Grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available for UK charitable organisations working to save lives and improve the quality of life of the most desperate and disadvantaged people in the UK and other parts of the world.
The overall objectives of the Foundation include:
- Directly saving lives, including suicide prevention.
- Enabling children facing extreme hardship or social disadvantage to access education.
- Helping people living with severe mental health issues.
- Improvements to primary healthcare, globally, and to aid the distribution of quality medicines to lower and middle-income countries.
- Prevention or relief of poverty and improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable.
- Relief of sickness, protection of good health, and the raising of life expectancy, and
- Tackling social disadvantage because of age or disability.
Examples of the type of projects that have previously been supported include:
- Enabling young people to reach their full potential.
- Home care for elderly patients leaving the hospital.
- Projects that address the root causes of addiction.
- Projects that address poverty or provide a family relief from poverty.
- Suicide prevention.
- Support for people with a critical illnesses, a disability, and people suffering from loneliness and social isolation, and
- Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse.
The Foundation is currently inviting enquiries from organisations delivering directly life saving impact, and/or impact which is significantly improving lives as a direct result of their interventions in the following themes:
- Alleviating poverty, specifically directly and sustainably alleviating extreme poverty
- Tackling mental ill-health, exclusively direct and immediate (rather than indirect) suicide prevention
- Women and children at risk of immediate harm due to violence or exploitation, specifically those facing heightened risk due to multi-factor circumstances.
See the website for the latest deadline.