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Sir Charles Hayward was born in 1893 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. In 1911, he started his own business making wooden patterns for the developing engineering trade. His early involvement in the motor industry proved to be a springboard for his later success culminating in the formation of Firth Cleveland Ltd. He was Chairman from its inception in 1953 until 1973 when he retired.

Sir Charles used his personal fortune to establish and endow two charitable trusts, the Hayward Foundation and the Charles Hayward Trust. The two charities were combined on 1 January 2000, to become the Charles Hayward Foundation.

The Charles Hayward Foundation runs a number of grant making programmes.

We predominantly fund capital costs. Occasionally, project funding may be offered for start-up or development activities where these are not part of the on-going revenue requirement of the organisation.

We place great emphasis on funding projects that are developmental or innovative. We would like to enable things to happen that would not otherwise happen. We prefer funding a project in its early stages rather than finishing off an already well supported appeal.

We also value projects that are preventive or provide early intervention. Our preferred area of impact is at the community and neighbourhood level.

We also wish to promote good practice. We would like to help with the development of solutions to society's problems and help to expand the take-up of these solutions where they are most needed.

We will normally make grants to UK registered and exempt charities only.

The following types of recipients will be excluded:

Our area of operation for our main grants programmes is the United Kingdom. Except in our community facilities small grant scheme we do not target particular regions. We consider the quality of projects more important than their geographical location. Nevertheless, we also recognise that London organisations in particular are well served by charitable trusts.

We also have an overseas grants programme which makes grants to UK registered charities which undertake projects in the Commonwealth Countries of Africa, India and Pakistan.

Although we consider levels of socio-economic deprivation in an area are an important factor in determining the value of a project, more important criteria for our grant making are innovation, excellence and the development of new services and activities.

We will not fund:

The small grant scheme makes grants up to £5,000 only to charities with an annual turnover of less than £250,000.

In our other programmes, grant sizes are typically from £10,000 to £25,000 one-off grant. Where agreed, project funding may be granted for a maximum of three years in duration, and will be tapered downwards if appropriate. Project funding may be up to £15,000 per year over three years

We have recently reviewed our grant-making policy in order to focus on a narrower range of activities.

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Criminal Justice.

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We will continue to occasionally fund prison reform activities.

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In this policy area we wish to fund preventative and early intervention programmes allowing older people to stay in their own homes and remain independent. We are particularly interested in seeking out programmes which show some creativity in improving the quality of life of older people. We wish to focus on:

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We will accept applications for projects in India, Pakistan and the Commonwealth countries of Africa. We favour high impact projects that have immediate results. We will only fund overseas projects through UK registered charities, which must be able to provide an adequate local monitoring function for the grant. We will consider the following areas: -

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Youth at Risk:

Trustees will, until further notice, not accept unsolicited applications for Youth at Risk projects but will continue their support through internally researched programmes.

We may wish to consider projects outside our main areas of interest when such projects develop novel interventions into society's ills or address causes which are rare or unpopular.

We have a small grant scheme which makes more rapid grants to smaller organisations. The grants are valued up to £5,000 and are only available to organisations with a turnover of less than £250,000. Applications for small grants will be accepted for activities fitting any of our UK funding categories above, except Youth at Risk.

In addition, small grants valued up to £5,000 will be made towards community facilities in the South West of England and Wales. We will contribute up to £5,000 towards capital projects to accommodate community activities, where the project is a capital build or extension costing less than £250,000. The new facilities must accommodate new activities, which are at a demonstrably advanced stage in their planning. The activities must be designed to meet the basic needs of new clients and users.

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Please note that applications for the small grant scheme need only be up to 4 pages plus accounts.

Grants are only offered towards expenditure not yet incurred. Grants are paid on evidence of expenditure such as receipts or invoices. For project grants, budgets and management accounts will be required. The grant offer may be withdrawn after 12 months if it is not taken up. We do not seek publicity for our grants.

There is no application form. Your initial application should be made in writing to Dorothy Napierala. It should provide the details listed below. You may add any enclosures that help to describe your organisation or the project. We will advise you whether more information is required.

All applications will receive an acknowledgement. However, as there is often a waiting list, and the trustees meet only four times a year to consider applications, you may have a wait of several months before you receive a decision. Please note that there are always many more applications than we are able to fund out of our limited resources. On average, our trustees approve one in twenty applications. You are advised to read these guidelines very carefully, as inappropriate applications waste time.

Details required in your application: