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

245 of 1432 match your filters

Checked against verified programme data for 321 of 1432 funders. 1111 not yet verified are listed below; 76 that don't fit were excluded.

1989 Willan Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust

The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust, established in 1989 and governed by Willan Trustee Limited, is a UK-based funder dedicated to alleviating social and...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

A B Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Open Programme

The A B Charitable Trust, established in 1990 by Yves and Anne Bonavero, is an independent UK grant-maker guided by a family-led board committed to ch...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £30,000

Aberlour Child Care Trust

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Matching programme: Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund (AUAF)

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

Access - The Foundation for Social Investment

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Matching programme: Local Access

Access – The Foundation for Social Investment drives systemic transformation in the social investment market, empowering charities and social enterpri...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Addington Fund

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Matching programme: Emergency Relief (Forage Aid)

The Addington Fund is an independent UK charity established in 2001 in response to the classical swine fever and foot-and-mouth outbreaks, dedicated t...

Grant Range
Up to £3,000

Albert Hunt Trust

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Matching programme: Health and Wellbeing

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

Alborada Trust

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Matching programme: ALBORADA Trust Grants

Alborada Trust is a philanthropic organization founded with a mission to advance medical and veterinary research, healthcare delivery, higher educatio...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £20,000

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

Anchor Society CIO

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Matching programme: Emergency Grants for Individuals

Anchor Society CIO, established in 1769 as a voluntary association inspired by Edward Colston's philanthropy, is a historic Bristol-based charity dedi...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Antonio Carluccio Foundation

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Matching programme: Grant Programme

The Antonio Carluccio Foundation, established by the renowned Italian chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio before his death in 2017, carries forwar...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

Archbishop of Canterbury's Anglican Communion Fund

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Matching programme: Archbishop of Canterbury's Anglican Communion Fund

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Anglican Communion Fund embodies a mission to unite and empower the global Anglican family through compassionate solida...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Artists' General Benevolent Institution

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Matching programme: AGBI Artist's Grant

The Artists' General Benevolent Institution (AGBI), founded in 1814 by J.M.W. Turner and granted Royal Charter in 1842, is the UK's oldest artist-led ...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £3,000

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

Authors' Contingency Fund

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Matching programme: Authors' Contingency Fund

The Authors' Contingency Fund, established in 1963 by donations from authors and supporters, is administered by the Society of Authors to provide imme...

Grant Range
Up to £2,000

Backup Tech

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Matching programme: Hardship Fund

Backup Tech, formerly Lite Relief, Behind The Scenes UK, and TECH: The Technical Entertainment Charity, is the UK's specialist charity founded in the ...

Grant Range
£500 - £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

Baron Davenport's Charity

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Matching programme: Emergency Grants

Baron Davenport's Charity, an endowed trust established in 1914 by the will of Baron Charles Davenport in Birmingham, is dedicated to alleviating acut...

Grant Range
£200 - £1,000

Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation

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Matching programme: Community Fund

The Barratt Redrow Foundation (formerly Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation), established in March 2020 as a Charitable Incorporated Organi...

Grant Range
£1,500 - £1,500

Bartlett Taylor Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Individual Applications

The Bartlett Taylor Charitable Trust, established during the lifetime of Ernest Bartlett Taylor from Witney, Oxfordshire, is a lean, community-driven ...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Bauer Radio's Cash for Kids Charities (Scotland)

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Matching programme: General Grants

Bauer Radio's Cash for Kids Charities (Scotland) is the official children’s charity of Bauer Media, dedicated to transforming the lives of disadvantag...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

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

Betty Riseley Trust for Children

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Matching programme: The Betty Riseley Trust for Children Grant

The Betty Riseley Trust for Children embodies compassion, community spirit, and inclusivity to enrich lives of children and young people under 18 in S...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Blanchminster Trust

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Matching programme: General Grant Programme

The Blanchminster Trust, believed to be Britain's oldest continuously operating charitable trust since its formal establishment in 1421 with 14th-cent...

Grant Range
£200 - £10,000

Bolton Community and Voluntary Services

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Matching programme: Bolton Housing Partnership Grants – Individuals

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

Bolton Guild of Help

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Matching programme: Grants for Emergency and Essential Household Items

Bolton Guild of Help, established in 1905, is a longstanding charitable organization dedicated to relieving hardship and distress among vulnerable res...

