Disability988+ Funders

Disability Grants & Funding

There are 988 UK funders offering grants for disability charities, with typical awards from £100 to £1,150,000.

UK funders have a long history of supporting disabled people and the organisations that serve them. Grants in this area cover independent living support, accessible transport, assistive technology, employment programmes, advocacy, and social inclusion. Many funders support the social model of disability — focusing on removing barriers rather than treating impairment — and look for projects led or co-designed by disabled people themselves. Learning disability, physical disability, sensory impairment, and neurodivergence each have dedicated funding streams. Large foundations like the Henry Smith Charity, Lloyds Bank Foundation, and the National Lottery Community Fund all have significant disability funding. Smaller specialist trusts may focus on specific conditions or age groups. Capital grants for accessibility improvements to buildings and public spaces are available from several funders. The emphasis across the sector is on person-centred approaches, rights-based practice, and projects that enable genuine participation and choice for disabled people.

Quick Stats

Total Funders
988
Grant Range
£100 - £1,150,000
Open to Applications
54%

Disability Funders

988 funders found

1485 Charitable Trust

The 1485 Charitable Trust is an independent grant-making Christian trust established in 2017 by members of the Giedroyc and Parham families. Its core ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

38 Degrees Trust

38 Degrees Trust, a registered charity and charitable company (number 1139325) established on 13 October 2009 in England and Wales, aims to make the U...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

a and R Woolf Charitable Trust

The A and R Woolf Charitable Trust, established in 1977 and governed by three trustees, is a modest UK-based funder dedicated to advancing general cha...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £15,000

A J Bell Trust

The A J Bell Trust, established in 2011 by Andy Bell, founder and CEO of AJ Bell plc, is a UK registered charity dedicated to supporting disadvantaged...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £100,000

A Smile for a Child

Open

A Smile for a Child is a UK-based charitable grant-maker dedicated to improving the lives of disabled and disadvantaged children and young people by r...

Grant Range
£100 - £2,000

Aberlour Child Care Trust

Open

Aberlour Children’s Charity, formerly Aberlour Child Care Trust, is a pioneering Scottish children’s charity founded in 1875 to support ‘mitherless ba...

Grant Range
£100 - £500

ABF The Soldiers' Charity

Open

ABF The Soldiers' Charity, also known as the Army Benevolent Fund, is the British Army's national charity established in 1944 during World War II to p...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Abstract Foundation

The Abstract Foundation is a UK-registered charitable incorporated organisation established in October 2021, chaired by trustee Mark Lewis Glatman alo...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £500,000

Access to Justice Foundation

Open

The Access to Justice Foundation is a UK-wide charity founded by the legal profession with the singular mission of enhancing access to free legal advi...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Acre Housing

Acre Housing, a registered charity established in 2004 and based in Oxfordshire, UK, is dedicated to tackling the chronic shortage of specialised, qua...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Action Medical Research

Open

Action Medical Research is a dedicated charity advancing paediatric medicine through innovative research that prevents and treats childhood diseases a...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £200,000

Acts 435

Open

Acts 435 is a UK-based charity founded in 2009 by the then Archbishop of York, Right Reverend Dr John Sentamu, who remains its patron. It operates as ...

Grant Range
Up to £200

Ada Hillard Charitable Trust

The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust, established by trust deed on 6 March 2003, is a UK-based grant-making charity dedicated to advancing charitable caus...

Grant Range
£36,000 - £48,000

Adint Charitable Trust

Open

Adint Charitable Trust, established in 1972 as charity number 265290, is a long-standing discretionary grant-making trust founded by private individua...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £20,000

Adrian Swire Charitable Trust

Open

The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust embodies a family-rooted philanthropic legacy dedicated to advancing charitable purposes across health, education, a...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £25,000

Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO

Open

Agnes Hunter Trust SCIO, an independent Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation founded in 1954 from the legacy of Miss Agnes H Hunter and conve...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £10,000

Aimwell Charitable Trust

The Aimwell Charitable Trust is a grant-making foundation registered in England and Wales (charity number 1039415), established in 1994 to advance gen...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Aird Charitable Trust

Open

The Aird Charitable Trust is a small, family-run discretionary grant-making charity registered in England and Wales since 1987 (formerly the Clabon Ch...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Alan Davidson Foundation

Open

The Alan Davidson Foundation, a UK-registered charity established in 2015 by pioneering architect Alan Hayes Davidson following his 2012 motor neurone...

