The Yapp Charitable Trust: Small Grants for Disadvantaged and Marginalised Communities.

The Trust funds work that focuses on one of their priority groups: 

• elderly people 
• children & young people 
• mental health, disability & learning difficulties 
• people overcoming addiction, abuse, offending or social disadvantage 
• educational disadvantage 

Grants of up to £3,000 per year for up to three years are available to support ongoing core costs and regular service delivery rather than new projects. 

To be eligible, organisations must have been operating for at least three years and have an annual income of less than £50,000. 

Priority will be given to: 

• work that is unattractive to the general public or unpopular with other funders 
• services that help to improve the lives of marginalised, disadvantaged or isolated people 
• applicants that can demonstrate an effective use of volunteers 
• applicants that can demonstrate (where feasible) an element of self-sustainability by charging subscriptions/fees to service users 

Applications can be made at any time. Trustees meet three times a year to review applications. Decisions can take up to five months.