Wates Foundation

How much and what can you apply for

You can apply for the costs of a specific project or core costs such as rent and non-project specific salaries. You can also apply for infrastructure development and capacity building such as staff or management training.

You can apply for one off costs of up to £15,000 or funding of up to £30,000 over 3 years. There are five different programmes:

Building Family Values

• Promoting the family unit
• Domestic abuse
• Supporting children and young people at risk
• Opportunities for children and young people 5-25 years of age

Community Health

• Addiction
• Mental Health and Disabilities – the disabled
• Aged and Infirm
• Alternative and complementary practice

Life Transitions

• Preparing client groups for key transitions to facilitate informed and accessible changes in life circumstances
• Addressing failure to deal adequately with key transitions, leading to negative outcomes in the short term and potentially in later life
• Promoting personal resilience, allowing beneficiaries to access life opportunities better, having achieved a key transition successfully

Safer Communities

• Crime in Communities
• Alternatives to custody
• Preparing offenders for release
• Resettlement of offenders after release
• Female offenders

How to apply

There is a two stage application process that can take several months. You need to send in a letter (by post, not email)  following the guidelines on the website. Following this you may be inviting to submit a full application that will be considered by the committee.

There are no deadlines, but the committees meet around June, October and February in the year.

Contact details

Date & initials

09/03/11 MS