Poverty & Deprivation1432+ Funders

Poverty & Deprivation Grants & Funding

There are 1432 UK funders offering grants for poverty & deprivation charities, with typical awards from £100 to £1,000,000.

Poverty relief is one of the oldest and most widely funded charitable purposes in the UK, with grant-makers supporting everything from emergency food and fuel provision to long-term systemic change. Funders in this space recognise that poverty intersects with almost every other social issue — health, education, housing, and opportunity. Many trusts prioritise organisations working in the most deprived areas, using indices of multiple deprivation to target resources. Grants support food banks, welfare advice services, debt counselling, crisis funds, and employability programmes. Larger foundations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation focus on research and policy work to address the root causes of poverty, while community foundations and smaller trusts often support direct provision for people in financial hardship. The cost-of-living crisis since 2022 has prompted many funders to create dedicated emergency funds and increase their support for basic needs provision. Projects that build financial resilience — savings schemes, financial literacy, affordable credit — are increasingly valued.

Quick Stats

Total Funders
1432
Grant Range
£100 - £1,000,000
Open to Applications
40%

Poverty & Deprivation Funders

63 of 1432 match your filters

Checked against verified programme data for 188 of 1432 funders. 1244 not yet verified are listed below; 125 that don't fit were excluded.

Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement

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Matching programme: Small and Medium Grants

The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement, established in 1977 by John and Elnora Ferguson to honor Allan and Nesta Ferguson, advances world ...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Ashworth Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Small Grants Programme

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

Barbara Ward Children's Foundation

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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

Baywind Energy Community Trust

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Matching programme: Main Grant Programme

Baywind Energy Community Trust champions community-owned renewable energy and environmental sustainability, rooted in the pioneering ethos of the UK's...

Grant Range
£100 - £5,000

Beatrice Laing Trust

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Matching programme: Beatrice Laing Trust

The Beatrice Laing Trust, established in 1952 by Sir John Laing—a devout Christian philanthropist who donated nearly 40% of his company’s shares to ch...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation

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Matching programme: London Luton Airport Operations Ltd (LLAOL) Community Trust Fund

Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), established in 1999 and registered as a charity in 2001 by founders Geoffrey Farr MBE DL, Sir Samu...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Bolton Community and Voluntary Services

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Matching programme: Bolton Housing Partnership Grants – Organisations

Bolton Community and Voluntary Services (Bolton CVS) is a registered charity and local infrastructure organisation dedicated to strengthening the volu...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust

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Matching programme: Birmingham & West Midlands County

The C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust, a family-founded charitable trust rooted in Quaker heritage, pursues a mission to advance peacebuilding, social jus...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Cambridgeshire Community Foundation

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Matching programme: General Funds (applied via the general application form, not fund-specific)

Cambridgeshire Community Foundation (CCF), established in December 2003, is an independent local charity dedicated to enhancing quality of life across...

Grant Range
£1,500 - £10,000

Chalk Cliff Trust

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Matching programme: Chalk Cliff Trust – Main Grant Programme

Chalk Cliff Trust is a family-led charitable foundation with a mission to advance grassroots charitable activity benefiting local communities through ...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

Cole Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Cole Charitable Trust grants

The Cole Charitable Trust is an independent grant-making trust dedicated to fostering positive change in local communities through support for small g...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £2,000

Coles-Medlock Foundation

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Matching programme: Main Grant Programme

The Coles-Medlock Foundation is a family-run grant-making charity established by Bath-based philanthropists David and Jacky Medlock to alleviate pover...

Grant Range
£500 - £15,000

Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Brighter Futures

The Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust, an independent grant-making charity founded in 1969 by Sir James Colyer-Fergusson, is dedicated to improving li...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £60,000

Community Foundation for Wiltshire & Swindon

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Matching programme: Community Grants

Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation, founded in 1975 as an independent charity (formerly Community Foundation for Wiltshire & Swindon), tackles...

Grant Range
£750 - £5,000

Community Foundation in Wales

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Matching programme: Fund for Wales

Community Foundation Wales, established in November 1998 as a registered charity and company, drives philanthropy to strengthen Welsh communities by c...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Community Foundation North East

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Matching programme: General Application

Community Foundation North East, established in 1988 by local business and civic leaders in North East England, serves as the UK's largest community f...

