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The Woodward Charitable Trust awards small grants of between £100 and £5,000, and large grants of over £5,000 to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £250,000. The trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives.

The current funding priorities are:

1. Social and ethnic minority groups, including young people at risk of exclusion or isolation, refugees, asylum-seekers, gypsies and travellers. Projects that promote integration and community cohesion will be favoured
2. Prisoners and ex-offenders. Projects that help the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders are supported as well as requests to help prisoners’ families
3. Homelessness, especially affecting young people and women, and covering facilities such as women's refuges
4. People experiencing violence or abuse
5. Arts outreach work by local groups involving disadvantaged people
6. Disability projects, which can include rehabilitation, training or advocacy for people who are either physically disabled or learning disabled as well as help to improve employability
7. Environmental projects, especially those with a strong educational element
8. Addiction, including projects tackling the social exclusion elements and preventative programmes and projects supporting families of addicts

The deadline for receipt of applications to be considered at the Trust's July 2010 meeting is 24 May 2010.

Full details and how to apply are on Woodward Charitable Trust website

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