| 23/11/2011 | Still catching up! | | | | | | Apologies again to the many applicants who are still waiting to hear from us, but sadly we are still sifting through a very large batch of appropriate applications. We hope to be able to complete this task and meet our budgeted 2011/2012 donation total by Spring 2012, so could I ask that until then no more fresh applications be made. Please keep an eye on this NEWS section for an indication of when it may be worth resubmitting.
Thank you all for your continuing patience - we fervently hope that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!
Philip Gardam
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| | 14/04/2011 | A new Financial Year but the same old problems! | | | | | | Yes, we are able to consider once again a small proportion of the existing large pool of applications for funding. But I must ask that while we go through this procedure no more fresh applications are submitted. Please keep an eye on this NEWS section for notification of when it might be worthwhile to apply again; hopefully not too far into 2011/12.
I should also apologise here to any applicants who have waited some considerable time for a response from us; we will try to get round to catching up with this duty but I hope the difficulties of dealing with such an overwhelming number of applications will be appreciated.
My thanks to my fellow-trustee, Rev Geoffrey Wood, who has manfully shared the task of handling and dealing with applications in recent months.
Philip Gardam
Founding Trustee
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| | 17/02/2011 | Early 2011 situation | | | | | | We are just about to complete the last small batch of 2010/2011 donations, and as usual this is a matter of choosing a few out of a very large backlog! Many apologies to those applicants who have not heard from us for some time - we have been snowed under with many worthy applications - but will try to catch up with meaningful responses, even if sadly negative.
We realise that a slight change of policy would be sensible: instead of telling unsuccessful applicants that we will put their applications in our pending file, we will ask them to reapply in a few months if considered still relevant, thus in effect placing the editing onus partly on them.
So from the beginning of our next FY (April 2011) we will once again be in (limited) funds and hence in a position to consider fresh applications.
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