The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity. We support UK charities and CIOs (charitable incorporated organisations) tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts.

The Trust currently offers funding across fthese categories:

YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES

This is our largest category and aims to support charities working with socio-economically disadvantaged children and young people. We fund initiatives that support young people to develop the life skills to enable them to thrive.

GENERAL WELFARE

They support a wide range of charities that benefit disadvantaged people and communities, with particular interest in:

• strengthening and supporting family relationships
• work with offenders, especially young offenders, with a focus on desistance
• helping young homeless people to move forward
• maintaining active living and independence for older people (note: this does not include help with medical and mental health)
• the welfare of those who care for others
• developing tolerance and understanding between faiths and communities and the promotion of social cohesion

CONSERVATION

They support charities working to support the health and resilience of the UK’s wildlife habitat. This work focuses on:

• protecting, planting and sympathetically managing trees and native woodlands
• protecting coastal and marine environments

Please note that we rarely consider applications for projects concerned with a single species.

HERITAGE

We support the development of craftsmanship in the traditional techniques of repair and restoration and have a strong interest in:

• heritage skills training, particularly where it may benefit a disadvantaged group
• cathedrals (Trustees generally make one award to a cathedral per year)

Please note that annual grants are awarded to the National Churches Trust to disburse to churches on our behalf, and as such, we are not able to support applications from individual churches.

We look to support charities and CIOs working within our funding categories, and prioritise those that are medium-sized (with income between £200,000 and £3 million), have a national footprint and do not receive a significant proportion of income from government or local authority contracts.