Applications

We hope to make applying for a grant fairly painless and fairly quick!  However it will help us a great deal if you could follow the simple rules below when sending in an application (by the way there are no forms as such to complete):

DO NOT send this information as an attachment
DON’T write long flowery sentences – we won’t read them.
DO be brief, honest, clear and direct.   Use abbrevns if you like!
DON’T send attachments to your email – your website will give us an introduction to you so you don’t need to cover that.

Child Development Research Applications:
For specific details relating to these applications please click here.

What the Foundation Will and Will NOT Support

In general, TWF will NOT support:

Applications for grants:

We will not consider applications for grants in the following areas:

What we are UNLIKELY to support

We are unlikely to support projects of the following kind:

What TWF OCCASIONALLY supports

We will occasionally fund:

Who Can Apply?

We welcome applications from registered charities and organisations with projects that have a recognisable charitable purpose.  Your project has to be allowed within the terms of your constitution or rules and, if you are not a registered charity, you will need to send us a copy of your constitution or set of rules.

We make grants for all types of projects; start-up, initial stages and valuable ongoing funding.  This can include running costs and overheads as well as posts; particularly under the World Development and Projects in Wales.  We do not have any upper or lower limit on the amount of grant we offer but it is unlikely that we would offer a grant of more that £100,000 in any one year.

Don’t Think You Can Apply to Us – Try These!

If you do not think that this is the appropriate programme for your application please look at the other Foundation Programmes. If we have not been able to help you on this occasion please contact us again if you have another proposal that meets our funding priorities.

If your project does not meet any of our criteria or programmes you may find the following list of organisations can offer you advice and/or assistance.  This is not a complete directory and is in no way a recommendation from the Foundation:

