Small grants are available for registered charities whose activities support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members.

Application for grants of up to £5,000 can be made for both capital and revenue grants tackling problems that face one or more of its members. The trustees may consider requests for higher amounts.

They support requests for core funding as well as project-based grants, and actively encourage applications from relatively new organisations to help them become established.

The three areas of activity that the charity wishes to support are:

• interventions that support families and help them in ways that prevent the fracture of the family unit, eg. practical family support, relationship counselling, mediation

• families where sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse threaten the integrity of the family unit

• prisoners and in particular their families, during and after the period of imprisonment.

The trust prefers to support charities whose income is below £500,000. However, larger charities with pioneering pilot projects will be considered.

For full details, visit the Kelly Family Charitable Trust website.