Trusthouse Charitable Foundation: Supporting Older People in NI Grants
Archived
Adult Education/Learning
Advice services
Aged 60+
Arts, culture and heritage
Craft and design
Education and learning
Health promotion
Health, wellbeing and sport
Information Technology
Miscellaneous
Performing arts
Poverty and deprivation
Social inclusion
Social welfare and poverty
Sport and physical recreation
Verbal arts
Visual arts and media
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
Fermanagh and Omagh
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Medium (up to £60,000)
Small (up to £10,000)
Overview
Eligibility
- registered charities; not-for-profit organisations; social enterprises; voluntary organisations with a written constitution
- has been in existence long enough to be able to provide annual accounts
- has a total annual income under £500,000
- a demonstrable track record in working successfully with older people
Location of project or majority of beneficiaries
• Urban areas (over 10,000 residents) where local postcodes are ranked within the most deprived 20% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation, i.e. ranked under 120• Rural areas (under 10,000 residents) where local postcodes are ranked within the most deprived 50% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation, i.e. ranked under 290 Find your rank.
- Go to www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/home.aspx.
- Enter your postcode in the Quick Profile box on the Home page.
- Select the Ward tab, then the Deprivation tab.
- The Multiple Deprivation Measure gives you your ward rank: 1 is the most deprived and 582 the least.
Do you need Match Funding/Partnership Funding?
Unlike the rest of Trusthouse’s grants programmes, you are not required to have secured 50% of the cost of the salary/project/purchase before making an application, but they will need to be satisfied that the project can be delivered within the time allowed
What costs can be covered?
- salaries of staff involved in the direct delivery of work to older people
- project costs
- capital costs for purchase of equipment
What types of projects will be funded?
They have no hard and fast rules on the point and are open to suggestions. Some ideas are:
- set up or continuation costs for dementia cafés
- befriending schemes, including cross-cultural and inter-generational schemes to improve understanding and community cohesion
- choirs or other music activities
- activities for people in residential care which increase their mental wellbeing
- pilot schemes to test out new activities or extend existing services into new areas
- projects increasing use of IT and the Internet for older people to benefit from lower prices or stay in contact with family and friends
- information, advice and guidance schemes on benefits and services available.