• check that your aims meet the Charity’s criteria outlined here;
• check that the amount of money you need falls within the Charity’s limits; see below.
• check deadlines: the trustees meet three times a year - in March, July and November - and applications must be submitted by 1 February, 1 June or 1 October respectively.

Write a succinct but complete application that should include:

• an opening section that gives the name and postal address of your organisation, details of a named contact for the application and where you heard about the Charity;
• background information about you and/or your organisation;
• the nature of the project you wish to pursue and what it seeks to achieve;
• your plans for practical implementation of the work and a budget;
• your most recent accounts and details of any additional sources of funding already secured or to be sought;
• whether you will accept a contribution to the amount requested.
• If the above information (excluding your accounts) takes up more than two sides of A4, please include a summary of that information on no more than two sides of A4, using a font no smaller than 12-point.

Applications should be sent to the Charity's administrator Kerry McQuade to arrive not later than 1 February, 1 June or 1 October:

• by email to admin@wainwrighttrusts.org.uk; or
• by post to 16 Blenheim Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 8BU.

Applicants may contact the administrator, preferably by email, for any clarification.

If you have not heard from the administrator by the end of the month in which the trustees' meeting was held you must assume your application was not successful.

Level of grant

Typically, grants are between £1,000 and £5,000. In cases of exceptional merit larger grants have been awarded, but this is very unlikely in these difficult financial times.