Geoffrey Watling Charity

The charity funds projects and programmes across Norfolk and the Waveney District of Suffolk, including its rural villages, market towns, and coastal communities. Supported causes include family support services for parents and carers in crisis, health and wellbeing initiatives such as therapeutic activities and peer support groups, youth work with after-school clubs and mentoring, arts and education programmes for children with SEND, and environmental projects involving outdoor activities and green spaces. Heritage preservation and medical interventions are also supported. The trust particularly favours applications for specific projects rather than core organisational costs; salary costs are rarely funded. Grants are typically partial, and the trust looks for projects that offer clear benefit to the community.

Applications are accepted from registered charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations, Community Interest Companies, faith groups (including local churches that are excepted charities), and schools. The trust supports organisations working in Norfolk and the Waveney District of Suffolk. Beneficiaries include vulnerable adults, elderly residents, children and young people with SEND or learning disabilities, and families in crisis. National charities are not usually eligible. Organisations with overdue annual accounts or returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House will not be considered. Private or trading companies operating commercially, or the trading arms of charitable companies, are also excluded. No match funding is required.

The trust does not fund individuals, national charities, or private or trading companies operating commercially, including the trading arms of charitable companies. Organisations with overdue accounts or returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House are not considered. Salary costs are rarely funded, and applications for core organisational costs are less likely to be favoured than those for specific projects.

Grant requests may be made at any time and are considered on a rolling basis. The trust typically offers partial funding rather than full project costs. It prefers to support specific projects or programmes over core costs, and salary costs are rarely funded. No match funding is required. The trust looks for well-managed projects that demonstrate clear community benefit.