Eligibility Quiz
For each question, please select the answer most appropriate to your organisation.
  1. Do you represent
    • At present, we do not support co-operatives or housing associations. Exceptions to this rule are confined to existing partnerships.
    • We do not offer funding to individuals, only UK registered charities and organisations with officially recognised charitable status.
    • Our Trustees consider applications from cathedrals for capital projects at our October meeting.
    • We receive many applications from regional charities that are affiliated with a national body. Examples include regional Home-Starts, regional Carers Trusts and regional YMCAs. While we will consider these applications, we recognise that we are unable to support them all, and applications are very unlikely to be successful. Trustees will generally prioritise applications from the national bodies.
    • We only fund registered charities and organisations with officially recognised charitable status.
  2. Which of the following categories best describes your organisation?
    • We do not normally give grants for schools, colleges, universities or other educational establishments. We occasionally make exceptions for institutions with which we have a long-standing funding relationship.
    • We do not give grants for museums, galleries, libraries, exhibitions or heritage attractions
    • We do not give grants for hospices, hospitals, nursing homes or residential care homes.
    • Excluding a few rare exceptions to organisations with which we have a long-standing relationship, we do not fund charities which primarily regrant. If you primarily regrant and have been funded by the Trust before, please contact the office and we will advise on next steps.
    • We do not make grants to individual churches. Instead, we support churches through our grants to selected Community Foundations and the National Churches Trust. Applications should be made directly to them.
  3. What is your organisation's annual income? Please note that we are referring to the income in your charity's most recent set of published accounts.
    • The Trust will consider applications from newly established charities – by this, we mean charities established in the last two years, which do not yet have an income of £200,000, provided they meet the Trust's other eligibility criteria.
    • We support charities with an income above £200,000. If your charity has finished the most recent financial year with income of at least £200,000 but does not yet have published accounts, we are happy to consider an application. In this case please select the option 'Between £200,000 and £10 million' and indicate this is the case in your application.
    • We consider applications with an income between £200,000 and £10 million, although priority is generally given to small-medium sized charities with an income between £200,000 and £3 million where our funding will have a greater impact.
    • We have an upper annual income threshold of £10 million and do not support charities with income above this.
  4. Where does your charity operate?
    • We do not fund work delivered in Greater London. Charities solely operating in London and with no plans to expand are not eligible to apply to the Trust.
    • We do not fund work which is delivered in Northern Ireland or organisations which are solely registered with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.
    • We fund charities with a broad geographical reach working in England (excluding London), Scotland and Wales.
    • We fund work delivered by UK-registered charities in Kenya and Uganda. Please note that this category is restricted to charities that have a long association with the Trust. It is extremely unusual for us to take on new partners and we recommend contacting the team if you are interested in applying to this category but have not previously received Dulverton funding.
    • We only fund charities registered in England, Scotland or Wales delivering work within those countries or in Kenya and Uganda. Funding for work in other parts of the world is limited and confined to our invitation-only International Stability and Reconstruction category.
  5. What is your charity's geographical reach?
    • We fund work delivered by UK-registered charities in Kenya and Uganda. Please note that this category is restricted to charities that have a long association with the Trust. It is extremely unusual for us to take on new partners and we recommend contacting the team if you are interested in applying to this category but have not previously received Dulverton funding.
    • We prioritise charities operating in England, Scotland or Wales with a broad geographic reach. Charities working from one location or within one Local Authority are highly unlikely to receive funding.
    • We accept applications from registered charities with a broad geographic reach in England, Scotland or Wales. In England, we prioritise organisations delivering their work across at least two regions (by region, we mean the North West, North East, Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, South East and South West). In Scotland and Wales, we prioritise charities with national reach. We also accept applications from charities working across the UK.
  6. Is the work that you would like us to fund within one of the following categories? (If more than one choice is relevant, please choose the one you feel is more appropriate)
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    • Please note this category is currently restricted to applications from UK registered charities that are well known to the Trust. Click here to see our priorities within this category.
    • Applications to this category are by invitation only, in which case you will be provided with a direct link to our application form. Please do not attempt to apply under this theme unless you have been invited as your appeal will not be successful. In you have previously received a grant from us and you work in disaster preparedness or peace intervention, please contact the team and we can advise if we can consider an appeal.
    • We only fund work that falls into one or more of the areas of activity listed above. Trustees regularly review our grant-making policy and any changes will be posted on this website.
  7. Does the work you are proposing fall within the following areas of activity?
    • At present, we do not provide support for work that addresses the impact of specific mental or physical illnesses, or specific health conditions. This includes work relating to the delivery of healthcare with a clinical basis including treatment, medical research, counselling and therapy, and treatment and prevention activities relating to addiction and drug and alcohol misuse. Due to high demand on our funding, we are very unlikely to fund charities which support families experiencing illness or bereavement which are not working at a national level.
    • We do not fund charities or charitable work for which the primary purpose is the advancement of religion. The exception to this rule is our cathedral programme.
    • At present, we do not provide specific support to arts organisations, except where used as a means of achieving our funding priorities.
    • We do not fund sport, except where used as a means of achieving our current funding priorities.
    • We do not at present fund animal welfare (including veterinary care) or projects concerning the protection of single species.
    • We do not at present fund expeditions.
    • We do not at present fund individuals volunteering overseas.
    • We do not at present fund conferences, cultural festivals, exhibitions and events.
    • We do not currently fund capital projects, including the purchase of property, land or vehicles.
    • We do not give grants for the repair, restoration or improvements to individual places of worship other than cathedrals. Instead, we fund the National Churches Trust (click here for website).
    • We do not at present fund research (unless linked to a project that meets the Trust's priorities).
    • We do not at present fund projects primarily concerned with campaigning or lobbying.
  8. What type of funding do you need? (More than one answer may apply. Please select the best fit.)
    • We do not currently give grants towards endowments.
    • We do not provide retrospective funding.
    • The Trust makes both single year and multi-year grants. The latter are normally reserved for charities we have funded before.
    • We make grant towards core funding. We also make grant towards project funding.
    • We make grants towards project funding. We also make grants towards core funding.
    • The Trust only supports bursaries or scholarships within the heritage category.
    • The Trust generally does not provide funding which will be re-granted to other organisations or individuals. We have a very small number of exceptions for longstanding partners.