The Hilton Main Fund provides grants for small community groups, based in the former Cannock Chase Rural District area, according to 1973 boundaries.  This area now forms part of the South Staffordshire district. Groups must have a specific need. Panel meetings are held to determine whether applicants should receive funding and if so how much.  Time sensitive applications may be considered outside of the usual panel dates, or in the case of an emergency, but this is at the discretion of the donor advisors of the fund, and you are advised to call us first to see whether your application would meet this need.

About Grants from The Hilton Fund
You can apply for a grant of up to £2,000.
Panel meetings are held to determine whether applicants should receive funding and if so how much.  Time sensitive applications may be considered outside of the usual panel dates, or in the case of an emergency, but this is at the discretion of the donor advisors of the fund, and you are advised to call us first to see whether your application would meet this need.

What We Will Fund

Types of Organisation

We will support the following types of organisation;

  • Constituted community groups
  • Constituted voluntary groups
  • Registered Charities
  • Social Enterprises
Geographic Reach

We will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people in the following local authority areas;

  • South Staffordshire, (but only in the former Cannock Chase Rural District)
Beneficiaries

In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary;

  • People local to the area of benefit
Project Aims

Your project must meet one of the following criteria;

  • Increase or enhance local services
  • Provide local social or leisure activities
  • Provide a local service that might otherwise be unavailable
  • Relieve poverty or disadvantage for local people
Eligible Costs
  • Equipment costs
  • Capital costs
  • Training costs

What We Will Not Fund

Types of Organisation

This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations;

  • Non-constituted community groups
  • Non constituted voluntary groups
  • Statutory organisations, or those that will benefit a statutory organisation
  • Organisations that have been established less than 12 months
  • Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
  • Organisations with an unrestricted annual income of more than £15,000
  • Organisations with more than 1 year’s running costs in reserves
  • Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims
Geographic Reach

This fund cannot support organisations who are based in, or working in the following local authority areas;

  • Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle under Lyme, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke on Trent or Tamworth
  • Any area outside Staffordshire
Beneficiaries

This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are

  • Not usually resident in the area of benefit
Ineligible Costs

This fund will not offer support for the following costs;

  • General running costs
  • Core costs
  • One off event costs
  • More than two thirds of the whole project cost
  • Funding towards religious projects or projects that promote religion, (although religious organisations can be funded for non-religious projects)
  • Party political activities, (where one particular political party is promoted above another)

Documents You Must Submit With Your Application

The following documents must be provided with your application form.  If you fail to provide these documents your application will not be considered for funding.  All documents should be submitted at the time of application.

  • A copy of your governing document, (constitution or Memorandum and Articles of Association)
  • A copy of your most recent accounts
  • A recent bank statement, (dated within the last three months clearly showing account number and sort code)
  • A copy of your safeguarding policy
  • At least three quotes for any capital items

Closing Dates & Submission Deadlines

The following dates are submission dates and panel dates for 2019.

  • Applications submitted before 9th April 2019 will go to the panel on 23rd April 2019
  • Applications submitted after 9th April 2019, but before 24th September 2019 will go to the panel on 8th October 2019
  • Applications submitted after 24th September 2019 will go to the panel in April 2020
How To Apply

To apply for a grant of up to £2,000 please submit an application using our online application facility.  You can attach your supporting documents to the application.