Procedure for awarding and handling grants
Procedures for awarding and handling grants – Division 1
June 2021
1.
1st Division – Family grants
In order to be awarded grants, you must be the descendant of Theodorus Suhr’s parents, merchant Ole Bernt Suhr and his wife Dorothea Beckman (including adopted children and children born out of wedlock) and be registered in the family tables, which are held and managed by the Foundation’s administration. The administration is located at Bonderup, Bonderupvej 148, 4370 St. Merlose. The email address is stiftelsen@suhrske.dk.
The family tables are to be found on the Foundation’s website, www.suhrske.dk.
The family member must be at least 20 years of age to be awarded grants. The age criterion follows the calendar year and the awarding of grants follows the financial year of the Suhrske Foundation, which runs from 01/05 to 30/04. E.g. If a family member turns 20 years old in 2020, they may be awarded a grant, which would then be paid in June and December 2020.
It is the Executive Board of the Suhrske Foundation that ultimately decides who receives grants and determines the number of grants
In order for the Foundation to pay out grants, the applier have to provide a number of information. The information needed are: name, social security number (if applicable), address and bank details necessary for electronic transfer of grant payments. The responsibility of providing such information to the Foundation’s administration, as well as the responsibility for regularly updating the information, lies with the family member only.
To a certain extent, the Foundation’s administration seeks to obtain information about family members who reach the age of 20, but the persons concerned must submit the necessary information stated above.
The Executive Board strives to ensure that the persons who are entitled to a grant are awarded one in order to strengthen the family member’s attachment to the family. However, the Executive Board follows the practice used for many years, in which family members who have moved abroad (from Denmark and Sweden) as well as the children and grandchildren of such persons are endeavored to receive grants. Subsequent generations are not awarded grants.
Only in exceptional cases are family members who have turned 30 awarded a grant. Normally family members do not receive grants from the age of 30 to the age of 60. It is expected that family members up to the age of 30 and after the age of 60 are most in need of financial support. Only under very special circumstances are additional grants awarded.
1.1 Forfeiture of the right to grants
Where it has been impossible to transfer grants to a beneficiary for two consecutive years due to lack of or incorrect bank information, the Executive Board may decide that the right to these grants is withdrawn. In such event, the right to grants (which have not yet been paid) shall be forfeited. If the person concerned later on makes contact and provides correct information, the Executive Board may decide to resume grant payments for the future.
1.2 The awarded amount
The Executive Board of the Suhrske Foundation shall determine the size of the grants. At the annual general meeting in November, the amount to be paid in December of the same year will be announced. The amount to be paid in June the following year is ultimately decided by the Executive Board at the end of the financial year, and will be announced on the Foundation’s website no later than May.
Grants are currently paid twice a year – December and June.
2. Wedding grants
Wedding grants can be awarded once per family member. Applications must be submitted no later than 3 months after the wedding ceremony. The application will be processed at a board meeting, where approval can be made. Payment of awarded grants are processed when the marriage certificate or certificate of registered partnership have been received by the Foundation’s administration.
The wedding grant amounts to DKK. 15,000 by 2021 for family members.
3. Destitute grant
Family members may apply for the grant in special “cases of need”. The application will be processed at a board meeting, where awarding can be made.
Please note, that the Executive Board currently weighs the general awarding of grants to family members higher than the awarding of the destitute grant in order to strengthen the attachment to the family. The management believes that deserving destitute family members can obtain better financial assistance from the public services than from the Foundation’s relatively modest financial and administrative capacity.
4. Widow / widower grants
Widow grants / widower grants can be applied for by the surviving spouse of family members. The application will be processed at a board meeting, where awarding can be made.
Awarded widow / widower grants can consist of single payments or long-term payments. The duration is decided by the Executive Board, but the award ends if the widow / widower remarries.
The widow’s / widower’s grant amounts to DKK 7,500 per year.
5. Servant’s grant
Employees who, after a long period of service for the Foundation, resign, may – in exceptional circumstances – obtain a grant.