BHP Billiton Endowment Fund

The fund was established with funding from BHP Billiton Petroleum Ltd. BHP Billiton Endowment Fund aims to support projects based around enhancing or conserving the local physical environment that also benefit the wider community and improve people’s lives.

• Statutory organisations or work that is their responsibility
• Organisations with less than 3 unrelated Trustees/ Directors/ Management Committee members
• CIC’s limited by Shares
• National organisations that cannot demonstrate local governance /autonomy (permanent base within Merseyside, bank account and Management team)
• Commercial ventures/Projects for personal profit
• Purchase/maintenance of vehicles
• Activities that will have already taken place before we offer you a grant
• Politically connected or exclusively religious activities
• Organisations that are established for the benefit of animals or plants
• Debts and other liabilities
• Reclaimable VAT
• Travel outside UK
• Gifts or projects exclusively for the purpose of entertaining

Documents which need to be included with your application:

1. A copy of your governing document.
2. A copy of your latest annual accounts or income/expenditure document.
3. A copy of a recent bank statement for your group. If you do not have a bank account in place, you must be able to nominate another organisation to hold the funds (CVS, another local charity, church etc.).
4. A list of your Trustees/Directors/Management Committee members. A minimum of three un-related must be in place.
5. A copy of your current Safeguarding Policy. All applicants must ensure that they hold relevant policies and procedures in place to undertake activities, such as Criminal Records Bureau checks and/or a health and safety policy, depending on proposed activity. If unsure, we recommend taking advice from your local CVS.

If you have applied to us within the last 12 months and provided this information, we do not need you to send it again, although we may require a more recent bank statement.