That last part is not entirely accurate. I did some IT volunteer work for a charity very recently, and they definitely had a free Google Apps for Business setup. This is in addition to a reasonably generous grant in the form of AdWords credit.
https://support.google.com/nonprofits/answer/1614602?hl=en&t...
If you could ask someone involved in that charity how they got free Google Apps I'd appreciate it as I work for a number of charities and the costs of Google Apps are a significant admin overhead. I've tried calling the sales people and they say it's coming soon but they've been saying that for over 5 years now.
Thanks!
I asked the organisation, and found out that it's not an official programme in the UK. The only one they have here is Google Grants for AdWords - http://www.google.co.uk/grants/.
Basically, an enterprising IT volunteer had set them up with vanilla Google Apps back when it was still free for small business and had a 50 user limit, and they just got grandfathered in to the new Apps for Business. They've never had any problems with the user or space limit since they just use the setup for email, analytics and AdWords campaigns and only have about 4-6 people "working" there.
Apologies again.
Here's a link comparing the free edition with Google Apps for Business: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=17512...
Thanks for getting back to us though!