CLA Charitable Trust

The CLA Charitable Trust provides one-off grants, typically under £5,500, to small to medium UK registered charities and not for profit organisation with a clear social purpose that access the benefits of the countryside to pursue the health and wellbeing of people and to provide opportunities for education about the countryside in England and Wales.

Priority areas include: Children and young people, disadvantaged financially, physically, mentally, or from areas of deprivation.

Applications for running costs, project works and capital works are eligible. Evidence of need should be demonstrated.

Deadline: Continuous rolling programme. Trustees meet three times a year with meetings usually scheduled in February, July and October.

Who can apply

Small and medium sized charities and not for profit organisations such as CIC’s with clear social purpose based in England and Wales, who have not been in receipt of a grant from CLACT in the previous three years and have a current safeguarding policy.

What we don’t fund

Grants for individuals, retrospective funding, non-educational holidays.