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The Beatrice Laing Trust

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The Trust’s focus is on the relief of poverty and the advancement of the evangelical Christian faith, both at home and abroad. Financial support is given to a wide range of charities seeking to relieve poverty in its broadest sense, both throughout the UK and overseas.

The Trustees' priority areas of giving are:

To support new church building, extension or redevelopment projects, with a particular emphasis on churches using their physical resources to communicate Christian faith and respond to needs in their local community
To support organisations offering practical services to those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable, with a particular emphasis on Christian organisations seeking to express their faith through practical action to help the homeless; the elderly; ex-offenders; former Servicemen and women.
To support organisations providing practical services to people with physical, mental and learning difficulties, predominately through:
special schools seeking to make provision for those with increasingly complex needs
support in the transition from childhood to adulthood and in accessing training and/or meaningful employment opportunities
To support small-scale overseas development projects, aimed at building the capacity of local partners to provide long-term solutions to problems in the developing world, principally through Christian organisations working in the Anglophone countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia to improve educational opportunities; build sustainable livelihoods.

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Geographical areas funded: UK Overseas

Fund type

Type of funding:: Grant
Type of cost:: Capital, Revenue

Fund award sizes

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Annually awarded:: Premium information

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Who can apply

UK registered charities, CIO, CIC or any other not for profit organisation with exempt / excepted status.

When to apply

Apply at any time. Trustees meet three or four times a year to review applications.

How to apply

The Laing Family Trusts are a group of four grant-making trusts (Beatrice Laing Trust, Kirby Laing Foundation, Maurice & Hilda Laing Charitable Trust and Martin Laing Foundation) sharing a single administration. An application to one is therefore considered as an application to all. Your application will be directed to the most appropriate of the Trusts.

Complete the eligibility quiz. Application is by letter, accompanied by a concise proposal (usually about 3 - 4 pages). Details of what should be included in this are on the funder website. They do not accept applications by email.

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