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The Arts and Sports Trust changes it’s Grant-making policy

After our first few years of grant-making, it became apparent that it would be necessary to increase the size of our grants in order to make a real difference to our young applicants. We therefore decided to make changes to the way that we make our grants.

Firstly, we decided to adopt a timetable for our grant- making as follows:-

	January 1st - We start accepting applications for summer grants
	May 31st - We close the list of applications for summer grants
	June and July - Evaluation of applications
	Decisions on applications
	Award of grants to successful applicants
	August 1st - We start accepting applications for winter grants
	October 31st - We close the list of applications for winter grants
	November and December - Evaluation of applications
	December Decisions on applications
	Award of grants to successful applicants

This timetable allows us to accept many more applications and give full consideration to each one.

Secondly, we decided to fix our grant sizes in order to maximise our giving and allow us to make a real difference to recipients.

Our grant sizes are now:-

• £4,000
• £2,000
• £500

Applicants will need to decide what size grant they are applying for, with reasons.

By adopting this new scheme, we hope to give applicants plenty of time to prepare their applications. We also hope that the timetable will deliver grants to successful applicants at the time that they most need the funds.