Sir David Trench Fund for Recreation (Main Fund)

What Projects Are Eligible? 1. In general, projects must fall within the scopes of the three categories of grants and must also: (a) be directly for the organisation of activities which encourage the purposeful use of leisure by the young people; (b) be of long-term benefit and reach out to the widest possible cross-section of the community; (c) involve “once-for-all” grants and non-recurrent commitments. The grants are expected to be spent within the specified period towards the project and must be self-financing thereafter; and (d) be assessed on the basis of the best use of the fund. 2. The services or the facilities provided by the applicants under the application should be open for use of general public. 3. Priority will be given to worthwhile projects and applications from first-time applicants, in particular, those who have no access to other funding sources. Low priority will be accorded to those applicants who have other funding sources. 4. The Sir David Trench Fund Committee (the Committee) will consider both the scope and the amount of grant requested in each application and decide whether the project will be supported in full or in part. 5. To enable a reasonable number of applications to be approved each year, applicant who has obtained grants from the same project type in the preceding three consecutive years will NOT be considered. Items NOT Supported 1. Projects requesting retrospective grants; 2. Requests for supplementary grant; 3. The financing of summer holiday activities; 4. Bids from teaching institutes, including clubs of schools/institutes, except special schools offering boarding care service and schools under the Opening up School Facilities for Promotion of Sports Development Scheme; 5. Projects from government-supported uniformed groups (except centres offering facilities for public use); and 6. Administrative expenses and service charges such as postages, rents, salaries, instructor’s fees, insurance premium, remuneration for secretarial services, transportation fees (except the freight charges and VAT reflected on the quotation / tender offer for items procured outside Hong Kong), etc.