Grant Guidelines
Please note that the application needs to be completed and submitted in one session (it is not possible to save a partly completed application)
These guidelines operate within the Trust`s stated aims, purposes, and powers to distribute its funds to students in Liverpool.
Applications should satisfy the following general principles, in respect of being requests for:
- specific expenditure on equipment or instruments to enhance provision over and above that normally and necessarily provided for within a school’s devolved budget
- specific expenditure for an identified project such as an educational visit or experience
- specific expenditure in support of a named student for the enhancement of provision.
Applications will not satisfy the general principles, if they are requests for:
- a general contribution to school funds
- expenditure on books, equipment and materials normally provided for within the school budget
- expenditure on services normally and specifically provided for by identified funding
- expenditure on purposes for which earmarked grants and funds already exist
- cash grants to individual students for non-specific or general purposes.
Notwithstanding the above, normally:
- all applications should be supported by the head teacher, or appropriate person
- all monies should be accounted for within the school’s or appropriate body`s accounting systems
- all applications will be treated on their merits and will not constitute any general principle or bind the trustees in respect of any future application.
Please note the following:
- All successful applicants must agree to documenting and reporting back to us on project progress.
- All successful applicants must complete and submit our end of project monitoring form.
- All successful applicants must give permission for the contents of the above reports, including any photographs, to be displayed on the LEGCT website and to be shared through our social media channels and any of our publications.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications must be submitted in advance of the trustees’ meetings held each year in early November and May. The application deadline for the November meeting is 31st October. The application deadline for the May meeting is 30th April.
Late submissions will automatically be carried over to the next relevant funding round. Applications received after 31st October will be reviewed in May. Applications received after 30th April will be reviewed in November.
Each school may submit one application per academic year.
Typical maximum grant for individual student applications is £500, and typical maximum grant for school-based applications is £1,000.
Schools will be notified of the decision relating to grant applications by the end of the month in which the trustees’ meeting takes place.
Liverpool Education Grants Charitable Trust is an operating name of Liverpool Council of Education (Inc.) and its associated trust funds.
Liverpool Council of Education (Inc.) is an independent charity, registration number 526714, company number 00208578
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