CLA Charitable Trust

The CLA Charitable Trust is dedicated to helping those who are disabled or disadvantaged to visit and participate in learning experiences about the countryside

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We fund

We support charitable organisations that access the benefits of the countryside to pursue the health and wellbeing of people and to provide opportunities for education about the countryside in England and Wales.

Priority areas

Children and young people, disadvantaged financially, physically, mentally, or from areas of deprivation.

Funding guidelines

Who can apply

Small and medium sized charities and not for profit organisations such as CIC’s with clear social purpose based in England and Wales, who have not been in receipt of a grant from CLACT in the previous three years and have a current safeguarding policy.

What we fund

Applications for running costs, project works and capital works. Evidence of need should be demonstrated.

We make one-off grants and applicants can reapply after three-years. Occasionally, multi-year funding may be awarded at the discretion of the trustees.

What we don’t fund

Grants for individuals, retrospective funding, non-educational holidays.

Ensure your application is focused on the right areas
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Application process

To apply for a grant, you will need to send the following to the trust administrator either via email or post:

  • A completed application form
  • The most recent copy of your audited accounts
  • A detailed budget for the project which you would like funding for
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There are three grant-making meetings in 2023. Please apply by 6th February for your application to be considered at the March meeting; 26th April for the June meeting; and 31st August for the October meeting.

They will then be assessed against the Trust’s aims before a decision is made to submit them to the trustee meeting. All applicants will be contacted after each meeting to advise the outcome of their application. Successful recipients will be required to complete an end of grant form within an agreed timeframe; usually six months after receiving the funds.

We have granted funding to the following:

2020 funding

BF Adventures | 2020 | £2500

Adventure days

Bolsover Woodlands Enterprise Ltd | 2020 | £3000

Equipment and tools

Down Syndrome Training and Support | 2020 | £1200

Transport costs

Foresight Gardening Enterprise | 2020 | £3000

Horticulture sessions

Thanet Countryside Trust | 2020 | £2000

Improvement to trails

The Holly Lodge Centre | 2020 | £2000

Bespoke session costs

The Therapy Garden | 2020 | £4000

Visits and horticulture sessions

Perry RDA | 2020 | £1500

Resource for education programme

Barrow Farm RDA | 2020 | £3000

Woodland Path extension

Animal Antiks | 2020 £4000

Residential support sessions

Camp JoJo | 2020 | £4000

Farm residential

Grpw Cymynedol #CaruAmlwch | 2020 | £1000

Wildlife reserve

Lauriston Farm | 2020 | £2865

Farm work based placement opportunities

Stonebridge City Farm | 2020 | £2500

Volunteer opportunities

Open Country | 2020 | £4202

Wildflower growing equipment

Shallowford Farm | 2020 | £2500

Outdoor education barn

Resume Foundation | 2020 | £2500

Tractor driving course

East Clayton Farm/Lorica Trust | 2020 | £2700

Mobile goat shelter

Harwes Farm CIC | 2020 | £2700

Forest School

Hopefields Education Alternative Provision | 2020 | £2750

Movable mud control matting

JPC Community Farm | 2020 | £4920

Petting Farm equipment

Noah’s Place | 2020 | £1600

Under cover potting shed

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Charitable Trust | 2020 | £2500

