Health & Wellbeing Grants & Funding
There are 1062 UK funders offering grants for health & wellbeing charities, with typical awards from £100 to £1,150,000.
Health and wellbeing grants support a broad range of charitable work across the UK — from medical research and patient support to public health campaigns and community wellbeing initiatives. This category covers physical health specifically (mental health has its own dedicated funding streams). Funders support hospices, hospital charities, condition-specific organisations, rehabilitation services, and health inequalities work. Community health projects — such as social prescribing, walking groups, healthy eating initiatives, and befriending schemes — have seen a significant increase in funding as the evidence base for preventative health grows. Several major medical charities run their own grant programmes for research and service delivery. The National Lottery Community Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, and many local trusts also support health-related projects. Grant-makers increasingly value projects that address the social determinants of health — poverty, housing, isolation — rather than treating symptoms alone. Partnership working with NHS trusts and local authorities strengthens applications significantly.
Quick Stats
- Total Funders
- 1062
- Grant Range
- £100 - £1,150,000
- Open to Applications
- 46%
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Health & Wellbeing Funders
98 of 1062 match your filtersChecked against verified programme data for 128 of 1062 funders. 934 not yet verified are listed below; 30 that don't fit were excluded.
Action Medical Research
Matching programme: Project Grant
Action Medical Research is a dedicated charity advancing paediatric medicine through innovative research that prevents and treats childhood diseases a...
Action Together CIO
Matching programme: Fix The Digital Divide Fund
Action Together CIO, established in 2016 through the merger of Voluntary Action Oldham and Community and Voluntary Action Tameside, serves as the infr...
Adint Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Adint Charitable Trust
Adint Charitable Trust, established in 1972 as charity number 265290, is a long-standing discretionary grant-making trust founded by private individua...
Alan Davidson Foundation
Matching programme: Alan Davidson Foundation Grants
The Alan Davidson Foundation, a UK-registered charity established in 2015 by pioneering architect Alan Hayes Davidson following his 2012 motor neurone...
Albert Hunt Trust
Matching programme: Homelessness
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 ...
Alzheimer's Foundation for Research Into Alzheimer's Disease.
Matching programme: Anne & Irving Brodsky Innovation Grant
The Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA), founded in 2002, is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals, families, and caregivers ...
Animal Free Research UK
Matching programme: PhD Studentships
Animal Free Research UK advances human health and prevents animal suffering by funding pioneering research that fully replaces animal experimentation ...
Arts Council of Wales | Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Matching programme: Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Arts Council of Wales (Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru), established by Royal Charter in 1994, is the principal national agency championing the arts across W...
Association of NHS Charities
Matching programme: Greener Communities Fund
NHS Charities Together, formerly the Association of NHS Charities, is a national umbrella body established in 2000, uniting over 220 local and special...
Ataxia UK
Matching programme: Research Grants (including PhD studentships and fellowships)
Ataxia UK, established in 1969 by families and clinicians, is the UK's leading national charity dedicated to transforming lives affected by progressiv...
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
Matching programme: Barbara Ward Children's Foundation Grants
The Barbara Ward Children's Foundation, established in December 2001 by Barbara Irene Ward, is a UK-registered grant-making charity dedicated to trans...
Barts Charity
Matching programme: Advancing Healthcare Small Grants
Barts Charity, one of the UK’s oldest medical charities with roots tracing back centuries, supports St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Barts Health NHS Tru...
Berkeley Charitable Foundation
Matching programme: Resilience Fund
The Berkeley Charitable Foundation, established in 2011 by the Berkeley Group, is a corporate foundation dedicated to empowering young people and comm...
Blood Cancer UK Research
Matching programme: Project Grant
Blood Cancer UK Research, founded in 1960 as the Leukaemia Research Fund and rebranded in 2020, is a leading UK medical research charity dedicated to ...
Blue Light Card Foundation
Matching programme: Nature and Water-Based Wellbeing Fund
The Blue Light Card Foundation, established in 2022 as a UK-wide grant-maker backed by Blue Light Card Ltd, champions the physical, mental, and emotio...
