Deadline: 16-Aug-24
Applications are now open for the Charles Hayward Foundation Main Grant Programme.
Funding Categories
- Social & Criminal Justice
- The overall aims of the funding in the social and criminal justice area are to prevent people entering the criminal justice system and to support those already in the system to move on and rebuild their lives. They fund early intervention programmes with young children and their families, tailored preventative work with young people at risk, and holistic support services aimed at reducing re-offending and aiding re-settlement.
- The Foundation also looks to alleviate the consequences of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation of vulnerable persons.
- They fund projects in the following sub-categories:
- Targeted early intervention programmes aimed at reaching the most troubled and vulnerable families in a community.
- Preventative and diversionary projects for young people at risk of offending including tailored interventions identifying and addressing the particular needs of girls and young women.
- Programmes, particularly those with a focus on young offenders, combining prison based and community interventions dealing with rehabilitation of offenders, accommodation and support on release, helping with maintaining family relationships, mentoring, and mapping and creating pathways to employment.
- Schemes offering viable alternatives to custody, in particular for women and young people.
- Programmes of support directed towards rehabilitating the victims of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation.
- Overseas
- In this category they are looking to fund projects that improve the livelihoods of disadvantaged communities in Commonwealth countries of Africa.
- They fund projects in the following sub-categories:
- Clean water and sanitation
- Development of sustainable livelihoods in the context of environmental and wildlife conservation
- Self-sustainability through training in farming skills and income generation activities
Funding Priorities
- Social & Criminal Justice
- The trustees look for a holistic approach addressing multiple and complex needs with a range of appropriate interventions.
- They like to see programmes tailored to individual needs and local situations involving families and communities; these can be designed and delivered in partnership.
- The Foundation is open to creative and specialist approaches and trialling new solutions.
- Programmes should be of appropriate duration and intensity, have a clear rationale and be properly monitored and evaluated.
- There should be a plan for the future, including an ‘exit strategy’.
- Overseas
- Projects that adopt a holistic approach throughout all project stages and have a well defined ‘exit strategy’.
- Projects being delivered at the grass-roots level through an established and proven delivery partner who is fully engaged with the local community.
- Projects that clearly demonstrate local communities’ involvement and that necessary training and education is in place to sustain the project beyond the delivery partner’s departure.
- The applicant must be able to demonstrate that robust governance and monitoring procedures are in place.
Funding Information
- Social & Criminal Justice
- The trustees will fund projects over one to three years with grants of £15,000 – £25,000 per annum.
- They may invest up to £25,000 in a pilot project, if it addresses complex problems in an innovative way and may lead to replication if proven effective.
- Overseas
- The trustees will fund one off projects with grants of up to £15,000.
Geographical Area
- The area of operation for the main grant programme is the British Isles. They consider the quality of projects more important than their geographical location.
- They also have an overseas category as part of the main grant programme, which awards grants to UK registered charities undertaking projects in the Commonwealth Countries of Africa.
Eligibility Criteria
- They only fund UK registered charities.
- Social & Criminal Justice
- If you are a UK registered charity and have an annual income of between £350,000 and £4,000,000 you may submit an application under the main grant programme. Please note they are unlikely to make a grant to large charities which have endowments, make grants themselves, hold large reserves and/or have substantial contractual arrangements with the government.
- For registered charities with an income of less than £350,000.
- Overseas
- If you are a UK registered charity delivering projects in Commonwealth countries of Africa and
- have an annual income of between £150,000 and £4,000,000 you may submit an application. They do not run this category under the small grant programme.
Ineligible
- Social & Criminal Justice
- Policy and research
- Uniformed organisations
- Short term interventions
- Capital projects
- Trips and youth volunteering
- Overseas
- Overseas disability awareness
- Disaster appeals
- Education
- Gap years, electives, project visits overseas
For more information, visit Charles Hayward Foundation.