Overview
Donor: | Ashworth Charitable Trust |
Application procedure: | Online Application |
Donor base: | United Kingdom |
Reference number: | - |
Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation |
Deadline: | ongoing |
Financial details
Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
Minimum grant size: | 3.000GBP |
Total available budget: | 100.000GBP |
Funding type: | Grants |
Maximum grant size: | 5.000GBP |
Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Children & Youth
- Disability
- Economic Development
- Education
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Aid
- Social Inclusion
- Women & Gender
Project Locations
Africa
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
America
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Pacific
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Description
1) Objective
Set up in 1995, the Ashworth Charitable Trust is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally. For the most part, the Trust looks to fund projects and does not provide any core funding for organisations. On average, they distribute around 25-30 grants per year for international projects (in total around £100,000).
Thematic areas are: (1) Social, physical, or educational rehabilitation; (2) Support for illness or disability; (3) Victims of torture or human rights abuses; (4) Women’s refuges; (5) Micro-loans and business enterprises in the developing world; and (6) Humanitarian aid. The Trust prefers to help fund humanitarian projects and activities that share this vision and that have any of these characteristics: (1) the project or activity has been initiated by people living at the grassroots who are empowered to find the solutions to their own problems; (2) the project has a relatively simple, clear set of objectives and actions that further the vision of the Trust; (3) the project develops the capacity of individuals, their communities or their institutions helping them to help themselves; (4) the project enhances the learning of individuals, their communities or their institutions; (5) the project’s ‘beneficiaries’ participate in the management and running of the project or activity; and (6) the project’s ‘beneficiaries’ have suffered, or are suffering, from injustice, poverty or personal circumstances that are difficult for the individual to overcome without assistance.
They have funded: (1) Charities addressing social, physical, or educational re-habilitation; (2) Charities offering information, support, relief or equipment for illness or disability; (3) Charities supporting those members of society who may be considered as isolated, vulnerable, at risk or disadvantaged; (4) Charities supporting victims of torture or human rights abuses; (5) Charities helping to support carers; (6) Holidays for disadvantaged children; (7) Youth clubs, especially in disadvantaged areas; (8) Women’s refuges, Homeless shelters, Orphanages; (9) Charities supplying micro-loans, or other business enterprises in the Developing World; and (10) Charities helping to provide access to medical care, food or water supplies in the Developing World.
2) Eligibility
Eligible to receive financial support are (smaller) UK-based and registered non-profit organisations with a track record in implementing projects that align with the Trust’s mission. They do not support charities with a turnover of more than one million pounds Sterling (£1,000,000).
3) Location
Actions can take place in various countries across the globe (preferably in Africa and Asia).
4) Budget
Grants are usually between £3,000 and £5,000. On average, they distribute around 25-30 grants per year for international projects (in total around £100,000).
5) Application
Applicants must complete the online form (project details of no more than 200 words are required as well as a full set of the most recent audited accounts) and no hard copies are accepted. There are no deadlines. The Trustees hold biannual meetings in May and November. Successful applicants aree informed within 6 weeks of the relevant meeting. This would normally be the May meeting for those applications received before the end of February and the November meeting for applications received before the end of August.