The charity was established in 1930 with funding from Davenport's Brewery in the Midlands.
What does it fund?
Baron Davenport's Charity offers funding for special projects that directly benefit children and young people under the age of 25.
The children's organisations grants are awarded to support the set up of projects, which must directly benefit a group of children or young people. Details of how the project will benefit children must be included in the application.
Grants will also be awarded for the cost of equipment needed to make the project successful.
As grants rarely exceed £1,000, it is important to consider this when applying for funding to pay for equipment. For example, if the equipment value is in excess of £1,000, ensure that the remaining cost will be funded.
One recipient was Birmingham Children's Hospital Charity for their Critical Journeys Appeal, which received £10,000 towards an appeal to raise money for upgrading critical care ambulances and lifesaving equipment.
Applicants can also request funding for the running costs of activities, for which they must provide a breakdown of costs.
What doesn't it fund?
The charity does not offer funding for retrospective expenditure or medical research. It will also refuse funding for capital appeals for places of worship unless these are primarily for community use. The activity must be in a clearly defined community area if it is within a place of worship.
How much is available?
Applications for up to £1,000 can be made by organisations. Amounts awarded in this category typically begin at around £200, and are unlikely to exceed £1,000. Grants are always at the discretion of the trustees.
Who can apply?
Recipients of grants can include uniformed youth groups, organisations supporting disadvantaged children, youth clubs and playgroups.
It also offers grants to groups that provide holidays for children and support young people with learning difficulties.
As well as this, parent teacher associations and faith organisations are invited to apply when they are doing work specifically with young people.
Application restrictions
Statutory services including state schools, local authorities, prisons, NHS hospitals or services, universities and further education colleges are not able to apply for funding.
The charity can only offer funding to organisations that have evidence of their first year's audited accounts, therefore startup organisations without these documents are not able to apply.
How to apply
Applications for funding are considered twice yearly; once in the spring and once in the autumn. Organisations are asked that they do not apply more than once in each 12 months.
Organisation will receive an email with notification that their application has been received, and a unique application number will be allocated to it. This number will be needed when contacting the charity.
Applications can take two to four weeks to be assessed, and are processed in date order.
The applicant will be notified of the application outcome via email. If successful, the grant will be paid directly into an organisation's bank account at the end of May for spring applications, and November for autumn applications.
The next round of applications is already open, and the deadline for receipt of applications is 15 March 2018. Any applications made after this will automatically be considered for the autumn grants, which should be made no later than 15 September 2018.
Before applying applicants should ensure they have the following information to hand:
- The organisation's aims and activities.
- How the previous grant benefited the organisation (if applicable).
- What the funds are for and how many people are expected to benefit.
- Costs of the project or work and the amount of any money raised so far.
- Details of how success will be measured.
- A copy of the organisation's latest audited accounts.
- The organisation's bank details.
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FUNDING ROUNDUP
- Youth organisations will be able to bid for a share of £90m to support initiatives to help disadvantaged young people find employment. The money, drawn from dormant bank accounts, will be distributed by Big Society Capital. Plans for engagement will be set out shortly.
- The Domestic Violence Intervention Project has received more than £100,000 for a program designed to tackle child-on-parent violence. The funding, awarded by the City Bridge Trust, will go towards developing the charity's Yuva programme, which ensures the delivery of support to families experiencing child-on-parent violence. Yuva offers confidential support for young people aged 11 to 18 who wish to change their behaviour.
- The Scottish Government has announced £14m of funding for 117 charities from its 2018/19 Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund. Some of the charities set to receive funding include Barnardo's, Cyrenians, Scouts Scotland, Learning Link and Save the Children.
- Laurencekirk Playgroup have received more than £3,500 raised by Co-op membership holders. The members can donate one per cent of the money they spend on Co-op branded products to a community care cause of their choice. Co-op awarded the funding through an event where they delivered funding to multiple community care organisations and charities in the local area. The playgroup intends to provide new resources and redevelop areas, such as garden and technology facilities.
