Grants of between £500 and £15,000 are available to UK registered charities working in developing countries to advance women and girls' education, employment, and female empowerment.
Bath based The Coles-Medlock Foundation's aim is to facilitate support and assistance for those in need due to youth, ill health, disability or financial deprivation both in the UK and overseas. A key objective of the Foundation is alleviating the impact of extreme poverty throughout the developing world through sustainable food provision, improved infrastructure, healthcare and education and independent financial progress.
However, the specific focus of the Foundation’s grant making has more recently been on women and girls' education, employment, and female empowerment, especially for new charities that have received a donation for the first time. The Foundation has confirmed that this will continue to be its focus for the foreseeable future. Applicants that do not meet these criteria are unlikely to be successful.
When assessing grant applications, the Foundation wants to see charities demonstrate the following points:
- Why there is a need for their work, why it is not currently being met and how they plan to address it?
- The impact their work will have in terms of numbers of people helped and degree of improvement to those people’s lives?
- What plans are in place to measure the qualitative and quantitative impact of the work?
- A forecast budget for the work to show short-term and long-term sustainability, and
- The most recent annual report and accounts of the charity.
Applications may be made at any time using the online application form available on the Foundation’s website, where further information about its grant-making priorities, including Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) can also be found.