The Yapp Charitable Trust make grants for running costs and salaries to small registered charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work.
The Yapp Charitable Trust offer grants only for core funding to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000 who are undertaking work that focuses on one of these priority groups:
- Elderly people
- Children and young people
- People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges
- Social welfare – people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)
- Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)
The Trust only make grants for core funding. The Trust define core funding as the costs associated with regular activities or services that have been ongoing for at least a year. The Trust does not fund new work or projects.
Grants are only offered to registered charities that have been formally established for a minimum of 3 years. Newly registered charities may apply but the organisation must have appointed a management committee and adopted a governing document at least 3 years ago.
Trustees meet 3 times per year to consider applications and a decision time can take up to 5 months from the date of submission.