Grant Range
Up to £25,000

Croydon Relief in Need Charity

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Matching programme: Large Grant (Over £5,000)

Croydon Relief in Need Charity (CRiN), rooted in ancient endowments consolidated under Croydon Almshouse Charities Trustee Company Limited, is a local...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Cumbria Community Foundation

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Matching programme: Cumbria Community Foundation Grants

Cumbria Community Foundation, established in 1999, is an independent UK community foundation dedicated to tackling poverty, enhancing quality of life,...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Derbyshire Community Foundation

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Matching programme: Foundation Derbyshire Grants

Foundation Derbyshire embodies a mission to enhance community life and combat disadvantage through empowering grassroots charities and voluntary group...

Grant Range
£500 - £10,000

February Foundation

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Matching programme: The February Foundation Main Grant Programme

The February Foundation, an independent UK grant-making charity established in 2006, supports registered charities to deliver practical social impact ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Forever Manchester

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Matching programme: CDL Fund

Forever Manchester is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to empowering grassroots community activity and building resilient neighbourhoods...

Grant Range
£500 - £1,500

Forever Notts

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Matching programme: Kynan Eldridge Fund

Forever Notts, formerly Nottinghamshire Community Foundation and established in 1997 as an independent registered charity, serves as a vital broker fo...

Grant Range
£350 - £10,000

Fort Augustus & Glenmoriston Community Company

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Matching programme: Community Benefit Grant

Fort Augustus & Glenmoriston Community Company, established in 2007 by the local Community Council in the Scottish Highlands, is a community-led organ...

Grant Range
Up to £25,000

Frieda Scott Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Main Grants

The Frieda Scott Charitable Trust is an independent grantmaker rooted in a family legacy of compassion, established to strengthen community life by ad...

Grant Range
Up to £20,000

Garfield Weston Foundation

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Matching programme: Regular Grant

The Garfield Weston Foundation, family-founded in 1958, drives its mission to strengthen society through enduring philanthropic support for charities ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Hertfordshire Community Foundation

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Matching programme: HCF Foundation Grants

Hertfordshire Community Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to channeling local philanthropy into grassroots solutions that alleviate depri...

Grant Range
£240 - £10,000

Hilden Charitable Fund

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Matching programme: UK Programmes

The Hilden Charitable Fund, an endowed grant-making foundation established in 1963 by Anthony and Joan Rampton, is rooted in a family ethos of social ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £7,000

Housing Pathways Trust

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Matching programme: Main Grants Programme

Housing Pathways Trust, a historic almshouse charity rooted in seventeenth-century principles, drives community transformation by enabling those in ne...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Hugh Fraser Foundation

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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...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £20,000

Hunter Foundation

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Matching programme: 100 Disrupters

The Hunter Foundation champions entrepreneurial philanthropy to deliver sustainable, self-sustaining interventions tackling entrenched poverty, educat...

Grant Range
Contact funder

J G Graves Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: General Grant Programme

The J G Graves Charitable Trust, founded in 1930 by Sheffield businessman and philanthropist John George Graves, is a legacy-driven funder dedicated t...

Grant Range
£500 - £3,000

James Knott Family Foundation

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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

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Foundation

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Matching programme: Making Local Life Better Fund

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Foundation is an independent grantmaker dedicated to strengthening local communities by channeling phi...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

London Catalyst

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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

Maurice and Hilda Laing Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Main Grant Programme

The Maurice and Hilda Laing Charitable Trust, established in 1996 by the Laing family—rooted in the legacy of Sir John Laing, a Christian businessman ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Millennium Awards Trust

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Matching programme: Millennium Awards Trust Scaling Up Award

The Millennium Awards Trust, established in 2002 with an endowment from the UK government's Millennium Commission and National Lottery, catalyses posi...