Grant Range
£50 - £500

Book Trade Charity

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Matching programme: Career guidance grants

The Book Trade Charity (BTBS), founded in 1837 by and for the UK publishing, bookselling, and book distribution sectors, serves as an essential safety...

Grant Range
£250 - £2,000

Boots Benevolent Fund

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Matching programme: Boots Benevolent Fund

The Boots Benevolent Fund is a long-established registered charity, originating in the early 1900s as a staff-run distress fund for Boots UK Ltd emplo...

Grant Range
£500 - £3,000

Boparan Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Grants for Children and Young People

The Boparan Charitable Trust, established in 2009 by the Boparan family including Antonio and Baljinder Boparan, is a UK-wide funder dedicated to reli...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Brian Leslie Racher 2004 Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Application for a Grant (Organisations)

The Brian Leslie Racher 2004 Charitable Trust promotes diverse charitable purposes enhancing community welfare for local residents, embodying values o...

Grant Range
£250 - £16,901

Britford Bridge Trust

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Matching programme: General Grant Programme

The Britford Bridge Trust is an endowed family foundation established to perpetuate intergenerational philanthropy through structured, enduring giving...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

BT Benevolent Fund

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Matching programme: BT Benevolent Fund (single programme for individuals)

The BT Benevolent Fund is an independent charity with a foundational mission to relieve acute financial distress and poverty among past and present BT...

Grant Range
£500 - £3,000

Burden Trust

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Matching programme: Burden Trust grants

The Burden Trust is a historic Bristol-based grant-making charity founded in the early 20th century by Reverend Harold Nelson Burden, whose philanthro...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £5,000

Buttle UK

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Matching programme: Chances for Children

Buttle UK, founded in 1953 from the vision of Reverend Frank Buttle, is a UK charity dedicated to supporting children and young people (birth to early...

Grant Range
Up to £2,400

Byfleet United Charity

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Matching programme: Community Grants

Byfleet United Charity is a longstanding local grantmaker rooted in relieving poverty and supporting individuals in need through practical financial a...

Grant Range
£200 - £3,000

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: Arm Community Fund

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

Cameron Fund

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Matching programme: Cameron Fund – Support for GPs and their dependants

The Cameron Fund, established in 1970 following a campaign by Sir James Cameron, is the UK's only medical benevolent charity dedicated exclusively to ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Care Workers Charity

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Matching programme: Mental Wellbeing and Health Support

The Care Workers’ Charity, founded in 2009, is a UK-wide organisation dedicated to preventing and relieving financial hardship among the nation's near...

Grant Range
Up to £500

Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust (via Ludlow Funding Enquiry Gateway)

The Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust advances general charitable purposes through inclusive, flexible grantmaking aligned with UK charity law, embo...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Carlton Hayes Mental Health Charity

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Matching programme: Grant Applications

The Carlton Hayes Mental Health Charity, founded nearly 200 years ago from the legacy of Carlton Hayes Hospital, is a longstanding local funder dedica...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust

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Matching programme: Main Grant Programme

The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust embodies Dame Catherine Cookson's vision to transform lives in North East England communities through enduring ...

Grant Range
£100 - £100,000

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

Cheshire Community Foundation Limited

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Matching programme: Active Futures Programme

Cheshire Community Foundation Limited, established in 2011, is an independent regional charity serving Cheshire East, Cheshire West, and Warrington wi...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £25,000

Chrysalis Trust

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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

City Bridge Foundation

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Matching programme: Climate and Environmental Justice Programme Round One

City Bridge Foundation, London’s largest independent charitable funder and historic owner of five iconic Thames bridges (Tower, London, Southwark, Mil...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £500,000

Civic Power Fund

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Matching programme: Alliance for Youth Organising

The Civic Power Fund, launched in 2022 as the UK's first pooled donor fund for grassroots community organising, unites progressive trusts like Unbound...

Grant Range
£2,500 - £20,000

Clarion Futures

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Matching programme: Community Catalyst

Clarion Futures is the charitable foundation of Clarion Housing Group, the UK's largest housing association, established as the successor to William S...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £5,000

Clifford Chambers Relief in Need Charities

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Matching programme: Education Fund

Clifford Chambers Relief in Need Charities embodies practical localised compassion and community stewardship, dedicated to relieving hardship, distres...

Grant Range
Contact funder

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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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