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The Casey Trust

The Casey Trust

Grants for projects working exclusively with children, run by registered UK charities, in the UK and overseas. Started in 1996, the Trust is increasingly looking for start-up projects or identifiable new initiatives within an existing project - work that might not have happened without it - rather than contributions to continuing programmes. Trustees are moving towards fewer but more substantial grants, including multi-year ones. There is no application form and no deadline: applications go by post only.

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You could get
Amount not specified
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Light
short form, little evidence needed

Who can apply

  • Registered British charities only, or British charitable affiliates of foreign charities
  • Not individuals
  • The proposal must be concerned exclusively with children and their welfare, with a cut-off age of 18, and the direct benefit to children should be easy to observe
  • Projects may be in the UK or overseas - the Trust has funded work in Vietnam, Romania, Sudan, India, Nepal, Senegal, Honduras, Belarus, Malawi and Uganda as well as the UK
  • Successful applicants must expect trustees to monitor and where possible visit the project, and must supply reports at least twice a year
  • Applications that do not adhere to the published criteria will not be considered

What it funds

  • Projects concerned exclusively with children, with a cut-off age of 18, and wherever possible where the direct benefit to children can be easily observed
  • Start-up projects or identifiable new initiatives within existing projects
  • Multi-year projects, provided there is a clear breakdown of how funds will be spent over the period and an annual review of progress
  • The Trust is currently particularly looking to support children's projects connected with the Arts, Mental Health, child Refugees in the UK, and - as it is Camden based - more inner-London projects
  • Past grants have supported street children projects, child helplines, a mobile surgical theatre for children in rural Malawi, and a school for deaf children in Uganda

What it will not fund

  • Applications from individuals
  • Organisations that are not Registered British Charities or British charitable affiliates of foreign charities
  • Core funding
  • Parental or community support schemes
  • Publications
  • Medical research
  • Construction
  • Contributions to recurring events or continuing programmes, however worthy
  • Anything not exclusively concerned with children and their welfare
  • Applications sent by email - post only

How to apply

  1. Read the Mission Statement page and check your project meets every criterion - applications that do not will not be considered
  2. Write a brief outline, around two pages, of what you do and what the project is
  3. Include a clear budget and, if possible, a recent set of your accounts
  4. Post it - by post only, no emails - to The Trustees, The Casey Trust, 27 Arkwright Road, London NW3 6BJ
  5. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope if you need a response

there is no application form and applications may be submitted at any time of the year

without an SAE you will not hear back, and if you do not hear after a reasonable period you should assume the application was unsuccessful. This does not stop you applying again later.

Have ready

  • A brief outline, around two pages, of your organisation and the project
  • A clear budget
  • A recent set of accounts, if possible
  • A stamped addressed envelope, if you want a reply

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