How to Apply
On behalf of Individuals / Families
General Information – please read before applying
As of February 2024, Grants meetings are bi-monthly. See homepage for details.
- This application page is for those who are applying in their professional capacity for an individual or family in need of help. For example, NHS staff, school staff, Council workers, social workers, housing officers, sports coaches.
- The Gibbons Family Trust can make grants for children and young people up to the age of 25 living in either Devon, or the Isle of Thanet. The application can be for any charitable reason. READ FURTHER CRITERIA HERE.
- The David Gibbons Foundation can make grants to individuals of any age that live in Devon, provided that person is either (or a combination of) physically or mentally unwell, in need of financial help, or older adults. READ FURTHER CRITERIA HERE.
- If the application is successful we will ask you to acknowledge receipt of the grant by email. Failure to acknowledge grants will impact the success of future applications.
- Monitoring of grant spending is required from receipients of larger grants, and welcomed from all beneficiaries. 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.
- 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.
- If you are submitting multiple attachments to your form 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.
Additional Information
Please don’t apply to us for a grant for a purchase / activity / service that has already taken place. We do not make grants for retrospective funding.
We look to the organisation applying on behalf of someone to administer all aspects of the grant, if the application is successful.
We do not make grant payments directly to successful applicant individuals, and we do want the organisation applying to simply give the grant received to the beneficiary. The organisation is accountable for this grant.
A breakdown is required of exactly how the grant applied for would be spent. It is helpful to include quotes, or links to other websites, if specific purchases are to be made.
If possible it is helpful to the application to include a copy of some personal identification of the person you are applying for. A copy of a birth certificate, driving licence or passport is requested, but not essential.
Grant Payments
We do NOT pay grants directly to the individual / family being applied for.
Grants will be paid by BACS to the organisation applying, we expect them to receive and administer the grant on the beneficiaries behalf.
Original source bank identification from the organisation MUST be uploaded with the form. This can be a downloaded statement, or a scan or photo that is readable. This ID is used to make the grant payment therefore we need to be able to read it easily.
This needs to clearly show the banks name, organisation’s account name, sort code and account number. Please also make sure the bank ID is attached the correct way up on the form, and that this ID is dated within the last 3 months (if applicable).
The types of bank identification we accept are:
- A copy of a bank statement
- A cancelled cheque
- A paying-in slip
- A letter from the bank, provided it shows all the above required information.
- If you are unable to provide this information please email enquiries@gibbonstrusts.org before applying