Our focus is to support small, local, specialist charities with an income of £25,000–£500,000 where our three-year unrestricted £75,000 grant and support to develop, can make the greatest impact. We’ll support charities that understand the complexity of the issues people face and are best placed to make a genuine difference to people’s lives.
We support charities that help people overcome complex issues that don’t have simple solutions, issues like homelessness, domestic abuse and addiction. These make life much harder for people; deepening trauma, impacting health and wellbeing, leading to poverty and destitution, and preventing people from being able to fulfil their potential.
Small, local, specialist charities play a unique role in helping people rebuild their lives. Their size, connection to their communities and deep understanding of the issues people face makes small charities best placed to reach, engage and support people. That’s why we support small charities with an annual income between £25,000 to £500,000 where the main focus of your charity is to provide support for one of the eight themes outlined below.
We want to ensure that the charities we support can thrive beyond the lifetime of our funding. That’s why we combine an unrestricted grant of £75,000 with a breadth of tailored support aimed at helping strengthen charities and build the knowledge, skills and capabilities of staff and trustees. Find out more about what to expect and what this means for your charity during application and throughout the lifetime of your grant.
Please note, this funding programme is now closed and will open again later in 2025. Sign up to our alerts email here to find out when it opens.
awarded in funding to small specialist charities working in eight key areas
grants made under the specialist programme
years of funding for each charity