Grant Range
£25,000 - £1,150,000

Albert Hunt Trust

Open

The Albert Hunt Trust, an independent UK grant-making foundation established in 1979 by Miss Mary Kathleen Coyle and Miss Florence I Reakes in honour ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £40,000

Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust

Open

The Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust is an independent, family-led grant-making charity established in 1987 by James Philip van den Bergh via a s...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Alchemy Foundation

Open

The Alchemy Foundation, established in 1985 as The Starlight Foundation and renamed in 1987, is a UK-based charitable trust chaired by songwriter and ...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Aldama Foundation

The Aldama Foundation, established in 2008 by Clare Kirkman and James Kirkman as a grant-making charitable trust governed by Dickinson Trust Limited, ...

Grant Range
£25,000 - £500,000

Alexander Pigott Wernher Memorial Trust

The Alexander Pigott Wernher Memorial Trust, established in 1970 as a UK-registered grant-making charity, honors its namesake through a tightly focuse...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Alison Hillman Charitable Trust

Open

The Alison Hillman Charitable Trust, established by trust deed on 19 July 1994, is a UK-based funder governed by a small board of long-serving trustee...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

AlixPartners (UK) Charitable Foundation

The AlixPartners (UK) Charitable Foundation, established in 2010 by the global consulting firm AlixPartners (charity number 1134913), is a grant-makin...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Alkionides UK

Open

Alkionides UK is a volunteer-driven charity rooted in compassion, mutual aid, transparency, and community solidarity, inspired by hope amid crisis. Es...

Grant Range
Up to £10,000

Amar Family Charitable Trust

Open

The Amar Family Charitable Trust is a family-run grant-making charity established in 2011 and registered in England and Wales, governed by four longst...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Amateurs Trust

The Amateurs Trust is a UK grant-making charity established on 2 July 1999, dedicated to improving health, advancing education, and alleviating hardsh...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Amber Trust

The Amber Trust, a UK national charity founded in 1995 by Professor Adam Ockelford, empowers blind and partially sighted children and young people up ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Ambergate Charitable Trust

The Ambergate Charitable Trust, registered with the Charity Commission in January 2020, is a family-led grantmaker governed by a volunteer board of tr...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Ammco Trust

Open

The Ammco Trust is a longstanding grant-making charity dedicated to advancing public benefit by empowering local charities delivering essential servic...

Grant Range
£200 - £2,000

Anand & Sethi Family Charity Trust

The Anand & Sethi Family Charity Trust (charity number 1164307), based in Leicester, UK, is a family-led philanthropic entity governed by members of t...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £20,000

Ancaster Trust

Open

The Ancaster Trust is a longstanding grant-making charity registered in England and Wales, established in 1976 and chaired by Baroness Jane Willoughby...

Grant Range
£100 - £500

Andor Charitable Trust

Open

The Andor Charitable Trust is a UK-based grant-making charity dedicated to advancing public benefit by supporting a broad spectrum of registered chari...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

Andrew Anderson Trust

Open

The Andrew Anderson Trust is a Bristol-based family grant-making charity established in 1954 by Andrew Anderson to advance social betterment through p...

Grant Range
Up to £1,000

Angela Gallagher Memorial Fund

Open

The Angela Gallagher Memorial Fund, established in 1989 by Mary Northcote in memory of her governess Angela Gallagher, is an unincorporated trust dedi...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Anne and John Walters Charitable Trust

The Anne and John Walters Charitable Trust, established by trust deed on 19 July 1994, is a discreet UK charity honouring its namesakes through a stea...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £50,000

Annett Trust

The Annett Trust, established by trust deed on 23 May 2003 and based in Bath, is a grant-making charity operating primarily across England and Wales w...

