Welcome to the website of the City of London Archaeological Trust.

The City of London Archaeological Trust (CoLAT for short) was formed on 25 July 1974. The Trust is registered with the Charity Commission (number 268160) as a charity whose purpose is to support and initiate archaeological work in the City of London and its environs.

The Trust supports all kinds of archaeological work and the exhibition of archaeological sites. It prefers to concentrate on educational or research activities, within or in addition to existing research frameworks; but assistance with survey and excavation projects may be requested. For details of how to apply for a grant for archaeological work in the City of London and its environs, go to the Guidelines Page. To see the grants given in the last few years go to the Grants given Page.

Please note that the Trust gives out grants only once a year, normally in December. The next deadline for applications will be Friday 28 September 2012 and the meeting to decide grants will be in December 2012.

The Trust is administered by a Management Committee which is comprised of four nominees of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, representatives of the Society of Antiquaries, UCL Institute of Archaeology and the Council for British Archaeology, and other invited academics, along with the Director of the Museum of London and the Managing Director of Museum of London Archaeology. For details of this committee, go to the Committee Page. Here you will also find the most recent Accounts and the Trustees and Auditors' Reports.

For details of how you can support the work of the City of London Archaeological Trust, please go to the Support Page. Here you will also find how to contact the Trust. We also now have a page (Click here) which summarises several large research and publication projects which need substantial funding. We hope that charities, companies, institutions and individuals may want to contribute to the archaeological and historical study of London by helping to produce these important publications for wide public enjoyment.

For information about archaeology in the London area and in Britain generally, and to find other sources of funding for archaeological work in London, go to the Links page.

The Trust is currently adding a new page to the site, which will contain some of the recent products of its grant aid. These are usually published archaeological reports, in Adobe PDF format. We hope to develop this into a library of work on London's archaeology which has been produced with the help of the Trust. For these products, go to the CoLAT Library.