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1987 - 2008Making an Application
to The DCI Trust in EnglandOver the years since 1987 the DCI Trust has provided grants, contributions or interest-free loans for buildings, books, camels, childcare, cycles, computers, clothes, cows, farms, films, food, goats, jobs, medicines, micro-credit schemes, missions to the poor or unreached peoples, seeds, schools, spectacles, tools, training, travel, water, wheelchairs, workshops and wells to many pastors, churches and believers mainly in the developing world.
In 2008 our main goals are to support the following:
Development of the DCI based Schools of Mission and their student projects in mission, church-planting, care for the poor and the opening of daughter Schools of Mission.
Mission to Unreached Peoples on the Joshua Project list.
Development of Business for Mission to provide local funding.
Banking for the Poor micro-credit schemes
We will also consider small projects similar to those described above for the direct benefit of the poor of the world.
Would you like to see some of our photos?
Click here for Schools of Mission around the world
Click here for Banking for the Poor projects
Click here for projects to help orphans and the poor
Click here to see some of the people in the DCI family
Applicants can be from any nation and all faiths, men and women.Every project must be a "one-off" project with a start and a finish that we can see. We do not ever provide funds for ongoing operational expenses or for personal wages or support. We expect every applicant to invest sacrificially in his or her own project.
The Trust is a small, private fund sponsored by no more than 60 people in the United Kingdom, and is a registered charity.
The Trust is comfortable with considering grants for micro-projects up to the value of UK £500 as it is not equipped to handle the large-scale projects and supervision normally undertaken by major charities, denominations, relief agencies and NGO's.
Before you think about making any application from this page please understand our problem and our procedures and be prepared to handle these issues with great patience, otherwise your approach to us will not succeed.
Our first problem is that we do not know you and that we cannot see you or your project. Therefore we can only begin to work with you if someone in your location or in our country who we can know and trust is willing to recommend you to us and take the responsibility of verifying your identity, integrity and testimony.
The sad fact is that every week we delete dozens of e-mail requests for money or e-mails with offers of money which are from people including 'pastors' who are not the person that they say they are. This is the atmosphere of distrust on the Internet that you and we here have to face and overcome.
Nevertheless, we do not want to refuse any genuine application that we can help with and we want to obey Christ's call to us to serve in mission. On the other hand please understand that we have a very serious responsibility to ensure that funds do not fall into the wrong hands or are used for wrong purposes.
The following is the only way
to approach the Trust.
Before you make any application please understand that we do not know you personally and from this distance we cannot see you or your project. You must therefore be prepared to go through our security checks with great patience, otherwise your application will not succeed.
For security reasons we do not accept letters or applications from people we do not know personally, rather we only accept new partners when they are introduced to us by someone we already know and trust.
Therefore before you write to us personally you must be recommended to the DCI Trust with an e-mail or postal reference from any one of the following people who must have known you personally for at least two years or more:
Leaders of a DCI School of Mission.
Leaders of a DCI Prayer Group.
Leaders of a known and long-established denomination or mission.
One of our DCI partners, friends or supporters around the world.
One of our DCI Board of Trustees.
Your contact in the United Kingdom or Spain who we can talk to.
By our founders Dr Les Norman or Mrs Pilar Norman.They must write to us through this page and identify themselves fully with scans of relevant documents and credentials.
When we have received your introduction we will then contact you and ask you for the following details to be sent in the post to us in order to verify your identity and integrity. Please but do not send them until we ask you to.
1. Your full name, address, telephone and e-mail, age, brief history, occupation and employer.
2. Photocopies of your passport / identity card with a clear head and shoulders photograph.
3. A brief list of your own giving and kindness to others in the past 12 months, including your giving to church, mission and the poor in general. Please quote actual figures.
4. Two independent references. The first character reference must be from a responsible community leader who has known you for over five years, and the second must be from your pastor, minister, priest or the leader of your denomination, either at home or on the mission field if that is where you are, signed and stamped on official headed paper.
5. A brief outline plan for your project remembering that for a first application the Trust will only consider one project, and that the maximum grant for a first time applicant is £500, and you are advised to apply for much less.
Please state the following so that we can understand your plan:
5.1 What do you want to do ?
5.2 Why do you want to do that ?
5.3 Where exactly do you want to this ?
5.4 When exactly do you want to start and when will the project be finished ?
5.5 Who will supervise you, work with you and who will benefit from your plan?
5.6 How will you develop your plan, step one, step two and so on ?
5.7 How much will it cost to finish the project and how much will you put towards it ? You must use £ sterling or US $ in your calculations.
6. A married lady will need to send us the permission of her husband to make an application, unless there are very good reasons why this is not possible. A single lady will need to be under the care of her family or a pastor. We only request this to honour the biblical and cultural requirements present in many societies. We are very happy to support ladies, in fact the majority of our beneficiaries are female.
If the information that we ask for is not sent to us and we have to reply and ask for more then you must allow at least six months for your request to return to the top of the list.
We wish you well and if you make an application we will reply to you as soon as possible.
Latest Updates from the Board of TrusteesThe DCI Trust does not provide funds to start Schools of Mission. We look for faithfulness, communication, integrity and perseverance over time and after the first graduation an application can be submitted for development and projects.
We will send small or large packages of Christian books to the developing world but the receiver must be prepared to pay all the local customs duties and the fees charged by the shipping agents at his harbour or airport. Please check the costs before you request books.
From September 1st 2006, if any project fails to submit a report on time it will not be allowed to ask for extra funds in the future. We are sorry about this but our Director is spending too much time reminding project leaders of their responsibility and apologising to supporters for the lack of information.
The Trust will not provide funds for photocopiers as they always go wrong and are then often abandoned because no-one can afford the cost of repairs.
This page is dated January 14th 2008 and replaces all previous pages.
1985 - 2008
