Aims/priorities: The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust is a charitable fund supporting organisations and initiatives that provide benefit to society in the UK.
Funding is intended to help ensure that foodbanks can continue to deliver their services and support beneficiaries despite the challenges of the cost-of-living crisis.
Grants can be used to cover:
- Rent.
- Utility and insurance costs.
- Food (including other needed household items) purchase.
- Staffing costs for roles required to deliver the foodbank.
- Volunteer costs (eg travel).
- Storage and distribution costs (including existing vehicle maintenance/running costs).
Where the organisation runs broader services, costs such as rent or staffing that may be covered can only be the portion of such costs that relate to the foodbank service.
Funds should be used within six months of payment.
The following cannot be funded:
- Retrospective costs.
- Costs incurred six months after receipt of grant payment.
- Costs that do not directly relate to delivery of a foodbank service.
- Redundancy costs.
- Capital expenditure such as work to buildings or acquisition of new vehicles/equipment.
- Entirely new projects/activity that has not previously been delivered as part of the foodbank.
- Costs already covered from other sources, including other independent funders or Government funding schemes.
- Fundraising costs.
- Legal and professional fees.
- Organisational reserves.
- Funding for individuals.
- Costs related to campaigning or the promotion of political or faith beliefs.
Who can apply? To be eligible to apply, organisations must:
- Be not-for-profit.
- Run a foodbank that has been running for six months or more which regularly gives out emergency food parcels at least once each week.
- Have an annual income of between £25,000 and £1,000,000.
- Not have reserves above one year's running costs.
Grant amount: The minimum amount which can be applied for is £500. The Trust does not give out grants that are greater than 20% of an organisation’s annual expenditure (this should not be taken as a target amount to request).
Application process: Before applying you must read the Applicant Guidance which provides full details of eligibility and guidance on how to apply. It also tells you what other documents you may need to have ready to submit with your application. The online application form can be found on the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust website.
Deadline: The deadline to apply is 6 December 2022 (4pm). Notifications are expected by mid-December.
Contact information: Email admin@jhrtrust.com
Website address: www.juliahansrausingtrust.org