Basic Needs: promoting better understanding of mental illness

The heritage and work of Andrews Charitable Trust (ACT) has grown from the vision of the founder, Cecil Jackson-Cole, who wanted to link the link the worlds of charity and business to ensure innovation, replication and sustainability of charitable ventures that offer solutions to a range of world problems affecting disadvantaged people.

Support for solutions of the problems facing people in poverty is the cornerstone of our work, and evidences our commitment to undertake this work as a demonstration of our Christian faith and values.

The application process

We do not have an application form or pack. Please read the section Thinking of Applying and the website in detail before deciding whether or not applying to us is right for your organisation, its future and its work.

ACT is keen to target its limited resources to support:

• new ventures
• significant step-changes in the work and capacity to deliver that work by existing organisations.

All the work that we support will be innovative, replicable and sustainable.

Each individual/organisation supported must fulfil these three criteria in their application. By innovation we mean that they are seeking to develop and deliver a new approach or model which is new/ better than what currently exists/reaches an unmet need. We want to support work which can be replicated (whether new or step-change), thus reaching and impacting on many more people and raising standards in that particular sector. Finally, sustainability, is essential. There is little/no point in using resources, raising expectations and working hard to develop an idea that no one will fund when ACT funding ends. We seek to identify national or international policy shifts in funding that may pick up work that we fund in the early, proving stages with our support. Alternatively, it may be that the organisation will become financially self-sustaining by sales of its product/services.

We want to minimise the amount of resources that both you and we put into the process of application.  We do not have standard application forms or packs, and this website acts as our main vehicle for communicating our approach to grant-making and the policies and values that underpin our work.

A pdf document with a diagram of the process and further details can be downloaded here (requires Adobe Reader to view):

» Download application process document (pdf, 160Kb)
» Download strategy document (pdf, 59Kb)

Please read these documents BEFORE making an application so you know what to expect and will be prepared for the work required at various stages of the process.  more >