Who can apply

You will need to demonstrate that your organisation:

• Benefits people resident or working in Tower Hamlets and/or Southwark and/or the City of London;
• Undertakes charitable work (however you do not have to be a registered charity);
• Has a constitution or a set of rules which governs its activities;
• Has its own bank or building society account where two or more named people (including one trustee or management committee member) have to sign all the cheques;  
• Can provide annual accounts for the previous year (If your organisation is new, copies of your most recent bank or building society statements will suffice)

Non-priority areas

We will not support:

• Grants to individuals
• Work that has already taken place
• Applicants who have been rejected by the Trust within the last six months
• Organisations with significant unrestricted reserves 
• Organisations in serious financial deficit
• The promotion of religion
• Animal charities
• Statutory bodies and work that is primarily the responsibility of central or local government
• Health trusts, health authorities and hospices (or any sort of medical equipment or medical research)

We are unlikely to support:

• Building restoration or conservation
• Uniformed youth groups
• Schools or projects working with schools, supplementary schools or vocational training
• Environmental improvements