THE TABHAIR CHARITABLE TRUST
Small grants, generally for £5,000 or less, are available to registered charities in the UK and Ireland working to change communities and restore broken lives through providing opportunities for education, training and personal advancement.
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o Application deadline: THURSDAY 31st OCTOBER 2024 for the Trust’s December meeting.
o Funder: The Tabhair Charitable Trust (founded 2012. Charity number SC043357. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 30th September 2023: £34,500 (2022: £161,087).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities. The Trust is particularly keen to support small and medium sized charities. The Trust also occasionally provides grants for individuals as well as for overseas initiatives.
o Key words: Education, Training, Personal Advancement and Development, the Relief of Poverty and Hardship through Ill Health, Disability, Finances, Citizenship, Community Development, Arts, Heritage, Culture Science, Animal Welfare, Sport, Recreational Facilities, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Equality, Diversity, Religion, Environmental Protection and Improvement, Overseas, Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Edinburgh based the Tabhair Charitable Trust seeks to change communities through providing opportunities for education, training and personal advancement by supporting individuals and organisations that take action in improving broken lives. The Trust makes grants to charitable organisations and primarily supports projects undertaken in the UK and Ireland. Tabhair is an Irish word, whose English translation is ‘to give’.
The charity makes grants, donations or gifts to other charitable or voluntary organisations whose aims encompass the following:
o The prevention or relief of poverty, the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
o The advancement of education, religion, health, the saving of lives, citizenship or community development, the arts, heritage, culture and science and the advancement of animal welfare.
o The advancement of public participation in sport, the provision of recreational facilities or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.
o The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation.
o The promotion of religious or racial harmony, equality and diversity, and
o The advancement of environmental protection or improvement.
During the year ended 30th September 2023, the Trust awarded 6 grants totalling £34,500 (2022: 13 grants totalling £161,087).
Grants, which were mainly one-off awards to charities in Scotland, ranged from £2,500 to £15,000 (to Helm Training, a Dundee based charity that supports young people aged 15 to 25 years to gain education and employment). In the previous year, the Trust’s grant awards ranged from £3,000 to £30,000 and had a wider geographical spread.
Where the Trust awards a grant for core costs, this can be for several years.
A list of all grant recipients over the previous 2 years can be viewed on page 10 of the Trust’s annual accounts.
The Trust meets twice annually to consider applications, in June and December. For the June meeting, the deadline for applications is 30th April and for the December meeting the deadline is 31st October.
The next deadline for applications is therefore Thursday 31st October 2024.
Further information, guidance and an online application form is available on the Trust’s website.