# DSC's two guides to grants for individuals now online

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/11/dsc039s-two-guides-grants-individuals-now-online/
- Published: 2005-06-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

 

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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.”

 

 

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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