The Pilgrim Trust distributes around £2 million in grants each year in its two priority areas - Preservation & Scholarship and Social Welfare
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Preservation & Scholarship - Trustees currently aim to allocated about 60% of annual grants to this area of interest.
The programme priorities are:
A. The preservation of historic buildings and architectural features
B. The conservation of works of art, books, manuscripts, photographs and documents, museum objects
C. The promotion of knowledge through academic research and its dissemination, for which public funding is not available, including cataloguing.
Places of worship. N.B. CoE churches interested in funding for historic content should contact the Church Buildings Council. If the appeal is for building fabric repairs then CoE churches should contact the National Churches Trust.
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Social welfare
Trustees currently aim to allocate about 40% of annual grants to this area of interest.
The programme priorities are:
A. Projects supporting people who misuse drugs or alcohol that fall within one, or both, of the following themes. Applications that fall outside these thematic areas will not be considered.
- Projects to assist with the return or entry into education, training, volunteering or employment of people who have been or are misusing drugs or alcohol
- Projects to support the families and/or carers of people who have been or are misusing drugs or alcohol
B. Projects in prisons and projects providing alternatives to custody. Trustees have a particular interest in projects that assist prisoners to acquire new skills or give support to their families
C. Proposals for small research projects that meet the Trust’s priority themes and that provide tangible outputs in either policy or practical terms will also be accepted. Projects that link to our priorities in both prisons and substance misuse are particularly welcome
A. Projects that assist and support people involved in alcohol or drug misuse.
B. Projects in prisons and projects providing alternatives to custody.
C. Projects that seek to inform and develop policy and practice in the priority areas outlined above.