Deadline: 31-Oct-23
Edge Fund is inviting applications for its grant programme to achieve social, economic and environmental justice, and to end imbalances of wealth and power.
Edge Fund Values
- Edge believes that if they are to create a world free of injustice and inequality they need to completely change the way their societies are organised. These are the values:
- Lived experience is key
- Challenge conventional funding
- Making funding easier
- Inequality disempowers
- Not separated by difference
- The climate emergency is here
Funding Information
- They are distributing £40k to 40 groups in Ireland and the UK.
Funding Criteria
- What they fund?
- Work with the primary objective of creating long-term change in society by addressing the causes of injustice and inequality.
- They focus on groups addressing issues that face a particular community that are led by that community (e.g. a group working on issues around sex work should be led by people with direct lived experience of sex work).
- They prioritise groups that struggle to get funding elsewhere, particularly if other funders might consider them to be “too radical”.
- All types of non-profit organisations, including groups that are not formally registered.
- What they do not fund?
- Groups not based in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England
- Traditional charities or charitable work which can access funding from elsewhere
- Groups that are primarily providing support or services to others
- Commercial or business activity
- Groups with an annual income over £20,000
- Groups that have several paid staff
- International issues or groups, unless their activity is in – and targeted at – the UK
- Political parties
- Groups whose aim is to promote religious ideas
- Groups that receive funding from mainstream sources, such as the National Lottery Community Fund or local council
- They are not currently accepting applications from individuals. They suggest that you find a few like-minded people and create a group for your project
- Groups which have been formed within 6 months of applying to Edge Fund, and/or cannot demonstrate 6 months of regular activity
- If your group does not have an online presence, please expect to show them what you do, e.g. through social media, press releases, meeting minutes, photos etc
For more information, visit Edge Fund.