Diversity and equality
Browse our list of funders that specialise in diversity and equality
As with any charitable project, it’s worth considering the funders that will fund a wide variety of projects.
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Esmee Fairbairn Foundation – “Ensuring a fairer future” is one of the three objectives of this fund, which offers grants of at least £30,000 to organisations with a turnover of at least £100,000. The specific goals under this objective are:
Injustice and structural inequality is challenged and changed.
A new inclusive generation of leaders and artists.
The foundation will cover project and unrestricted core costs. Most grants are for three or more years.
We want to provide the support and space to enable others we work alongside to create lasting change, and to challenge systems that stand in the way.
We want to contribute to a socially just and anti-racist society, where people have their rights protected, as well as the opportunity to speak and be heard, and the freedom to express their creativity. And across all our work in A Fairer Future, we are keen to support organisations led by the people they serve.
We only fund work that takes place in the UK (or where there is a clear primary benefit in the UK).
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A B Charitable Trust – promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of marginalised and excluded people.
We work closely with others concerned with equity and justice for the most marginalised groups, recognising that we can do more together than we can on our own.
We support organisations rather than providing direct support to individuals. The work we fund ranges from front-line services, through to policy influencing and narrative change, and in so far as possible we provide unrestricted funding.
Open Programme grants are usually between £10,000 to £30,000 per year and are awarded from one to three years.
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Allen Lane Foundation – We award funding for charitable purposes across the UK. Our focus is on funding specific groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination and we currently make grants through seven funding programmes.
Our focus is on funding particular groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination and we currently make grants through seven specific funding programmes.
Within those programmes, our overall aims are to: make a lasting difference to people’s lives; reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination; and to encourage or enable groups that experience marginalised and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.
To make sure our grants have an impact, we only fund smaller organisations. If you work across a local area such as a village, estate or town, to be eligible you will need to have an income of less than around £100,000. At the other end of the spectrum, if you work across the whole of the UK you will need to have an income of less than around £250,000.
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Ashworth Charitable Trust – The Ashworth Charitable is a small grant-making charity. It was created primarily to support humanitarian causes operating locally, nationally and internationally. 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 principles:
The oneness of humanity;
The establishment of true justice;
The paramount importance of education for all;
The need to address the situation of the very poor and of those at the margins of society;
Levels of grant do not usually exceed three thousand pounds.
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Rosa – We are a grant-making charity that’s dedicated to empowering women and girls throughout the UK. We provide funding and support to help organisations run their services, support their communities, amplify their voices, and bring attention to the issues they care about.
The Stand With Us fund offers one-year grants of up to £25,000 to support organisations addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the UK.
The Rise Fund invests in the future of organisations led by and for Black and minoritised women and girls across the UK with grants of up to £40,000.
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Forces in Mind – Each year approximately 15,000 people leave the UK Armed Forces and for the vast majority they transition successfully into the civilian world, their lives having been enormously enriched by their time in service. However, some need additional support, and it is these most vulnerable people that Forces in Mind Trust exists to help. All our grants and commissions are intended to generate sustained change that improves the lives of ex-Service personnel and their families. We fund projects to improve:
- Understanding of veterans’ health needs and clinical priorities
- Faster ‘triage’ of veteran health and wellbeing issues
- Awareness of veteran health and wellbeing support pathways
- Understanding of veterans’ mental health
- Understanding of common addictions in the ex-Service community
- Quality of life support in relation to conditions attributable to service in the Armed Forces
- Health and wellbeing understanding and support for families
- ‘Intelligent’ network of health and wellbeing provision for veterans and families
We welcome applications from various organizations from small not-for-profit groups and charities to larger institutions such as universities.
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Birketts Endowed Cambridgeshire Fund – The Birketts Endowed Cambridgeshire Fund provides grants for projects supporting mental health, people with disabilities, children and families, and homelessness. This fund has no maximum grant size, with an average grant amount of £1,600.
Each year, the fund makes grants to support small, local non-profit organisations that are undertaking charitable work in Cambridgeshire.
The focus for grant making from the Fund is to support groups working with:
Disability
Mental health
Children and families
Homelessness
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St James Place – The Charitable Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for those people in need as a result of disability or disadvantage. It seeks to achieve direct, tangible results from the support given.
The Charitable Foundation supports young people (under the age of 25) who suffer from physical health difficulties or conditions, a life-threatening degenerative illness, or are disadvantaged. We also support veterans, people of all ages with mental health difficulties, those affected by cancer as well as the hospice sector. Where charities include other groups, 75% of beneficiaries must fit within the above parameters.
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The Tudor Trust – We fund a wide range of organisations working to support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities around the UK. We are developing a new strategy to consider how Tudor can best support the visions, priorities and needs of those working towards social, racial and economic justice.
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The Triangle Trust – Our focus this year is on young women and girls with a history of offending or who are at a high risk of registering a first offence.
Grants of between £10,000 and £80,000 for a duration of 12 months to two years. The amount of funding requested must be propotional to the project being undertaken
A maximum of £40,000 per year can be requested. Community and voluntary organisations who can demonstrate a track record of working with young people caught in the criminal justice system or vulnerable hard to engage young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.
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Charles Haywood Foundation – We wish to fund preventative and early intervention programmes being delivered at the community level which allow older people to stay in their own homes and remain independent. We are interested in programmes which can demonstrate their effectiveness in improving the quality of life of older people. We favour projects that offer a consistent and sustained benefit rather than one-off events or short-lived activities.
We fund projects in the following sub-categories:
Programmes aiming to alleviate isolation and depression in older people, including informal day care or social, physical and recreational activities.
Programmes which give practical help, assistance and support for older people living in their own homes.
Programmes addressing the emotional and practical needs of older carers.
Programmes designed to meet the specific needs of people with dementia.
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This page is updated annually. Last update 10/07/2024. Spotted an error? Please let us know.