Bma Foundation
Matching programme: BMA Foundation Research Grants
The BMA Foundation, the world's oldest medical organization awarding grants since 1839 and unified as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2020, ...
Bowel Research UK
Matching programme: PhD Studentships
Bowel Research UK, established in 2020 through the merger of Bowel & Cancer Research and the Bowel Disease Research Foundation—drawing on over 50 year...
Brain Research Trust
Matching programme: Fellowships (Post-doctoral and Clinical PhD)
Brain Research UK (formerly Brain Research Trust), established in 1971 and expanded nationwide in 2017, is the UK's leading charity dedicated to fundi...
British Eye Research Foundation
Matching programme: PhD Studentships
Fight for Sight, the British Eye Research Foundation, drives a mission to save sight and transform lives through pioneering eye research, social chang...
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Matching programme: Education Grants
The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, founded in 1971 by clinicians and scientists alarmed by infectious diseases and rising drug-resist...
Building and Civil Engineering Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Construction Employability Award
The Building and Civil Engineering Charitable Trust (B&CE’s Charitable Trust), established in 1991 by B&CE, is dedicated to enhancing the lives of UK ...
Cayo Foundation
Matching programme: General Grants
The Cayo Foundation is a UK-based discretionary grant-making trust established on 29 November 1999, dedicated to benefiting registered charities under...
Charity Entrepreneurship
Matching programme: Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program
Charity Entrepreneurship is an effective altruism-inspired incubator founded to create high-impact nonprofits by identifying evidence-based interventi...
Chrysalis Trust
Matching programme: Chrysalis Trust Grants
The Chrysalis Trust, a UK grant-making charity established in 2009 by the Evans family, tackles poverty, disability, and barriers to shelter, educatio...
Clive Richards Foundation
Matching programme: Bursary Scheme
The Clive Richards Foundation, established in 1986 by entrepreneur Clive Richards and his wife Sylvia (renamed in Clive's honour after his 2021 passin...
Colchester Catalyst Charity
Matching programme: General Grants
Colchester Catalyst Charity, established in 1990 from the proceeds of Colchester Oaks Hospital's sale, is a local grant-maker dedicated to improving h...
Cornwall Community Development Limited
Matching programme: ACRE Village Hall Capital Grants
Cornwall Community Development Limited, operating as Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC), was established in 2001 from the Cornwall Rural Communit...
Crohn's & Colitis UK
Matching programme: Research Awards Targeted Call 2026
Crohn's & Colitis UK is the UK's leading charity, founded in 1979, dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative ...
Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust
Matching programme: General Grant
The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust, established in 1951 via the will of Eleanor, Dowager Countess Peel, is a UK-based endowment charity rooted in...
Duchy Health Charity Limited
Matching programme: Grant Giving Programme
Duchy Health Charity Limited, established in 1976 from the proceeds of Cornwall's first private hospital sale, is a Cornwall-based grantmaker dedicate...
Dunhill Medical Trust
Matching programme: Joint British Geriatrics Society / Vivensa Foundation Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme
The Dunhill Medical Trust is an independent charitable foundation with a mission to advance healthy ageing through research, innovation, and practical...
E H Smith Charitable Trust
Matching programme: General Charitable Grants
The E H Smith Charitable Trust, family-founded in 1944, embodies community responsibility by reinvesting business profits to uplift local communities ...
Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity
Matching programme: Capital/Medical Grants
Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, founded in the late 1960s as a supporters' group for Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital and formally registered in ...
Edward Gostling Foundation
Matching programme: Capital Grants Programme
The Edward Gostling Foundation, established in 1994 (formerly the ACT Foundation and Airways Charitable Trust), is a UK-wide grant-maker dedicated to ...
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Matching programme: New Frontiers of Conflict Research 2026
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), established in September 2020 through the merger of the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ...
Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust
Matching programme: Main Grant Programme
The Gerald Micklem Charitable Trust, established in 1988 by the will of G.H. Micklem C.B.E., is a grant-making trust dedicated to advancing public ben...
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Matching programme: GOSH Charity Everyday Impact Fund
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH Charity), closely linked to the world-renowned hospital founded in 1852, drives its mission to t...
