Grants of up to £25,000 per year over 3 years (ie up to £75,000) are available to UK registered charities. Grants are also available for overseas projects.
The following funding is available:
Main Grants
- Social & Criminal Justice: between £15,000 to £25,000 per annum for one to three years. Up to £25,000 may be available for a pilot project.
- Heritage & Conservation: one-off grants up to £50,000 (currently closed to applications)
- Overseas: one-off grants up to £15,000.
Small Grants
- Grants of up to £7,000 for eligible applicants working with older people. These may be made at any time. Find out more.
The Foundation likes to see that applicants have sought and secured matched funding from elsewhere. The Foundation’s preference is to support projects that are at a developmental stage or that are clearly innovative. It likes to fund activities that may not otherwise take shape without its support. Additionally, the Foundation prefers to fund projects in their initial stages that provide early intervention to society's challenges.
As well as a number of general exclusions, there are quite a lot of things the Foundation is unable to fund under each of the above headings. Further information is available under the ‘Exclusions’ tab on the Foundation’s website.
The Main Grants Programme (for Social and Criminal Justice, Heritage and Conservation and/or Overseas projects) has no application form. Applicants are required to submit a proposal of no more than 4 pages of A4 and submit it by email.
The emailed submission should include:
- Name and location of organisation
- Contact details
- Description of organisation
- Description of project
- Project aims
- Project cost
- Funds already raised and pledged
- Outstanding shortfall
- Project timetable
- The most recent set of audited accounts.
The closing date for applications to the Main Grants programme is Friday 19 September for the November 2025 Grants Panel meeting.
There is a 2-stage application process for the Main Grants programme. Applicants successful at Stage 1 (the emailed submission outlined above) will then be considered by the Foundation at one of its regular Stage 2 meetings.
Further information, guidance, an application form and details about how to apply to the Main Grants programme, is available on the Foundation’s website.