[WiLT] City Bridge Trust: Older People 1st Oct - Tackling Violence 31st Oct - others anytime

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City Bridge Trust

Grants Programme Guidelines

We receive many more applications than we are able to fund. We usually
only support work which most closely measures up to our published
priorities. In all cases priority is given to projects which tackle
the greatest deprivation or disadvantage.

Our current grant programmes are:
* Accessible London
* Bridging Communities
* Improving Londoners' Mental Health
* London's Environment
* Older Londoners
* Positive Transitions to Independent Living
* Strengthening the Third Sector

There are no closing dates for applications for the above.


Greening the Third Sector, provides advice, training and an eco-audit
and is additional to any grant which you may hold on any of our grants
programmes.


Special editions - Occasionally we run 'special edition', time-limited
programmes with a specific closing date.
* Young People and Parents Tackling Violence
Please note the closing date for this programme is 31 October 2008.


Improving Services for Older People is designed for organisations with
an annual turnover of less than £50,000. This programme will close on
1 October 2008.


Exceptional grants - Very occasionally we make grants outside our
published priorities.

These can include organisations which show that they are:
* responding to new needs and circumstances which may have arisen
since the Trust fixed its priorities, such as a major catastrophe
impacting upon London, or
* for example projects requiring short-term assistance to cope with
unforeseen circumstances enabling them to adapt to change and move
forward. Need arising from poor planning will not be considered.

Only a small number of grants are likely to be made in this category.


Strategic work

As well as responding to applications sent to us, we are also involved
in a number of strategic initiatives where we work proactively. We
believe a charitable trust can add value by disseminating widely the
knowledge it has gained through its grant-making, to the third sector,
other funders and policy makers.

Current strategic initiatives include working with partners to
* reduce knife crime among young people
* improve the quality of impact measurement in the third sector
* improve communications skills in the third sector
* improve access advice for developing buildings
* reduce the third sector's carbon footprint.


We fund third sector organisations, predominantly registered charities
and only for charitable activity.

We have no minimum or maximum grant.

Grants over £500,000 need the approval of the City of London
Corporation's Court of Common Council and are very exceptional.

Applications over £25,000 need to be accompanied by a detailed
proposal. Large grants to small organisations are unlikely to be made.

Grants to large charities will not usually be more than 50% of the
total project costs.

Grants for large capital projects will usually not exceed £50,000.

Capital grants in excess of £50,000 may be awarded occasionally to
small organisations or local projects.


Other funding

We expect organisations to have secured some other source of revenue
funding and to have a track record, including accounts which comply
with Charity Commission requirements. We are unlikely to award a grant
if we will become an organisation's largest single revenue funder.


Grants of up to £5,000 may be awarded for disability access audits and
disability equalities training or consultancy to help organisations
obtain the best advice to develop their proposed projects.


For complete details on all these grants, how to apply, exception
etc., go to
http://www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk/CityBridgeTrust/Grants/GrantsProgrammeGuidelines/