The size of your charity determines what type of grant you can apply for. Please explore the options below to find out more:
Applicant charity Annual Income | Less than £10,000
Applicant charity size definition:
Micro
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Can apply for either a small or large grant from CPT in each funding year.
But if successful in securing funds from the CPT, you can only hold one CPT grant at a time.
If successful in securing a grant from the CPT, your charity can only reapply for future funding after a two-year time period has elapsed from date of receipt of last funding instalment from CPT.
Applicant charity Annual Income | £10,000 to £100,000
Applicant charity size definition:
Small
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Can apply for either a small or large grant from CPT in each funding year.
But if successful in securing funds from the CPT, you can only hold one CPT grant at a time.
If successful in securing a grant from the CPT, your charity can only reapply for future funding after a two-year time period has elapsed from date of receipt of last funding instalment from CPT.
Applicant charity Annual Income | £100,000 to £1 million
Applicant charity size definition:
Medium
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Can only apply for large grants from CPT and can only hold one grant at a time.
If successful in securing a large grant from us, your charity can only reapply for future funding after a two-year time period has elapsed from date of receipt of last instalment of funds from CPT.
Applicant charity Annual Income | £1 million to £10 million
Applicant charity size definition:
Large
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Can only apply for large grants from CPT and can only hold one grant at a time from us.
If successful in securing a large grant from us, your charity can only reapply for future funding after a two-year time period has elapsed from date of receipt of last instalment of funds from CPT.
Applicant charity Annual Income | £10 million to £100 million
Applicant charity size definition:
Major
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Not eligible for any CPT funding.
Applicant charity Annual Income | More than £100 million
Applicant charity size definition:
Super-major
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Not eligible for any CPT funding.
Universities and HE Institutions applicants
Applicant charity size definition:
Not relevant
Eligibility for CPT Grants:
Special provision exists for Universities and HE Institutions, who irrespective of their size and annual income, can apply for both small or large grants from CPT, on condition that they must be partnering with a micro, small, medium or large charity in their project proposal to us to be eligible for our funding in a joint bid of this nature.
But if successful in securing funds from the CPT, you can only hold one CPT grant at a time.
If successful in securing a grant from us, the University/HE Institution can only reapply for future funding after a two-year time period has elapsed from date of receipt of last funds from CPT.
£5,001- £60,000
Grants awarded are typically around £30,000 - £50,000, to be spent within two years. However, for exceptional projects the Trust may, at the trustees discretion, consider higher levels of funding for up to £60,000. A full online application form with supporting documentation and an external reference must be completed for this type of grant.
£1,000-£5,000
Grants awarded are typically around £3,000 to £5,000 and are designed to support projects usually at parish or local levels. All projects should be completed within one year. To be eligible for a small grant an organization must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000 and be a legally registered charity. A condensed online application form must be completed for this type of grant and an external reference and supporting documentation is required.
All applications for either large or small grants are made online using one of two application forms. The two blank application templates below, one for small grant applications, and one for large grant applications, highlight the questions CPT asks of grant applicants. Please note that more information is required for large grant applications with this application form comprising of more questions.
The application platform we use does not allow grant applications to be saved online and returned to later. We recommend completing a blank application template in Word first, and then cutting and pasting your responses into our online form from this pre-saved template. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
We advise that applicants have all the information they will need to hand, in order to be able to complete the online form in one sitting. We estimate that it takes approximately one hour to submit a small grant application to us and up to 90 minutes to complete our more detailed large grant application - if you have pre-prepared your responses in this way.
Previously unsuccessful applicants are welcome to submit a new application to us. However, applicants who have been successful in securing funds from us, must wait two years from date of last receipt of funds from CPT, before re-applying for another grant from us.
While a charity can potentially chose to submit more than one application in each grant round this is not recommended as it diminishes the chances of a successful outcome by increasing the competition. It is important to note that CPT will only fund one successful proposal at a time from any one applicant.
It is possible for a small charity to apply for either a small or a large grant. However, please note that charities with an annual turnover over £100,000 are only eligible to apply for a large grant with us.
We regret that we are now no longer able to fund any charity with an annual income over £10 million. The only exception to this is for Universities and HE institutions partnership with a charity.
All applicants must upload with their online application the latest set of their charity’s annual accounts, a specific project budget, a copy of the charity’s safeguarding policy and an external reference in support of their application proposal.
Please do not attach any other additional digital media files such as film, still images or audio.