Grants Committee meeting dates:

The next meeting of the Grants Committee is set for:

18th November 2024

Please note that the NCF operates an application window during which we will accept grant applications ahead of our meetings. The upcoming application window runs from:

9am Monday 16th September 2024 to 5pm Friday 25th October 2024

Applications will not be accepted outside of this time frame and must be received by email in the format requested below.

 

How to Apply

The Grants Committee will consider all qualifying applications which are sent via email. Each application must be a single PDF and have a completed NCF Application Form (download the PDF below) as its first page. 

Every application should be a maximum of four pages in length, including the application cover sheet and any budget pages, and should contain:

  1. An introduction to your organisation and its work with a link to your website, where appropriate.

  2. Reasons for applying to the Noël Coward Foundation.    

  3. Any connection to Noël Coward or his work.

  4. The proposal, outlining your project and the anticipated benefit(s) for participants in detail.

  5. The amount requested, with a clear breakdown of the project’s costs.  

  6. Timeline for your project and the date when funds would be required.

  7. Details of the acknowledgement that you will offer to the Foundation.

Please email your application as a single PDF file to ncf@alanbrodie.com ensuring the name of your organisation is clearly stated in the PDF file name. 

Applications should be a maximum of four pages in length including the cover sheet and budget information.

Hard copies of supporting material (brochures, programmes) may be sent to:
The Noël Coward Foundation, 14 The Barbon Buildings, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4QH

Reports on Grants Awarded

All recipients of a Foundation grant are required to supply a detailed report on their project, including photographs where possible.  The report should describe how the money was used, evaluate the benefit for all participants, and explain how the project fulfilled the Noël Coward Foundation’s funding criteria. 

If appropriate, details and photographs of the event may be posted on the Foundation’s website together with a link to the supported organisation’s website.

For further information on how to create and submit your report, please download the guidelines below.

 
Noël Coward with the children at The Actor’s Orphanage where he was the charity’s President from 1934 – 1956.  Photograph © The Actors’ Children’s Trust

Noël Coward with the children at The Actor’s Orphanage where he was the charity’s President from 1934 – 1956.  Photograph © The Actors’ Children’s Trust