The Allen Lane Foundation funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations. The Foundations aims are to fund work within each of their funding programmes which:
- will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems;
- is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and;
- encourages or enables groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.
The total amount available is up to £15,000. This can be over three years, two years, or a single grant. The average grant size being £5,000-£6,000. The Foundation aims to help organisations to become sustainable, supporting running and core costs to enable them to have flexibility, security and longevity.
Size of organisation?
To make sure our grants have an impact, small organisations are funded. If you work across a local area such as a village, estate or town, to be eligible you will need to have income/expenditure of less than £100,000. At the other end of the spectrum, if you work across the whole of the UK you will need to have an income of less than £250,000.
Type of organisation?
Registered charities, and also other charitable not-for-profit organisations, such as constituted voluntary groups or some Community Interest Companies (CICs) for example. Applications from CICs towards the costs of projects that are wholly charitable will be considered. We would expect that governing boards have a minimum of three unrelated members, and that all have equal control.
Visit the Allen Lane Foundation website for further details – https://allenlane.org.uk/funding/
