Since the outset, we have been supporting smaller charities that can substantially benefit from our grant funding. We aim to enable transformational change through our charity partnerships, which will have a significant and long term impact within their communities.
Approximately 85% of the money we raise goes to supporting UK charities, with the remaining 15% being allocated to charities overseas, particularly those helping children and young people to escape poverty, malnutrition and neglect.
Our funding themes
Our work stretches across four main themes:
We work with charities who support disadvantaged and disabled young people under the age of 25. Our aim is to enable a more inclusive and accessible society for those with additional social or economic barriers or ease suffering for those with life-limiting or terminal illness.
Our funding in this area focuses on developing services for people to live well with cancer, for them to be informed, empowered and supported.
Over the past few years, demand for mental health services has risen exponentially and our funding enables organisations to scale their resources and create greater access to the right support.
We are proud to support the hospice network,(including adult and children’s hospices) which provide a key facility in our communities to support people living with a debilitating or life-limiting illness who seek specialist support services, respite and end of life care.
We work both in partnership with Hospice UK to support innovation and development of services as well as direct support with selected hospices to support their day-to-day services.
What we fund
The Foundation funds small and medium sized UK registered charitable organisations with an annual income under £9m. We provide funding for direct delivery costs of services and support activities across the four core funding themes, which for example might include salary costs or specific activity costs. We also provide multi-year funding to charities.
We do not fund charities with reserves of over 50% of income, activities primarily the responsibility of statutory agencies, NHS charities, pilot programmes, retrospective funding, research, events, advertising, holidays, sponsorship, charities that are raising funds on behalf of another charity. Charities need to demonstrate that a project is open access and fully inclusive, irrespective of race, faith or religion.
Funding applications are by invitation only. For our programme Guidelines please click here.
Online account holders
If you should need to access your online account in order to provide bank account details or a Monitoring Report please contact our office on [email protected].