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 157 of 1062 funders. 905 not yet verified are listed below; 95 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

Adrian Swire Charitable Trust

Matching programme: Adrian Swire Charitable Trust (part of Swire Family Trusts)

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

Albert Hunt Trust

Matching programme: Hospices

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

Alzheimer's Foundation for Research Into Alzheimer's Disease.

Matching programme: AFA Bi-Annual Grant

The Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA), founded in 2002, is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals, families, and caregivers ...

Grant Range
£6,000 - £25,000

Alzheimer's Research UK

Matching programme: Major Project Grant

Alzheimer's Research UK, established in 1992 as the Alzheimer's Research Trust, is the UK's leading dementia research charity, founded by pioneers mot...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £750,000

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

Arcobaleno Cancer Trust

Matching programme: Siobhan's Legacy

Arcobaleno Cancer Trust embodies a mission born from profound personal loss, channeling familial grief into advancing medical research on cancer cause...

Grant Range
£3,500 - £5,000

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

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...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £15,000

Blood Cancer UK Research

Matching programme: Clinical Improvement Programme

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

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 Kidney Patient Association

Matching programme: Hospital Grants

Kidney Care UK, formerly the British Kidney Patient Association, is the UK's leading kidney patient support charity, founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Ward...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Delapage Limited

Matching programme: Delapage Grant Programme

Delapage Limited is a UK charity established in 1978 by Jack and Joseph Ackerman to support the Orthodox Jewish community, advancing Orthodox Jewish f...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £150,000

Department of Health and Social Care

Matching programme: Grant to Streamline Local Authority Adult Social Care Assessments - 2022 to 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a UK Government ministerial department, tracing its roots to the 19th-century Board of Health and f...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Derbyshire Community Health Services Charitable Trust

Matching programme: Staff General Fund

Derbyshire Community Health Services Charitable Trust is an NHS-linked charity closely tied to the Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation...

Grant Range
£50 - £1,000

Dunhill Medical Trust

Matching programme: Early Career Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

The Dunhill Medical Trust is an independent charitable foundation with a mission to advance healthy ageing through research, innovation, and practical...

Grant Range
£50,000 - £300,000

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 ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £20,000

Fife Health Charity

Matching programme: Community Grants

Fife Health Charity, registered as Fife Health Board Endowment Fund (Scottish Charity Number SC011988) and established in 1949, is an independent endo...

Grant Range
Up to £6,000

Frederick Andrew Trust

Matching programme: Financial grants for women following recent illness or injury

The Frederick Andrew Trust, established in 1922 from the legacy of Lincoln solicitor Frederick Andrew, is a century-old charitable trust dedicated exc...

Grant Range
£300 - £600

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

Harry Bottom Charitable Trust

Matching programme: Main grants programme

The Harry Bottom Charitable Trust, founded by Harry Bottom on 7 October 1960, is a longstanding Sheffield-based grant-maker governed by its original t...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £20,000

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...

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

James Tudor Foundation

Matching programme: Mental Health

The James Tudor Foundation is an independent grantmaker dedicated to relieving sickness and advancing health and wellbeing through targeted support fo...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £15,000

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

Just4Children

Matching programme: Application for Support

Just4Children, a UK and Ireland charitable funder established in November 2015, is dedicated to relieving sickness and preserving the physical and men...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research

Matching programme: Senior Research Fellowship

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

King's College Hospital Charity

Matching programme: Crown Fund (Regular)

King's College Hospital Charity drives patient-centric transformation, enhancing care outcomes, experiences, and well-being for patients, families, ca...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust

Matching programme: The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust

The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust pursues a mission to advance the public good by flexibly supporting diverse charitable purposes responsive to evolv...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £50,000

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

Michael Bishop Foundation

Matching programme: Main Grants Programme

The Michael Bishop Foundation, established in 1987, advances philanthropy through strategic support for excellence in arts, culture, heritage preserva...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £1,000,000

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charity

Matching programme: Internal Grant Making Programme

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charity (also known as Mid and South Essex Hospitals Charity, registered 1057266), established in 1996, suppo...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £200,000

Motor Neurone Disease Association

Matching programme: Quality of Life Grant

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

NHS Lothian Charity

Matching programme: General Funding

NHS Lothian Charity, the official charity of NHS Lothian, traces its roots to 1902 via the former Lothian Health Board Endowment Fund, adopting its cu...

Grant Range
Up to £5,000

Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund

Matching programme: NHCF Grant Funding Programmes

Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund, established in 2016 as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, consolidates legacy NHS charitable funds from ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £15,000

Nova Wakefield District Limited

Matching programme: DWP Youth Jobs Grants

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

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

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: Stanley Community 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

Rainford Trust

Matching programme: Main Grant Programme

The Rainford Trust, an independent grant-making charity established in 1973 by the Pilkington family—founders of the historic St Helens glassmaking fi...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Rockinghorse Children's Charity

Matching programme: Anytime Applications

Rockinghorse Children’s Charity champions equitable access to superior healthcare for sick, disabled children and young people, bridging NHS resource ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Rosemere Cancer Foundation

Matching programme: Research Funding

Rosemere Cancer Foundation is dedicated to elevating cancer treatment and patient care through close NHS partnerships, embodying values of innovation,...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £25,000

Rosetrees

Matching programme: Interdisciplinary Award

Rosetrees is a private UK charitable trust founded in 1987 by Nat and Teresa Rosenbaum, now chaired by their son Richard Ross, dedicated to funding pi...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Shanly Foundation

Matching programme: General Applications Fund

The Shanly Foundation, established in 1994 by property developer Michael Shanly as the charitable arm of the Shanly Group, drives practical, hands-on ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

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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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