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These UK Trusts and Foundations are offering Small Grants to NGOs in 2021

(April 2021)

A list of UK grant-giving foundations and trusts that are providing small grants to NGOs around the world.

Volant Trust seeking Applications for Covid-19 Response Fund

Deadline: 31 July 2021
Funding: Multi-year awards (for up to three years) of £15,000 or less per annum
Geographical Focus: Global

The Volant Trust is currently seeking applications from charities in the UK and internationally that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Eligibility Criteria

To help you to determine whether your project meets the funding criteria they have put together a short series of questions.

  • Is your organisation a registered charity, community interest company, community organisation or social enterprise?
  • Is the project and funding required specifically related to the Covid-19 pandemic?
  • Does your organisation directly help with the alleviation of social deprivation and vulnerable groups who have been particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic?
  • Is the funding for project, running or core costs including the purchase of medical equipment or PPE in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic?
  • Does your organisation have its own bank account with at least two unrelated cheque signatories?
  • Are your organisation’s accounts independently audited each year?

For more information, visit here.

Feminist Review Trust Grant Program

Deadline: 30 April 2021
Funding: UK £15,000
Geographical Focus: Global

Applications are now open for Feminist Review Trust Grant Program to support projects that transform the lives of women.

What will the Trust fund?

The Feminist Review Trust will fund:

  • Hard to fund projects. Some types of projects are difficult to fund. Typically these projects have no other obvious sources of funding. This might mean, for example, that traditional academic sources are either not interested in the area or that it is an activist project or that it is too feminist for most conventional funding sources. For example the Trust supported the writing and publication of the history of Rape Crisis in Scotland and the translation and updating sections of ‘Women and Their Bodies’ into Arabic and Hebrew.
  • Pump priming activities. This means that they will provide a small amount of funding to help start an activity in the hope that it will then be able attract sufficient funding to continue. For example they funded a project in Argentina to strengthen the capacity of organizations promoting women’s rights and a project to provide audio visual equipment for a feminist social centre in Madrid. In each case these projects have hopefully helped to create a sustainable activity.
  • Interventionist projects which support feminist values. It is often difficult for projects around core feminist concerns such as abortion rights and domestic violence to find funding. For example the Trust has supported Asylum Aid (an independent charity workshop with asylum seekers in the UK) to promote its ‘Charter of Rights’ for Women Seeking Asylum. They supported the 40th Anniversary Campaign of Abortion Rights in the UK, a documentary about abortion in Trinidad and Tobago and a feminist art studio in Tbilisi, Georgia.
  • Training and development projects: they will fund projects which provide training in relevant areas. For example, the Trust has funded English lessons for sex workers in London; leadership skills training for women in the voluntary sector. and volunteer training as Glasgow Women’s Library.
  • One off events: they supported Cine25 as part of the celebrations of 25 years of Women’s Studies at the University of York (UK); a seminar for the Lileth Project (a violence against women housing related project), and a workshop on the gender dimensions of Bulgarian Immigration Policy.
  • Dissemination: they will fund the production and distribution of relevant material. Too often wonderful work has had a more limited impact than it should because it was not well of fully distributed The Trust will fund dissemination. For example they have supported the production of a booklet on Asian women’s experiences of higher education in the UK and the distribution of publications by the Rights of Women (a non-profit UK group)
  • Core funding: They realize that many groups struggle to raise core funding. The Trustees are willing to offer core funding to cover staff costs, accommodation etc., except in instances where applicants are seeking core funding to replace funding lost as a result of public sector cuts.
    Other projects: if your application does not easily fit into any of the above categories they may still support it. For example, the Trust has funded a project to capture oral histories of women’s experience of the menopause. Contact the Trust to discuss eligibility prior to submitting your application.

For more information, visit here.

The Maypole Fund inviting Applications from Women Only

Deadline: 30 June 2021
Funding: Grants of up to £750
Geographical Focus: Global

Applications are now open for the Maypole Fund Program. Their aim is to resource imaginative, non-violent activities by feminist anti-militarist women – whether individual women or women only groups – to proactively challenge patriarchy. This means we welcome applications from women only for projects and activities for any of the following:

  • anti-militarism;
  • action against the arms trade;
  • action against nuclear weapons and weapons systems;
  • action to support disarmament policies, processes and related initiatives.

