Grant Directories

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Fat Beehive Foundation (UK)

The Fat Beehive Foundation is an independent UK registered charity that provides small grants for websites and digital products to other small UK registered charities.   The aim of the Foundation is to help these organisations carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.

Bernard Sunley - Social Welfare Grants (England and Wales)

The Bernard Sunley Foundation aims to raise the quality of life in England and Wales, particularly for the young, disadvantaged and older people.  Through the Social Welfare funding strand, the Foundation supports veterans, the elderly, ex-offenders and those in prison and schemes that enable people with mental and physical disabilities to live fuller lives in the community.

The Dulverton Trust - General Welfare Fund (UK)

The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity that supports UK charities and Charitable incorporated Organisations tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts.  Through its General Welfare funding strand, the Trust aims to support wide range of activities that benefit disadvantaged people and communities

The Allen Lane Foundation - Offenders and Ex-offenders (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 supports the work of groups and organisations that work with people in prison, ex-offenders, and those at risk of offending. The Foundation is especially keen to support the rehabilitation of people, and work that helps reduce the likelihood of re-offending behaviour.

Baring Foundation - Strengthening the Voluntary Sector (UK)

The Baring Foundation is an independent grantmaking trust that distributes grants to UK charities. The Strengthening the Voluntary Sector programme supports the effective use of the law and human rights based approaches by the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom. Funding is available through two pilot funds: Training, education and capacity building – seed funding grants of up to £30,000 over six months to two years that support organisations to understand how their objectives can be achieved through use of the law or human rights based approaches; Applied projects – grants of up to £150,000 over three years to create new capacity for work that addresses specific discrimination or disadvantage and safeguards the freedom of purpose, action and voice of the sector.

Esmee Fairbairn - Social Change (UK)

The Esmee Fairbairn - Social Change programme provides grants for projects that contribute to a just and inclusive society at every level (individual, community and system). The foundation believes that there are many people, including the increasing ageing population, with valuable contributions to make to their communities, workplaces and wider society. Often outside factors prevent them doing so - poor institutional practice, a lack of connections, taboos, isolation, prejudice or discrimination. The programme supports independent organisations rooted in their community, who aim to encourage active citizenship, ownership and participation to remove barriers to social exclusion and poverty and protect the rights of people who are more vulnerable to popular prejudice, harmful action or inaction by public authorities.

Saint Sarkis Charity Trust Grant (UK)

The Saint Sarkis Charity Trust is a grant making organisation which funds the following organisations: The Armenian Church of Saint Sarkis in London; The Gulbenkian Library at the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem; registered charities concerned with the Armenian community in the UK and/or overseas. Although the Trust continues to provide funding for a small number of innovative projects which help to support prisoners in the UK and so reduce the rates of re-offending, it no longer accepts unsolicited applications for this priority. The funding amount is discretionary and applications may be submitted at any time.

Indigo Trust Grant (UK)

The Indigo Trust is a grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries.  The Trust focuses mainly on innovation, transparency and citizen empowerment. The Trust will also consider innovative projects, which utilise Information Technologies to support development outcomes in any sector including the health, education, human rights and agricultural spheres. The Indigo Trust makes grants to African projects or programmes, or to organisations which operate at least partly in African countries.

Noel Buxton Trust Grant (England, Scotland and Wales)

The Noel Buxton Trust Grants supports registered charities through the following programmes: Africa grants - focusses on economic development and favours work such as small business support and training, and microfinance in both urban and rural settings. The geographical focus for this funding is Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan; Family Grants - the current focus of funding for families is the issue of domestic abuse. The emphasis is on registered charities outside London, South-east England; Penal grants - recognises the variety of Voluntary and Community Sector organisations that work with offenders and supports the commitment of these organisations to the rehabilitation of offenders for the benefit of both the offender and society as a whole.

Law Society Charity Grant (UK)

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.

JJ Charitable Trust Grant (UK)

The JJ Charitable Trust Grants main areas of interest are: Literacy - to help improve the effectiveness of literacy teaching in primary and secondary education for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, and for ex-offenders or those at risk of offending. Social and cultural change towards more sustainable lifestyles - creative approaches that visualise a sustainable future in positive ways and the role of the media in communicating about sustainability; environment projects overseas, especially community-based agriculture initiatives, which aim to help people help themselves in an environmentally sustainable way. The funding amount is discretionary, and applications can be submitted at any time.

Bromley Trust - Prison Reform Grant (UK)

The aim of The Bromley Trust - Prison Reform Grant is to promote Prison Reform and the education and skills training of offenders within the United Kingdom. The Trust is committed to the reduction of overcrowding in British Prisons through the reduction of re-offending and supports the implementation of the Corston Report for women offenders. It also supports the general education and skills training (employment focused) of offenders including those working in catering and in the environment as well as innovative and creative work with offenders. Applications can be submitted at any time. The size of grants is at the discretion of the Trustees.

Woodward Charitable Trust - Small Grants (England)

The Woodward Charitable Trust is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Applications will only be considered if they fall within the following areas; Children and young people who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in anti-social behaviour; Prisoners and ex-offenders; Disability projects which can include rehabilitation and training for people who are either physically disabled or learning disabled, as well as help to improve employment prospects; Disadvantaged women, including refuges, domestic violence and parenting; Arts outreach work by local groups for the benefit of disadvantaged people; Projects that promote integration and community cohesion amongst minority groups, including refugees and travellers. The Trust offers three schemes; Small grants, Large Grants and Summer Playschemes. The majority of grants are for less than £5,000.

Charles Hayward Foundation Grant Programme (UK)

The Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable Trust that makes grants to charities and charitable organisations which are registered in the U.K. The Foundation runs two grants programmes: Main grant programme, this focuses on Social & Criminal Justice, Heritage & Conservation and Overseas (UK registered charities undertaking projects in the Commonwealth countries of Africa) and is aimed at charities with an income of more than £350,000; Small Grant Programme, this focuses on Social & Criminal Justice and Older People and is for charities with an income of less than £350,000.

Global Fund for Women Grants Programme (UK)

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.

Tudor Trust Grant Programmes (UK)

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK.  The Trust particularly want to help smaller, community-led organisations which work directly with people who are at the margins of society: organisations which support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities. The Tudor Trust don't have specific funding programmes designed to advance a particular agenda as they believe that the groups they support are best placed to identify problems and develop solutions.

Child protection, family law and justice (UK)

This programme supports work to help ensure that the legal and institutional framework is best adapted to meet the needs of children and families.  Grants support research and innovation projects relating to: Children and families; Early years education and childcare; Economic advantage and disadvantage; Education; Finances of Ageing; Law in Society. Grants are mainly for research (usually carried out in universities or independent research institutes) but are also made for practical developments or innovation (often in voluntary sector organisations). Projects funded must set up an agenda or potentially lead to policy or institutional change.