St James's Place Foundation: Small Grants

Open or will open again Age Children (0-12) Community and neighbourhood development Health, wellbeing and sport Healthcare services Housing and homelessness Human rights and equality Medical conditions Overseas aid and development People with disabilities Poverty and deprivation Social welfare and poverty World issues Young people (13-25) Africa Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Asia and Middle East Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Europe and Russia Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales Large (over £60,000) Medium (up to £60,000) Micro (up to £1,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Track grant Notes

Overview

Since the outset, they have been supporting smaller charities that can substantially benefit from thei grant funding. They aim to enable transformational change through their charity partnerships, which will have a significant and long term impact within their communities.

Approximately 85% of the money raised goes to supporting UK charities, with the remaining 15% being allocated to charities overseas, particularly those helping children and young people to escape poverty, malnutrition and neglect.

Their funding cover four themes.

Funding Themes

Supporting young people – special needs or disadvantaged

They work with charities who support disadvantaged and disabled young people under the age of 25. Their aim is to enable a more inclusive and accessible society for those with additional social or economic barriers or ease suffering for those with life-limiting or terminal illness.

Supporting people with cancer

Their funding in this area focuses on developing services for people to live well with cancer, for them to be informed, empowered and supported.

Mental health

Over the past few years, demand for mental health services has risen exponentially and their funding enables organisations to scale their resources and create greater access to the right support.

Hospices

They are proud to support the hospice network,(including adult and children’s hospices) which provide a key facility in our communities to support people living with a debilitating or life-limiting illness who seek specialist support services, respite and end of life care.

They work both in partnership with Hospice UK to support innovation and development of services as well as direct support with selected hospices to support their day-to-day services.

Programmes

The Charitable Foundation operates three programmes which may be applied for by invitation only, through the SJP partnership or community.

Small Grants

For charities with income of up to £1M (the £1M restriction does not apply to special needs schools or mainstream schools with a special needs unit)
Towards smaller capital items or charitable projects
Provides funding for up to £10,000
The Charitable Foundation has a policy of not granting more than £10,000 in any period

Major Grants

For charities with income of £1M - £9M
Multi-year funding, which may be towards capital items or charitable projects

Local Office Allowance

Provides greater flexibility for charities or projects that don’t fit within the core grant programmes, including smaller capital items or charitable projects
This programme is managed by their local Foundation Representative and Committee
Provides funding for up to £2,500
One application per charity may be considered in one calendar year across all locations

Who they support

Applications will be accepted from charities registered with the UK Charity Commissions, exempt charities (including special needs schools) and CIO’s.

They will consider CIC’s for reduced funding under the Local Office Allowance programme.