The Wakeham Trust
Charity Number: 267495
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Quick Stats
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Annual Giving | £56,170 (2023) |
| Grant Range | £125 - £2,500 |
| Average Grant | £1,300 (estimated) |
| Application Method | Rolling |
| Geographic Focus | United Kingdom |
Contact Details
- Website: www.wakehamtrust.org
- Email: TheWakehamTrust@icloud.com
- Phone: 01730 821274
Funding Priorities
- Micro-funding of community action and community service programmes
- Support of academic excellence in teaching and learning
- Unfashionable or unpopular projects that struggle to secure funding elsewhere
- Pump priming and seed funding grants
- Small-scale projects that empower local people and communities
- Projects run by ordinary people rather than professionals
- Projects that contribute significantly to the wellbeing of a local community
What They Don't Fund
- National appeals or general round robin funding letters
- Building work (almost never)
- Vehicles (almost never)
- Professional salaries (almost never)
- Hard-science medical projects
- Counselling, family-therapy and self-help projects
- Arts/performance projects
- Projects outside the UK (except with personal knowledge)
- Contributions to large appeals (buildings, minibuses)
- Applications from individuals (including education)
- Gap-year community service projects overseas
- Projects large enough to employ staff
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How to Apply to The Wakeham Trust
Email applications to TheWakehamTrust@icloud.com as plain text (not attachments). Rolling deadlines - applications accepted anytime.
Required information:
- Contact details (name, address, phone, email)
- Project details (name, address, phone, email)
- UK registered charity willing to accept grant on behalf of applicant
- Banking details of charity
- Project description (who it helps, size, new/established)
- Budget breakdown
- Other fundraising efforts
- Whether previously received Wakeham Trust grant
The Trust likes to see matched funding contributions or evidence of attempts to raise funding from other sources. Community support evidence (e.g., newspaper clippings) welcomed.
Similar Funders
These funders have a similar focus and geographic reach:
- The Cornelius Trust
- The Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust
- Newbury Lions Club (cio)
- Budleigh Salterton Lions Club (cio)
- Two Ridings Community Foundation
- Knaresborough Lions Club
- Ridley Family Charity
- National Lottery
- The Lalonde Trust
- Gay And Peter Hartley's Hillards Charitable Trust
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