 8LG
Proposals for grants must include a stamped self-addressed envelope if you want us to reply (to reduce our administrative burden).
Proposals for charitable funding can be in the form of a letter, but a Situation - Target - Proposal type of structure is helpful to explain your objective for our funding and the details of the proposal, especially if it is quite complex.
A brief summary could also be useful.
Background information (e.g. in a covering letter), such as website and email addresses, annual accounts, photographs etc, gives us an idea of your organisation's aims and accomplishments.
We Want to Know:
- How much you want.
- What the money is going to be used for (e.g. provide a breakdown).
- Methodologies (e.g. of a field study).
- How the data or the accomplishment will be measured.
- What the benefit will be, not only to your organisation but thinking about the wider world.
- How your target will support our aims.
We will be pleased to support requests for one-off payments and to match funds promised by other granting agencies, but we are also interested in backing longer-term, more complex projects over several years.
Our investment income (£178,000 in 2010-11 vs. £129,000 in 2009-10) sets the limit on the size of the annual total we can support. Our donations continue to increase: over the last three years we gave £121,000 (2010-11), £61,500 (2009-10) and £19,400 (2008-09).
Once funded, we want you to submit a report on the proposal that we can publish on this website.
What we are unlikely to provide charitable funding for:
- Animal sanctuaries and care.
- Expeditions or personal educational needs without a wider benefit.
- Projects unrelated to the Trust's objects.
- Organisations based outside the UK.
- General appeals or mail-shots.
