• HOW TO APPLY

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR APPLICATIONS

The CLA Charitable Trust (CLACT) was founded in 1980 and helps to provide facilities for the disabled to take part in country sports and recreation and training in agriculture and horticulture. It also promotes education in the countryside for disadvantaged children and young people.

The Trustees give grants and awards, focusing on smaller projects where the grant makes a real contribution to the success of that project.

Applications should be for a specific project or item of capital equipment rather than on-going running costs. The Trustees do not give grants to individuals.

Applicants should make every effort to ensure that their application is within the guidelines of the Trust and that their application does not waste their own time and that of the Trustees by being ineligible.

Applications should include:

1. Background information on the project; its context within the local community; the people whose needs would hope to be met; the necessity for the facility/project;

2. Annual Report and Annual Financial Statement if applicable;

3. The timing of the project and its various phases;

4. Details of who will carry out the work;

5. Costings of the whole project as well as the phase that the Trustees might support;

6. Details of other grants applied for and received and other fundraising;

7. Any other information the applicant might feel is helpful to give the Trustees as full a picture as possible of the project, including photographs, press reports, etc;

8. Whether the applicants are members of the CLA (this is for information only and does not influence the award of a grant);

9. Whether the applicants have applied for or received a grant from the Trustees before;

10. The applicant must be prepared to co-operate in publicity for their project and the CLA Charitable Trust;

11. Within six months of the grant being awarded a report should be submitted to the Trustees on the progress of their project, if it is not concluded by this time a further report should be given on completion.

* It should be noted that the Trustees rarely give grants of more than £2,000 at present.

Please send your application form to:

Mr Peter J Geldart LLM, Director, CLA Charitable Trust, Caunton Grange, Caunton, Newark, Notts, NG23 6AB.

For further information please email: charitabletrust@cla.org.uk