DSC's two guides to grants for individuals now online
Howard Lake | 11 June 2005 | News
The Directory of Social Change has published its two funding directories for individuals as a combined online database. The Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need and The Educational Grants Directory can now be searched for an annual fee of £135 + VAT.
The two publications can now be searched at grantsforindividuals.org.uk. The site contains details of 3,568 grantmaking trusts that provide funding for individuals in need and for educational purposes. Together these trusts give £362 million a year.
Publisher the Directory of Social Change says: “we aim to include all publicly-registered charities which give at least £500 a year to individuals, although most give much more than this.”
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The site is the latest in the Directory of Social Change’s move into publishing its extensive funding information resources in digital format. The first move came a few years ago with the publication on CD-ROM of The Guide to the Major Trusts.
Then came trustfunding.org.uk, the online version of the trusts guide, which has recently been revamped. This was followed by governmentfunding.org.uk, and then in April this year by companygiving.org.uk. All but the governmentfunding.org.uk site required a paid subscription.
To its credit the grantsforindividuals.org.uk site claims to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium’s accessibility standard. Unfortunately, a key link on its front page, that lets visitors click through to the site’s search engine – “Click here if you want access to the UKs most comprehensive database of grants for individuals” – is, although underlined, not an active link but simply and confusingly underlined text.
Also, one month after its launch, the site’s main navigation bar link to “News” takes the visitor to a page saying only “A weekly summary of major voluntary sector news items will appear here shortly.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.