Housing Pathways Trust

Housing Pathways Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 211053).

Housing Pathways Trust, registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under charity number 211053, aims to build communities so that local people can transform their own lives. It runs a Main Grants Programme covering Ealing, Brentford and its neighbourhood, a Grass Roots Programme for local groups in Ealing, and grants under Branch 2 from an ecclesiastical fund and the Grassroots fund. It awarded £116,587 in its latest annual report, and it has a long history of providing almshouse accommodation dating back to the seventeenth century.

Priority Areas

The Pathways Grants Programme funds local charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations, community groups and voluntary organisations working with people of all ages. Its main programme serves Ealing and Brentford, while its Grass Roots Programme is for local groups in Ealing. It is particularly interested in projects benefiting people on low incomes, people disadvantaged by ill health or disability, survivors of domestic violence, people needing support into employment and education, and community groups working to overcome isolation and strengthen the local voluntary sector. The programme supports work tackling poverty and homelessness, promoting healthy living, improving access to services, providing counselling, widening educational and employment opportunities, and promoting social cohesion. It aims to fund work that benefits people in communities and considers whether projects meet a defined need, are financially viable and achievable, and how outcomes will be monitored and evaluated. It generally limits its programme to small organisations.

Themes

• Poverty alleviation
• Healthy living
• Access to local services
• Education and employment
• Homelessness
• Domestic violence support
• Social cohesion

Geographic Focus

Ealing; Brentford.

Choose the relevant programme and complete its application form, answering all questions, demonstrating project need and how outcomes will be met, and uploading the requested supporting documents.

Deadlines: Three recurring application windows run from 25 November to 24 February, 25 February to 24 July, and 25 July to 24 November.

Application windows:

• Applications can be submitted from 25 November to 24 February.

Who can apply:

• Pathways Main Grants Programme: Applications are invited from local charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations. Organisations must work in Brentford and Ealing.
• Grass Roots Programme: Applicants must be small community and voluntary groups that have been active in Ealing for at least 12 months prior to December. They must have an average income of less than £20,000 per annum, be volunteer led, be connected with and/or meeting the needs of the local community, and be properly constituted.
• Pathways Main Grants Programme: Organisations must work in Brentford and Ealing.

What to send:

• A set of accounts, such as audited accounts.
• Annual report.
• The organisation’s constitution.
• Safeguarding policy.
• Equal opportunity policy.
• For an application to fund staff: job description, person specification and proposed salary levels.

Applying again: You must not have been funded by Pathways in the past 3 years. Applications from previously funded organisations should be submitted through the competitive application process.

What the charity says:

• Projects need to fit the criteria, be financially viable and achievable, and meet a defined need.
• Assessment considers the organisation’s ability to deliver, evidence of need, value for money, monitoring and evaluation, project impact and sustainability, fit with similar work, and collaboration.
• Applicants are expected to show that their work is inclusive and operates within an equal opportunities and diversity framework.
• Applicants must build user involvement into their work, involving service users or potential users appropriately at all stages.
• Funded organisations are asked for regular financial and performance monitoring reports and a final project report.
• For multi-year support, organisations should show they monitored and evaluated their work, learned lessons, refined their approach and achieved stated results.