The Foundation has committed to fund charities, where successful, up to a maximum of £5,000.
The Charitable Foundation only supports charities registered with one of the following:
- The Charity Commission for England and Wales.
- The Charity Commission in Northern Ireland.
- The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
The Charitable Foundation can only support charities which have been established at least three years and with three or more trustees.
If your charity's mission meets one or more of our target outcomes, the Foundation will consider funding core costs, project costs and small capital contributions, for example:
- Staff salaries or hiring additional team members.
- Overhead expenses such as rent or utilities.
- Scaling up successful programmes or developing new ones.
- Investing in infrastructure or technology to improve operations.
- Daily essentials such as pots, pans and white goods for people who have secured a permanent place to call home.
- Aids such as a ramp/stairlift in a community centre removing any barriers for local people.
- Books or resources which support financial education.
- Laptops or online systems used to deliver digital competence sessions.
The trustees score each application based on alignment to the donations policy, the long term benefit of the items requested, the quality and detail provided, and the number of beneficiaries - with clear evidence of this.
Following a successful application, a charity must wait three years before re-applying. If an application was unsuccessful a charity must wait one year before re-applying.
No, the trustees can only review the information provided in the application form.
The Charitable Foundation will only consider donations to registered charities based in the UK.
The Foundation will prioritise charities supporting people in the top 50% of the UK Index of Multiple Deprivation - this means any postcode from the most deprived decile to the 5th. To find out more visit Consumer Data Research Centre - Index of Multiple Deprivation and enter your postcode where it says 'jump to postcode' to identify the level of deprivation from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived).