Funding for Westcountry Charities, Community Groups & Schools


The Norman Family Trust has been supporting charities and other non-profit groups in the South West of England since 1979 and has awarded over 11,000 grants totalling £11 million.

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Contact Information Update

The Trust’s staff work partly from home and partly from our new office and meeting space in Budleigh Salterton.  While we can now accept post at our office, we’d prefer it if you didn’t send us any papers or other items as we don’t have storage for them. E-mail is our preferred method of communication wherever possible: info@nfct.org

We do not have an office phone number.

Both new applications and monitoring reports should be submitted via our online system.

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Next Sub Committee

Applications for the Trust’s next Grants Committee meeting on 21st March 2024 are now closed.  Any received after midday on 12th March will be considered at our meeting in May (date tbc).  This cut-off is being strictly enforced as the Trust has been receiving an unprecedented number of applications in recent months.   Please use our online application form to submit your application.

Please that the Trust is currently experiencing an extremely high demand for funding, and while it has managed to increase the amount available at each meeting, it is still far below that which is requested by applicants.  Trustees may decide to support your application at a considerably lower level than requested.  Please bear in mind that the vast majority of the Trust’s grants fall into the range of £1,000 to £5,000.

Please read the page linked below as it contains the most up to date information about the Trust’s current grant funding.

Interested in Applying for Funding?

The Trust uses an online application form and this is the only method of application (if you are unable to use the online form, please contact us). Please click the button to visit our ‘Apply for Funding’ page – you’ll need to complete an eligibility test before gaining access to the form.

Key Figures from 2022/23

For further information, please visit our Facts & Figures page

Otter Mouth, Budleigh Salterton

History of the Trust, and who the Trustees and Staff are

The Trust’s aims and policies

How to apply for funding

Deadlines, policy updates & recent grants

Data privacy – how we use your information