Applying for a grant

Who can apply for grants?

ACT will only accept applications for review from UK based individuals and registered charities. For overseas applications, only charitable organisations can apply.

When to apply

You can apply for a grant at any time. Trustees meet four times a year, but you do not need to time your application to coincide with these meetings. Procedures exist to give approvals between meeting dates, where necessary.

We do not publish the dates of Trustees' meetings.

What happens to your application

We will send you an acknowledgement letter within one week of receiving your application. If your proposal is either, in an unacceptable form, or ineligible or a low priority, we will tell you in this letter.

We will assess all acceptable applications and we may contact you for further information and/or make a personal visit. In the case of charitable bodies we may also ask for a presentation.

We aim to make decisions on grants of up to £50,000 within one month of receiving your application. Decisions on grants over £50,000 can take up to 3 months.

If the application is for an emergency you may request a faster timescale and we will do our best to assist.

Applications by or on behalf of Individuals

Fill in the application form

The application form can be downloaded here and then printed out for posting to us. You are advised to keep a copy for your own records.

To assist you a sample of a completed form is available here.

To help us process your application quickly, make sure that you answer all the questions. Please type your answers or write clearly in capital letters using a blue or black ballpoint pen.

The information you give is required to help us to decide if a grant can be given. Once you have completed your application form post it to us at the address provided on the form.

The downloaded pdf application form can also be filled out by typing your answers directly into the spaces provided. You can save your completed form to disk and attach it to an e-mail to us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it (please note that the confidentiality of information contained in an e-mail cannot be guaranteed by ACT).

If you wish to apply on behalf of Registered Charities or Overseas Charitable Organisations then please click here .