Deadline: 31-Oct-2024
DWF Foundation is providing funds, resources and mentoring support to help individuals, groups and communities to achieve their full potential.
The DWF Foundation was founded by DWF. The vision is to encourage all if the people within DWF and to work together as a catalyst for change
Areas of Support
- The DWF Foundation supports registered charities with an impact in one or more of the following areas:
- Homelessness
- Health and wellbeing
- Employability
- Education
- Environment and Sustainability
- These themes also align to DWF’s purpose and enable them to work together to maximise the support given to communities.
- Grants are given to initiatives that develop and improve local communities by:
- Tackling a specific community issue.
- Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
- Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded.
- Enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community.
Funding Information
- The Foundation does not have a minimum grant size but the majority of the grants will fall under £5,000.
- Due to the funds they have available the DWF Foundation will not fund multi-year grants.
Eligibility Criteria
- The DWF Foundation will welcome applications from Registered Charites only. Applications are welcome from charities working in countries in which there is a DWF presence.
- Location in which DWF Foundation welcomes applications from countries in which DWF has a presence.
- Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States.
- DWF also has associations with other law firms in the countries below but DWF Foundation do not currently fund in these locations; Singapore, South Africa and Turkey.
- N.B. On the application form please include your countries appropriate registered charity or not for profit number.
- Other than by country they do not have any other geographic restricitions for example, your project does not need to be within a certain distance of a DWF office.
Ineligible
- The DWF Foundation will only fund charitable causes. They are not able to fund the following areas of work:
- Academic research
- Activities for which a statutory body is responsible
- Activity taking place in school time that are a statutory responsibility.
- Animal welfare
- Evaluation which is not related to the funded work
- Every day running costs and core salaries
- General fundraising appeals
- Individuals
- Loans or business finance
- Other grant making bodies
For more information, visit DWF Foundation.
