Small Grants - limited to small and medium-sized charities with a gross annual income of £3M or less. Under this programme we aim to fast track applications and make decisions within 1 month of the application date. This programme is aimed at charities needing urgent grant support of up to £5K to help maintain an existing service. Any grant awards made under this programme are unrestricted and may be used to meet the cost of any charitable activity, however the grant must be spent within 6 months of receipt.
Please note you can only make one application under this programme in any 12 month period regardless of whether you are successful or not. Applications made under our Emergency Covid-19 programme between 23rd March 2020 and 31st May 2020 are excluded from this calculation and, if that was your only application in the past 12 months, you may apply again.
Capital Grants - open to all charities with a gross annual income of £5M or less wishing to apply for a grant in excess of £5K towards the cost of funding a new project. Any grant awarded under this programme will be restricted and may only be used towards the cost of the project to be delivered.
Please note we do not fund day to day operational costs under this programme.
Charities applying under our Capital Grants Programme must read our Guidance for Preparing A Capital Grant Application before applying.
There is no limit on the number of times you can apply under the Capital Grants Programme however, before applying again, you must have spent any previous grants awarded and fully complied with the terms & conditions of the award including any reporting requirements.
We like all of our grants to have a significant impact across one or more of our 4 life "themes" and to become one of our Charity Partners you will need to demonstrate how your project outputs meet our objectives in one or more of these themes. Our themes are broad ranging and we support many activities within each. A summary can be found at Themes.
Our funds available for grant giving are limited and we will prioritise applications from smaller charities, operating at a local level, with an annual income of less than £1M and who are making a significant impact in their local community and who may lack the time and resources to be able to focus on their fundraising.
Please note that we only accept requests for grant funding from Charities registered and regulated by a UK Charity Commission using our online application form.
At The Edward Gostling Foundation, we believe that people living with a mental and/or physical disability or a long-term illness should have the same choices, quality of life opportunities and aspirations as others. To help us achieve this goal we provide financial support to several charity partners who, through their day to day operations, strive to bring about transformational change to enhance the quality of the lives of people in need.
We like our grants to have a significant impact across one or more of our 4 life “themes” and priority is given to organisations that clearly demonstrate this within their application for grant funding. Our themes are broad ranging and we support a number of activities within each theme. In your application we ask you to select the theme you believe best fits your grant application and to provide us with a detailed brief of the outputs and change you hope to bring about with our support. To help you, we provide a brief description of each theme below and some examples of the outputs/services that you will be able to deliver with our grant support:
Health and Wellbeing
In this theme we are looking to support partner charities in providing access to community facilities offering support services that maintain, improve and advance the health and welfare of people living with disabilities and/or long-term illnesses.
Grants will support:
- information providing, guidance, advice, training and moral and emotional support to individuals and their families and carers
- centres that provide clinical services including therapies and medical provision (e.g. physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, pilates etc. access to counselling and early intervention services
- independent hospices and care homes
Independent Living at Home
People living with disabilities and/or long-term illnesses prefer to live independently at home. It creates less stress and anxiety and generally aids their overall health and well-being. In this theme we are looking for charity partners that need funding to support people who wish to remain living in their own home for as long as is practically possible. Grants should help support:
- safe and independent access around the home
- equipment to aid getting in and out of chairs, beds and bathrooms easily and independently
- communication and access to the external community
- people to go outside, use community facilities and generally enjoy and feel part of family life
Respite
Through this theme we wish to recognise the fantastic and hugely important work undertaken by the family care giver. The physical, emotional and financial consequences for a carer can be overwhelming without some support. We are looking for partner charities providing facilities in the UK where either the person living with a disability and/or long-term illnesses or the individual caring for them can go to access sports and leisure activities or simply enjoy fun, friendship and the opportunity to socialise and share with others who may be in a similar situation.
Taking a short break from the responsibility of caring for a loved one or being afforded a break with the knowledge that the person they care for is being well looked after at a safe and caring specialist respite provider, will ultimately prove to be beneficial to the health and well-being of the family caregiver.
Transition
Transition is a journey through education, training or personal development into employment, long-term volunteering or other meaningful day time activity, leading to independence, affordable housing and/or supported living. We want our grants to work towards these goals by providing the fundamental life skills and infrastructure necessary to allow people to reach their full potential in all areas of life and to become a valued member of their local community.
An example of some of the outputs we would expect to see from our grant support across this theme:
- education, training, coaching and development to promote independent living and/or support to help people into paid work, vocational services or volunteering
- affordable housing and/or supported living in the local community
- day services supporting people with general life skills e.g. computing, cooking, arts and crafts.
- Your project must support one of our 4 life "themes"
- You must be a UK Registered Charity with a proven track record that has been registered with a UK Charity Commission for at least 3 years and can provide a minimum of 2 full years of accounts
- You must sign and accept our standard Terms and Conditions (pdf)
- By making an application you are agreeing to our Privacy & Data Protection Policy and also our Equality Policy
What we will not fund:
- We do not provide retrospective funding, i.e. work that has been completed by the time of our decision
- We do not fund charities that mainly support people of a single political, religious or ethnic persuasion
- We do not fund statutory services including local or national authorities, NHS hospitals or services, prisons and state funded or independent schools.
- We do not fund universities or further education colleges except where the facility is wholly for students with additional needs.
- We do not accept unsolicited applications from other grant making charities or umbrella organisations.
- We do not fund community centres, youth clubs or other leisure activities except where the main beneficiaries have a physical and/or a mental disability, are elderly or suffering from a long-term illness.
- We do not accept applications for overseas projects.
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