Eligibility Guidelines

Please read the below before registering for an application to ensure you meet our requirements.

We prefer to make grants to charitable organisations situated in and operated for the benefit of people in Nottingham or Nottinghamshire.

We will not consider applications from nationally operated charities who have reported income of more than £1m in their latest set of financial statements that are available.

Please note that all applicants from National or Regional charities will be required to fully evidence delivery in Nottinghamshire in their application.

We do not make grants to individuals.

We only consider applications from organisations that have at least two years accounts. (Income and expenditure plus Balance sheet.) These must be supplied with the application and filed with either the Charities Commission or Companies House (e.g. CIC or a company Limited by Guarantee).

We only make grants to registered charities, or companies (e.g. CIC or a company Limited by Guarantee) who operate on a not-for-profit basis.

If your organisation does not have two years filed accounts, do not apply. If you do apply when you are not eligible, it may harm a potential future application when your organisation could qualify.

There are currently two funding review meetings per year for all applications which usually take place in March and October.

The deadlines for submission of the application form for these meetings are 31 January and 31 August respectively.

Please note that we receive more requests for help than we can meet from our resources. We therefore have to make difficult decisions on which projects to fund even when all of the eligibility criteria have been met on an application.