30 January 2024
Charles Plater Trust’s Annual Large Grants
Grants of between £5,001 and £60,000 are available to local charities with an annual income of less than £10 million for projects which promote social justice through education in its broadest sense in England and Wales.
The Charles Plater Trust is an independent charitable organisation that makes grants to a wide range of religious and non-religious organisations, people, and groups, supporting leadership, social action, and applied research projects across England and Wales.
Through its funding programme, the Trust wants to encourage three different types of change:
- Change for individuals – achieving significant change for individuals who are the most marginalised in the UK today.
- Change for organisations – enhancing the capacity of organisations to respond more effectively to social needs.
- Change for wider society – generating social or systemic change through policy or practice change.
Each year, the Trust offers large grants of between £5,001 and £60,000 (most grants will be around £30,000 and £50,000) to cover the project revenue costs for the following types of activity:
- Leadership for Laypeople – projects that deepen the awareness of Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Social Thought to better equip people to take on leadership roles in tackling poverty, exclusion, economic inequality and environmental concerns.
- Social Action – projects that deliver tangible outcomes to tackle poverty, exclusion, economic inequality and environmental concerns for marginalised people and communities.
- Applied Research – projects that develop and apply Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Social Thought, in partnership with those who are delivering social action work, to ultimately improve public policy and practice.
Applications that are collaborative in nature will be favoured. Organisations do not need to be Roman Catholic or Christian, but their objectives should be clearly aligned with Catholic Social Teaching principles.
The small grants scheme is expected to open in the autumn.
The deadline for large grant applications is 22 February 2024 (17:00).