Criteria for grants

 

The trustees will consider applications for help with unexpected or exceptional personal expenditure required by the applicant or the applicant’s dependants. This might include:

• expenditure arising from illness, accident, emergency or family difficulties

• unexpected living expenses (for example, exceptional need for equipment, furnishing or decorations)

• exceptional educational expenses.

Applications are not normally considered for expenses that might properly be met by the parish, those that could be considered to be normal living expenses or retrospective expenditure, unless incurred in an emergency.

The income of the charity is in the region of £10,000 a year, and applications are invited for grants of any amount, although assistance to any one applicant does not normally exceed £1,000 in any year, with the average grant being under £500.

The trustees receive many applications for assistance with the purchase of computer equipment.   In considering such applications they take into account the use to which it will be put and the contribution made by the parish to expenses.   Grants for computer equipment rarely exceed £500.