Grant Range
£500 - £18,000

Milton Keynes Community Foundation Limited

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Matching programme: Community Roots Project

Milton Keynes Community Foundation is an independent place-based funder with a mission to strengthen communities and improve quality of life by channe...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £15,000

Mrs Jane Cart's Trust

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Matching programme: Standard Living Grant

Mrs Jane Cart's Trust, established in 1736 by the bequest of wealthy widow Jane Cart from Dunstable, is a historic grant-making charity rooted in her ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Northern Powergrid Foundation

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Matching programme: Energy Resilience Grants Programme

Northern Powergrid Foundation champions energy resilience and social equity for communities ravaged by extreme weather, with a mission rooted in preve...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £20,000

Ogilvie Charities

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Matching programme: Specific Charitable Projects

Ogilvie Charities is a longstanding UK funder rooted in Suffolk and Essex, now supporting communities across England and Wales, with a mission to assi...

Grant Range
£250 - £2,000

Point North Community Foundation

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Matching programme: SWEF Business Grant

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 Places Trust

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Matching programme: Postcode Places Trust Grant Programme

Postcode Places Trust, a Scottish-registered charity (SC049115), channels funds raised through the People's Postcode Lottery to empower small charitie...

Grant Range
£500 - £25,000

Price Parry Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: General Grant Programme

The Price Parry Charitable Trust is an unincorporated grant-making trust established under a 1995 will and registered as a UK charity in 2018, rooted ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Quartet Community Foundation

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Matching programme: Express Grant Programme

Quartet Community Foundation harnesses local philanthropy to tackle entrenched inequalities, promote inclusion, and build resilient communities throug...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £25,000

R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Charity Link Small Grants Scheme

The R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust, established by deed in 2004, is a hyper-local funder dedicated to relieving financial need, hardship, and dist...

Grant Range
£100 - £500

Radio Clyde Cash for Kids

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Matching programme: Cost-of-Living Grants

Radio Clyde Cash for Kids, established in 1984 as the charitable arm of Radio Clyde, is a grant-giving charity dedicated to alleviating child poverty,...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

Richmond Foundation

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Matching programme: Gateway Funding

Richmond Foundation, an independent charitable foundation established in 1786 from a royal land donation by King George III and Queen Charlotte, rebra...

Grant Range
Up to £180,000

Robertson Trust

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Matching programme: Small Grants

The Robertson Trust, Scotland's largest independent grant-making trust, was founded in 1961 by sisters Elspeth, Agnes, and Ethel Robertson, who donate...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £50,000

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

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Matching programme: Salford Centenary Fund – Large Grants

Salford Community & Voluntary Services (Salford CVS), established in 1919 as part of post-WWI social service efforts and independent since 1973, serve...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Schroder Charity Trust

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Matching programme: Schroder Charity Trust

Schroder Charity Trust is an independent UK grant-making family trust with a mission to empower disadvantaged children, young adults, and vulnerable c...

Grant Range
Up to £5,000

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Tips for Applying to Poverty & Deprivation Funders

Ground your poverty-related application in robust deprivation data. Reference your area's Index of Multiple Deprivation ranking, specific domains of deprivation relevant to your work, and current cost-of-living evidence such as fuel poverty rates, free school meal eligibility, or Universal Credit claimant counts. Funders want to see that you understand the structural drivers of poverty in your community, not just its symptoms. Frame your outcomes around financial resilience — increased savings, reduced debt, improved benefit uptake, sustained employment — rather than only counting the number of food parcels or crisis payments distributed. Use dignity-centred language throughout your application: describe people experiencing poverty as active agents seeking solutions, not passive recipients of charity. This signals alignment with contemporary thinking in the sector. Demonstrate how your project combines direct provision for immediate needs with systemic change work — advice services, policy advocacy, or community organising — that addresses root causes. If you operate a crisis service, explain your approach to moving people from crisis response to longer-term stability. Show partnerships with welfare rights organisations, credit unions, housing providers, and employment services that create comprehensive support pathways rather than isolated interventions.

Frequently Asked Questions about Poverty & Deprivation Grants

What grants are available for poverty & deprivation charities in the UK?

There are 1432+ UK funders offering grants for poverty & deprivation 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 poverty & deprivation organisations get?

Grant amounts for poverty & deprivation 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 poverty & deprivation grants?

Start by identifying funders whose priorities align with your poverty & deprivation work. Fundermatcher matches your charity's profile against 1432+ funders to find the best fit. Our AI assistant can then help you draft compelling grant applications.

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