GRANTS
We provide grant funding for Ministry Apprentices and Leaders in Training. Read on to learn all about the funding options available through The Bonar Trust.
Applications for the year 2024-25 are now open. The deadline for all grant applications is
30 April 2024
WHY DO WE NEED FUNDING?
Funding people through their training is very important, enabling more people to train and get the training they need. Funding creates a culture of rigour and quality in training, particularly when local churches are invested in and taking responsibility for training.
Funding is a practical recognition of and response to the significant demands - financial and otherwise - that an extended period of training makes on an individual, a couple or a family. It enables people who otherwise would not have financial means to support themselves and their families to undertake a period of training. This is particularly important for people in their late twenties or early thirties, many with young children, who would like to train for vocational ministry, but don’t have a capital base that enables them to do so. Means-tested funding throughout the period of training allows for more flexibility at the deployment end, recognising the variation in, for example, housing provision when new churches are started.
Read about our vision and ethos for training gospel workers.
TRAINING
Training in preaching and handling God’s Word and how this responsibility is shared between the church and external training providers.
“ Thank you so much to the trustees for awarding this grant. This is such a blessing to us as a family as we transition into this new phase of life, and we pray it will all work to the glory of God. ”
CHRIS L.