Commonweal Fund

Commonweal Fund:

The Trades House of Glasgow Commonweal Fund is available to charities and organisations within the city of Glasgow and surrounding areas. The committee is made up of 14 individuals including Trustees of the Trades House of Glasgow. Meetings of the Commonweal Fund committee take place in March and September each year. Awards are made to successful organisations at a presentation evening within The Trades Hall of Glasgow.

Political, municipal, and ecclesiastical appeals cannot be entertained. Charities duplicating rather than complementing existing services and those with national purposes and/or large running surpluses normally cannot be helped.

Before making an application please note that:

• Awards cannot be used to finance operating costs or staff costs unless they are related to staff training costs to deliver a designated project.
• Awards for property or property related costs will only qualify if they relate to fitting out spaces for designated projects; purchasing equipment to allow access for disabled people, or building related expenditure where the building is used for delivery of a charity related project/purpose. Expenditure related to hire of premises will be excluded.
• Awards for transport or vehicles will only qualify if it is for the purchase or part purchase of vehicles to move beneficiaries of the charity, emergency equipment or medical supplies. Expenditure related to staff vehicles, maintenance of vehicles and insurance will be excluded.
• Applications should include evidence of charitable status, current funding, and the use you are making of that.
• Projects should be demonstrated to be practical and business-like.
• It is a condition of any grant given that a report is made as to how the funds have been used.
• Grants not used for the purposes stated, must be returned.
• If successful, applicants may not apply again for a minimum of 2 years (there must be a 4 further Commonweal Committee meetings in-between applications)