#Kitchen Table Charities Trust - Apply for a grant

2 The Crescent,

St Austell,

Cornwall

PL25 4TA

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Guidance on grants

The Kitchen Table Charities Trust was created to help small charities, working mostly in Africa, which are using small amounts of money to transform peoples lives. Two essential conditions attached to KTCT support are:

• No part of any grant should be spent in Britain on administration - including salaries and advertising campaigns.

• Projects we support must give direct help to the very poorest (usually children or widows) at the bottom of the ladder.

These are some other criteria:

• UK registration as a charity, or local registration in their country of operation.

• Annual auditing or independent examination of accounts.

• Publication of a periodic newsletter or annual report -(in which KTCT support should be acknowledged).

These are our priorities:

• Primary education;

• Health, sanitation and clean drinking water;

• Child and mother care, including street children and maternity services;

• Poverty alleviation, especially revenue generating projects.

To ensure that the benefit of available funds is spread as widely as possible, KTCT grants rarely exceed 10,000 per project or organisation

The Grants Committee will give preference to specific projects rather than requests for contributions to general running costs.

We expect the full participation of communities in infrastructural projects from which they or their children will benefit through the provision of labour or the supply of locally available building materials free of charge.

KTCT funds are used to improve social and economic conditions and the general well-being of communities. In rare and exceptional cases they may be used to benefit individuals - usually on humanitarian grounds.

KTCT is unable to provide funds for the purchase of vehicles.