Grant Directories

The Trusthouse Charitable Foundation is a grant making foundation that give grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. Through the Major grants programme the foundation provides funding of between £10,000 and £100,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs to organisations that have a focus on Family Support, this may further include: Early intervention;  Families coping with addiction; Prisoners' families

The Hertfordshire Community Foundation is an independent charity that aims to tackle need and deprivation by delivering a range of grants to support local small charities, community and voluntary groups, and individuals on behalf of a wide range of donors. Through the PCC Action Fund, the Foundation provides grants of up to £5,000 to support community and voluntary initiatives which will reduce crime and make Hertfordshire a safer place to live. The fund is made up from funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and empowers local groups to find solutions to community safety problems.

The Milton Keynes Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the Community Grants programme the foundation provides funding of up to £10,000 to  organisations looking to address new, emerging, and/or unmet needs, those working collaboratively or in partnership, and/or those working to improve the efficiency and capacity of the local voluntary sector.

The Milton Keynes Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the Small Grants programme the foundation provides funding of up to £3,000 to  support Milton Keynes to grow and thrive, through strong communities, a healthy voluntary sector and engaged individuals. Projects may benefit Milton Keynes generally, or individual estates and areas of need.

The Gloucestershire Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire Grants programme the foundation provides funding to support initiatives working with young people to encourage them in to be involved in challenging activities that may deter them from anti social behaviour, raise confidence and self esteem, and provide learning and development opportunities.

The Kent Community Foundation exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities. Through the Overstone Fund the foundation provides grants of up to £5,000 to support organisations with projects that focus on reducing offending and re-offending rates or encouraging entrepreneurship among young people and the disadvantaged. Projects providing musical opportunities or countryside activities for disadvantaged children. 

It is the Home Office's responsibility to keep citizens safe and the country secure. Through the Safer Streets Fund the government is supporting Police and Crime Commissioners to bid for investment in initiatives, such as street lighting and home security, that have been proven to prevent acquisitive crime. The fund aims to reduce acquisitive crime in areas that receive funding, making residents safer and reducing demand on the police; build evidence to strengthen the case for future investment in targeted crime prevention;  grow local capability to undertake data driven problem solving approaches to crime prevention

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 Supporting Families against Youth Crime Fund provides additional capacity to local authorities where gang and youth crime is an issue and to help them respond to their local needs. The fund will support proposals that aim to develop children’s personal resilience to withstand peer pressure and make positive choices and to reduce gang and youth crime by intervening early to raise awareness of the dangers of gangs, youth violence and knife crime. A total of £5million is being made available.

This scheme will provide protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack. To be eligible, applicants will need to demonstrate that any crimes committed at their place of worship (or one not necessarily of the same faith within a 2 mile radius) was motivated by hostility or prejudice based on religion or belief. Grants can cover security equipment but not the cost of recruiting security personnel and may include: CCTV; perimeter fencing; access control gates; window locks; intruder alarm; external lighting; and security doors and the appropriate labour cost to install the security equipment.

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF) is one of 48 community foundations across the UK. The Foundation aims to be a catalyst for social change by awarding grants to organisations with charitable purposes that operate for the benefit of the community. In particular, the Foundation will support projects that enable the advancement of education, the protection of good health, both mental and physical, and the relief of poverty and sickness. Projects supported must directly address the needs of Bedfordshire and Luton's most vulnerable people and communities. BLCF is able to fund a wide range of project costs including capital purchases e.g. equipment, maintenance or improvement of community buildings, or revenue costs such as venue hire, promotional costs, start-up expenses, activities or training. Applications for core costs will be considered.

Grassroots organisations whose work helps to prevent crime and stop criminals from reoffending can apply for financial support, as part of the Commissioner's commitment to reduce crime across Bedfordshire and build confident communities. Applications for pilot projects as well as multi-agency partnership working will be considered with successful applications demonstrating how well they can contribute to crime prevention according to the Commissioner's Police and Crime Plan priorities which are integrated offender management, tackling the revolving door of the criminal justice system and building confident communities.

