Health & Wellbeing1062+ Funders

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%

Health & Wellbeing Funders

62 of 1062 match your filters

Checked against verified programme data for 101 of 1062 funders. 961 not yet verified are listed below; 39 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...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £200,000

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...

Grant Range
£500 - £25,000

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...

Grant Range
£25,000 - £1,150,000

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 ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £40,000

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 ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

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...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

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...

Grant Range
Up to £90,000

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 ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £25,000

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, ...

Grant Range
£65,000 - £65,000

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...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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...

Grant Range
£250,000 - £300,000

British Eye Research Foundation

Matching programme: Project Grants

Fight for Sight, the British Eye Research Foundation, drives a mission to save sight and transform lives through pioneering eye research, social chang...

Grant Range
Up to £250,000

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...

Grant Range
Up to £50,000

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 ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £15,000

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...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £25,000

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...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Clive Richards Foundation

Matching programme: Research

The Clive Richards Foundation, established in 1986 by entrepreneur Clive Richards and his wife Sylvia (renamed in Clive's honour after his 2021 passin...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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 ...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £250,000

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...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

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 ...

Grant Range
£500 - £10,000

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...

Grant Range
£8,000 - £15,000

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Matching programme: GOSH Charity National Research Project Grants

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH Charity), closely linked to the world-renowned hospital founded in 1852, drives its mission to t...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £5,000,000

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...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

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...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £40,000

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...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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, ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £40,000

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...

Grant Range
£90,000 - £450,000

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...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

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...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

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...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £250,000

Lifearc

Matching programme: Action Medical Research and LifeArc Joint Call for Translational Research Project Grants on Rare Diseases in Children

LifeArc is a self-funded, not-for-profit medical research charity established in 2000 as MRC Technology and rebranded in 2019 after a transformative w...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £1,000,000

Locality (UK)

Matching programme: Cost of living grants

Locality is a national network and registered UK charity founded in 1994 through the merger of two leading community support bodies, dedicated to empo...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £75,000

London Catalyst

Matching programme: Main Grants Programme

London Catalyst is an independent grantmaker rooted in a historic mission to combat the root causes and effects of poverty and ill health among London...

Grant Range
£6,000 - £10,000

Lupus UK

Matching programme: Lupus UK Research Grants

Lupus UK, the UK's sole national charity dedicated to lupus—a chronic autoimmune disease—is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation established in 1978...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £25,000

Merriman Charitable Foundation

Matching programme: Merriman Charitable Foundation grants

The Merriman Charitable Foundation is a grant-making charity with a mission to enable positive change through flexible funding for education, health, ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Morrisons Foundation

Matching programme: Grant Funding Programme

The Morrisons Foundation, established in 2015 by Wm Morrison Supermarkets Ltd, is a UK grant-maker dedicated to creating lasting positive change in co...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £10,000

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Matching programme: Healthcare Project Grants

The Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association), founded in 1979 by people affected by MND, is the UK's only national charity dedicated exclus...

Grant Range
Up to £255,000

Newby Trust Limited

Matching programme: Education, Health and Social Welfare

Newby Trust Limited is an independent, family-founded charitable trust based in Kingsbridge, South Devon, with origins dating to 1964 and governance b...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity

Matching programme: Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity Grant Programme

Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity drives world-class compassionate care by enhancing health and wellbeing for patients, staff, and North East ...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £3,200,000

Nova Wakefield District Limited

Matching programme: Community Tree Planting Programme

Nova Wakefield District Limited is the local infrastructure charity empowering Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations across ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Osteopathic Foundation

Matching programme: Open Grants Programme

The Osteopathic Foundation is a charitable trust dedicated to advancing osteopathic practice for public health benefits through sustained investment i...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

People's Health Trust

Matching programme: Advice for Health

People's Health Trust is a national UK charity established in 2011, funded initially by The Health Lottery, dedicated to challenging health inequaliti...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Peter Sowerby Foundation

Matching programme: Impact in Healthcare Fund (Strand 1)

The Peter Sowerby Foundation, established in 2011 by Dr Peter Sowerby—a rural North Yorkshire GP and co-founder of EMIS—with a substantial endowment, ...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £25,000

Pilkington Charities Fund

Matching programme: Pilkington Charities’ Fund

Pilkington Charities Fund, established in 1950 by the Pilkington family—founders of the iconic St Helens glass manufacturing company—originally aimed ...

Grant Range
Up to £20,000

Point North Community Foundation

Matching programme: Northern Cancer Alliance Living with and Beyond Cancer Fund

Point North Community Foundation, formerly County Durham Community Foundation and established in 1995 by Sir Paul Nicholson and David Grant, is an acc...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Postcode Innovation Trust

Matching programme: Dream Fund

Postcode Innovation Trust, established in 2016, is an independent funder powered by proceeds from its society lottery linked to People’s Postcode Lott...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £1,250,000

Prevent Breast Cancer

Matching programme: Dragon's Den Live Grant Round

Prevent Breast Cancer is the UK's sole charity dedicated exclusively to predicting and preventing breast cancer, driven by a mission to eradicate the ...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £30,000

Purey Cust Trust CIO

Matching programme: Main Grants

The Purey Cust Trust CIO, originating from Canon Purey-Cust's 1914 nursing home in York, is a grant-making charity dedicated to promoting and protecti...

Grant Range
Up to £15,000

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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.

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?

Start by identifying funders whose priorities align with your health & wellbeing work. Fundermatcher matches your charity's profile against 1062+ funders to find the best fit. Our AI assistant can then help you draft compelling grant applications.

How to Find the Right Health & Wellbeing Funders

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