Charitable Trust - Grants Application

Guidance Notes

The CLA Charitable Trust was founded in 1980 and helps to provide facilities for the disabled to take part in country sports and recreation and training in agriculture and horticulture. It also promotes education in the countryside for disadvantaged children and young people.

The Trustees give grants and awards, focusing on smaller projects where the grant makes a real contribution to the success of that project.

Applications should be for a specific project or item of capital equipment rather than on-going running costs. The Trustees do not give grants to individuals and the average grant is in the region of £2,500.

Applicants should make every effort to ensure that their application is within the guidelines of the Trust and in order to save time and cost to the charity, ineligible applications will not be acknowledged. Applications will not be accepted by email.

All applications must be made in writing and include the following:

1. Background information on the project: its context within the local community, the people whose needs would hope to be met, the necessity for the facility/project;
2. Annual Report and Annual Financial Statement if applicable;
3. The timing of the project and its various phases;
4. Details of who will carry out the work;
5. Costings of the whole project as well as the phase that the Trustees might support;
6. Details of other grants applied for and received and other fundraising;
7. Any other information the applicant might feel is helpful to give the Trustees as full a picture as possible of the project, including photographs, press reports, etc;
8. Whether the applicants have applied for or received a grant from the Trustees before.
9. Whether the applicants are members of the CLA (this is for information only and does not influence the award of a grant);

Please send your completed application to Peter Geldart LLM, Director, CLA Charitable Trust, Caunton Grange, Caunton, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG23 6AB.

Important Information for Successful Applicants

1. If an application is successful the applicant agrees to co-operate with publicity. This will include providing comprehensive information and photos about the project which will be used to promote the Trust’s work and raise the profile of the project in question.
2. Within six months of the grant being awarded a successful applicant must submit a report to the Trustees on the progress of their project. If the project has not been concluded by this time a second report should be given on completion.