Outdoor play activity programme

Pennyhooks Farm Trust | 2020 | £2500

Self-contained craft space

Positive Riding for the Disabled Association | 2020 | £1500

Adapted horse box

Riding for Smiles | 2020 | £1500

SEN Sessions

The Veterans Farm-Able Foundation | 2020 | £1000

Growing Together project

Farms for City Children | 2020 | £5500

Multi-year funding

The Country Trust | 2020 £5500

Multi-year funding

Jamie’s Farm | 2020 | £5500

Multi-year funding

2021 funding

Harper Adams Scholarships | 2021 | £12000

Awards to 2nd and 4th year scholars

Belvoir Cricket & Countryside Trust | 2021 | £1500

Cricket & Countryside Education Days

The Bryntail Cottage Charity | 2021 | £3000

Building renovations

Clervaux Trust | 2021 | £1000

Ewe roller

Food & Farming Discovery Trust | 2021 | £4727

Mobile classroom/trailer conversion

Gorfenna CIC | 2021 | £1648

Equipment for a pop up farm

High Ground | 2021 | £1596

Participant on rural week at Bicton College

Lake District Calvert Trust | 2021 | £5000

Non-staff related operational running costs

The Magdalen Environmental Trust | 2021 | £2378

Accessible surface in polytunnel

Oakleaf Enterprise | 2021 | £1000

Tools including tripod ladder

Rowan Humberstone Ltd | 2021 | £4000

Capital equipment including all-terrain wheelchair

Wellgate Community Farm | 2021 | £5000

Contribution to replacement horse box

Wild Things Ecological Education Collective | 2021 | £4347

Forest school programme

The Holly Lodge Centre | 2021 | £2000

Running costs

Andover Trees United | 2021 | £5000

Capital costs of connecting steel containers

Doncaster Deaf Trust | 2021 | £2700

Funding forest school staff qualifications

Go Beyond | 2021 | £3150

Go Beyond educational day breaks

Growing Well | 2021 | £5000

Programme costs of 'Recovery Through Activity'

Huckleberries Nurture Farm CIC | 2021 | £1975

Running costs

Millennium Farm Trust | 2021 | £5000

Network of accessible all weather paths

Ouseburn Farm Charity Ltd | 2021 | £4000

Funding for workshop programme

Umbrella Derby & Derbyshire | 2021 | £3000

Develop allotment

Youth on the Move | 2021 | £3000

Young people’s countryside residential

Stonebridge City Farm | 2021 | £2500

Running costs

Farms for City Children | 2021 | £6000

Running costs – multi-year funding

The Country Trust | 2021 | £6000

Running costs – multi-year funding

Jamie’s Farm | 2021 | £6000

Running costs – multi-year funding

Chaos Group Cornwall | 2021 | £2215

Potting shed with double doors

Cherry Trees | 2021 | £4000

New raised beds

Community Heart Productions | 2021 | £4000

Raised beds and disabled access path

Daisies Kids Club | 2021 | £1800

Day trip to farm

Forest of Avon Trust | 2021 | £2793

Forest school staff costs

Game Change Project CIC | 2021 | £4500

Disabled toilet and wheelchair friendly path

Green Synergy| 2021 | £4560

Children’s garden and wildlife adventure trail

Holly & Hawthorn | 2021 | £1000

Forest school fees

Kids Inspire | 2021 | £2500

Lunch club forest school sessions

Lizard Outreach Trust | 2021 | £4500

Supply equipment, learning materials and tools for activity sessions

The Springhead Trust | 2021 | £1465

Contribute to access audit of Springhead’s built and natural environment

We are Grow| 2021 | £5000

Partial funding of Educational Assistant

2022 funding

Active Hope | 2022 | £2,000

Box trailer for transporting outdoor activity equipment.

Activiteens | 2022 | £2,938

Residential trip for disadvantaged young people.

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust | 2022 | £2,500

Creation of new wildlife garden.

Bradgate Park Trust | 2022 | £1,000

Multi-purpose access hub.

British Disabled Angling Association | 2022 | £3,000

Schools fishing project.

Broadlands Riding for the Disabled | 2022 | £3,000

Establish a bursary to fund riding and carriage driving for disabled young people.

Bwlchgwyn Cabin Crew | 2022 | £4,175

Forest school training for staff.

Cae Rhug Holistic Farm | 2022 | £5,000

Accessible growing area and facilities.

Calon Riding for the Disabled | 2022 | £2,100

Purchase of accessible toilet.

Cambridge Past, Present and Future | 2022 | £4,275

Purchase of off-road mobility scooter.

Camp Mohawk | 2022 | £4,000

Outdoor activities for children with additional needs.

Caring for Life | 2022 | £3,000

Conservation pathway renovation.

Catalys-ability CIC | 2022 | £2,500

Rambling club for disadvantaged young people.

Clapton Common Boys Club | 2022 | £3,958

Early years outdoor learning club.

Clynfyw CIC | 2022 | £4,360

Support for learning centre.

Communigrow | 2022 | £5,000

Running costs to support expansion plans.

Countryside Learning | 2022 | £5,000

School visits to country estates.

Cowran Care | 2022 | £5,000

Additional Portacabin.

Daisy Chain Project | 2022 | £5,000

Horticulture activities for people with autism.

Dorset Mind | 2022 | £2,966

Ecotherapy garden.

Emmanuel House | 2022 | £4,000

Gardening and outdoor activities.

Empowering Futures | 2022 | £5,000

Nature therapy sessions.

Eye Moors Woodlands Society | 2022 | £6,000

New footpath to increase accessibility.

Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West | 2022 | £1,000

Kingfisher award scheme for primary school children.

Farms for City Children | 2022 | £6,500

Running costs.

Free to be Kids | 2022 | £5,000

Thrive Outside programme for young people.

