Kitchen Table Charities Trust
Open (ongoing)
Communities
Community and neighbourhood development
International issues
Overseas aid and development
World issues
Great Britain
International
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Small (up to £10,000)
Overview
Their Priorities
- Improving conditions for pupils at primary schools (essential repairs and maintenance, classroom furniture etc).
- Health and safe, clean water projects, including rainwater harvesting and storage installations.
- Child and mother care, including street children projects and the training of midwives.
- Poverty alleviation, including income generating schemes and support for small groups of subsistence farmers; such as the construction or repair of irrigation systems and grain stores.
Essential Conditions Attached to KTCT Support
- No part of any grant should be spent in Britain on administration - including salaries and advertising campaigns.
- Projects they support must give direct help to the very poorest (usually children or widows) at the bottom of the ladder.
Requirements on the Applicant
- UK registration as a charity, or local registration in their country of operation.
- Annual auditing or independent examination of accounts.
- Publication of a periodic newsletter or annual report (in which KTCT support should be acknowledged).
Other Considerations
- To ensure that the benefit of available funds is spread as widely as possible, KTCT grants rarely exceed £6,000 per project or organisation.
- KTCT grants are not available to part-finance projects costing more than this amount.
- The Grants Committee will give preference to specific projects rather than requests for contributions to general running costs.
- They expect the full participation of communities in infrastructural projects from which they or their children will benefit through the provision of labour or the supply of locally available building materials free of charge.
- KTCT funds are used to improve social and economic conditions and the general well-being of communities.
- KTCT grants are not available to part-fund large ambitious projects costing more than £6,000, buy land, buy vehicles, pay salaries, buy food, buy medicines, contribute to transport costs or general running costs.