National Associations

• Association of Charitable Foundations  www.acf.org.uk
  This website gives information about charitable trust funding in the UK and abroad.  It has links to mainly charitable trusts and foundations.
• Astor Foundation  astor.foundation@vrgin.net
  This foundation gives preference to the launch and initial stages of projects in the areas of medicine, animal welfare and general charitable purposes.
• Alcohol Education and Research  www.aerc.org.uk
  This organisation has programmes funding alcohol research and development projects as well as providing small grants and studentships to individuals working in the alcohol field.
• B & Q You Can Do It  www.diy.com/diy/jsp/corporate/content/environment_ethics/ethics/community/grants.jsp
   The B&Q One Planet Living (OPL) Grant®* offers between £50 and £250 of B&Q materials to schools, community groups and charitable organisations for long-term sustainable projects.
• BBC Children in Need www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/grants/
  Our grants are open to organisations working with disadvantaged children and young people who are 18 years old and under based in the UK.
• The Allen Lane Foundation www.allenlane.org.uk
  The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in the following groups, or generalist work which includes significant numbers from more than one such group: Asylum-seekers and refugees (but not groups working with a single nationality), gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people, gypsies and travellers, migrant workers, offenders and ex-offenders, older people, people experiencing mental health problems, people experiencing violence or abuse
• The Bevan Foundation www.bevanfoundation.org
  Launched in 2001 to develop fresh thinking about the issues facing people in Wales today, the Bevan Foundation carries out research, organises conferences and debates, publishes articles and reports. 
• The Clore Duffield Foundation www.cloreduffield.org.uk
  The Foundation is a grant-making organisation which concentrates its support on education, the arts, museum and gallery education, cultural leadership training, health and social care and enhancing Jewish life, whilst placing a particular emphasis on supporting children, young people and society's more vulnerable individuals.
• Comic Relief www.comicrelief.com
  This charity funds charitable projects in the UK and the poorest countries worldwide, especially Africa.
• The David and Elaine Potter Foundation www.potterfoundation.com
  The Foundation's funding is divided into five categories: Education, Civil society, Research, Human rights and Arts.
• Directory of Social Change www.dsc.org.uk
  This charity provides information on sources of funding through guides and directories.
• The Dulverton Trust www.dulverton.org
  The Trust supports a wide range of activities in the following general categories youth and education, general welfare, conservation, preservation, peace and humanitarian support.  They are particularly keen to support work in Wales and welcome telephone enquiries and applications from Welsh charities.
• European Union Funding  europa.eu/policies-activities/funding-grants/index_en.htm
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
  Their primary interests are in the UK's cultural life, education and learning, the natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to participate more fully in society.
• The Frank Buttle Trust www.buttletrust.org
  The Frank Buttle Trust is the largest UK charity providing grant aid solely to individual children and young people in desperate need.
• Funder Finder  www.funderfinder.org.uk
  FunderFinder is a small UK charity producing online and offline applications, mainly for grant-seekers based in the UK.
• The Gibbs Trust www.gibbstrust.org.uk
  The Trust’s broad policy is to support three main areas of work, innovative undertakings by Methodist churches and organisations, Other Christian Causes, especially of an ecumenical nature, and a wider category within the fields of the creative arts, education, social and international concern.
• Government Funding  www.governmentfunding.org.uk
  This is a government website detailing grant funds for the voluntary and community sector available through several government departments, e.g. Department of Health.
• The Henry Smith Charity www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk
  The Henry Smith Charity makes grants for work throughout the UK. Priority is given to work with groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage, for example, people with disabilities; and work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation.
• Idlewild Trust www.idlewildtrust.org.uk
  This trust offers small grants of £1 – 3,000 in the areas of the performing arts, preservation of buildings of public interest and objects of beauty.
• The LankellyChase Foundation www.lankellychase.org.uk
  The Foundation concentrates its work within the United Kingdom, seeking to promote social justice, highlighting unpopular causes and working with others to tackle them.
• Lloyds TSB Foundation www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk
  The Foundation funds local, regional and national charities working to tackle disadvantage across England and Wales. Our focus is on supporting small and medium underfunded charities that can make a significant difference to the lives of disadvantaged people by helping them to play a fuller role in the community.
• Micropower Grants for Buildings  www.lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk
  This is Phase 2 of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme.  £50 million is available to fund the installation of micropower technologies on schools, not-for-profit and public sector buildings.
• National Lottery Funding  www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk
  This is a website that gives information on how to get Lottery Funding.
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation  www.phf.org.uk
  This foundation prioritises the arts, education & learning and social justice.  There is a preference for children and young people (up to 25).
• People’s Millions www.peoplesmillions.org.uk
  Grants are available up to £100,000 for projects that help communities to enjoy as well as transform their environment.
• The Prince’s Trust www.princes-trust.org.uk
  The trust gives practical and financial support to young people aged between 18 and 30.
• The Roald Dahl Foundation www.roalddahlfoundation.org
  The Foundation funds activities that assist children and young people in the UK living with specific haematological (blood) and neurological (brain) conditions.
• The Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation www.rufford.org
  The Foundation concentrates its funding on nature conservation projects in developing countries undertaken by small to medium-sized organisations.
• The Rufford Small Grants Foundation www.ruffordsmallgrants.org
  The Rufford Small Grants Foundation is a new charity established specifically for the development of Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (RSGs).
• The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts www.sfct.org.uk
  There are 18 separate grant making trusts set up by 3 generations of the Sainsbury family.  Each trust works autonomously as an independent legal entity with a separate board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the family with keenly-followed interests.
• The Sigrid Rausing Trust www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org
  The foundation supports the international human rights movement, with four programmes: Civil and Political Rights, Women’s Rights, Minority Rights and Social and Environmental Justice.
• The Tudor Trust www.tudortrust.org.uk
  The trust supports work that addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society in the UK.
• UNLTD Millennium Awards www.unltd.org.uk
  The charity supports social entrepreneurs who want to change the world for the better. Two levels of grants are available; Level One £500 - £5,000 and Level Two £10 – 20,000.
• The Wellcome Trust  www.wellcome.ac.uk
  The fund innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally.
• The Woodroffe Benton Foundation. www.ffhb.org.uk
  This foundation provides disaster relief and assistance for those in need as a result of social and economic circumstances, provides assistance for the sick and elderly and promotes education, conservation and improvements to the environment.  UK only.
• The Yapp Charitable Trust www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk
  The Trust makes grants to small registered charities to sustain their existing work in England and Wales with elderly people, children and young people aged 5 – 25, people with disabilities or mental health problems, people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin - such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending.

