Individual Grant

What is John Watson’s Trust?

John Watson’s Trust is a small Edinburgh-based charity that awards grants for educational purposes to children and young people under the age of 21 who have a physical or learning disability or who are socially disadvantaged. John Watson’s Trust is a charity registered in Scotland under charity number SC014004.

Where does John Watson’s Trust operate?

At present, we serve applicants based in Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian or West Lothian. If you are applying from outside these areas, please note that owing to current funding conditions your application is unlikely to be successful. Applications from outwith Scotland are ineligible. We are unable to grant every application we receive, as we receive more applications that we have funds to fulfil, but we help wherever we can.

John Watson’s Trust and School Trips

John Watson’s Trust can offer schools collaborative funding towards the cost of residential school trips, usually assumed to be within Scotland.

· Our funds are intended to assist specific young people identified by the school whose presence on trips is threatened by low income or other form of disadvantage: we do not fund to lower the cost of a trip to the whole group

· We expect that our funds will be a supplement to fundraising activities that involve the young people themselves, with such fundraising seen as a fundamental part of the trip experience

· We ask that our funds be supplemented wherever possible by the use of PEF funding, Parent-Teacher organisational funding and school reserves.

· Our funding will usually take the form of a specific sum per pupil assisted.

Who is this form for?

This form is to be used for schools and organisations who are planning residential trips within Scotland or the UK for young people. Parents or carers of individual young people who seek funding for school trips should use the form for Individuals and Families.

When should you apply?

John Watson’s Trust has five application deadlines per calendar year. These are available on the Trust website at www.wssociety.co.uk/charities/jwt. Your application must be received by the last deadline prior to the trip’s date of departure in order to be eligible and ideally we would receive it prior to an earlier deadline up to six months in advance of the trip.

Details of School

Name of School*

Full Address and Post Code*

Name of contact person*

Telephone*

Email*

Details of the trip

Trip starts*

Trip ends*

Destination*

Class or age of the pupils*

How many children will not travel without a John Watson's Trust grant?*

Further information

Please describe the specific activities/excursions that are planned. *

What fundraising activities are underway at the school in relation to the trip?*

How many children in the group are from a background of disadvantage? What measures are in place to identify them? *

Please itemise the expenditure of a grant if awarded.*

What arrangements are in place for controlling the use of any grant made?*

Total grant being requested.*

What other grants/monies are deployed for the trip?*

Would these grants, if awarded, be directly affected by a grant from the John Watson’s Trust?

How did you come to hear of the John Watson’s Trust?*

Declaration

The information you provide in this application form will be held and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and will be used by the John Watson’s Trust to carry out grant processing, analysis, auditing, accounting and evaluation. The information on this form will not be used for any other purpose nor will it be published on our website, and we will not discuss the information on the form with any other agencies or organisations.

I hereby apply for a grant from the John Watson’s Trust for the young person and for the purpose as stated above and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief the above information is true and accurate. I consent to the information being shared among the Trustees.

Signee*

First NameLast Name

Date*

What happens next?

Eligible and complete application forms will be considered by the Grants Committee at their next meeting. Following this, you will hear about the outcome in writing within two weeks.

School Trip Grant