H B Allen Charitable Trust

Overview

The Trustees have liquidated their investment portfolio. Applications for grants from the Trust's residual funds may be made at any time up to 30th June 2018. Applications made after that date will be too late for consideration. The Trustees anticipate distributing their remaining funds before the end of 2018.

General Principles

• There is no typical grant size, though the Trustees make a large number at £5,000.
• Grants can be recurring or one-off, and for revenue or capital purposes. The Trustees give priority each year to those organisations to which grants have been made in the past.
• They do not make grants to, or enter into sponsorship arrangements with, individuals or to organisations that are not UK registered charities.
• The Trustees receive a substantial number of appeals each year on average 1,100-1,200 each year. In view of the number, it is not their practice to acknowledge appeals, and they prefer not to enter into correspondence with applicants other than those to whom grants are being made or from whom further information is required.
• It can be seen from the Annual Reports & Accounts that the trust has main interests in the categories it calls Environment, wildlife, animals and in Medical conditions including research and hospitals.
• It also makes a number of grants each year to charities dealing with blindness or visual impairment, carers, the elderly, children and young people, deafness or hearing impairment, disability, hospices and overseas aid. They also have an interest in museums, galleries and heritage projects which they expect to develop.

The Trustees have, for many years, grouped appeals and grants for statistical purposes in 22 categories. These are set out below, with an indication by each as to whether or not they are priority areas of interest at present.

• Arts - Not a priority
• Blindness/visual impairment - Research aspect a priority
• Carers/the elderly - Not a priority
• Children/young people - Not a priority
• Christian or other faith - No grants
• Churches - No grants, except in respect of built heritage aspect
• Deafness/hearing impairment - Research aspect a priority
• Disabled - Not a priority
• Drugs/alcohol abuse/counselling - Not a priority
• Education/schools - Not a priority
• Environment/wildlife/animals - Priority
• General community - No grants
• Hospices - Not a priority
• Housing/homelessness - Not a priority
• Individuals/year-out students - No grants at all – not eligible
• Medical conditions/research/ - Research a priority, but no substitution Hospitals of NHS spending
• Mental handicap - Not a priority
• Mental health - Not a priority
• Museums/galleries/heritage - Priority, especially heritage buildings
• Overseas aid/international - No grants
• Sports - Not a priority
• Village Halls - Not a priority