A limited number of small grants for up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities for:
Schemes or bursaries for classical music education to enable young musicians to attend courses or music groups and orchestras, and to provide practical experience for singers and instrumentalists with the prospect of a career in classical music
- Conservation and crafts training, via bursaries to recognised higher educational teaching organisations
- Education projects in museums, the theatre and poetry, which inspire young people and their experience.
- The conservation of specific endangered historic artefacts and of the natural heritage environment
- Preventive projects to protect historic or natural collections.
Grants range from £500 to £5,000 and comprise of a mixture of (predominantly) repeat grants to the same group of charities, together with a few new applicants.
Please note that the Trust does not have a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
The Trust holds meetings twice a year in April and October. Applications should be made in writing and sent to the Administrator, either by post or as an email attachment.
Applications can be received at any time, but not later than 15 March or 15 September to be in time for consideration at the following month's half-yearly meeting.