THE D’OYLY CARTE CHARITABLE TRUST
One-off revenue grants for projects and core costs up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities working at a grassroots level in the areas of the arts, the environment and medical care.
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o Application deadline: TUESDAY 4th FEBRUARY 2025 at 11:59pm for the Trust’s meeting on Tuesday 11th March 2025.
o Funder: The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust (founded 1972. Charity number 1112457. Total value of all grants awarded in the year ended 31 March 2023: £1,874,483 (2022: £1,796,216; 2021: £1,783,704)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities working in the UK. This includes exempt or excepted charities. Information on what constitutes an exempted charity is available at this link to the GOV.UK website.
o Key words: Revenue, Projects, Small Charities, Core Costs, Arts, Education, Children and Young People, Choirs/Choral Singing, Performance, Music, Drama, Social Inclusion, Environment, Conservation, Rural Crafts and Skills, Heritage, Horticulture, Health, medical Care, Music and Art Therapy, Carers, Social Welfare, United Kingdom.
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The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust provides revenue funding for core operational and project costs for locally-based, grassroots UK registered charities that are providing services to UK communities in the following fields:
1. The Arts, particularly:
o The promotion of access, education and excellence in the arts for young people to increase their opportunities to become involved outside school and to build future audiences with special emphasis on choral singing for children and young people to encourage recruitment into choirs.
o Performance development opportunities in the performing arts for those in the early stages of their careers, encouraging involvement in the community through performances and workshops for the benefit of those with special needs and those who would otherwise have no opportunity to hear or participate in a live performance, and
o Support for charities seeking to engage with young people on the fringes of society through music and drama projects to improve their employability and diminish the risk of social exclusion.
2. Improvement and Protection of the Environment, particularly:
o Conservation of the countryside and its woodlands, with emphasis on the encouragement of voluntary work and active involvement in hands-on activities, particularly activities that bring about positive changes in the lives of young people and help them to experience the value of nature.
o Rural crafts and skills in heritage conservation, with emphasis on increasingly rare skills that would otherwise be lost, and
o Social and therapeutic horticulture: projects that use gardening or other environmental activities to bring about positive changes in the lives of those who are living with disabilities or ill health.
3. Medical Welfare, particularly:
o Support for charities concerned with alleviating the suffering of adults and children with medical conditions who have difficulty finding support through traditional sources.
o The provision of music and art therapy to improve quality of life, and
o The welfare of those who care for others through the provision of breaks for those carers without regular support – and with emphasis on projects and schemes that allow young carers to enjoy being children.
One-off grants, usually between £500 and £5,000 are available to UK registered and exempt charities.
Funding is not available for:
o Advocacy.
o Animal welfare.
o Campaigning or lobbying.
o Capital projects or developments.
o Community transport organisations or services, air ambulances, requests for vehicles.
o Conferences and Seminars.
o Counselling and psychotherapy services.
o Drug abuse or alcoholism rehabilitation.
o Educational projects linked to the National Curriculum.
o Endowments.
o Exhibitions.
o Expeditions and overseas travel.
o Feasibility studies.
o Festivals (other than those dedicated to the arts).
o General and round-robin appeals.
o Grant-making organisations.
o Individuals.
o Large national charities.
o Local or national authorities.
o Medical Research.
o NHS hospitals for operational services.
o Nurseries and Playgroups (other than those for special needs children).
o Organisations that are not Registered Charities (or accepted as Exempt Charities).
o Prisons.
o Projects taking place or benefiting people outside the UK.
o Recordings and commissioning of new works.
o Religious causes and activities.
o Routine maintenance of religious or historic buildings.
o Sport.
o Statutory services including state schools (other than those for pupils with disabilities).
o Umbrella organisations, or
o Universities, Further Education Colleges, and Independent Schools (other than those
dedicated to the arts)
Registered charities wishing to apply for a grant are requested to do so online via the Trust’s website.
Applicants are required to study the Charity’s online Guidelines before submitting an application to ensure full compliance, and an eligibility portal indicates whether an application can proceed to the online application form.
Once an application has been submitted via the website an automatically generated response confirms receipt to the applicant, with a copy of the application form attached.
Full application guidance is available on the website, and, if needed, additional help can be obtained by telephoning the Charity’s Grants Administrators on 0203 637 3003 or by emailing info@
The Trust considers applications 3 times a year at their Board meetings held in March, July and November, and the majority of grants awarded are on a one-off basis. Longer-term grants are very occasionally agreed to charities whose work the Trustees know well, for a maximum period of three years, mainly in respect of bursary funding for arts education.
Please note that applicants who have unsuccessfully applied for grants support may not reapply for a period of 24 months.
The next application deadline is Tuesday 4th February 2025 for consideration at the Trust’s meeting on Tuesday 11th March 2025.
Contact details for the Trust are:
Jane Thorne
Executive Director and Company Secretary
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
6 Trull Farm Buildings
Tetbury
Gloucestershire
GL8 8SQ
Tel: 0203 637 3003
Email: info@