Characteristics of a Successful Venture

The Trustees of CIT believe that relatively small amounts of funding can make a real difference to people with new and emerging ideas. Sometimes its difficult for individuals to gather funds to test an idea before growing it further and developing an organisation – it can be a challenge for small organisations to try new and better ideas out. CIT offers the opportunity for the best ideas that promote the Christian faith and/or help communities as an expression of that faith to be trialled and – hopefully, in time – grown.

We’ve analysed our grants from the past few years to help you understand some of our patterns of grant making. We hope this helps you tailor any application to CIT.

Grants made during the last few years:

  • Range from £500-£5,000 and occasionally more.

  • Average £3,500.

  • Are for projects lasting up to 1 year – but may be for less time if it’s a specific event or series of events. Very rarely one or two repeat grants (but no more) have been awarded in very special circumstances – for example where it takes time for the results to show.

    CIT mainly makes grants in the UK or, if international, then these applicants have UK links and/or a funding relationship with another Trust or Church.

    Most grants support work with very vulnerable groups in a community. Other grants are awarded to initiatives offering an innovative approach to sharing or progressing the christian faith.