CORE COSTS

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CORE COSTS
May 2008
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WHAT ARE CORE COSTS?

• Also called Running Costs
• Core Funding
• Overheads
• Staff Salary
• Project Costs

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The Yapp Charitable Trust

• Makes small grants for running costs and
  salaries, to sustain existing work.
• Will consider applications for up to three years
• Single year grants are usually for up to 3,000.
  Two or three-year grants are for up to 3,000 a
  year. Most of the grants are for more than one
  year.
• Funding rounds are three times a year.
• The Yapp Charitable Trust
• 47a Paris Road, Scholes, Holmfirth, HD9 1SY
• Tel [phone]
• info_at_yappcharitabletrust.org.uk
  www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk

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Allen Lane Foundation

• Interested in unusual, imaginative or pioneering
  projects, which have perhaps not yet caught the
  public imagination.
• Single, one-off grants range from as little as
  500 up to 15,000. Grants repeated for more than
  one year vary from about 500 per annum up to
  5,000 per annum, for a maximum of three years.
• Will make single grants, or grants for two or
  three years
• Aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and
  discrimination.
• Allen Lane Foundation, 90 The Mount, York YO24
  1AR Tel
  01904 613223
  
  Email info_at_allenlane.org.uk
  www.allenlane.org.uk

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The Henry Smith Charity

• Funding for one year only.
• Includes purchase/ refurbishment of a building,
  purchase of specialist equipment, other similar
  capital expenditure, or one year's running costs.
  grants must be used within six months of being
  awarded
• Small grants of 10,000 or less per year are
  given to organisations with an annual income of
  less than 150,000. Repeat applications can be
  considered
• Larger groups can request 10,000 or more, also
  for one year only.
• Henry Smith Charity 6th Floor 65 Leadenhall
  St
  London EC3A 2AD
  www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/contact.html

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Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

• There is no maximum grant size
• If you are applying to fund a post, include the
  job description and person
• specification for the post. They do not often
  fund more than one post.
• Apply for a grant at any time. Trustees meet four
  times a year and you do not need to time your
  application to coincide with these meetings.
• Esmée Fairbairn Foundation,11 Park Place, London,
  SW1A 1LP, Tel [phone]
  
  www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
  info_at_esmeefairbairn.org
  .uk

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The Tudor Trust

• They are most interested in helping smaller,
  under-resourced organisations which offer direct
  services and which involve the people they work
  with in their planning.
• Grants can take the form of core funding
  (including salaries and running costs),
  development funding, project grants or capital
  grants for buildings or equipment.
• The Tudor Trust, 7 Ladbroke Grove, London, W11
  3DBTel 0207 727 8522
• www.tudortrust.org.uk

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Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

• Especially concerned with areas of deprivation.
• Majority are small grants (averaging 5,000). A
  small number of larger grants (i.e. over 10,000)
  are awarded each year.
• Grants for one-off purposes - must be spent
  within six months of receipt.
• Grants can be for one-off capital items, such as
  equipment or small capital works, or towards six
  months running costs.
• The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
• 6th Floor, 65 Leadenhall Street, London EC3A
  2ADTel 020 7264 4990
• www.trusthousecharitablefoundation

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Lloyds TSB

• Focus is on supporting smaller underfunded
  charities that help people who are disadvantaged
  to play a fuller role in their communities.
• Happy to consider applications for all core and
  similar costs. They do not publish formal
  "deadline dates".
• Lloyds TSB Foundation
• PO Box 46156,3rd Floor,4 St. Dunstan's
  Hill,London EC3R ,8WQ,
• Phone [phone]
• www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk

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Charles Hayward Foundation

• Predominantly fund capital costs BUT
  occasionally, project funding may be offered for
  start-up or development activities where these
  are not part of the on-going revenue requirement
  of the organisation.
• The small grant scheme makes grants up to 5,000
  only to charities with an annual turnover of less
  than 250,000.
• Where agreed, project funding may be granted for
  a maximum of three years in duration, and will be
  tapered downwards if appropriate.
• Project funding may be up to 15,000 per year
  over three years.
• Enquiries David Brown , Dorothy Napierala Tel
  020 7370 7063 020 7370 7067 Hayward House, 45
  Harrington Gardens, London, SW7 4JU Website
  http//www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk/