Please carefully check the eligibility of your proposal with our Exclusions before calling for advice or submitting a proposal. Should you have any further queries regarding the eligibility of your proposal, please contact our offices on 020 7261 0279. Due to the volume of enquiries we receive we regret that it is not always possible to have preliminary meetings before a written application is made.

Initial Applications

Initial applications should include:

• A short proposal, not more than two sides of A4, outlining a description of the organisation's aims or a short biography for individuals, and a description of the specific project for which funding is sought and the opportunity it seeks to fulfill.
• A detailed budget for the project should be included within the same document and can be on a third page.

Supporting information can also be submitted  in separate documents but please do ensure its relevance and do not take great time preparing support material at this preliminary stage.

Your budget should include details of any funding already in place for the project, including any other sources which are being or have been approached for funds. If funding is not in place, and you are not asking us to support the full amount needed to deliver the project we will require details of how you plan to secure the remaining funds.

Further Information

Should we wish to take the application further we will request further information on the project, including:

• full details of the management and staffing structure of your organisation (if applicable), including Trustees
• copies of your most recent annual report and audited accounts, together with current management accounts if relevant to the project.

Please do not send this information unless we have requested it.

Assessment and Timelines 

There are no deadlines for making applications. Applications can be made and are assessed throughout the year. They are reviewed initially by JCF staff, with the help of expert advisers where appropriate. Final decisions are made by the Board of Trustees. Applications will be acknowledged on receipt, and every effort will be made to achieve speedy decisions, which can usually be expected within eight weeks.

In view of the number of proposals we receive, detailed reasons for the rejection of an application cannot always be given. As the volume of applications we receive is far greater than our available resources, we regret that inevitably some applications will have to be refused, even when they may appear a strong fit with our aims.

During assessment, we may wish to enter into conversation or correspondence with an applicant which may result in modification and/or further development of a proposed project or programme of work. Entering into any such discussion or correspondence will in no way commit the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to funding that proposal.

We aim to monitor funded projects closely and sympathetically, and are keen to seek recognition of our support. Successful applicants will be required to acknowledge our support, to report on progress during and at completion of the project and to provide the JCF with photographs and/or appropriate documentation of the project supported.

Please carefully read our full Exclusions before calling for advice or making an application.

Proposals can be submitted using our online application form. We aim to run an environmentally conscious organisation and would prefer to receive proposals electronically in this way. 

Alternatively proposals can be sent by post to:

Jerwood Charitable Foundation
171 Union Street
Bankside 
London 
SE1 0LN