Grant Range
Up to £2,000

Anthony & Pat Charitable Foundation

The Anthony & Pat Charitable Foundation (charity no. 1133288) is a family-led grant-making trust established by Anthony and Pat Mascolo, with trustees...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £40,000

Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research

The Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research, an unincorporated trust established by deed in February 2006 by the Sturdy and Woods families, ...

Grant Range
£15,000 - £50,000

Archer Trust

Open

The Archer Trust, established in 1994 in memory of Unilever executive Ronnie Archer by his widow Catherine, is a UK grant-making charitable trust insp...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Archie Sherman Cardiff Foundation

The Archie Sherman Cardiff Foundation, a UK-registered grant-making trust established in 1976 by philanthropist Archie Sherman—a Cardiff-born property...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Ardeola Charitable Trust

The Ardeola Charitable Trust is a grant-making foundation established in 2008 under English and Welsh law, governed by a small board of trustees inclu...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £100,000

Ardwick Trust

Open

The Ardwick Trust is an independent grant-making charity registered since 1974, dedicated to distributing modest grants to UK charities at the trustee...

Grant Range
Up to £500

ARN Foundation

Open

The ARN Foundation is an independent charitable trust dedicated to advancing general charitable purposes across the UK, with a primary focus on Northe...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £10,000

Ashworth Charitable Trust

Open

The Ashworth Charitable Trust, founded on 23 March 1995 by Mrs C E Crabtree, is a small UK-based charitable trust dedicated to humanitarian causes tha...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

Astor Foundation

The Astor Foundation, a UK-based grant-making charity established in 1964 by the Astor family, advances medical research in its broadest sense while s...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Ataxia UK

Open

Ataxia UK, established in 1969 by families and clinicians, is the UK's leading national charity dedicated to transforming lives affected by progressiv...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Atherton Family Charitable Trust

The Atherton Family Charitable Trust, established in 2014 by Richard Atherton with support from Jacqueline Atherton, is a family-run grant-making trus...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

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Tips for Applying to Disability Funders

Applications for disability-focused funding must demonstrate genuine co-production with disabled people throughout your project — from design and governance to delivery and evaluation. Funders will look for evidence that disabled people hold meaningful decision-making power, not just advisory or consultative roles. Frame your work within the social model of disability, focusing on the barriers society creates rather than individual deficits. Describe how your organisation is user-led or how disabled people are represented on your board and staff team. Outcomes should be person-centred, measuring what matters to participants: increased choice, greater independence, meaningful social participation, and enhanced control over their own lives rather than purely clinical or functional metrics. Ensure your monitoring and evaluation processes are themselves accessible — explain how you gather feedback from people with communication needs, learning disabilities, or sensory impairments. If your project involves assistive technology or adaptations, show how you personalise solutions rather than applying a standard package. Avoid deficit-based language throughout your application and instead emphasise strengths, rights, and aspirations. Strong applications demonstrate an understanding that disability intersects with other forms of disadvantage and describe how you ensure your project is inclusive across the full diversity of disabled people.

Frequently Asked Questions about Disability Grants

What grants are available for disability charities in the UK?

There are 988+ UK funders offering grants for disability charities. These range from small community grants under £5,000 to large multi-year funding programmes exceeding £100,000. Use Fundermatcher to find the best match for your organisation.

How much funding can disability organisations get?

Grant amounts for disability charities vary widely depending on the funder and project. Typical grants range from £1,000 to over £100,000. Many funders offer multi-year funding for established organisations with a strong track record.

How do I apply for disability grants?

Start by identifying funders whose priorities align with your disability work. Fundermatcher matches your charity's profile against 988+ funders to find the best fit. Our AI assistant can then help you draft compelling grant applications.

How to Find the Right Disability Funders

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