Green Hall Foundation
Matching programme: May Round
The Green Hall Foundation, established in 1976 by Yorkshire philanthropist Constance Vera Green and renamed in 2013 to honor Colonel Henry Robert Hall...
Guts UK Charity
Matching programme: Development Grants for Early Career Researchers
Guts UK Charity, founded in 1971 as the Digestive Disorders Trust Fund and relaunched in 2018, is the UK's national charity dedicated to the entire di...
Heart Research UK
Matching programme: Healthy Heart Grants
Heart Research UK, founded in 1967 in Leeds by cardiovascular surgeon David Watson as the National Heart Research Fund (renamed in 2005), is a nationa...
Heart Trust Fund (Belfast Heart Centre)
Matching programme: Heart Trust Fund
The Heart Trust Fund (Belfast Heart Centre), a registered Northern Irish charity likely established in the late 1980s or early 1990s, advances cardiac...
Help for Health
Matching programme: Main Fund
Help for Health is an independent charitable trust established in 2002 through the merger of The Health Scheme and Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund, ...
Hey Smile Foundation
Matching programme: I AM Fund
HEY Smile Foundation, founded in 2008 by Jim Dick OBE, is a Yorkshire-based infrastructure charity dedicated to strengthening the voluntary sector in ...
Hugh Fraser Foundation
Matching programme: The Hugh Fraser Foundation
The Hugh Fraser Foundation, established in 1960 by Sir Hugh Fraser, advances health, education, citizenship, community development, poverty relief, an...
Humane Research Trust CIO
Matching programme: Humane Research Fellowships
The Humane Research Trust CIO, established in 1961 as the Lawson Tait Memorial Trust and later rebranded to broaden its scope, is a UK charitable inco...
James Knott Family Foundation
Matching programme: Main Grants Programme
The James Knott Family Foundation, known as the Sir James Knott Trust, was established in 1924 by Tyneside shipowner Sir James Knott to honor his sons...
Jean Shanks Foundation
Matching programme: JSPS Clinical Lecturer Support Grant
The Jean Shanks Foundation, established in 1986 by pioneering pathologist Dr Jean Shanks after the flotation of JS Pathology PLC, advances medical res...
Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research
Matching programme: MB-PhD Programme
The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research, founded in 1965 by Mathilda and Terence Kennedy and registered as a charity in 1970, is a specialist fund...
Kidney Research UK
Matching programme: First main round
Kidney Research UK, established in 1961 as the National Kidney Research Fund by clinicians and patients, is the UK's largest charity dedicated exclusi...
King Henry VIII Endowed Trust, Warwick
Matching programme: Town Share Discretionary Grants
The King Henry VIII Endowed Trust, Warwick, established in 1545 through Tudor-era negotiations to safeguard ecclesiastical assets during the Dissoluti...
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Tips for Applying to Health & Wellbeing Funders
Health and wellbeing applications are strongest when they demonstrate clear partnerships with NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups, or integrated care boards. Describe your referral pathways — how participants reach your service and how you connect them to clinical support when needed. If your work involves social prescribing, reference the evidence base and explain your relationship with local link workers and GP practices. Use health inequalities data from Public Health England's Fingertips tool or local Joint Strategic Needs Assessments to demonstrate the specific need your project addresses, including prevalence rates and demographic breakdowns for your target population. Frame your approach within a prevention versus treatment spectrum, showing how your work reduces demand on clinical services over time. Explain what clinical oversight or professional supervision arrangements are in place, even for non-clinical community projects — funders need assurance that health-related work is delivered safely and appropriately. Include validated health outcome measures in your evaluation plan, whether clinical tools or wellbeing scales. Address how you reach populations who experience the greatest health inequalities and face barriers to accessing mainstream services. Strong applications show that your project fills a specific gap in the local health landscape rather than duplicating existing provision.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Health & Wellbeing Grants
What grants are available for health & wellbeing charities in the UK?
There are 1062+ UK funders offering grants for health & wellbeing 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 health & wellbeing organisations get?
Grant amounts for health & wellbeing 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 health & wellbeing grants?
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