Grant Directories

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 Better Work programme the Trust aims to fund organisations and projects that support people in London stuck in low pay and how best to help them progress into better jobs.

Groundwork is a federation of charities working nationally and locally to transform lives in the UK’s most disadvantaged communities. Through the ESFA Community Training Grants Programme Groundwork is administering Community Training Grants in the London North and East areas of the LEAP (London Economic and Action Partnership) funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund. The focus of these grants will be to fund projects which support participants who are over 16 years of age, eligible to work in the UK and either unemployed or economically inactive.

The Berkeley Foundation is an independent registered charity established by Berkeley Group in 2011. The Foundation supports young people, their families and their communities across London, the City of Birmingham and the South of England. The Empowering young women into work programme aims to support voluntary organisations working to empower young women who are unemployed and for whom there is limited existing provision to access decent and sustainable employment. The programme will support proposals from organisations working with disadvantaged and marginalised young women aged between 16 and 30.