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The Weavers Company Benevolent Fund

19 Feb 2015 - 11:59 by michelle.foster

The Weavers' Company Benevolent Fund was set up in 1973 with funds from The Worshipful Company of Weavers, which is the oldest City of London Livery Company and has a history dating back before 1130 AD. The priorities of the fund are to help disadvantaged young people and offenders and ex-offenders, particularly those under 30 years of age.

The fund is especially interested in helping smaller organisations which offer direct services. They must be registered charities or in the process of applying for registration. Grants have an upper limit of £15,000 per annum, and to make sure grants of this size have an impact, large organisations will not be funded.

Benevolent Fund Priorities
1. Helping disadvantaged young people
The object of the fund is to support projects working with disadvantaged young people to ensure that they are given every possible chance to meet their full potential and to participate fully in society. Young people are defined as being aged from 5 to 30 years.

2. Offenders and ex-offenders, particularly those under 30 years of age
Many offenders and ex-offenders suffer from a variety of difficult and complex problems and they are amongst the most vulnerable members of society. Work will be funded that addresses the social and economic problems faced by this group and their families, and provide them with support, life skills training and a way back into education, training and/or employment, so that they may reintegrate and make a positive contribution to society.

What will be funded?
• To be eligible for funding, local organisations such as those working in a village, estate or small town should normally have an income of less than about £100,000. Those working across the UK should normally have an income of not more than about £250,000.
• Grants are usually up to £15,000 per annum but smaller applications are also welcomed.
• Grants may be awarded for up to three years.
• Applications for pump-priming grants are welcome from small community-based organisations where the grant would form a major element of the funding
• The fund prefers to support projects where the grant will be used for an identified purpose.

For further information and to apply, visit: www.weavers.org.uk/charitable-grants/grant-application-guidelines, or contact 020 7606 1155, or email: [email protected]

Application deadlines: 30 March 2015 and 3 August 2015
 

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