Funding for Westcountry Charities, Community Groups & Schools
The Norman Family Trust has been supporting charities and other non-profit groups in the South West of England since 1979 and has awarded over 11,000 grants totalling £11 million.
Contact Information Update
The Trust’s staff work partly from home and partly from our office and meeting space in Budleigh Salterton. While we can accept post at our office, we’d prefer it if you didn’t send us any papers or other items as we don’t have storage for them. E-mail is our preferred method of communication wherever possible: info@nfct.org
We do not have an office phone number.
Both new applications and monitoring reports should be submitted via our online system.
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Next Grants Meeting - 21st November 2024
The Trust’s next Grants Committee meeting will be on 21st November 2024 and will consider all applications received up to midday on 12th November 2024. This deadline is being strictly observed due to the high number of applications currently being received. Please use our online application form to submit your request. The next meeting after this will be in the latter half of January 2025 (date tbc).
Please that the Trust is currently experiencing an extremely high demand for funding, and while it has managed to increase the amount available at each meeting, it is still far below that which is requested by applicants. Trustees may decide to support your application at a considerably lower level than requested. Please bear in mind that the vast majority of the Trust’s grants fall into the range of £1,000 to £5,000.
Please read the page linked below as it contains the most up to date information about the Trust’s current grant funding.
Interested in Applying for Funding?
The Trust uses an online application form and this is the only method of application (if you are unable to use the online form, please contact us). Please click the button to visit our ‘Apply for Funding’ page – you’ll need to complete an eligibility test before gaining access to the form.
Key Figures from 2023/24
For further information, please visit our Facts & Figures page
Since the Trust was set up in 1979, it has been based in Budleigh Salterton