Albert Hunt Trust will be closing in January 2029 and as a result are spending their entire £45 million resource. They are offering unrestricted core funding for Hospices, homeless charities (income below £1million), Health and Wellbeing charities (income below £150,000. Unfortunately, they are unable to support CIC’s and charities that operate overseas.

The Core Costs Funding Stream is for charities and not-for-profit organisations. Applicants to this programme can apply for grants for up to three years.

They aim to give quicker decisions for grants of £15,000 or less per year.

The Trust works with a broad range of charities, primarily in the North West of England, with particular emphasis on:

- Young Persons’ Wellbeing

- Elderly Services

- Education and Training

- Health

- Carers’ Support

- Mental Health

- Child / Family Support

Their Small Grants Scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. The focus is to make one-year grants only to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services to charities that can show financial stability.

Ongoing deadline

Two grant options are available small grants of up to £100,000 and major grants of £100,000 or more. The types of grant made fall into one of three categories – Capital, Revenue (often called ‘core costs’) and Project work. The most important thing is that you apply for what you need.

Ongoing deadline

Offer grants up to £5,000 to registered charities with specific projects or core activities that help to improve employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

Currently OPEN to new applications for their July meeting.

The deadline for 1st stage applications is Monday 15 May 2023.

Funding of up to £5,000 for UK registered charities and CIO’s currently supporting vulnerable people in geographical areas of high deprivation (within the UK) and with an annual income under £200,000.

Rolling deadline

Offer grants for core funding to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40k who are undertaking work that focuses on one of the following:

• Elderly people
• Children and young people aged 5 - 25
• People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges
• Social welfare
• Education and learning

Grants of up to £3,000 per year for three years are available.

Trustees meet 3 times per year to consider applications and a decision time can take up to 5 months from the date of submission.

The Henry Smith Charity provides grants to charitable organisations that help people when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available. Grants of £20k-60k are available for up to 3 years.

Ongoing deadline