Chapman Charitable Trust

Overview

WHICH ORGANISATIONS DOES CCT SUPPORT?

They only support registered UK charities only unless you are an educational or research establishment with charitable status.

They will support:

• National charities, including Scottish charities, if they operate across the UK
• Local charities only if their beneficiaries or activities are located in North Wales or South East England. The South East means Greater London, Herts, Cambs, Essex, Kent, East and West Sussex, Surrey and Hants.

WHAT ACTIVITIES DOES CCT SUPPORT?

They focus new grants on charities:

• promoting physical and mental wellbeing
• conserving our natural environment and promoting the sustainable use of resources
• increasing the accessibility of the arts, especially for young people

They prefer to support charities which address the root causes of problems. For example, although they do make new small grants under the wellbeing heading for care and counselling these are normally made to organisations which seek to address underlying problems and where we think our grant can make a real difference.

They particularly welcome applications from research organisations.

HOW BIG A GRANT SHOULD YOU APPLY FOR?

Most grants are £1,000, £2,000, or £3,000.

Larger grants are normally only made to charities under two headings:

• those where the current trustees have a special oversight
• those originally supported by their benefactor, Marjorie Chapman

These larger grants are made on a regular basis, either yearly or half-yearly.

HOW OFTEN CAN A CHARITY APPLY?

They do not generally consider making further grants to successful applicants until at least 18 months have elapsed.

But you can reapply at any time if your application has been unsuccessful.

If your application is outside the CCT guidelines or likely never to succeed the trustees will endeavour to notify you.

For an indication of the sizes of organisations they support please see the lists of our recent grants here.

Additional Guidance to Potential Applicants

These notes give further information about the preferred focus of the CCT trustees in the three main sectors referred to in our main grant-making guidelines. These extra details should be read in conjunction with the main guidelines, particularly in relation to charitable status, geographical location and work we do not fund.

THE ARTS

The CCT trustees favour applications from charities which aim to increase accessibility to the cultural arts and our national heritage.

• They prefer projects aimed at groups who don't normally have the opportunity to participate in music, drama, dance or other areas of the arts.
• In many of the projects they support arts organisations such as theatres in reaching out to schools, including special needs schools.
• They also support programmes which use the arts, especially music, to help improve mental wellbeing, for example for dementia sufferers.
• They support a limited number of community arts festivals.

WELLBEING

The CCT trustees favour applications for Wellbeing projects which target future improvements in physical and mental health, for example through education, research projects or programmes which counteract adverse trends in wellbeing.

Specific examples are:

• projects which may enhance physical and mental wellbeing at the same time, for example sports activities
• research into narrow medical conditions which may not receive mainstream charity funding
• community programmes aimed at enhancing wellbeing
• the future mental health of young people
• charities helping deprived or affected sections of the community, such as disabled children, refugees new to the UK, ex-offenders and dementia sufferers

They do also make grants where the object is the continuing care of the disadvantaged, the old or the sick but the proportion of new grants in that area is low.

NATURE CONSERVATION AND OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

The CCT Trustees favour applications for projects which aim to conserve and protect wildlife species and habitats, through:

• direct management of sites
• research, particularly into causes of decline and potential solutions

They also support projects which seek to reduce human impacts on biodiversity and natural systems, particularly through reducing waste and reducing use of fossil fuels. Applications for projects under this heading which engage local communities or children or provide benefits to disadvantaged groups are also encouraged.