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Frozen Funds Charitable Trust

The purpose of the Frozen Funds Charitable Trust is to provide grants for projects run by, and for, people who use mental health or intellectual disability services.

Call for 2010 applications

The board is seeking applications for its third round of grants to be distributed in 2010.

Applications made in 2010 must meet the theme: Changing for the Better.

New projects that support transition around:

  • isolation
  • dependence
  • education
  • employment.

These new projects could involve: 

  • projects that help transition to improved quality of life and wellbeing
  • transitional projects, isolation to community, projects that help transition from school, home, work to retirement and independent living to community.
  • creating connected communities, belonging, transition, diversity, and progress.

A new funding theme is available in January of each year.

Proposed projects must be...

  • applied for by charitable organisations or by charitable organisations on behalf of individuals or groups without charitable status
  • directed by people who use, or have used, mental health or intellectual disability services
  • completed within a finite period.

Preference will be given to project proposals that would not be normally funded through government.

How to apply

There is a two stage selection process:

1. Applicants complete an Expression of Interest form which outlines the proposed project and how it meets the current funding theme. Expressions of interest close on 31 March each year.

Note:

  • Expression of Interest forms will be available on this website in January of each year.
  • Applications will not be considered if they do not directly address the theme or are received after the closing date.

2. Expressions of interest are assessed by the Trust Board, who will then invite the successful organisation to submit a full application.

History

'Frozen Funds' was the name given to the interest on patients' welfare benefits paid into psychiatric and psychopaedic hospital trust accounts in the 1970s and 80s. The interest money was kept by the institutions to fund such things as recreational projects.

In 1987 this practice ceased and the interest money was taken from the hospitals for payment to the people who owned it.

Over half of the interest money was returned to its owners in the early 1990s.

The government then decided that the unclaimed balance of the funds should benefit people who use mental health and intellectual disability services. A charitable trust was established.

You can view lists of grant payments made by the trust.