Find out what to expect after you've applied for a grant
Once you've submitted your application, it will be reviewed by the Grants Team. This involves checking if sufficient funds are available, ensuring the grant request meets our eligibility criteria, and that all necessary endorsements have been secured.
We review Grant applications under £50,000 on a rolling basis throughout the year and will aim to respond to your application within 10 working days.
Grant applications over £50,000 are subject to addtional approval requirements, and therefore may take longer before we can reply with a decision. We will stay in touch with you throughout this process.
As soon as a decision is made, we will contact you by email to let you know if your application has been successful. If your application was unsucessful, you will receive feedback on why the request was not awarded.
If your request is approved
If your grant is under £5,000, you will receive an email confirming approval of the grant, a grant reference number, and the next steps.
If your grant is £5,000 or over, this email will include a Grant Award Letter and a Grant Agreement which contain your key grant information, including a grant reference number, a reporting and payment schedule, and the next steps.
Once you receive this email, you can start your project and make your purchase(s).
- If the grant award is for item(s) to be purchased using SBS Oracle- you will need to raise a requisition and place the order using your own cost centre. We send all grant award information to Trust Finance, who then know which orders to recharge to the Charity. They will invoice us and reimbursh your cost centre.
- If the grant award is for a capital/estates project, or medical equipment- do not raise a requisition yourself. We will send the grant information to the relevant Trust team who will manage these purchases themselves.
- If we have approved that a supplier can invoice us directly- you can now ask them to invoice us. Make sure the invoice is made out to St George's Hospital Charity, is submitted to us as a PDF document, and that is contains the suppliers bank details.
Impact and Evaluation Reporting
A fundamental part of the grant agreement is reporting back to us about how the project is going and letting us know about the impact your project is having. Once your grant has been awarded, our Impact and Evaluation Manager will be in touch shortly afterwards about the reporting requirements for your project.