Over the years since 1987 the DCI Trust has provided 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 leaders in the developing world.

We consider applications from the following people and for the following activities:

1. From leaders of a DCI based School of Mission or a similar affiliated training programme for help with projects that give the students, supporters and senders a hands-on training experience as part of their preparation. 

These projects may be in evangelism, church planting, opening new training centres, micro-credit schemes, business for mission schemes, visits to people on the Joshua Unreached Peoples list, and we will consider other proposals to help the poor.

2. From students and graduates from a DCI based School of Mission or a similar affiliated training programme to begin new projects in mission, training of leaders, church-planting and care for the poor as part of their call and service.

* The beneficiaries of your projects may be from all nations, all faiths, poor and richer, men and women of all ages.

* Please do not ask us to fund established projects or ask us to help with projects already being sponsored by other donors unless we have their written approval from the very beginning.

* We do not provide funds for monthly operating 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 and is a registered charity regulated and inspected by the Charity Commission of the United Kingdom government.

The Trust is comfortable with considering first-time grants for projects up to the value of UK £1000. We are 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 procedures and be prepared to handle them with great patience. Our greatest problem is that if we do not know you personally then we can only begin to work with you if someone in recognized authority is willing to take time to recommend you and take the responsibility of verifying your identity, integrity and testimony.

We do not want to refuse any genuine application but please try to 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.

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The following is the only way
to approach the Trust.

[A] FIRST, THE INITIAL ENQUIRY

Please send us an initial enquiry in a maximum of TEN LINES IN ENGLISH through this secure page only. You will not be able to attach any files or photos.

1. Tell us who you are and where you live.

2. Tell us the name of the School of Mission that you attend (or attended) and the date of your course.

3. Tell us if you are a leader, student or graduate.

4. Give us a brief description of your proposed project and the cost, which must fit into one of the categories given above.

Please do not tell us any more than this at the moment. We will reply to let you know if we can consider a full application or not, and if we have the funds available at this time.


[B] LATER, THE FULL APPLICATION.

If we ask you to proceed to a full application you will need to assemble the following information which must then be scanned and sent to us by e-mail. Later on we will also ask you to send the original papers by post.

If any of the information is missing we will be sorry to return your application and it will take at least six months for another application to reach the top of the list, so please take care. Please see the latest updates at the end of the page.

5. A brief outline plan for your project remembering that the maximum grant for a first time applicant is £1000, 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 do you want to this ?
5.4 When do you want to start and when will the project be finished ?
5.5 Who will supervise you on our behalf and report to us, who will be working 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.

5.8 How does this plan relate to the Great Commission ?

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 and if this condition is a problem for you we will talk about it.

At present the Board can only consider communications written in clear English language.

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 Trustees

The board of the DCI Trust employs a zero-tolerance policy without any appeal in the case of the submission of any false information to apply for funding, and towards any hint of dishonesty or fraudulent activity.

The DCI Trust will not pay you or employ you to start a School of Mission. We look for your investment first, then for your faithfulness, communication, integrity and perseverance. We may be able to help you with agreed start-up costs that you cannot find yourself and we will hope to develop a partnership with you as the work progresses.

The Trust regrets that it cannot help with long-term or monthly funding of orphans because we do not have the legal permission to engage in this kind of activity. The Trust is not equipped to do the continual supervision and staff checks that UK law demands to protect vulnerable children. We might be able to help to launch an orphan care project with a one-off gift if the project leader is a student or graduate of a School of Mission. 

We will send packages of Christian books to the developing world but you must be prepared to pay all the local customs duties and the fees charged by the shipping agents at your harbour or airport. Please check the costs before you request books because these can be expensive.

If any sponsored project fails to submit a report within one month of the agreed time it will not be allowed to ask for extra funds in the future. 

We 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 or replacement toner.

This page is dated October 24th, 2008 and replaces all previous pages.