Grant Directories

The Two Magpies Fund awards small grants to local charities and non-profit organisations working with women who have experienced abuse, as well as those organisations helping primary school aged children who are growing up in poverty or facing particularly challenging circumstances. Funding of up to £15,000 is available for counselling, education and support services for organisations working in the fields of domestic abuse, human trafficking, sexual abuse, forced marriage, FGM or modern slavery, as well as the activities of hostels, community groups, homework clubs, food banks, beauty banks and baby banks.

The Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation that aims to tackle poverty and inequality in London. The Trust does this by funding voluntary and charity groups. Through the Stronger Voices programme the Trust aims to improve the communication skills and practices of smaller or less experienced organisations and working alongside groups of individuals with first-hand experience of poverty and inequality, to strengthen their collective voice in campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty.

The Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation that aims to tackle poverty and inequality in London. The Trust does this by funding voluntary and charity groups. Through the Pathways to Settlement programme the Trust aims to support people in London who are disadvantaged and living in poverty, particularly migrants who do not have any legal status and are therefore highly vulnerable to exploitation.

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust with a focus is on funding unpopular causes. The overall aims of the Foundation are to make a lasting difference to people’s lives; reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination; and to encourage or enable unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.  The Foundation funds work with migrant communities that are newly arrived to the UK.

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust with a focus is on funding unpopular causes. The overall aims of the Foundation are to make a lasting difference to people’s lives; reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination; and to encourage or enable unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.  The Foundation is keen to support work that raises awareness of the issues Gypsy and Traveller communities face, and work to combat hate crime, stigma, discrimination and inequalities, including the lack of appropriate accommodation or other service provision.

The Allen Lane Foundation is a grant-making trust with a focus is on funding unpopular causes. The overall aims of the Foundation are to make a lasting difference to people’s lives; reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination; and to encourage or enable unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.  The Foundation is interested funding organisations that work with asylum seekers and refugees; including those held in detention.

The UK Aid Direct Impact grant programme provides funding for large scale projects designed to bring tangible change to the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people in the developing world, on a large scale. Funding of up to £4 million is available for projects with a duration of 3 - 5 years for medium sized, non-government organisations with an average annual income of less than £10,000,000.

Through Charity Pot and the Carbon Tax, LUSH, the handmade cosmetics company, offers grants and funding to small grassroots charities and campaign groups that are working in the areas of animal protection, the environment and human rights. LUSH prefers to fund causes that are unpopular and often overlooked by other funders; they also prefer projects that create long-term change and that aim to stop abuse from happening in the first place. For example, by funding a project that aims to stop deforestation rather than one that aims to plant trees to restore an area that has already been deforested. Grants are available of between £100 and £10,000 with the average grant being in the region of £4,000.

Grants are available of up to £3000 to support work run by and for communities facing discrimination and injustice because of their class, ability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other factors. This scheme is aimed at individuals and grassroots groups in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England that find it difficult to get funding elsewhere. Specifically, for use by projects that challenge abuses of power and aim to change society by bringing an end to the systems that cause injustice.

The Anchor Foundation Grant focuses on Christian Charities concerned with social inclusion particularly through ministries of healing and the arts. In any one year the grant range to a project is usually between £500 and £12,000 for either capital or revenue funding and applications for projects abroad will be considered. It is the Trust's normal practice not to give grants to the same project for more than three years. Applications are considered at twice yearly trustees meetings in April and November and need to be received by 31st January and 31st July each year.

The Law Society Charity makes grants to a wide range of organisations and individuals with a view to directly furthering law and justice. The Charity supports organisations whose work is related to the law and the legal profession, and whose activities would be likely to benefit from funds made available on behalf of solicitors. The Grant intends to support charitable organisations involved with law, justice and human rights. The main aims and objectives of the Charity are to support the education of the public in legal matters, the maintenance of high standards of legal education, Supporting members of the profession in need, Supporting Local Law Societies and groups, Joint ventures with charities, particularly the charitable arms of firms of solicitors and International work to promote human rights. The funding amount is discretionary.

The Wyndham Charitable Trust is a small UK-based grant-making charity which is a member of The Association of Charitable Foundations. One of the main objectives of the Trust is helping to bring about the elimination of modern-day slavery. Currently about 27 million children, women and men are enslaved, they are held by force or threat of force and are unable to escape.This can range from girls and women being trafficked for forced prostitution to bonded labour where, from one generation to another, children are enslaved as a result of their parents' 'debts'. The trust does not make ‘restricted' grants and believe that the receiving organisations trustees should be free to decide how to put the funds to best use.

Global Fund for Women is one of the world's leading foundations for gender equality, standing up for the human rights of women and girls; they fund and partner with women-led groups outside the United States who are fighting for justice and gender equality in their own communities. Since 1987 the fund has invested in 5,000 grass roots organisation in 175 countries, they provide grants for operating and program expenses. They value local expertise and believe that women know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.