The Foundation is particularly concerned about divisions in communities that occurred around the 2016 Referendum and subsequently. The Social Cohesion programme will look to support grassroots organisations at a very local level where there are issues which identify marginalised groups of people (especially those from within the Foundation’s priorities, but not exclusively) who are excluded. […]

The philosophy of the Foundation is to support charities that help people overcome disadvantage, strengthen their abilities and live more independently, successfully and productively. They support charities in a variety of ways, from matching employee fundraising efforts and payroll giving donations, to providing grants to charities and encouraging employee volunteering. Through the discretionary grant scheme, […]

The Ashworth Charitable Trust  is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally, as opposed to animal or utilitarian projects. For the most part, the Trust looks to fund projects and not core funding. The work of the Trust is informed by a set of underlying […]

The National Express Foundation is central to National Express Group’s support for the wider community in which we operate in the UK. The public order disturbances in July 2011 highlighted the issues facing young people living in inner-city areas in the UK. The disturbances involved a disproportionate number of people in the 15-24 year age […]

Digital Skills Educational Fund Doubles in Size Digital Xtra Fund, which has been designed to engage more Scottish children in exciting extracurricular digital skills activities, has received a huge funding boost. Due to increased support the Fund has doubled in size from £50,000 in 2018 to £100,000 for 2019. Digital Xtra Fund is a Scottish […]

The Foundation provides funding to a broad range of UK-registered charities working to support or improve the lives of recipients through art, healthcare, literature, music and theatre. The Trustees give priority to projects where their donation can make a difference and can progress the Charity’s initiative. There is a broad remit and all applications will be […]

Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation The Foundation only supports charities registered in England and Wales unless the organisation has ‘accepted’ status, i.e. churches, schools, scout and guide groups, or ‘exempt’ status, e.g. housing associations, friendly societies including social housing providers, Co-operative Societies, Community Benefit Societies and Registered Societies (previously known as industrial & provident societies). The […]

Sporting Capital (https://www.sportingcapital.org.uk/) is a new £3m social investment fund that focuses on supporting the development of community sports organisations into sustainable community sport businesses. The idea behind Sporting Capital is to use repayable investment – basically a simple, interest bearing loan – to help community sports organisations to do more, and in particular to create […]

Why we turn down applications Each year we receive over 1,500 applications to our larger grant programmes. Around one in five (20%) applications are successful and go on to receive a grant. Listed below are the main reasons applications were unsuccessful in 2016. Please note this list is not exhaustive and some applications will have […]

Comic Relief with Paul Hamlyn Foundation is launching a UK Tech for Good funding programme in February 2019 – the first round of funding in their renewed three year Tech for Good partnership. The Tech for Good programme was developed in response to the emerging need for charities in the UK to use technology to […]