Welcome to The Dulverton Trust

Our largest category, supporting work with young people aged up to 25 that:

• engages participants primarily on the basis of low income
• helps participants to develop the life skills (e.g., employability skills, academic skills, or social-emotional skills) to thrive and progress into further opportunities, particularly education, employment or training
• takes a strengths-based approach. There is strong evidence that growing up in poverty can negatively impact a young person’s life chances. However, we want to fund charities which recognise the skills and capacity that young people already possess, and do not view the young person as something to be ‘fixed’. 

We support work in communities with high levels of poverty, focusing on:

• strengthening and supporting family relationships
• work with offenders, especially young offenders, with a focus on desistance
• helping young homeless people to move forward
• maintaining active living and independence for older people
• the welfare of those who care for others
• the promotion of social cohesion

We support the development of craftsmanship in the traditional techniques of repair and restoration and have a strong interest in:

• heritage skills training, particularly where it may benefit a disadvantaged group
• cathedrals (Trustees award grants towards capital projects at UK cathedrals with a focus on heritage craft skills at our autumn Board meeting)

We support charities working on the health and resilience of the UK’s wildlife habitat. This work focuses on:

• protecting, planting and sympathetically managing trees and native woodlands
• protecting coastal and marine environments

This category is currently restricted to UK registered charities operating in Kenya or Uganda, which already have a long association with the Trust. Our priorities in these locations are:

• community development (in particular, the provision of water and power, and the encouragement of farming, common market gardening and enterprise)
• wildlife conservation

Funding is limited and we recommend that you contact us in advance of submitting an application.