Deadline: 31-Oct-22
If you are a grassroots group/organisation working towards social justice, you can apply for the Edge Fund. This fund is open to social justice groups/organisations in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
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 their values:
- Life experience is key
- Challenge Conventional Funding
- Making Funding easier
- Inequality disempowers
- Not seprated by difference
- The climate emergency is here
Funding Information
- They give 40 grants of £1000 to groups in the UK.
- They run 2 funding cycles a year.
What they do 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 £25,000
- 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 us what you do, e.g. through social media, press releases, meeting minutes, photos etc.
For more information, visit https://www.edgefund.org.uk/apply_for_funding