Associations in Wales

• Awards for All Wales www.awardsforall.org.uk
  Part of the Big Lottery Fund, it is a simple small grants scheme making awards between £500 and £5,000 supporting community activities, extending access and participation, increasing skill and creativity and improving the quality of life.
• Coalfields Regeneration Trust www.coalfields-regen.org.uk/contactingus/wales/
  An independent charity established in 1999 and dedicated to improving the quality of life for people in Britain's coalfield communities.
• The Community Foundation in Wales www.cfiw.org.uk
  The foundation promotes the cause of philanthropy in Wales by creating and managing relationships between donors and those who are running life-enhancing initiatives.
• HLF Repair Grants for Places of Worship in Wales.  www.hlf.org.uk
  Heritage Lottery Funding for heritage projects on any size from £3,000 to £5million.
• Interlink Small Grants Scheme  www.interlinkrct.org.uk
  Funding advice for organisations in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
• Environment Wales www.environment-wales.org
  It has 5 grant streams, designed to aid projects in each step of their development - start-up, pre-project, training support, project and management grants.
• Sports Council for Wales www.sports-council-wales.org.uk/grants-funding/grant-schemes
  The Council supports a number of funding schemes that aim to increase levels of physical activity and sport in Wales.
• Sustainable Funding Cymru www.sustainablefundingcymru.org.uk
  a new one-stop shop for funding advice and opportunities.
• Wales Council for Voluntary Action www.wcva.org.uk
  WCVA manages a range of grant schemes that support local voluntary organisations, communities, groups and volunteers throughout Wales.
• Welsh Assembly Government wales.gov.uk/funding/fundgrantareas/?lang=en
  Grants to fund schemes and initiatives that are in line with the Welsh Assembly Government’s agenda.
• Welsh Coalfields Bond (A Citylife initiative backed by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust). www.citylifeltd.org/page/26/welsh-coalfields-bond.htm
  Provides funding in the areas of the arts, music and entertainment.
• The Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust www.millenniumstadiumtrust.co,uk
  The trust is interested in 4 areas – sport, the arts, the environment and community.

International Associations

• The Adessium Foundation www.adessium.org
  The Adessium Foundation is a privately funded public benefit organization.  It supports initiatives in the Netherlands as well as abroad and is based in Reeuwijk, the Netherlands.
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation www.gatesfoundation.org
  The foundation is organized into three main program areas, each with a specific focus-. Global Development, Global Health, and United States Programme.
• The Blue Moon Fund www.bluemoonfund.org
  Blue moon fund’s programmes that explore new cultural and economic approaches to resource use, energy use, and urban development. The fund works only in the Americas and Asia. 
• The Doen Foundation www.doen.nl
  The DOEN Foundation is the fund for the Dutch charity lotteries.  It only finances initiatives abroad under their Sustainable Development programme.
• The Fledgling Fund www.thefledglingfund.org
  The Fledgling Fund seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects that target entrenched social problems.
• The Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org
  The Foundation’s overall mission is to reduce poverty and injustice and to promote democratic values, international cooperation and human achievement.
• The Joffe Foundation 01793 790203
  The aims of the Trust are the alleviation of poverty, the protection & advancement of human rights and support of individuals in the voluntary sector in the developing world who are judged to be advancing these aims.
• Open Society Foundation www.osf-london.org
  The Open Society Foundation (OSF) is an independent and autonomous UK registered charitable company limited by guarantee and was set up in 2002. It works with a number of international charities which are members of a network co-ordinated by the Open Society Institute (OSI) based in New York. The Foundation Open Society Institute Zug, a Swiss charitable foundation, is the major funding source for OSF’s activities.
• The Wallace Global Fund www.wgf.org
  The Fund supports initiatives related to environmental resource depletion and system collapse, corporate abuses and the concentration of corporate power, planetary carrying capacity, sustainable human population, women’s human rights, with an emphasis on ending female genital mutilation, civic engagement, civil liberties, equal justice, independent media, and media policy.
• The Maypole Fund www.maypolefund.org
  The fund welcomes applications from women for projects and activities that meet the following aims: Peace initiatives, disarmament and action against the arms trade; Anti-militarism and action against male violence; Nuclear issues; Environmental issues; The promotion of women’s social and political autonomy throughout the world; International, national and/or regional networking between women for the above purposes.