JP Getty Jnr Charitable Trust

Our funding

Before submitting an application you should read the following information very carefully to make sure your organisation is eligible for funding and to check whether your request fits our current funding priorities, as we will not usually award grants towards work that falls outside these guidelines.

The Trust can award grants towards both revenue and capital costs. However, the trustees will not normally approve grants to cover more than 20% of a charity's entire annual running costs, as we feel it is important for organisations to develop a range of income sources and not become dependent on any single funder.

Main grants can be between £10,000 and £250,000 over a period of 1 to 3 years. Multi-year grants will often be paid as a single instalment. On average it takes us between 3 and 6 months to award a main grant, so please allow plenty of time when making your application.

Small grants of up to £5,000 are also available for smaller charities. Applications are made in exactly the same way as for our main grants programme. However, if you are successful, your grant may be awarded in as little as 2 to 3 months.

If you are a faith-based community group planning to apply for a grant of £5,000 or less, assistance may be available through the Church Urban Fund Mustard Seed Programme, to which the J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust makes a contribution. We recommend that you look at www.cuf.org.uk for further guidance, or contact Nick Waters at the Church Urban Fund (020 7898 1647).

Please bear in mind that if you decide to approach the Church Urban Fund for support through the Mustard Seed Programme, you should not apply directly to the Trust as well.

Eligibility

At present, our grant making is largely focused on supporting registered charities in England, although applications may sometimes be considered from other parts of the United Kingdom if the project is likely to be of nationwide significance.

Occasionally, we will fund organisations of comparable charitable status, such as Industrial Provident Societies or Community Interest Companies, but only where there is a very strong connection with one or more of our current funding priorities.

Please note that we are unable to fund individuals, or charities based outside the UK.

Areas of Interest

We are currently inviting applications from registered charities in the following areas:

Please click the relevant headings for further details of the types of work we fund in each category, and also bear in mind that we favour projects with a long-term focus.

We aim to ensure that our grants are made to charities which do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, race, colour or nationality, and therefore we support organisations with a clear commitment to equal opportunities. However, we recognise that the sensitive nature of some of the work we fund means that appropriate restrictions on staff or participants may sometimes need to be applied.

To gain a clearer idea of the sort of projects we fund, it may also help to look at our latest Annual Report & Accounts.