Application deadline: 30 April 2026
The Cloth Workers Foundation’s Open Grants Programme funds capital costs that support the infrastructure needs of small and medium-sized charitable organisations working with disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities.
Funding is prioritised for organisations that are led by, or fully integrate in their decision-making, people with related lived experience, and to projects that allow organisations to make a big change to their reach, impact, or sustainability.
The size of grant awarded will depend on a number of factors, including the size of your organisation and the cost and scale of your capital project.
To be eligible to apply, both your organisation and your project must be eligible.
- UK-registered charities, or organisations that are able to demonstrate their not-for-profit status and with appropriate asset locks (e.g. CICs without share capital and Community Benefit Societies).
- With an annual turnover of less than £10 million if applying for a grant of more than £15,000 (a ‘Large Grant’).
- With an annual turnover of less than £2 million if applying for a grant of £15,000 or less (a ‘Small Grant’).
- You must be able to demonstrate that the work of your organisation fits within one or more of our Programme Areas below, and that at least 50% of service users benefiting from the capital project are from one or more of those groups.
Programme areas:
- Communities experiencing racial inequalities
- Domestic or sexual abuse
- Economic disadvantage
- Homelessness
- Older people facing disadvantage
- LGBT+ communities
To help understand whether or not you are eligible to apply for funding, please complete an eligibility quiz here: https://www.clothworkersfoundation.org.uk/eligibility-quiz
Eligible organisations are invited to submit applications for a Small Grant (up to £15,000) with a one-stage application process, or a Large Grant (more than £15,000), which has a two-stage application process. The Large Grant application process aims to to minimise time completing forms and waiting on a decision for applicants unlikely to be successful.
For further details, visit The Clothworkers’ Foundation website here: https://www.clothworkersfoundation.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant
