Please email Alan Bright, the trust administrator, with the information below in either a Word document, PDF or similar. There is no application form.

The trust may share the information you provide with potential donors, to increase the possibility of being able to provide funding.

Funding for individuals

Your application should cover:

  • What you need the money for

  • Christian background

  • Age, education, Christian ministry and other work (eg non-Church paid employment)

  • Hopes, ambitions and plans

  • An annual budget (income and expenditure), accounting for any spouse, children or other dependents, showing:
    - how much money you need
    - what funds you already have and from where - this should include forecast of income from spouse, where applicable
    - how much you are applying to the trust for and/or your shortfall 
    - how you intend to raise the remaining funds

  • Two references, sent direct by referees to the trustees. Do not send referees' contact details to the trust. Please direct referees to our briefing notes.

Trustees prefer to receive applications which demonstrate that applicants have mostly exhausted their available avenues of support - eg family, friends, churches, individuals among whom they have been involved in ministry, other trusts, personal savings etc.

Funding for projects

Your application should include

  • The rationale for your plans

  • Information about the key individuals involved

  • How you hope the work will develop and at what stage (if any) you hope it to become self-financing

  • Budgets for the next three years and money raised so far. Where the application is from a church, the trustees require a copy of the latest church accounts, and the typical Sunday attendance.

The trustees will also require two references for the main individuals involved in the project. These should be from people who know both the proposed project and the key individuals involved - and there should be at least one reference from someone not at the church. Please direct your referees to our briefing notes.

Please direct referees to send references direct to the trust.

Grants

In 2023 the average grants were £1.8k for trainees, £2.1k for theological students and £2.9k for churches and similar.

The trust rarely provides all the funding for any individual or project; and - because of the nature of the trust’s income - it cannot guarantee funding for more than one year.

Where appropriate, the trustees may express an intention - without commitment - to grant funding for more than one year.

Trustees' Meetings

The trustees meet four times a year to consider applications.

Applications (with supporting references) received by 13 February shall be considered at the trustees' meeting in March.