The Police Property Act Fund was created from the proceeds of sale of goods recovered by the police that cannot be returned to their original owner. In accordance with the Police Property Act Regulations (1997) all awards from the fund must be for charitable purposes. Applications to be considered jointly by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and the Chief Constable will be from local voluntary and community groups working to improve the lives of people in the Thames Valley Police area. Applicants must demonstrate that their project or activity contributes to meeting the PCC's objective of ‘Reducing Crime by Reducing Re-offending'.

The Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire provides four funding streams to offer general and targeted support to communities across Hertfordshire. The Commissioner's Community Fund provides support to innovative local schemes which aim to make communities safer and reduce crime: The Fly Tipping Fund; Road Safety Fund; Police and Crime Commissioners Action Fund; Community Safety and Criminal Justice Fund.

The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex's Safer in Sussex Funding provides financial support to local community groups, voluntary and third-sector organisations that are working to reduce crime, improve community safety , provide a positive and lasting impact and help people recover from the impact of crime. The PCC aims to support and help to develop services that meet the needs of local residents and help to keep Sussex safe. Local, voluntary and third sector organisations working towards these aims are eligible to apply for funding of up to £5,000.

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey has three funding streams to which local community groups and service providers can apply. The Community Safety Fund delivers the People's Priorities with community safety partners, voluntary and charity groups. The Victims Fund commissions support services which help victims to cope and recover and has two areas of delivery: Victim referral, assessment and local support services: Specialist Support Services; Reducing Reoffending Fund - to reduce reoffending in Surrey.

The Kent Police and Crime Commissioner (KPCC) overseas the allocation of a range of grants that range from support for small community led organisations to targeted services delivered by not-for-profit organisations. Safer Kent (Kent People's Trust) administers the funds on behalf of the KPCC All funded projects and delivery methods must help deliver the key priorities set out in the Police and Crime Plan that are to: Protect vulnerable children from sexual exploitation; deliver an efficient and effective service in light of the on-going financial challenge; ensure victims and witnesses are at the heart of the criminal justice system; develop and support engagement with young people.

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.

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.

The Drapers' Company aims to improve the quality of life and expectations of people and their communities within the UK, particularly those disadvantaged or socially excluded. Most of the support is focused in Greater London and covers the following areas: Social Welfare - including homelessness, prisoners, ex-service personnel, support for the elderly, carers, community and family services, disabled adults; Education and Training - projects which raise the aspirations or help to realise the full potential of disadvantaged young people under 25 years old; Textiles and Heritage - including textile conservation, projects within the textile industry, museums, memorials and monuments relating to the armed forces, history of London or the textile trade. There is no minimum or maximum grant; grants are normally awarded for sums up to £15,000.

The Trust makes revenue grants to small registered charities whose work focuses on one of the Trust’s priority groups.  These are;  elderly people, children and young people aged 5 - 25, people with physical impairments;  learning difficulties or mental health challenges,;  social welfare - people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending); and education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children).  Grants are given for running costs for up to three years. Grants are normally for a maximum of £3,000 per year.

The aim of the Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund is to support projects working with disadvantaged young people (aged 5 to 30 years) to ensure that they are given every possible chance to meet their full potential and to participate fully in society. The Fund also aims to help young people at risk of criminal involvement to stay out of trouble and assist in the rehabilitation of offenders, particularly young offenders both in prison and after release. Grants are usually no more than £15,000 per annum, and to make sure grants of this size have an impact, we will not fund large organisations. To be eligible for funding, local organisations such as those working in a village, estate or small town should normally have an income of less than £100,000. Those working across the UK should normally have an income of not more than £250,000. Applications are considered at meetings in February, June and November.

The William Wates Memorial Trust focuses on helping the most disadvantaged young people keep away from a life of crime and violence, and to fulfill their potential, to target sport, art and education for children aged between 5 years and 19 years old, to support charities that train the trainer so that a ‘ripple effect' of positive change can happen far beyond the grant and to target charities in London and the South East. 

Westhill support projects with strong underlying Christian Values that transform peoples lives, foster empathy between communities and build bridges between people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Grants have been made to a very wide range of successful projects in local communities in churches and cathedrals, hospitals and hospices; and in higher and a wide range of further educational institutions both in the UK and overseas. Most grants range between £500 and £20,000. Larger sums for projects running over two years are considered but matching funding is sometimes advised. Applications can be submitted at any time and these are assessed on a quarterly basis.

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.