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We award grants to registered UK charities that work with communities in the UK.

We aim to give grants to those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are most limited.

As there is an ever-growing need for grants to support the essential work that many charities do, we are gradually making our criteria and priorities more focussed to ensure that we can give the limited resources that we have to projects that we believe will do the most to help those with greatest need.

You will find information about these below, and also on the Eligibility and How to Apply pages.

We welcome applications from any charity that meets our criteria.

A big thank you to all the charities that have generously provided photos for our website that illustrate the range of projects that we have supported. Full details can be found here.

Our Priorities

We focus on specific priorities every year.

For 2024, we will be focussing on two key areas that are becoming increasingly apparent need support.

Disability will be the priority for the 1st and 2nd rounds – specifically projects and initiatives that improve employment and training.

Food poverty will be the priority for the 3rd and 4th rounds. Across the UK, it is clear this is a major issue, and we want to award grants to support projects addressing this.

2024

Grant Rounds 1 and 2

Disability

We will consider applications that focus on projects that support and improve employment and training for disabled people.

Grant Rounds 3 and 4

Food Poverty

We will focus on projects that provide:

food education
cooking skills

2025

Grant Rounds 1 and 2

The Arts: Improving Access

The focus will be on performing arts projects that improve audience access and participation. We won’t consider applications from non-performing arts projects, or projects focussing on performers.

Grant Rounds 3 and 4

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Priorities will be published early 2025

Eligibility and When to Apply

We award grants four times every year.

Please apply ONLY if your charity meets the relevant income and expenditure criteria.

There are no exceptions to the income and expenditure criteria – we understand that this must be disappointing for charities that do not have sufficient income, but unfortunately we have limited funds to distribute.

If there are extenuating circumstances for income and/or expenditure in a particular year being lower than usual, you will be able to add a note on the application form to explain this. However, this will be considered only if income and expenditure are within the specified limits in other years.

Grant Round 1

Application Period

1st - 28th February

Amount

£1,000

Eligibility

Minimum operating income : £100,000.
Minimum operating expenditure: £100,000.

Maximum operating income: £1,000,000.
Maximum operating expenditure:£1,000,000.

Grant Round 2

Application Period

1st - 30th April

Amount

£5,000

Eligibility

Minimum operating income: £1,000,000.
Minimum operating expenditure: £1,000,000.

There is no maximum income or expenditure.

Grant Round 3

Application Period

1st - 31st July

Amount

£1,000

Eligibility

Minimum operating income : £100,000.
Minimum operating expenditure: £100,000.

Maximum operating income: £1,000,000.
Maximum operating expenditure: £1,000,000.

Grant Round 4

Application Period

1st - 30th September

Amount

£5,000

Eligibility

Minimum operating income: £1,000,000.
Minimum operating expenditure: £1,000,000.

There is no maximum income or expenditure.

Diversity

The charitable sector needs to be doing more to actively combat racism within the sector, as well as on a larger scale, particularly in its ongoing response to the Covid-19 crisis.

As a charitable trust, we acknowledge the role and the potential influence we have within the sector.

We endeavour to support a diverse range of charities – that is, charities involved in diverse communities in a wide range of issues. Going forward, we will endeavour to consider the diversity of the charities we support.

Please read our full Diversity Statement here.

Application Process

Our application process is online.

To see a sample Application Form, please go to our How to Apply page.

Any Questions?

We want to ensure that only charities that meet our criteria spend time making applications.

If you want to see if your charity is eligible to apply for a grant, please check our FAQs page and the Eligiblity page – this includes a list of what we don’t fund.

Please read these pages carefully. If your question isn’t answered here, please email. We employ only one part-time administrator to ensure that we can give as much of our income as possible in grants, so appreciate every charity’s cooperation in working towards these goals.

We award grants to charities working in the UK.

We award grants to charities working in the UK.

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We award grants to registered UK charities that work with communities in the UK.

We aim to give grants to those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are most limited.

We welcome applications from any charity that meets our criteria.

Our Priorities

We focus on specific priorities every year.

2024

Grant Rounds 1 and 2

Grant Rounds 3 and 4

2025

Grant Rounds 1 and 2

Grant Rounds 3 and 4

Eligibility and When to Apply

We award grants four times every year.

Grant Round 1

Application Period

Amount

Eligibility

Grant Round 2

Application Period

Amount

Eligibility

Grant Round 3

Application Period

Amount

Eligibility

Grant Round 4

Application Period

Amount

Eligibility

Diversity

The charitable sector needs to be doing more to actively combat racism within the sector, as well as on a larger scale, particularly in its ongoing response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Application Process

Our application process is online.

Any Questions?

We want to ensure that only charities that meet our criteria spend time making applications.

If you want to see if your charity is eligible to apply for a grant, please check our FAQs page and the Eligiblity page – this includes a list of what we don’t fund.