Santander Foundation

The Santander Foundation funding must directly help disadvantaged people through one or both of these charitable santander-logopriorities:

  • Education and training;
  • Financial capability

 

Education and training: This could be any activity disadvantaged people undertake where they improve their confidence in a skill or their understanding of a subject. This does not have to be formal training or lead to a qualification, although those activities would be eligible too. Examples could include independent living skills, anger management, or improving self-esteem. Other examples could include reminiscence projects for older people and art and craft sessions for disadvantaged children. These are just a few examples and should not be regarded as a definitive list.

Financial capability: This priority covers activities which help disadvantaged people understand how to manage their money. It could include budgeting skills, accessing affordable credit as well as managing the challenges that arise from being a carer, unemployment, disability or relationship break up. Examples could be the costs of running a credit union, projects delivering financial advice and helping people to understand their benefit entitlement. Successful applications under this priority have included equipping a training kitchen for homeless people who learnt how to budget

effectively for their food and then went on to apply these principals to other parts of their lives.

Applications are invited from January 2011 onwards. Grants of up to £10,000 can be awarded anywhere in the UK. The average grant is £4,000. All funding is for one off donations. Grants are available to buy tangible items such as equipment or training materials. Grants are also available to fund project costs such as sessional worker fees, salaries, room hire or other costs incurred in the delivery of the charitable priorities.

Who can apply?

Organisations with charitable status for their work within the UK. This includes registered charities, Friendly Societies, Industrial & Provident Societies registered under charitable not membership rules (an exception to this are credit unions – who we can fund). Community Interest Companies or not-for-profit organisations are not funded unless they are also registered charities. More details from: http://www.santanderfoundation.org.uk/