If you write to us, please be sure to include all of
the information described below.
In particular, please remember to include a charity
number (see 3 below) and do not send us original press cuttings, photographs
or documents in support of your application, as we cannot return them.
Photocopies are fine.
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Please give a contact name, address, telephone number
and (if possible) email address. This is the person whom we will write
to while we handle your application. Please give your details in full,
including your postcode and daytime telephone number.
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Please give the name of your project, or the name of
the organisation or group proposing the project, if it is different
from the contact person (since people move, but projects go on!).
Please give the contact details in full, including postcode and daytime
telephone number.
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If your organisation is a U.K. registered charity, please give its
full name, address, telephone number and charity number.
If your organisation is not a registered charity, we cannot make grants
directly to it (we could lose our own tax protection status). However,
we can usually get round this by making a grant to a registered charity
in your area, which then passes the money directly on to your project.
If you can't find a suitable local charity, you can try your Parochial
Church Council, or a local Council for Voluntary Service who will
probably accept a cheque on your behalf.
The reference section of your local library or the Citizens' Advice
Bureau will help you find the name of the person to contact.
Please do not submit applications without a charity number unless
you absolutely have to.
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Please describe what the aims of your project are, and how it will
be organised.
Explain why the project will make a difference to your area. Make
us understand why it is important.
You do not have to write much (700 words maximum). But please
be as concrete and practical as possible. Vague statements of intent,
and formal constitutions, are not much help to us.
We need to know what you are doing, why you are doing it, how
it is organised. Tell us how the project will be publicised, how
those to be helped will be reached, who will be acting as volunteers
or organisers, how the project will be managed, what popular support
the project has in the area, what other activity can be built up
using your project as a base.
Give an indication of why the project is good value for money.
Finally, if possible, please also describe how the project will
become financially self-supporting (or give some indication of its
likely life, if it is not intended to last for a long time).
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Please include details of any fundraising activity already undertaken,
and planned.
We like to see evidence that projects have already attempted to
raise some funds themselves, even if the amounts are small.
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Please specify the amount of money requested
We usually give between £75 and £750 on each occasion;
requests for larger amounts are almost always beyond our means.
We rarely support the same project twice, although we are interested
in hearing about new, relevant projects set up by organisations
we have supported in the past.
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Please give details, as precisely as possible, of what the grant
will be spend on
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If you have any additional information, for example press clippings
or photographs, please do send them to us in support of your application.
Please do not send originals, though, as we cannot return them.
Photocopies are fine.
When sending in additional information by post, please print off
and include a copy of the online application form, so we know what
material relates to which application.
You can attach documents, for example press coverage or photographs,
in support of your application. Please click the 'Attach Documents'
button at the bottom of the form.
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Please indicate if you have received a grant from the Wakeham Trust
before. This will not affect your application in any way; it simply
helps us with our record keeping.
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We may like to publish details of your project on the Community
Space of our site, for the benefit of other people who may be running
or setting up similar projects.
Please indicate if you do not want your project details published.
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