Yes, your donation will be used to directly support the ten charities, which are already making a great impact but need support to ensure that they continue to deliver high quality services to beneficiaries for years to come. Your donation will also enable valuable insight and learning to be developed, which will help to steer and influence the charity sector.

You will find out which charities are on the programme by June 2017 and we’ll share information about their journey throughout the next two years. However, you are not able to specify which individual charities your donation goes to. Your donation will allow us to learn what charities need, encourage other major donors to give in this way and drive what CAF can do to support the small to medium charity sector as a whole.

Charities have submitted an initial expression of interest. Applications will be reviewed by the advisory board and those shortlisted will have a phone call with us, submit a range of documents (including annual reports, accounts and a breakdown of how they would use the grants) and then receive a half-day visit from the CAF team. This will include an interview with the charity's CEO and chair of Trustees as well as a visit to see their work in action.

Yes, as part of the interview, we will agree with the charity how they will use the grant funding and they will periodically be required to show evidence of the expenditure.

We’re looking for organisations that can demonstrate their main purpose is to prevent a problem. They must be able to show that their work follows a clear objective to intervene in a situation to stop something occurring in the first place. Early Action sets out to answer the question: "how do we build a society that prevents problems from occurring rather than one that, as now, copes with the consequences?" We’re aware that charities working in this preventative space can find that some donors view their cause as less urgent. We feel that this fits well with the focus of CAF Resilience which is about focussing on the long term.