Applying to the trust
Please see the application process and criteria below for applying to York Children’s Trust.
Please read before completing an application form.
Applying to York Children’s Trust
- The Trust application form for individual young people or families should only be completed by education, voluntary sector, and health or social work professionals who should know the family/young person and should demonstrate why there is a need for a grant. Please do not give the form to the customer/young person to complete.
- The form should not be changed or edited.
- The customer must agree to the application and to their details being sent to the Trust which may be shared with Trustees, relevant professionals, the Charity Commission and Companies House. The professional completing the application should confirm on the form that the applicant has agreed to their data being shared (there is a box at the top to indicate this). The application will not be considered without this confirmation.
Application process
- Trustees consider applications in February, April, July and October. There is approximately £18,000 grant funding available to award each quarter. Applications should be e-mailed to the Administrator at least 2 weeks before the date of the meeting.
- Trustees may consider urgent applications up to a maximum grant award of £500 outside the quarterly meetings. Urgent applications requesting funding in excess of £500 may be awarded interim funding until the next quarterly meeting when a decision will be made on whether to continue with the grant funding.
Criteria for applying
- Individual applicants, organisations and youth groups must reside within a 20-mile radius from the centre of York.
- The grant should benefit a child or young person up to and including the age of 24 who have limited financial means.
- Grants that benefit the family as a whole will be considered (for example, a grant to purchase a cooker, fridge or washing machine). Wherever possible, workers should visit the family to confirm that the item is needed and check whether the item is beyond repair.
- Applications are considered for educational, social and medical reasons. Grants are also available to support young people’s projects and groups, for example, scout and guide groups, not for profit playgroups and youth groups.
- Applications from schools for school trips are only considered from schools within a 20 mile radius of York.
- Applications are considered to support young people who have an exceptional talent, e.g. in the sports or music field, to enable them to train or purchase equipment. A letter from a professional who knows the young person and can vouch for the young person’s exceptional talent must support these applications.
- Beneficiaries of a grant, or the families of beneficiaries, must have limited financial means, for example, be in receipt of a benefit or on a very low income or have other extenuating circumstances which should be detailed in the application.
- There should be no public or statutory funds available to meet the proposed use of funds.
- The Trust does not consider applications for items that have already been purchased unless there are exceptional circumstances. The Trust does not consider applications to pay off debt.
- Applicants should be informed that York Children’s Trust is a charity and that the application may not be successful.
Please choose the grant you would like to apply for below.
You will complete a short form that will be submitted to York Children's Trust for consideration.
We consider grants only when there is no statutory duty to provide the funding.
All grant applications for individual children, young people and families must be completed and supported by a professional working with the family or young person, e.g. a social worker, health professional, teacher, GP, York Carers Centre, Citizens Advice York.
