Grant holder resources

Our relationship with grant holders

Our vision can only be achieved through the brilliant work of our partners and grant holders. Our approach is shaped by this knowledge and by our grant making principles.

We build trusting relationships with our applicants and grant holders

We foster and maintain relationships founded on our shared goals and mutual respect. We facilitate opportunities for collaboration and support our grant holders to deliver their work in the best way possible.

We remove unnecessary obstacles

We allow grant holders to respond quickly to shifting priorities and challenges by ensuring flexibility. We are proportionate in our approach to the grant making process to minimise the burden on our grant holders. We ensure that any formal reporting requirements are meaningful and proportionate, working with our grant holders to decide how grant reporting will work best.

We are transparent and offer feedback

We are transparent about the decisions we make and will give feedback at each stage of our application processes. We include and value a diverse range of expertise and we share our data and publish our success rates.

We are open to learning

We are committed to supporting learning and evaluation within our relationships with grant holders. We actively encourage the sharing of what works, allowing for the reciprocal exchange of knowledge, and platform projects we fund to drive change in other parts of the country. We listen and adapt our grant making practices to reflect feedback from those we are working and collaborating with.

Grant terms and conditions

When you are offered a grant from Maudsley Charity, you will receive an Award Letter. This contains information about the terms of the grant and any agreed conditions that accompany the grant offer.

Please arrange for an authorised person to sign the Award Letter to accept the grant. An ‘authorised person’ someone who can act on behalf of your organisation.

For grants over £15,000, we usually make payments on a quarterly basis on receipt of your signed Award Letter, unless agreed with you otherwise.

For grants under £15,000, we usually make the payment in full, on receipt of your signed Award Letter.

Maudsley Charity funding is classed as ‘restricted funding’ and this means it can only be used on the project activity you applied to us for.

Applying overheads

Please read the grant information to see if overheads are an eligible cost in the programme you are applying to.

Generally, our smaller grant programmes do not support overhead costs, but programmes offering larger grants do. Please read our Overheads Policy (PDF, 163KB) when planning your project to see our approach to paying overheads. We want to support projects fairly and support applicants to include the full costs associated in delivering a large project.

Reporting

We will ask you for updates on your project, working with you to decide how grant reporting will work best. We will do this in a proportionate way tailored to your project, so depending on the length of your grant, at timely points, you will be invited to complete a progress report. Progress reports are accessed on SmartSimple.

We will agree the reporting approach with you during our first meeting together post award.

In line with our approach to grant making, we want to build trusting relationships with our grant holders. We really value openness and honestly, and as such, are interested in the successes and challenges that you may experience during the delivery of your project.

Communicating about your project

You can find and download our brand guidelines and logos for use in communicating about your project. We are proud of the work of our grant holders and partners and want to work together to communicate your impact.

Please read about the range of projects that we have funded and the difference they are making.

Learning

We welcome your feedback. We want to reflect on what has and has not worked, and are open to receiving constructive feedback from applicants, grant holders and partners to continuously improve our practices. Please do get in touch with your grant manager to share your thoughts on how we can improve and on what you value about our approach.

Contact

If you want to get in touch, you can email your grant manager directly or via grants@maudsleycharity.org and we will get back to you.