Dulverton Trust Grant Program

The Dulverton Trust Grant Program supports UK charities and CIOs addressing social issues, environmental conservation, and heritage preservation. They prioritize medium-sized organizations with annual incomes between £200,000 and £3 million, focusing on impactful projects. Funding categories include Youth Opportunities, General Welfare, Conservation, and Heritage. The Trust aims to empower communities, promote social cohesion, and enhance the resilience of wildlife habitats. Applications are accepted year-round, with decisions made in February, June, and November, allowing 3-6 months for processing.

NOTE: We accept applications all year around but Trustees make decisions in February, June and November.
What We Fund
The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity.
We look to support charities and CIOs working within our funding categories, and prioritise those that are medium-sized (with income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts. We offer both project and core funding.
Our Categories
The Trust currently offers funding across five categories:

• Youth Opportunities
• Our largest category, supporting work with young people aged up to 25 that:

engages participants primarily on the basis of low income;helps participants to develop the life skills (e.g., employability skills, academic skills, or social-emotional skills) to thrive, and;takes a strengths-based approach. There is strong evidence that growing up in poverty can negatively impact a young person’s life chances. However, we want to fund charities which recognise the skills and capacity that young people already possess, and do not view the young person as something to be ‘fixed’.
General Welfare
This work focuses on:

• protecting, planting and sympathetically managing trees and native woodlands protecting coastal and marine environments
• Please note that we rarely consider applications for projects concerned with a single species.
• Heritage
• We support the development of craftsmanship in the traditional techniques of repair and restoration and have a strong interest in:
• heritage skills training, particularly where it may benefit a disadvantaged group cathedrals (Trustees generally make one award to a cathedral per year)

Please note that annual grants are awarded to the National Churches Trust to disburse to churches on our behalf, and as such, we are not able to support applications from individual churches.
Kenya and Uganda
This category is currently restricted to UK registered charities operating in Kenya or Uganda, which already have a long association with the Trust. Our priorities in these locations are:
community development (in particular, the provision of water and power, and the encouragement of farming, common market gardening and enterprise) wildlife conservation
The Trust is currently focusing on a major development and conservation project in the Murchison Falls area of Uganda. As a result, funding for other overseas projects, including Kenya and Uganda is restricted and we recommend that you contact us in advance of submitting an application.
International Stability and Reconstruction
The Trust does not accept appeals to contribute to disaster relief appeals. Instead we fund charities that:

• Provide support facilities or expertise to organisations engaged in disaster preparedness, orAre engaged in peace intervention.

As with our other funding, we prioritise work that is specific and practical, and where the Trust’s contribution makes an identifiable difference. As with our other categories, it is very unlikely that we would support work that focuses on research.

Eligibility

We award grants to UK registered charities working across the UK (excluding Greater London and Northern Ireland), Kenya and Uganda.To be eligible to apply for a grant from the Dulverton Trust applicants must:Be a UK charity or CIO registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). Have an annual income of between £200,000 and £10 million (but preference is given to charities with an income of £5 million or below). Newly established charities (usually founded within the last eighteen months) and preservation charities are exempt from the minimum income rule.Operate at a national or at least county or regional level in England, Scotland, or Wales excluding Greater London. Priority will be given to charities with a national foot print. Be working to produce significant impact in one of our priority areas: Youth Opportunities, General Welfare, Conservation, Preservation, Africa, and Peace and Humanitarian Support.Not fall into one of our exclusion areas.

Ineligibility

Please note we do not fund salaries for named posts in isolation, only as part of a wider project.Please note that we will not normally award grants to charities that receive the overwhelming majority of their income from contracts to deliver public services, whether contracted directly by central or local government, or via private sector primes.We don’t make grants to the following:Museums, galleries, libraries, exhibition centres and heritage attractionsIndividual churches and other historic buildings (except for limited support under the preservation category)Individual schools, colleges, universities or other educational establishmentsHospices, hospitals, nursing or residential care homesCharities whose main beneficiaries live within Greater London or in Northern IrelandCharities whose primary beneficiaries are those with a physical or mental disability or illnessWe are very unlikely to fund the following:Regional charities that are affiliated with a national body (for example, local Scout groups, YMCAs, Age UK or Wildlife Trusts)Health, medicine and medical conditions including drug and alcohol addictionTherapy and counsellingThe arts, including theatre, music and drama  Except where used as a means of achieving one of our funding priorities.Sport, including sports centres and individual playing field projects  Except where used as a means of achieving one of our funding priorities.Animal welfare or projects concerning the protection of single speciesExpeditions and individuals volunteering overseasResearch, unless it is linked to a project that meets our prioritiesConferences, events, cultural festivals, and exhibitionsMajor building projects, including the purchase of property or land or the refurbishment of facilitiesEndowmentsGrant-making charitiesProjects primarily concerned with campaigning or lobbying