The Salters' Charitable Foundation

Charitable giving has always been at the heart of the Salters’ Company and its members.  The Salters’ Charitable Foundation (SCF) upholds this 600-year old philanthropic tradition by distributing grants and donations to a wide range of causes that make a positive contribution to society and affect wider change.

Larger grants and bursaries are also awarded each year, focused on the following main priority themes:

• London Citizenship & Community Development
• Education (with a preference for science education at school and university level)
• Projects supporting the elderly
• Support for underserved and vulnerable communities

Small annual contributions are made at the discretion of the SCF Charities Committee to organisations which are close to Salters’ hearts, including City institutions our military affiliates and charities with personal connections.

SCF works with a limited number of affiliated schools and gives bursaries/ scholarships to students who show promise in Chemistry and its related disciplines.

As well as these main grant streams SCF is also able, where funds allow, to make small one-off grants to causes of particular interest, emergency appeals and charities identified by our members.

We are now accepting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) until Monday 20 January 2025. The maximum grant you can apply for is £10,000. We may consider multi-year funding.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Does your organisation have an income of below £1M?
2. Are you a registered charity or charitable incorporated organisation?
3. Do you have at least one year’s worth of annual accounts registered with the Charity Commission?
4. Does your organisation run projects in Greater London?
5. Does the project for which you require funding relate to one of our funding priorities?
6. Can you demonstrate a clear need for the work you are undertaking?
7. Can you confirm the project you are requesting funding for has not already taken place?
8. Does your organisation have adequate reserves in line with your reserves policy?
9. Is the project designed with consultation from the community it aims to support?
10. Do you have an itemised budget in place for the project you wish to run?
11. Do you have a monitoring and evaluation framework in place to measure the efficacy of your project?
12. Does your organisation have a safeguarding policy in place?

In order to submit an EOI you must be able to answer YES to ALL of the questions above.

Your EOI must address the following points in no more than 250 words:

• A short summary of your charity’s mission
• A brief explanation of the project you would like us to fund
• The outcomes you aim to achieve in this project
• The cost of the project and how much you want us to fund
• Which of our funding priorities this project aligns with

Please also provide a link to your website and attach your most recently audited accounts. Once you have done this, please submit your EOI to charities@salters.co.uk

We will only be able to shortlist a small number of charities for the second stage of our application process. We will be in touch following our committee meeting in late January if we wish to invite a more detailed proposal. If you have not heard from us by mid-February 2025, we regret to say we will not be progressing your application.