The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust - deadline 22 February 2017

Origin
The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust was established in 1972 by Dame Bridget D’Oyly Carte DBE, the granddaughter of Richard D’Oyly Carte who founded the Savoy Theatre in 1881 and then the Savoy Hotel in 1889. The Trust became a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee in 2005.

Objectives
The objectives of the charity are the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. The Trust is entirely separate from the objects of The D’Oyly Carte Opera Trust.

Trustees
The current Trustees are Mr. Jeremy Leigh Pemberton CBE, DL, (Chairman), Mr. Henry Freeland RIBA, Mr. Andrew Jackson, Dr. Michael O’Brien MD, FRCP, Mrs. Francesca Radcliffe, Mrs. Julia Sibley MBE and Mr. Andrew Wimble. The Executive Director and Company Secretary is Mrs. Jane Thorne.

Applications for Grants – How to apply
Applicants must be UK Registered Charities, operating in the UK, and the organisation’s annual returns to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland must be up-to-date.
You can check your record on www.charity-commission.gov.uk (England and Wales), www.oscr.org.uk (Scotland) or www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/ (Northern Ireland) by entering the registered charity number into the ‘Search for a Charity’ box.

From 1st April 2015 all applications should please be made through the Trust’s website www.doylycartecharitabletrust.org. Guidance on completing the application form can be found on the How to apply page.

Should you need a version of the application form in a more accessible format, please email
info@doylycartecharitabletrust.org stating your preferred format.

Deadline for applications is 22 February 2017. As the Trust receives a very large number of applications, and inevitably is unable to respond positively to them all, a filtering system is operated at this stage of the application process. If an application is eligible for further consideration, it will be considered by the Trustees at their next grant-making meeting on 22nd March 2017 and the outcome will be notified shortly thereafter.

For more information visit http://www.doylycartecharitabletrust.org/