Recently awarded grants

This page features grants made over the past three years through the following grant programmes; Improving Lives, Strengthening Communities, Strategic Grants – Housing First Programme (now closed), Strategic Grants – Proactive Grants (closed programme), Strategic Grants – Engage Fund (closed programme), Strategic Grants – Project Search (closed programme), Strategic Grants – Advocacy for PWLD (closed programme), Community Match Challenge (now closed), COVID-19 Grants (closed programme), COVID-19 Long-Term Support Grants (closed programme), County Grants, Christian Projects (grants awarded from 2019 onwards) and Holiday Grants for Disadvantaged Children.

Under our Improving Lives grant programme we have six priority areas which include Positive Choices and Employment and Training for example. If you would like to search on any of the priority areas please type the name of the priority area into the keyword search.

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360Giving  In addition to publishing details of our grants on our website, we work with 360Giving to make data about our grant-making freely accessible. This spreadsheet contains details of all the grants we have awarded from 2012 until December 2023, formatted to the 360Giving data standard.

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Action for Refugees in Lewisham

£120,000 | Improving Lives | London | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing support to refugee, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrant families in South East London.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements
Support Networks and Family

AHOY Centre

£120,000 | Improving Lives | London | Children & Young People | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘Pulling Together’ project providing qualifications and training to disadvantaged young people in South London.

Priority areas
Employment and Training
Help at a Critical Moment
Support Networks and Family

Berkshire Youth

£171,600 | Improving Lives | South East | Children & Young People | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of an outreach youth support project for disadvantaged young people in Bracknell Forest, Berkshire.

Priority areas
Positive Choices

Birmingham Citizens Advice Bureau

£145,500 | Improving Lives | West Midlands | Disadvantaged Communities | 2021

Towards three years’ salary of an Advice Session Supervisor to support volunteers to provide benefits and financial advice to residents in Birmingham.

Priority areas
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements

Brighton and Hove Speak Out

£85,800 | Improving Lives | South East | Learning Disabilities | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of the ‘Transitions Project’ which provides support to young people with learning disabilities in Brighton and Hove transitioning from children’s services to adult social care.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Accommodation Housing Support

Brunswick Centre

£169,600 | Improving Lives | Yorkshire & the Humber | LGBTQ | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing support and counselling for LGBT young people in Kirklees, Yorkshire.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment

Child Dynamix

£91,600 | Improving Lives | Yorkshire & the Humber | Family Services | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs for the ‘Bump to Baby and Beyond’ project providing ante-natal and post-natal support to new parents in Hull.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family

Counselling and Family Centre

£131,000 | Improving Lives | North West | Substance Misuse & Dependency | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing counselling for people with substance misuse issues in Old Trafford, Cheshire.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Positive Choices
Support Networks and Family

DHIVERSE (The Dales Trust)

£147,300 | Improving Lives | Eastern | Disability | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a specialist counselling service for anyone living with or affected by HIV in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Positive Choices
Support Networks and Family

Double Impact Services

£134,000 | Improving Lives | East Midlands | Substance Misuse & Dependency | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of a Business Development Officer at an organisation supporting individuals recovering from drug and alcohol dependence in Nottingham.

Priority areas
Positive Choices
Employment and Training

DU (Dads Unlimited)

£180,000 | Improving Lives | South East | Children & Young People | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a one-to-one mentoring project for children with separated parents in Kent.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Help at a Critical Moment

Football Beyond Borders

£174,000 | Improving Lives | National | Children & Young People | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation which uses football as a catalyst for creating a change in attitude, performance and aspirations for disengaged young people across England.

Priority areas
Positive Choices
Support Networks and Family
Employment and Training

Free@Last

£180,000 | Strengthening Communities | West Midlands | Disadvantaged Communities | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of an organisation providing support to disadvantaged people in Nechells ward, Birmingham.

Great Yarmouth & Gorleston Young Carers

£152,000 | Improving Lives | Eastern | Carers | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of the Manager and the Administration Assistant at an organisation providing support for Young and Young Adult Carers in Norfolk.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family

Hinckley Homeless Group

£80,700 | Improving Lives | East Midlands | Homelessness | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of a Project Worker to provide personal development and move-on support to young people experiencing homelessness in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Priority areas
Accommodation Housing Support

Home-Start Falkirk

£142,200 | Improving Lives | Scotland | Family Services | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a Home-Start working with vulnerable families in Falkirk.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Help at a Critical Moment

Lanarkshire Deaf Club

£120,300 | Improving Lives | Scotland | Disability | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing support to deaf children and young people, and their families, in Lanarkshire.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family
Employment and Training

Link Age Southwark

£120,000 | Improving Lives | London | Older People | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing support to older people in the London Borough of Southwark

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family

Moving On Durham

£180,000 | Improving Lives | North East | Homelessness | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project providing support to young people leaving care and at risk of homelessness in County Durham.

Priority areas
Accommodation Housing Support
Help at a Critical Moment
Positive Choices

Oasis Project

£167,000 | Improving Lives | South East | Substance Misuse & Dependency | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project provding a therapy service for young people affected by parental substance misuse, and parenting support for mothers who have or are experiencing substance misuse issues in Brighton and Hove.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Support Networks and Family
Positive Choices

Omega

£127,000 | Improving Lives | West Midlands | Carers | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing support to caregivers, the bereaved, and people living with a life-limiting illness in the West Midlands.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family

Savera UK

£180,000 | Improving Lives | North West | Black Asian & Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of a project in the North West of England supporting individuals from BAME communities and Asylum Seekers or Refugees fleeing immediate danger of harmful practices.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment

The Larder West Lothian

£120,000 | Improving Lives | Scotland | Disadvantaged Communities | 2021

Towards three years’ salary of the Progression Co-ordinator and the Employability Liaison Officer of the ‘Academy Project’ providing training and employability support for young people from disadvantaged communities in West Lothian.

Priority areas
Employment and Training
Help at a Critical Moment

Caraway

£35,000 | Christian Projects | South East | Christian Projects | 2021

Towards three years’ salary and project costs of expanding the work of the Anna Chaplaincy on the west side of Southampton.

Kidz Klub Coventry

£60,000 | Christian Projects | West Midlands | Christian Projects | 2021

Towards three years’ salary of the Kidz Klub Team Leader for the four Christian clubs for children in Coventry.

Second Dromara Presbyterian Church

£43,000 | Christian Projects | Northern Ireland | Christian Projects | 2021

Towards two years’ salary of an Outreach Worker, working on an ecumenical basis, with a focus on young families and young people in the village and surrounding area in County Down.

Accessible Arts and Media

£178,700 | Improving Lives | Yorkshire & the Humber | Disability | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the salary of the Creative Director and Development Manager of an education and art project providing support to people with physical disability and learning disabilities in York.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family

Allsorts Gloucestershire

£20,000 | County | South West | Disability | 2021

Towards two years’ running costs of a project providing support for families with children who have disabilities in Gloucestershire.

Asylum Welcome

£180,000 | Improving Lives | South East | Refugees & Asylum Seekers | 2021

Towards three years’ continuation funding of the running costs of the Adult and Family Advice service providing support services for asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration detainees in Oxfordshire.

Priority areas
Help at a Critical Moment
Accommodation Housing Support
Financial Inclusion Rights and Entitlements

Autism NI

£170,600 | Improving Lives | Northern Ireland | Learning Disabilities | 2021

Towards three years’ running costs of the Autism Early Intervention Service for families with a child recently diagnosed with autism in Belfast and the south east of Northern Ireland.

Priority areas
Support Networks and Family