Grant Directories

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.

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 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 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.

The Hospital of God makes grants to other voluntary organisations and aims to support charities working in lower profile areas of work that reach people who are on the edges of society.Examples of recent grants include support for organisations that work with asylum seekers, prisoner's families and people with drug problems.Grants can be from one to three years and up to £3,000 per year. All applications must: Enhance the ability of the individual or the community to achieve self determination; directly benefit people who are disadvantaged; provide evidence of the need for the project for which a grant is sought; demonstrate the ability of the applicant organisation to deliver the service.

The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust aims to distribute approximately £500,000 each year to good causes, primarily in the North East of England. Priority will be given to projects that ease social deprivation and/or enrich the fabric of the local community and the quality of life of individuals within that community. Projects funded include those that: Meet the needs of communities experiencing high levels of deprivation; involve self-help initiatives to improve quality of life; provide services for young people to address educational needs or offer diversion from crime and anti-social behaviour; assist communities affected by crime and anti-social behaviour; involve art projects to tackle deprivation or improve local quality of life; youth organisations i.e. Sea Cadets, Scouts, Guides; projects that draw on the region's rich maritime tradition to deliver improvements in local quality of life or address deprivation.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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; Disadvantaged families, this covers parenting support and guidance, mental health, food poverty, refuges and domestic violence projects. Prisoners and ex-offenders and specifically projects that maintain and develop contact with prisoners’ families and help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders after their release. The Trust offers three schemes; Small grants, Large Grants and Summer Playschemes. The majority of grants are for less than £5,000.

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 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.

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.