Ashington Leisure Partnership GRANTS
Our Strategy 2022 to 2025
The primary objective of the Trust is to enable the betterment of the lives of people living in Ashington and surrounding area through revenue and/or capital grants consistent with our objects. The grants will be subject to monetary limits set on an annual basis. Assessment of those limits will be resolved by the Trustees and determined based on forecasts of interest earned on investments and account balances.
There will be two grant streams:
1. ALP John Talbot Small Grants Award
In recognition of the individual whose legacy included a large donation to the Trust. This award will relate to applications for smaller sums from organisations/individuals residing in Ashington or surrounding area and seeking financial assistance within the purpose of the Trust objects.
2. ALP Large Grants Award
This scheme is envisaged to apply to organisations seeking capital/revenue finance in order to provide sport and recreation facilities and, or activities in Ashington and surrounding area that benefit people in line with the Charity objects.
Applications for samll grants will be considered by a sub-committee of at least 3 Trustees. Large grants will be considered by full committee. All successful applicants will be required to provide a feedback sheet on how the grant was used and the difference it made to the individual/organisation.
John Talbot Legacy Awards
Mr Talbot was born on March 20, 1949, the son of the Vicar of Knaresborough.
He spent his early years there, before going to Giggleswick School in Settle and later studying at Leeds University.
It was here that he became involved in the Territorial Army, later becoming an officer serving with the Royal Corps of Transport at the Longmoor Military Railway.
Mr Talbot joined Her Majesty's Prison Service in 1971, serving in Yorkshire, Winchester, Northern Ireland, Worcestershire, London, the Isle of Wight and Surrey.
Following the prison's closure in 1995, Mr Talbot went on to hold a non-academic post for a number of years at Oxford University's Museum of the History of Science.
Mr Talbot had a lifelong interest in railway signalling, a subject which he researched widely and on which he was an acknowledged expert.
In 2007, Ashington Leisure Centre Trustees were bequeathed in the will of John Talbot, a friend of ALC, an amount of money to be used for the benefit of the people in Ashington as recognition of the companionship and hospitality he enjoyed when visiting the area.
Following the changes to the old ALC Trustee organisation into the new Ashington Leisure Partnership, arrangements for the administration of these funds are now under the control and management of the new ALP.
Please refer to the Grant Policy document for further information on the John Talbot Small Grants Scheme and the guidelines contained in the application form to your right.