Greatwood Charity | 2022 | £4,960

Property refurbishment to provide residential accommodation.

Hands of Hope | 2022 | £2,400

Seeds Planted programme for young people.

Happy Kids | 2022 | £3,030

Nature to Nature project.

Holme Farm | 2022 | £3,000

Community allotments and garden development.

Huckleberries Nurture Farm | 2022 | £1,975

Care farm running costs.

Inside Out for Children | 2022 | £5,000

Magical days out for children and young people.

Jamie’s Farm | 2022 | £6,500

Core costs.

Kepplewray Trust | 2022 | £5,000

Support for their Participation Inclusion Fund.

Kids Space | 2022 | £4,000

Planting Hope gardening project.

Lake District Mobility | 2022 | £5,000

Purchase of an all-terrain mobility tramper.

Lancashire Association of Boys and Girls Clubs | 2022 | £1,220

Residential trip for young people.

Led by the Wild CIC | 2022 | £2,500

Hands on conservation and farming visits.

Lindengate | 2022 | £3,000

Nature based activities to support people in need.

Little Ouse Headwaters Project | 2022 | £4,677

Volunteer and visitor wildlife equipment.

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm | 2022 | £4,000

Running costs for inner-city market garden programme.

Misgav | 2022 | £2,500

Buds n Sprouts gardening sessions.

Moor Trees | 2022 | £3,000

Core funding for tree growing.

Reach Learning Disability | 2022 | £5,564

Horticultural activities for adults with learning disabilities.

Ride High | 2022 | £2,000

Horse-riding activities for vulnerable children and young people.

Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt a School Trust | 2022 | £3,540

Chef on the Farm visits for school children.

Strongbones Childrens Charitable Trust | 2022 | £5,940

Accessible gardening packs for children with disabilities.

The Cart Shed | 2022 | £4,560

Woodland activities for young people with mental health difficulties.

The Country Trust | 2022 | £6,500

Running costs.

The Visionaries | 2022 | £4,500

Equipment for weekly residential retreats for young people.

Thomas Theyer Foundation | 2022 | £1,000

Core costs towards their work supporting children and young people.

Tower House Horses | 2022 | £5,000

Equine assisted learning programmes.

Tuppeney Barn | 2022 | £5,000

Delivery costs for education programme.

Veterans’ Growth | 2022 | £3,000

Horticultural support sessions for veterans.

West End Women and Girls’ Centre | 2022 | £5,000

Salary for costs for youth work at their smallholding.

Whirlow Hall Farm Trust | 2022 | £3,000

Education programmes.

Wildgoose Rural Training | 2022 | £6,000

Blacksmithing project.

Winchester Youth Counselling | 2022 | £5,000

Outdoor counselling sessions for young people.

Young Gloucestershire | 2022 | £3,000

Funding towards outdoor youth worker.

Your Park Bristol and Bath | 2022 | £5,000

Connecting people with underused parks and green spaces.

About us

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The CLA Charitable Trust is an independent grant-making trust. It is funded almost entirely by CLA members' donations.

It was founded in 1980 by members of the CLA. Since then the trustees have continued the aims of the trust: to expand knowledge of, and access to, the countryside, particularly for disadvantaged people, through grants totalling more than £2m.

Today, the Trust provides educational bursaries within the rural sector and continues to support a wide variety of charities, community projects and not-for-profit organisations in England and Wales.

In 2022, the Trust offered 61 grants and provided funding worth more than £236k including multiannual grants to specific charities whose work is particularly aligned with the Trust’s vision.

Our grant recipients are at the core of our mission and our effectiveness in meeting our aims depends on their work.

Our objectives

  • Advancing people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing through financial support of charities, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, which are delivering access, recreational and educational opportunities within and about the countryside.
  • To promote and encourage education in sustainable farming, food production and rural land management.

Our Trustees

How to donate

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By regular giving - download our donation form below

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By cheque - to the address above

Via CAF Donate online - access the website here

Legacy planning - you can also remember the Trust in your will by way of a legacy; please contact us to discuss this further.

Hold an event in aid of the Trust - if you are considering holding an event, whether it's a sporting event, a BBQ, or anything else that you would like to do, we can provide you with promotional information about the Trust and advice about organisation of the event and collecting donations leading up to and on the day. Please contact us for further details.

Contact us

If you would like to help in any way please contact us.

Trust Administrator - Nina Davies

CLA Charitable Trust
16 Belgrave Square
London

SW1X 8PQ

Telephone: 020 7235 0511
Email: charitabletrust@cla.org.uk

Charity commission number: 280264. Find out more here.