Often significant grants are available to UK registered charities operating in the UK and/or overseas in the areas of health and welfare, community development, medical research and development, education, training, arts, culture, and disaster recovery.
The Denise Coates Foundation, formerly known as the bet365 Foundation, aims to promote charitable purposes anywhere in the world for the public benefit, particularly through the provision (or assistance in the provision) of facilities for the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation.
Much of the Foundation’s funding comes from the bet365 Group Limited, a leading British online gambling company based in the United Kingdom, which is under the control of Denise Coates CBE.
The Foundation tends to identify charities that it wishes to support, hence a letter of introduction is advised. Selected charities are invited to present proposals to the Foundation's trustees detailing how a grant would be used and the benefits that it would deliver. The trustees assess how the proposal aligns to the Foundation's objectives in order to determine whether or not to award a grant.
The Foundation has stated that it will continue to review applications for funding and provide donations and grants that meet its charitable objectives. Its ability to continue its grant-making activities are expected to remain unaffected for the foreseeable future.
Because the Foundation tends to proactively identify causes to support, a letter of introduction may be the best way to make an approach in the first instance.