Individual Grant

APPLICATION FORM – INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES

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.

This form should be used for:

• applications made for a single young person aged 21 or under
• applications made for two or more young people looked after by the same family/carers
• applications for young people aged 21 or under in foster or kinship care
• applications for young people aged 21 or under who are refugees or asylum seekers

Although applicants can apply for grants of any size, most grants made to individuals by John Watson’s Trust will be in a range between £200 and £2000.

What does John Watson’s Trust fund?

• external tuition for young people with learning difficulties or who have missed part of their education for other reasons
• educational books/equipment of various kinds where family/carer income place these out of reach
• IT, laptops, iPads, readers and software (at present we are unable to consider applications for IT for Looked After and Accommodated young people in Council care).
• educational travel for individual young people, usually within Scotland (schools applying for help should use the separate School Trips application form in all cases)

What will I need to apply?

We will need you to supply us with a completed application form and:

• two written supporting references from people who can give as full a picture of the young person’s situation as possible – for instance, teachers, social workers, a GP.
• two copies of documents (no original documents please) that provide evidence of income, such as wage slips, benefit award letters

If you have any difficulties at all in completing the form, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Details of young person

The person who will benefit from the grant

Full Name*

First NameLast Name

Address

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

CityState / Province

Postal / Zip Code

Date of Birth*

Name and address of current school*

Name of head teacher*

Details of applicant

The person applying on behalf of the young person. If you are the young person’s social worker or teacher, please use YOUR details here.

Full Name*

First NameLast Name

Relationship to young person*

Full Address and Postcode*

Telephone*

Email address*

Family circumstances

In order to process your application, we need to understand a little about the young person’s family background.

Please provide the name address of the young person’s parent (if not the applicant stated above).*

Does the young person have any brothers or sisters and, if so, how old are they?*

Is the young person part of a single parent family?*

If the young person is NOT resident in Edinburgh or the Lothians, please tell us if they have a strong connection to the area e.g. they grew up in Edinburgh or travel to school in the area.*

Purpose of grant

We need to know how it is proposed the grant will be spent to understand how the funds will contribute to the education or advancement in life of the young person.

What will the grant be used for? If the request is for a desktop computer, laptop or tablet please state if the recipient has wifi at home.*

How much are you applying for?*

If you have applied to the John Watson’s Trust before, please tell us when you applied, what the application was for and whether it was successful.*

If you have applied to other organisations, please tell us which ones and how much they have awarded you:*

How did you hear about the John Watson’s Trust?*

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Referees

The John Watson Trust requires two referees to support the application. They should be involved with the applicant(s) on an appropriate professional basis (doctor, carer, social worker or teacher). This will help us to understand the young person’s circumstances and why a grant may be appropriate. Both reference letters must be uploaded below.

Upload Referees supporting letters (2)*

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Financial information

Supporting evidence must be provided such as wage slips, benefit statements, tax credits, etc. Your application cannot proceed until these have been received.

Please state the current family income per month, rounded to the nearest £100.00

Please state the level of your family savings to the nearest £1000.00

Upload supporting financial documents (wage slips, benefits, etc.)

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Upload supporting financial documents (wage slips, benefits, etc.)

The space below is for you to include any information you feel is important to the application that is not covered elsewhere.

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.

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