A grant we got wrong
What happened, and what we changed.
Eight thousand four hundred people
Every point behind this sentence is one of them. Not a decoration — the field draws the figure we publish, and nothing else.
Where the money went
£1,186,900 awarded across 14 grants. These figures are added up from the grant records themselves, so they cannot drift away from the list below.
- Early years £495,000 42%
- Advice and advocacy £371,500 31%
- Mental health £272,500 23%
- Small grants £47,900 4%
What we fund, and what we will not
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Early years
Applications open in MarchNursery and family support in the first five years, where the evidence for what works is strongest.
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Advice and advocacy
RollingDebt, housing and benefits advice, and the casework that follows when advice is not enough.
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Mental health
Closed until SeptemberCommunity mental health provision outside clinical settings, with a bias toward long waits.
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Small grants
RollingGrants under £15,000, decided in six weeks, with a one-page application.
Who reads the applications
Every application is read by two people, at least one of whom has worked in the field it is about. Trustees are unpaid.
Including the things that went wrong
Telephone us before you write anything
Ten minutes on the phone will tell us both whether this is worth your afternoon. We would rather spend it than have you write a bid we were always going to decline.
The places, not the people
There are no photographs of anyone we fund on this site. A picture of a person receiving help is a claim about that person, made on their behalf, and nobody asked them. So these are the rooms, the doorways and the play spaces instead.
