Grants for registered charities

The Thomas Wall Trust believes that communication skills are critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

The Trust recognises that communication is underpinned by a set of key features and skills such as empathy, listening, emotional intelligence, confidence, and clarity, amongst others.

We are an inclusive charity, welcoming proposals which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups demonstrably facing major hurdles to employment, especially; women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, refugees and asylum seekers.

The Trust offer grants up to £5,000 to specific projects or core activities that develop these critical life skills for people from disadvantaged groups.

We prioritise:

• Match funded projects

• Charities working with collaborative networks

• Self-sustainable projects, with a view to becoming less reliant on grants in the future We do not fund:

• Organisations with political, lobbying or proselytizing objectives

• Capital costs (the purchase of land, buildings, construction)

• Charities that operate outside of the UK

• Subsidiaries, ‘off shoots’ or franchises of larger charities

• Hospitals

We will fund:

• A UK charity that has been registered with the Charity Commission for at least 3 years
• A project or running costs for a charity that equips disadvantaged people (aged 18 and over) with the necessary communication skills ready for employment
• Annual repeat funding for up to 3 years – subject to satisfactory annual reviews of progress and impact .How to apply:

The application process is divided into two stages:

Stage one is to complete the Expression of Interest form (link) where you will be asked to complete some basic contact details and a description of what you require funding for.

If successful, you will be invited to Stage two – Applicants will be asked to submit a Project Plan (including budget details) using the template (available to download from the website), latest set of audited financial accounts, and any relevant policies.

Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email unless we receive an unusually high volume of applications.