The Limbourne Trust is a small but established grant-making charity with its principal office in Norfolk. The Trust has wide charitable objectives which encompass the benefit of communities throughout the world, in particular the advancement of education, protection of health, and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness. In addition, the Trust seeks to support charities involved with the protection and conservation of the environment. The Trust will also seek to challenge all forms of oppression and inequality and will prioritise funding for groups who assist people who are unable to take a full role in society due to economic, political and social disadvantage.
Grants are available to UK charities working in the UK and/or overseas in the following fields:
- Community Projects to assist those at disadvantage or facing barriers.
- Protection and conservation of the environment.
- Promote the public education in and appreciation of literature, music, drama, and dance.
- Research into renewable energy sources.
- Development of organic farming methods.
- Development of environmentally sustainable projects, and
- Other charitable purposes as the trustees from time to time may decide upon.
The trustees generally seek to identify those projects where the greatest and widest benefit can be achieved.
Please note that the Trust does not have a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
The trustees state in the annual accounts that they have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
Applications should be made in writing. The trustees hold two grant-making meetings a year (usually in early spring and autumn) at which they consider a short-list of applications.
The Trust has produced guidelines for grant applicants as outlined below:
Essential criteria
- Name of charity and registered charity number
- Contact details, including website address
- Up-to-date financial statements/accounts and trustees' report
- Aims and objectives of the charity
- Name and nature of the project we are being asked to fund
- Supporting evidence for need of project, and, where relevant, a measure of its success to date
- How impact will be measured
- The duration of the project
- Is it an existing or new venture?
- The budget for the project, the amount raised to date and applications pending, including other principle partners or funders, and
- Name and contact details for this project.
Desirable criteria
What other organisations are working in this field and in what way does this particular project relate to them.