We currently operate a biannual grant-making process, accepting large grant applications in Spring, and small grant applications in the Autumn, of each year.
The size of your charity determines what type of grant you can apply for with us. Please consult the following table to see what is possible:
Applicant charity Annual Income
Applicant charity size definition
Eligibility for CPT Grants
Less than £10,000
Micro
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.
£10,000 to £100,000
Small
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.
£100,000 to £1 million
Medium
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.
£1 million to £10 million
Large
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.
£10 million to £100 million
Major
Not eligible for any CPT funding.
More than £100 million
Super-major
Not eligible for any CPT funding.
Universities and HE Institutions applicants
Not relevant
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.
Depending on the size of your charity, the two types of grants that CPT offers are:
1) Large Grants Programme (£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.
2) Small Grants Programme (£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.
Information about our 2023 large grant application can be found below:
The next CPT large grants round will open on 16th January 2025.
The online application form for proposals will be live until 27th February 2025 and will close for applications at 5pm that day.
All grant applicants will know the outcome of their application by 9th June 2025.
Those who secure funding from us will be asked to attend the awards ceremony on 24th June 2025 in Cardiff. Please put that date in your diary now.
Best of luck with your applications to us.
Dates for the 2023 small grants round will be available on our website by 1st September 2023.
All applications for either large or small grants are made online using one of our two application forms. The two blank application templates below, one for small grant applications, and one for large grant applications, shows all the questions we will ask of you. Please note that more information is required for large grant applications so this application form comprises of more questions. Depending on the size of your charity, the two types of grants that CPT offers are:
Unfortunately, our technology does not allow applications to be saved online to be returned to later, so we advise that all applicants have all the information they will need available to hand, in order to be able to complete the online form in one sitting. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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 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.
Additional considerations