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Allen Lane Foundation

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust set up in 1966 by
the late Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, to support general
charitable causes. The Foundation no longer has closing dates.
Applications will be processed continually.

The Foundation wishes to fund work which: will make a lasting
difference to people's lives rather than simply alleviating the
symptoms or current problems; is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma
and discrimination; and encourages or enables unpopular groups to
share in the life of the whole community.

The Foundation is interested in funding work which benefits people in
the following groups, or generalist work which includes significant
numbers from more than one such group:
* asylum-seekers and refugees;
* gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender people;
* gypsies and travellers;
* offenders and ex-offenders;
* older people;
* people from black and minority ethnic communities and migrant
workers;
* people experiencing mental health problems; people experiencing
violence or abuse.

If the beneficiaries of your work do not include a significant
proportion of people from one or more of these groups it is very
unlikely that your application will be successful.

The Foundation will make grants for start-up, core or project costs.
The grants are relatively small and are likely therefore to be
appropriate for costs such as: Volunteers or participants expenses,
Venue hire, Part-time or sessional staffing costs, Work aimed at
strengthening the organisation such as trustee or staff training. But
these are only examples. There will be many other appropriate items
which could be funded.

While recognising (and being willing to support) on-going, tried and
tested projects, the Foundation is particularly interested in unusual,
imaginative or pioneering projects which have perhaps not yet caught
the public imagination.

The grants are relatively modest. Single, one-off grants range from as
little as £500 up to £15,000. Grants repeated for more than one year
vary from about £500 per annum up to £5,000 per annum, for a maximum
of three years.

To make sure that grants of this size have an impact the Foundation
will not fund larger organisations. The Foundation will make single
grants, or grants for two or three years. It is unlikely to make a
second grant immediately after one has finished and if an application
is refused, they ask applicants to wait a year before applying again.

Allen Lane Foundation, 90 The Mount, York  YO24  1AR
Tel: 01904 613223
Fax: 01904 613133
Email: info at allenlane.org.uk
Website: http://www.allenlane.org.uk