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Gay & Peter Hartley's Hillards Charitable Trust

Gay & Peter Hartley's Hillards Charitable Trust grants

A Leeds-based family trust that makes one-off grants, normally up to £1,000, to independent, locally managed voluntary and community organisations providing social support in the 45 towns once served by Hillards supermarkets across Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, the East Midlands, Northamptonshire, Peterborough and Brownhills. Each year it also makes two £10,000 grants where that sum can make a significant impact on an organisation. Eligibility is tight: each town has a set radius (1 to 10 miles from the town centre) and organisations getting more than a third of their income from statutory sources cannot apply.

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You could get
Up to £1,000
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Light
short form, little evidence needed

Who can apply

  • Independent, locally managed, non-profit, voluntary and community-based organisations providing social support in one of the Trust's catchment areas, each defined as a radius from the town centre: Peterborough (1 mile); Alfreton (5), Glossop (1), Mickleover (3); Atherton (3), Barnoldswick (1), Bolton (1), Clitheroe (5), Oldham (3); Leicester (3); Boston (10), Grimsby (3), Lincoln (10), Scunthorpe (10); Northampton (5), Wellingborough (5); Hucknall (3), Retford (5), Worksop (5); Brownhills (3); Scarborough (10), Selby (10), Skipton (10), York (3); Doncaster-Edenthorpe (5), Mexborough (3), Rotherham (3), Sheffield (1), Wath (3), Wombwell (3); Batley (1), Bradford-Idle (3), Bradford-Buttershaw (3), Brighouse (3), Cleckheaton (3), Dewsbury (3), Heckmondwike (3), Huddersfield (5), Ilkley (5), Leeds-Headingley (1), Leeds-Meanwood (3), Mirfield (1), Ossett (1), Pontefract (3), Sowerby Bridge (1), Todmorden (3) and Wakefield (5)
  • Organisations with more than 33% of their income from government or local authority funding are not eligible, nor are national charities without local autonomy, grant-giving bodies, or anyone funded by the Trust in the previous 18 months

What it funds

Social support in the communities once served by Hillards stores. The Trust supports:

  • Care for older people (luncheon clubs, outings, winter aid, combatting isolation, social activities)
  • Medical health (volunteer schemes, respite care, hospices)
  • Physical and mental health support for the less able
  • Children's charities enhancing sports and social opportunities
  • Church-based projects with a proven outreach factor
  • Education (reading support, literacy advocation, one-to-one support)

Grants are normally one-off and up to £1,000; two £10,000 grants are made where such a grant can deliver a significant impact for an organisation.

Minibus maintenance and driver training support can be considered.

What it will not fund

  • Any organisation with more than 33% of its income from statutory funding
  • Animal welfare/wildlife organisations
  • Capital projects (e.g. building works) unless majority funding has been pledged
  • Church roof/spire/organ/window restoration
  • Community-based activities run and managed by local authority employees
  • Environmental causes - conserving and protecting plants, geography and scenery
  • Expeditions, overseas travel and holiday schemes
  • Grant-giving organisations
  • Individuals' personal needs
  • Loans or business finance
  • Local authority day care centres and health centres
  • Mainstream education funding, including teaching activities
  • Medical research
  • Minibuses (except maintenance/driver training support)
  • Musical and theatrical groups, artistic productions and touring companies
  • National charities without autonomy in an area covered by the Trust
  • Promotion of religion
  • Sponsorship and fundraising events or activities by groups or individuals
  • University/college fees
  • Bodies that have received a grant from the Trust in the preceding 18 months

How to apply

  1. Read the Grants page in full, including the exclusions
  2. Start the online application on the Trust's website: the eligibility check asks whether more than 33% of your funding comes from government/local authority, the type of application, and a postcode representative of your organisation's work
  3. If eligible, enter your organisation's details
  4. Complete and submit your application online

Applications that fall within the exclusions will not be accepted or acknowledged.

Organisations that have had a grant from the Trust in the preceding 18 months cannot apply.

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