Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity

The Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity provides grants between the range of £15,000 to £25,000 to registered charities throughout the UK for a wide variety of UK and worldwide causes. Applicants must be UK registered charities.

Grant awards can be made on a one-off or recurring basis.

Grants are available under the following broad headings:

o The prevention or relief of poverty;
o The advancement of education;
o The advancement of religion;
o The advancement of health or the saving of lives;
o The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science;
o The advancement of environmental protection or improvement;
o The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; or
o General charitable purposes.

PLEASE NOTE: funding is not available for individuals.

During the financial year ending 5 April 2015 the Charity made donations totalling £357,500 to 29 registered charities  (2014: £358,500 to 33 registered charities).

Major awards included:

o About Play/Sheffield Out of School Network (£17,500);
o Bristol based, Networking Counselling and Training (£15,000);
o Sheffield's Pitsmoor Adventure Playground (£85,000 – this level of award is an exception to the Charity’s usual grant making policy); and
o London and Kent-based charity, St Christopher's Hospice(£15,000).

The Charity does not maintain a website or provide an email address.

Further information can be obtained, however, from the Charity Commission website.

Applications may be made at any time (the Trustees meet regularly to discuss requests) in writing and sent by post to:

H D'Monte
The Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
50 Broadway
London SW1H 0BL
Tel: 0207 783 3685  

(Source: GRIN)