Jill Franklin Trust
Flat 5, 17-19 Elsworthy Road
London NW3 3DS
Phone: 020 7722 4543
Email: jft AT jill-franklin-trust.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 1000175
Guidelines for applications to the Jill Franklin Trust
The Jill Franklin Trust was set up in memory of Jill Franklin, 1928-1988, and has
about £70,000 a year to spend. Some this is already committed as a block grant for
prisoners’ education that would not be funded by the government and to organisations
we have promised grants over a number of years.
The Trust has decided to focus its funding on deprived areas of Great Britain and,
looks with particular favour at applications from the North or England and from Wales.
Small charities are preferred, and simply prepared proposals are more likely to be
accepted.
Areas the Trust funds:
Grants are typically £1,000 for one to three years (except for church restoration
which is normally £500), and the trust has five areas for which it is soliciting
grant applications:
- Self-Help groups, advice, training, and employment; to support people with a mental
illness or learning difficulties, and their carers (parents etc.),
- Organisations helping and supporting refugees and asylum-seekers coming to or in
the UK,
- The restoration (not “improvement”) of churches of architectural importance (half
a page in Pevsner’s Buildings). The church should be open to visitors every day,
- Local schemes to help prisoners to resettle, or to inhibit delinquency,
- Bereavement counselling.
Excluded categories:
- The Trustees do not look favourably on appeals for building work (other than church
restoration), nor for endowment funds,
- We will not fund to replace the duties of Government, local authorities or the NHS,
- We are not funding overseas,
- No grants are given to religious organisations set up for welfare, education etc.
of whatever religion, unless the service is open to and used by people from all denominations,
and there is no attempt to conduct any creedal propaganda or religious rituals, or
require clients to attend religious services,
- Animal and environmental charities,
- Students, nor to any individuals nor for overseas travel, and
- Medical research.
To apply
- Churches seeking a grant for repairs to the fabric of the church should complete
the form which can be found at http://www.jill-franklin-trust.org.uk/churchapplication.html
- Applicants for a grant should write enclosing a budget for the project or e-mail
(jft@jill-franklin-trust.org.uk. If your accounts are not filed with the Charity
Commission or OSCA, please enclose them, or provide a link to them.
- A preliminary enquiry by email is welcomed, however we are not always able to acknowledge
enquiries.
- The Trustees tend to look more favourably on an appeal which is simply and economically
prepared: glossy, "prestige" and Mailsorted brochures do not impress the trustees.
- We have very little uncommitted cash, so most applications are rejected, for the
only reason that we have insufficient money.
Guidelines revised (01/2016)