Bettys and Taylors Family Fund
The Bettys and Taylors family heritage is very much rooted in food, catering and hospitality. Frederick, our founder, had a difficult start to his life. Despite this, he was able to gain skills and experience which changed his life and his fortune. His early experiences and his legacy are central to where Bettys and Taylors are now. With food key to our business, we want to support food-based projects in Yorkshire.
We aim to support groups and organisations working to inspire, support and enable vulnerable young people (up to age 25) who face challenging circumstances, through gaining relevant skills and experience to prepare for entry into the food, catering and hospitality sector. We are open to applicants who are within twenty miles of a Bettys Tea Room or the Bettys & Taylors head office.
What funding will cover
- Project costs to support and enable vulnerable young people facing challenging circumstances through food, catering, and hospitality skills and experiences,
- Have food and employability at the heart of their project,
- Projects that demonstrate through a successfully delivered smaller project that there is a need and desire among the young people you serve for a larger project focused on food, catering and hospitality skills and employment,
- Projects operating within twenty miles of a Bettys Tea Room or the Bettys & Taylors head office,
- Full cost recovery,
- Small capital purchases towards the project.
Examples of previous successful applications
- Working with young people who are not in education, employment or training, to gain experience and food qualifications.
- Offering placements to young adults with disabilities, in a café specifically set up to showcase their abilities.
- Providing autistic young people and young people with learning disabilities with work placements in a chocolatier’s.
Size of grants
Grants are available of up £30,000. You can use the grant for a project of up to three years, and the maximum you can apply for is £30,000. So you might apply for £15,000 for a twelve month project. Or apply for £10,000 per year, for three years, where the total is £30,000.
We anticipate awarding a maximum of five organisations a grant through this round.
Who can apply?
Your organisation should meet our general eligibility criteria which can be found in our how to apply section
Given the nature of these grants, we will accept expressions of interest from groups with an income of over £500,000.
The project must benefit people living in Yorkshire, and be based withing twenty miles of a Bettys Tearoom or Bettys and Taylors head office.
How to apply?
Before applying, please read the Betty and Taylors Family Fund Guidance 2024 for this grant scheme carefully.
Then please email [email protected] with your expression of interest. Please use “Bettys and Taylors Family Fund EOI” as the subject.
Your Expression of Interest
You should include a summary of your project, telling us what training and support you can offer young people, and details of who you will support. The purpose of your training must be to increase their skills in food, catering or hospitality to potentially progress onto a career. Please include what experience or skills you already have to support the project, and any partnerships. We would also like to know an outline budget for each year of funding applied for, timescale, and what facilities you have to be able to run the project. Lastly, please include contact details for your main contact for the EOI.
This should be a maximum of about 800 words.
When to apply?
We are open now for expressions of interest. The deadline is noon on 6th January 2025. Then you will hear from us by the 10th of January whether we can carry forward your expression of interest to full application stage.
Next, if you are invited to submit a full application, we will send you a link to an online form. Then the deadline for full applications will be the 29th of January 2025. Lastly, we will contact you with a decision about your application by the 2nd of April 2025.
Recently awarded grants
Please be aware that our criteria were different for previous rounds.