Grants are available for a wide range of projects that support the delivery of positive outcomes for blind and partially sighted people in the UK that are aligned to the priority areas of education, employment, engagement, and collaboration and sustainability.
Grants are available for a wide range of projects that support the delivery of positive outcomes for blind and partially sighted people in the UK that are aligned to the priority areas of education, employment, engagement, and collaboration and sustainability.
Fund Information
- Funding body:
- Thomas Pocklington Trust
- Maximum value:
- £ 25,000
- Application deadline:
- 14/05/2021
Background
Thomas Pocklington Trust (TPT) provides grants for a broad range of projects that support the delivery of positive outcomes for blind and partially sighted people across the UK.
Grants are available for a wide range of projects that are aligned to the priority areas of education, employment, engagement, and collaboration and sustainability.
Objectives of Fund
The aim of the grants is to support new and innovative projects that achieve a positive impact in at least one of the priority areas of education, employment, engagement, and collaboration and sustainability.
Value Notes
Funding of up to £25,000 is available for projects of up to one year.
Who Can Apply
Registered charities based in the UK can apply.
Restrictions
The Trust will not fund unsolicited applications for the following:
- Charities registered overseas.
- Construction projects such as playgrounds.
- Village halls, and disabled access.
- Educational fees.
- General school appeals.
- Hospices.
- Individuals in any capacity.
- Medical research.
- Parish facilities.
- Requests for vehicles.
Grants cannot be used for:
- Existing staff posts or organisational costs.
- Legal and/or statutory responsibilities.
- Promoting the causes or beliefs of political or faith organisations.
- Recoverable VAT.
- Retrospective costs.
The Trust will generally not fund established programmes of work or applications from charities that have more than six months running costs in unrestricted reserves.
Eligible Expenditure
The Trust will consider new and innovative projects that will achieve positive impact in at least one of the following priority areas:
- Education: enabling opportunities for blind and partially sighted children and young people in and entering education.
- Employment: creating employment opportunities for blind and partially sighted people.
- Engagement: facilitating the voice and encouraging self-determination of blind and partially sighted people.
- Collaboration and Sustainability: promoting positive change to improve the sustainability of the sight loss sector. Transformative activities will be considered that require an investment to make that change happen. This might include developing organisations’ technological capabilities, restructuring reviews, feasibility studies, partnership working (including resource sharing) or integrations and mergers.
Research and technology projects that support the priority areas can also be funded.
Grants can be used for:
- New staff posts.
- Paid training.
- Professional fees eg consultants.
- Resource development, including printing, marketing, website design etc.
- Capital items eg computers (only where the capital items form part of the total cost of the project submitted).
Location
UK
How To Apply
Applications must be submitted by the deadline of 14 May 2021.
Guidelines and access to the grants portal is available from the Trust's website
Contact Thomas Pocklington Trust for further information.
Useful Links
Addresses and contacts
For further information on how to obtain this grant locally, please contact the following:
- Enquiries
Thomas Pocklington Trust
Tavistock House South (Entrance D)
Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9LG
Tel: 0208 9950 880
Email: [email protected]