PRIMARILY APPLICANTS WHOSE ACTIVITIES ARE BASED IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND
Organisations that can demonstrate that the funds are making a real difference, rather than being absorbed into an anonymous pool, no matter how significant the end result may appear to be.
Organisations that demonstrate both the highest standards of propriety and sound business sense in their activities. This does not mean high overheads but it does mean focused use of funds, where they are needed.
Funding that is to be operated as an individual project that can be ring-fenced as far as possible. Although preferred activities will be those that do not form part of current core operations, and which can be demonstrated to make a real difference, it is accepted that, in certain cases, they may be considered in exceptional circumstances. It is most unlikely that a new start up project will be funded if it has already commenced.
Smaller Donations – Acorn Fund
We do have a fund set aside each year for smaller donations, which we call our Acorn Fund and donations from this fund will be between £200 and £1,000. This fund is now administered in conjunction with the Community Foundation. For applications please refer to their website, via this link Community Foundation.
Areas of Activity
Artistic development, both on an individual and group level
Groups/Activities that are not eligible
Please read this list carefully and do not apply if you fall within any of these categories as it will only waste your time and the Trustee’s time.
Non registered charities
Those we have helped
Action for Kids,
Action for Sustainable Living,
Alcohol Drug Abstinence Service,
ADAS, Stockport,
After Adoption,
Autistic Society, Stretford
Baby Barrow,
Barnardos,
BASIC,
Bolton Lads and Girls Club,
Bowden Church School,
Boys Welfare Society,
Broughton House
Canzonetta Children’s Choir, Northenden,
Centre for Alternative Technology,
Cheadle Hulme School,
Chester Zoo,
Chethams School of Music,
Children’s Adventure Farm,
Children’s Hospital Appeal,
Christies Against Cancer,
College of St George,
Colne Open Door Centre,
Columbus Fellowship,
Community Foundation for Greater Manchester
Deaf Blind Society,
Disabled Living,
Donna Louise Hospice,
Dystonia Society
Eden River Trust,
Emmaus
Fairbridge,
Family Contact Line,
Feelgood Theatre,
Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths
Gatehouse Publications,
Girl Guides,
Gorton Monastery,
Greenbank Project
Hallé Orchestra and Hallé Youth Orchestra,
Headway,
Help The Aged – Stroke Research Project,
Henshaws,
Heron Corn Mill,
HUGS
Interact Reading Services
Kendal Sea Cadets,
Kinder Mountain Rescue
Ladybarn Community Centre,
Life Education Centres,
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
Lymphonic Association
Manchester Adoption Society,
Manchester City Art Gallery,
Manchester University Arts & Drama,
Manchester Settlement,
Manchester St Vincent Special Work,
MedEquip4Kids,
Mind Action Project, Stockport,
Mood Swings,
Motor Neurone Disease,
Museum of Science and Industry,
Music in Hospitals,
MMHA,
MRI Rape Centre
National Asthma Campaign,
Neuromuscular Centre Ormside Mill
Prince’s Spinney
Rainbow House,
Reach Volunteering,
Reclaim Project,
Rochdale Special Needs Cyclists,
Royal Exchange Theatre,
Royal National Institute for the Blind (formerly National Library for the Blind),
Royal Northern College of Music,
Royal School for the Deaf,
RSPB,
Rylands Library
School of Conductive Medicine,
SNAP, Trinity House,
Specialist Schools,
St Philips Family Centre,
Stockport, East Cheshire & High Peak Cerebral Palsy Society,
Stroke Research,
Sycamore Project
The Barlow RC School
The Furniture Station,
The Little Sisters of the Poor,
The Lowry,
The Mango Tree,
The Message,
The Prince’s Trust,
The Whitworth Art Gallery,
Tim Parry/Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace,
Tommy’s
Urbis
Volunteer Reading Help
Walk the Plank,
Well Child,
West Lancashire Scout Association,
Who Cares Trust,
Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
YHA, Ennerdale,
Young Addiction,
YMCA
Educational grants and building projects
Environmental improvement projects
Improving the life and welfare of the underprivileged, where possible, by the encouragement of self-help
Medical aid and research
Those whose activities are for the purpose of collecting funds for redistribution to other charities
Animal Charities
Charities whose principal operation area is outside the UK
Church and all building fabric appeals
Conferences
Continuing running costs of an organisation
Costs of employing fundraisers
Expeditions
General sports, unless strongly associated with a disadvantaged group
Holidays
Individuals
Loans or business finance
Religion
Routine staff training
Sectarian religions
Sponsorship and marketing appeals