Seven Friends Foundation
Seven Friends Foundation are temporarily pausing their grant making to review our guidance and carry out urgent work to improve our systems. They are likely to restart grant making in the new year.
In the meantime, they politely ask that you do not send applications during this time as they will not be reviewed.
Foundation Aims and Criteria
Our aims are to:
- To support and promote causes that are ignored, unpopular or face widespread stigma
- Create stronger local communities that include those who have previously been excluded or marginalised
- Improve skills, infrastructure, sustainability and collaboration within the third sector
They want to support those organisations and causes that are unpopular or do not receive widespread public attention. This could be due to negative focus within the media; due to difficulty in accessing statutory, voluntary and institutional funding; due to the cause being seen as politically controversial; or because the issue is not typically seen as a charitable cause. Examples of these types of causes or groups may be:
- Asylum seekers and refugees
- Migrant communities
- Offenders and ex-offenders
- People experiencing violence or abuse
- Sex workers
- Trafficking and modern slavery
- Dependency or Addiction
- LGBT+
- Sexual and reproductive health