Small Grants
Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs
Projects must have a focus on Community Support
Major Grants
- Single year grants between £10,000 and £100,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs or
- Multi-year grants for a maximum of 3 years, not to exceed £100,000 in total over this period, for core costs, salaries, running or project costs
Organisations should have a focus on Family Support
- Charitable organisations (including CICs, social enterprises, not-for-profit registered companies and voluntary organisations) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- UK based small to medium sized local organisations with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts
- Revenue costs including core costs, salaries, running and project costs
Organisations we do not fund:
- Organisations whose postcode is not within the IMD deprivation limits set out in our funding guidelines
- Newly established organisations with no previous annual accounts
- Individuals, whether direct or through a third party
- Charities or NGOs registered outside the UK
- Statutory services including state schools, local or national authorities, prisons, NHS hospitals or services
- Universities, further education colleges and independent schools
- Organisations with an annual income over £1m
- Hospices
- Organisations with primarily an environmental aim
- Grant making organisations or umbrella organisations
- Organisations that have applied to us unsuccessfully within the previous 12 months
- Organisations which have made their annual returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House late within the past three years
- Organisations which have not reviewed their safeguarding policy and/or held formal safeguarding training/refresher sessions within the past 12 months
- Trustees are unlikely to fund organisations holding more than twelve months operating costs in reserves.