Bettys and Taylors Family Fund
The Bettys and Taylors family heritage is very much rooted in food, catering and hospitality. Frederick, our founder, had a difficult start to his life. Despite this, he was able to gain skills and experience which changed his life and his fortune. His early experiences and his legacy are central to where Bettys and Taylors are now. With food key to our business, we want to support food-based projects in Yorkshire.
We therefore aim to support groups and organisations working to inspire, support and enable vulnerable young people (up to age 25) who face challenging circumstances, through gaining relevant skills and experience to prepare for entry into the food, catering and hospitality sector. We are open to applicants who are within twenty miles of a Bettys Tea Room or the Bettys & Taylors head office.
What funding will cover
- Project costs to support and enable vulnerable young people facing challenging circumstances through food, catering, and hospitality skills and experiences,
- Have food and employability at the heart of their project,
- Projects that demonstrate through a successfully delivered smaller project that there is a need and desire among the young people you serve for a larger project focused on food, catering and hospitality skills and employment,
- Projects operating within twenty miles of a Bettys Tea Room or the Bettys & Taylors head office,
- Full cost recovery,
- Small capital purchases towards the project.
Examples of previous successful applications
- Working with young people who are not in education, employment or training, to gain experience and food qualifications.
- Providing autistic young people and young people with learning disabilities with work placements in a chocolatier’s
- Offering disadvantaged young people placements and training in a community café.
Size of grants
Grants are available of up £30,000. You can use the grant for a project of up to three years, and the maximum you can apply for is £30,000. For example, you might apply for £15,000 for a twelve month project. Or apply for £10,000 per year, for three years, where the total is £30,000.
We anticipate awarding a maximum of three organisations a grant through this round.
Who can apply?
Your organisation should meet our general eligibility criteria. Go here: how to apply section to read about our general eligibility. Given the nature of these grants, we will also accept expressions of interest from groups with an income of over £500,000.
Your project must benefit people living in Yorkshire. You must be based within twenty miles of a Bettys Tearoom or Bettys and Taylors head office.
How to apply?
Before applying, please read the Betty and Taylors Family Fund Guidance 2025 for this grant scheme carefully.
Then please complete the form to submit an expression of interest. If you’d like to chat about your project before completing an EOI, please do give us a call.
Your Expression of Interest (EOI)
You should include a summary of your project, telling us what training and support you can offer young people, and details of who you will support. The purpose of your training must be to increase their skills in food, catering or hospitality to potentially progress onto a career. Please also include what experience or skills you already have to support the project, and any partnerships. We would also like to know an outline budget for each year of funding applied for, timescale, and what facilities you have to be able to run the project.
Full Applications
We will let you know by the 16th of December if we would like to see a full application from you. Then, if we would like you to complete a full application, we will send you a link to the form. You can download a list of the Bettys and Taylors Family Fund Full Application Questions so you can see those before you apply.
When to apply?
We are open now for expressions of interest. The deadline is noon on Monday the 17th of November 2025. Then you will hear from us by the 5th of December whether we can carry forward your expression of interest to full application stage.
Next, if you are invited to submit a full application, we will send you a link to an online form. Then the deadline for full applications will be noon on the 12th of January 2026. Lastly, we will contact you with a decision about your application by the 9th of March 2026.
Complete your EOIRecently awarded grants
2024 Round 2 Successful Applicants
Previous Successful Applicants
Please be aware, however, that our criteria were different for previous rounds.