Hiden Charitable Fund
Posted on: June 5, 2023
This programme is open for applications from Monday 22nd May 2023 until 4pm on Friday 7th July. No applications will be eligible if received after this.
Please note – you cannot apply to us if you are currently a grant holder and your grant is not due to end until 2024.
Eligibility for our UK Programmes
We do not fund individuals, only organisations. To be eligible to make an application your organisation must be based in the UK and be one of the following:
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Registered Charity
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Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
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Community Interest Company (CIC) (NB must be limited by guarantee, not by shares)
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Charitable Company (NB you must be registered both as a charity and a company)
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Excepted Charity (see Excepted charities – GOV.UK for more information on these)
If your income is above that in your latest accounts but your average income over the most recent three years is under £250k then you can still apply – this is to allow for one-off “good” years.
We are keen to support small organisations and our preference is to fund those already established rather than new ones (though these are still eligible).
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Individuals (including via bursaries)
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Non-charitable activities
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Promotion of Religion
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Party-political organisations or Party-political campaigning (charitable campaigning is okay)
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Medical research
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Registered Social Landlords (eg housing associations)
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Hospitals or primary healthcare provision
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Fundraising-only posts (though we can fund a post where fundraising is part of what they do)
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Statutory services
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Residential care
This list is not meant to be exhaustive. If you have an activity/proposal where you are not sure if we would fund it, please get in touch and we can discuss it.
Supporting Good Governance and Good Practice
Whilst you may be eligible to apply and your proposal meets our criteria, priority will be given to organisations which demonstrate good governance and good practice. For example:
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having a history of returning accounts and documents to your regulatory body (eg Charity Commission) on time
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having at least four Trustees/Directors on your Board and where all trustees/directors are unrelated to each other and to the CEO or Executive Director.
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having robust policies and practices on safeguarding, equalities, financial management, etc
Charity accounts must be independently examined or audited and comply with The Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) – GOV.UK
We will also prioritise organisations which have a significant number of people on their boards and/or staff team who have lived experience of the issues they are addressing.
Where a grant would be used to support the provision of specialist and/or sensitive services you must demonstrate sufficient track record and expertise in delivering those services. In some cases a recognised qualification or quality mark may be required.
We hope this information is clear – however if you are not sure about anything please get in touch.
Types of Grants Awarded
The Fund has signed up to the IVAR Eight Commitments ( https://www.ivar.org.uk/flexible-funders/ ) – a pledge by funders to provide clear information and reduce bureaucracy for applicants. As part of that pledge we aim to provide funding which meets your needs as far and as appropriately as possible.
We offer Unrestricted Grants; or Project/Core Funding.
You can choose which of these to apply for, however please note that to be eligible for unrestricted funding all the work of your organisation must meet our criteria. For example, if you were a general community group where only some of the work you did was with refugees then you could not apply for unrestricted funding as your other work would not meet our priorities. All unrestricted grants must be used for charitable purposes.
Organisations can apply for up to two years’ funding with grants awarded usually between £5,000 – £7,000 in value per year.
If you already hold a grant from us you can apply in this round provided that your current grant ends in 2023 – if it does not end until 2024 then I’m afraid you are unable to apply.
If you applied before and were unsuccessful you can still apply in this round.
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