JPGetty Trust Funding
J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable 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.
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:
- Reducing Reoffending: projects aiming to improve the lot of people in prison and smooth the transition for those leaving prison, maximising their chances of successful resettlement
- Improving Prospects: projects providing meaningful occupation for young people aged 14-19 to improve their employability and diminish the risk of social exclusion; work to improve the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
- Repairing Communities: projects led from within the community with the aim of integrating different social and ethnic groups in pursuit of worthwhile goals
- Repairing Lives: projects making a lasting impact on the lives of people with substance misuse problems; projects helping people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
- Preserving Heritage: conserving or restoring buildings and landscapes which are of national value and accessible to the public; saving from export art and manuscripts of national importance; developing conservation skills, especially among disadvantaged groups
- Sustaining the Arts: nurturing and developing artistic endeavour of the highest quality
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.
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