How to Apply
Charities and Non-Profit Organisations
To consider before applying
| Essential | Helpful | See Note | |
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| Meeting our criteria for applying | Yes | 1 | |
| Not applying for retrospective spending | Yes | Tell us when you anticipate spending | |
| Grant would be spent in 6 months | If anticipating longer, explain in the form | ||
| Will acknowledge by email when a grant is received | Yes | ||
| Can complete a grant monitoring form if required | Yes | 2 |
What to include with the application
| Essential | Helpful | See Note | |
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| Covering Letter | Yes | ||
| Availability of financial accounts | Yes | 3 | |
| Website or other online presence | Yes | ||
| How a grant would be spent | Yes | 4 | |
| Supporting evidence for the amount applied for | Yes | 5 | |
| Further information, e.g. flyers, newsletters, leaflets | Yes | ||
| A copy of original source bank ID to enable a BACS payment | Yes | 6 |
Notes |
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| This page is for any organisation that has multiple defined beneficiaries – Charities, schools, community groups, sports clubs, CIOs and CICs.
The Trusts are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all applicants to share this commitment. |
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The Gibbons Family Trust can make grants to organisations that help children and young people up to the age of 25, for any reason to improve their quality of life, residing in either Devon, or the Isle of Thanet. READ FURTHER ESSENTIAL CRITERIA FOR APPLYING
The David Gibbons Foundation can make grants to organisations that benefit residents of Devon, provided they are either (or a combination of) physically or mentally unwell, in need of financial help, or are older adults. READ FURTHER ESSENTIAL CRITERIA FOR APPLYING |
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Monitoring of grant spending is required from recipients of larger grants, and welcomed from all beneficiaries. We will send requests out periodically, some time after a grant is awarded. However if you haven’t been sent a request to complete a monitoring form and would like one, please email enquiries@gibbonstrusts.org. Failure to complete monitoring forms on request will impact the success of future applications. |
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We require sight of the most recent financial accounts of ALL organisations, (unless in the 1st financial year). If your most recent year end was 6 months + ago when you apply to us, we will be wanting to have sight of those accounts (even if in draft form).
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We require you to be very specific about how a potential grant from us would be spent, and attach evidence to back this up.
For example, quotes or links to quotes, budgets, cost breakdowns, business plans – we want to understand exactly how a grant from us would be used. We require more detail from you than to simply say a grant would be for ‘running costs’. If we do not have enough information with the intial application this could cause delays and potentially mean missing the next Trustees’ meeting. |
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At the end of the online form there is the opportunity to upload newsletters, brochures, leaflets that you feel may enhance the application. If you are submitting multiple attachments please be aware that this may take a little time to submit – do not press submit again or refresh your browser, please be patient! You can save your application and revisit it. A maximum of 5 attachments only is possible – including bank ID |
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Payment of Grants via BACS
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