How to apply
Step Four
If you are eligible, please click Apply and you can download our Yorkshire Common Application Form and email this to stonehaventrust@outlook.com. Please also read the Stonehaven Charitable Trust’s Top Tips for completing your application form if you need some assistance.
Other useful information
We will consider applications at three trustees’ meetings a year in:
July | November | March
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Applications received before the 15th June will be considered at the July meeting.
Applications received between 16th June and 15th October will be considered at the November meeting.
Applications received between 16th October and 15th February will be considered at the March meeting.
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We will assess all eligible applications and may arrange a visit, video meeting or phone call to help us understand more about your work and the organisation.
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We will decide which charities to support and the amount of funding to be given at each trustee meeting. We will inform successful applicants via email and payments will be made as soon as possible.
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Successful applicants will be sent our Grant Outcomes Form. Please return this within 6-12 months of the grant being awarded. This will help us to see the impact your activities have had on the young people you support and will help us to plan our future grantmaking strategy. We can also accept a copy of a report that you have already produced if it includes information about the activity our grant has funded, for example, your Annual Report and Accounts. We may feature your charity’s activities in our Annual Report and/or on our website as a case study. ​
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If there are more applications than funds, then applications will need to be prioritised based on those that best evidence the following:
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Projects or organisations that target disadvantaged or underrepresented children and young people. You can use the latest Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to describe disadvantage in your area, but you can add weight to your application by describing how your activity supports disadvantaged or underrepresented children and young people by local data and/or case studies of people you have helped.
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Projects or activities that demonstrate clear outcomes in learning, wellbeing, or community engagement.
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Activities that offer sustained activity over a period of time where the numbers of people supported is proportionate to their circumstances and needs.
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We use an internal, simple traffic light system for assessing applications:
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Green – will definitely be considered for a grant and meet all criteria + demonstrate that they can achieve three outcomes + no concerns.
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Yellow – may be considered for a grant and meet some criteria + can achieve 1-2 outcomes + area/s of concern, but keen to improve and take advice on board.
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Red – unlikely to be considered for a grant as they were unsuccessful on the eligibility checker or submitted an application but do not meet any criteria, cannot demonstrate that they can achieve any outcomes, and/or there are significant areas for concern.
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Areas for concern maybe not keeping income and expenditure up-to-date and in order, weak on safeguarding, very low or very high reserves, no website or up-to-date social media, insufficient skills and experience on trustee board or staff team.
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We understand that sometimes projects don’t turn out as expected. We are open to learning and want our funding to be adaptable in such circumstances. This means an organisation must tell us about any significant changes to the grant so that we can discuss and agree to their plans.
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If you would like to know how we handle our data, please read our Privacy Policy.
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If you would like to know the full details on our grantmaking strategy, you can read our full Grantmaking Policy.​