The Maypole Fund was set up in 1986 by women involved in the peace movement, especially with Greenham Common. Today, they are a group of feminists coming from various political backgrounds.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Young women’s groups/individuals and lesbian groups/individuals;
  • Activities or projects not yet started;
  • Women who do not have access to other sources of funding or whose projects find it difficult to attract funding from elsewhere;
  • Imaginative/creative activities;
  • Individual and small women’s groups over larger established women’s groups.

For more information, visit here.

Swarovski Foundation: Global Grant Program to Create Next Leaders

Deadline: 09 April 2021
Funding: 15,000 USD
Geographical Focus: Global

Swarovski Foundation Institute has launched Creatives for Our Future that is a new global grant program designed with advisor the United Nations Office for Partnerships to identify and accelerate the next generation of creative leaders in sustainability.

The program aims to amplify this vision and highlight how creatives around the world can harness the power of critical thinking and problem-solving toward sustainable development, drawing from Swarovski’s heritage in engineering and reinvention.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The program is open to all creatives worldwide aged 18 to 25 (at the time of application) from across disciplines including fashion, design, art, architecture and engineering – with no limit to creative medium.
  • Successful applicants will have a keen interest in, demonstration of, or exemplary potential to use the creative process to accelerate awareness, technologies or solutions for sustainable development.

For more information visit here.

Wellcome Trust seeking Nominations for Innovator Awards

Deadline: 24 May 2021
Funding: Up to £500,000
Geographical Focus: Global

The Wellcome Trust is seeking nominations for the Innovator Awards to support researchers who are transforming great ideas into healthcare innovations that could have a significant impact on human health.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Individuals and teams from not-for-profit and commercial organisations can apply.
  • Organisations can be of any size, but they must be established and/or have working capital. They can be based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China).
  • You can work in any scientific discipline, including a discipline outside life sciences. You can work on any type of technology. Examples of technologies include:
    therapeutics (small molecules or biologics)
  • vaccines
  • devices
  • diagnostics
  • digital technologies
  • regenerative medicine.
  • The work that you propose must be essential for developing your healthcare innovation.
  • Wellcome Trust particularly encourage proposals from multidisciplinary collaborations within or between organisations. These collaborations do not need to include life sciences researchers.
  • In your proposal, you must:
  • include researchers from at least two different scientific disciplines
  • include at least one researcher from a discipline outside those that are standard in collaborations within biomedical and life sciences, such as (but not limited to) engineering, physical science or data science (for example, large data and data mining)
    describe the added value of the collaboration, and tell them why the outcome(s) of your work will be unique and only achievable through this approach.

For more information, visit here.

UKPHS: Call for Applications for Small Grants Wave 1

Deadline: 12 May 2021
Funding: Grants of up to £50,000 are available.
Geographical Focus: LMICs in Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia

The Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) is pleased to announce the launch of the first wave of Small Grants for UK Partnerships for Health Systems (UKPHS). The program welcomes grant applications from Health Partnerships in any low- and lower middle-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa or Southeast Asia addressing specific clinical and health system challenges.

The UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme (UKPHS) works with low and lower middle-income countries (LMICs) to build stronger and more resilient health systems, making progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through improved health service performance.

The programme particularly targets poor and vulnerable populations and will ultimately contribute to better health and wellbeing (SDG 3), including ending preventable deaths. Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), UKPHS engages the UK health sector by harnessing the expertise of UK health institutions and professionals in partnerships with LMIC counterparts.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Core requirements and country eligibility:
    • Applications must be made by a Health Partnership between a UK health institution and an LMIC health institution based in one, or more, of the countries identified in this Call. The program is also welcome applications from Health Partnerships involving more than two partners. Partnerships are expected to demonstrate how each of the partners contribute to the project.
    • Grants are for single, time-bound projects that are deliverable within the budget and timeframe proposed and agreed with THET.
    • Projects must operate within an eligible country.
    • Projects must respond to one, several, or all of the themes highlighted within this document.
    • Applications must be made in English. Unfortunately, THET cannot accept applications written in other languages.
    • The majority of capacity development activities must be carried out by volunteers.
  • Institutional eligibility:
    • UK and LMIC institutions leading a Health Partnership must be either a health delivery institution, health training/education institution, regulatory body,
    • NHS arms-length body, professional membership association, or academic institution.
    • Priority will be given to applications from these types of institutions, but non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are also eligible to apply as lead partners under this grant stream if:
    • The partnership also includes a UK and LMIC health delivery institution, health training or education institution, regulatory body, professional membership association, or academic institution, which primarily delivers the health systems strengthening activities.
    • The NGO has experience in delivering health focused programmes.

For more information, visit here.