Four Acre Trust
Overview
The Four Acre Trust supports the following areas
Mentoring Schemes
- Mentoring schemes for young people aiming at a significant change in lifestyle and aspirations (Schemes linked with schools or colleges not eligible)
Breaks and Holidays for Young people
- Subsidised holidays for young people
- Holiday Activity Schemes
- Respite for young carers
Youth work in local communities
- Core costs of local youth organisations using volunteers to deliver programmes for young people aimed at improving their future prospects.
School holiday activity schemes
- They will part fund so long as beneficiaries make a contribution to the cost
Adventure and other training centres
- Support for charities booking places at adventure training centres.
Four Acre supports charities registered in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, working within the sectors described. Grants can be for core costs or specific purposes, but applications must clearly show what the need is and how it is to be met. Grants range from £3,000 to £75,000.
Trustees prefer to support:
- young people more often than old
- revenue expense rather than capital
- building long-term relationships rather than short
- core costs if necessary
Trustees limit grants by supporting those organisations judged to offer best value. Four Acre Trust prefers to support local, district or small national organisations that have low reserves and broadly spend all their income on charitable works. They are particularly interested in supporting charities that have a high level of volunteer involvement.
Grants can be for core costs or specific purposes, but applications must clearly show what the need is and how it is to be met.
While first grants will be one-off, they wish to build long term relationships with recipients and will continue funding beyond one year, providing the physical and financial need continues.
Grant policy is prevention rather than cure. They will consider failed lottery bids - phone them to discuss.
Types of grants
- They do support core costs
- They do like to repeat fund
- They sometimes provide for capital costs
- You don't have to be innovative - just efficient at your service provision
- must respond promptly, succinctly and factually to any queries they raise relating to your application