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.
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- Total Funders
- 1432
- Grant Range
- £100 - £1,000,000
- Open to Applications
- 40%
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Poverty & Deprivation Funders
105 of 1432 match your filtersChecked against verified programme data for 225 of 1432 funders. 1207 not yet verified are listed below; 120 that don't fit were excluded.
Access - The Foundation for Social Investment
Verified openMatching programme: Local Access
Access – The Foundation for Social Investment drives systemic transformation in the social investment market, empowering charities and social enterpri...
Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement
Verified openMatching 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 ...
Archbishop of Canterbury's Anglican Communion Fund
Verified openMatching 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...
Ashworth Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Barbara Ward Children's Foundation
Verified openMatching 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...
Bauer Radio's Cash for Kids Charities (Scotland)
Verified openMatching 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...
Baywind Energy Community Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Beatrice Laing Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
Verified openMatching 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...
Bolton Community and Voluntary Services
Verified openMatching 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...
BT Benevolent Fund
Verified openMatching 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...
C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
Verified openMatching 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...
Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Carlton Hayes Mental Health Charity
Verified openMatching 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...
Chalk Cliff Trust
Verified openMatching 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 ...
City Bridge Foundation
Verified openMatching 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...
Civic Power Fund
Verified openMatching 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...
Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation 2014
Verified openMatching programme: Recreational Facilities Development
Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation 2014 serves as trustee for CISWO, a national charity dedicated to advancing health, relieving poverty and ha...
Cole Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Coles-Medlock Foundation
Verified openMatching 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...
Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Community Foundation for Wiltshire & Swindon
Verified openMatching programme: Community Grants
Wiltshire and Swindon Community Foundation, founded in 1975 as an independent charity (formerly Community Foundation for Wiltshire & Swindon), tackles...
Community Foundation in Wales
Verified openMatching 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...
Community Foundation North East
Verified openMatching 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...
Croydon Relief in Need Charity
Verified openMatching 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...
Cumbria Community Foundation
Verified openMatching 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,...
Department for Education
Verified openMatching programme: Inclusive mainstream fund for schools
The Department for Education (DfE) is a UK ministerial department with a mission to elevate educational standards, safeguard children, boost social mo...
Derbyshire Community Foundation
Verified openMatching programme: Foundation Derbyshire Grants
Foundation Derbyshire embodies a mission to enhance community life and combat disadvantage through empowering grassroots charities and voluntary group...
Didymus
Verified openMatching programme: Didymus
Didymus is a small grant-making charity founded in 2013 to widen access to and participation in the arts, supporting UK-registered charities that deli...
Dr Edwards and Bishop King's Fulham Charity
Verified openMatching programme: Organisations
Dr Edwards and Bishop King's Fulham Charity is a historic local endowment-based funder originating from older philanthropic gifts, dedicated to reliev...
Earley Charity
Verified openMatching programme: Grants to Organisations – £3,000 and under
The Earley Charity, evolved from historic poor relief traditions, drives its mission to alleviate poverty, hardship, and disadvantage among vulnerable...
Eleemosynary Charity of William Hobbayne
Verified openMatching programme: Grants for Organisations (Eleemosynary Charity)
The Eleemosynary Charity of William Hobbayne, rooted in a 1484 bequest for parish poor relief, upholds a mission of alleviating poverty, hardship, and...
Essex Community Foundation
Verified openMatching programme: Google Essex Data Centre Community Fund
Essex Community Foundation, established in 1996, is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to enhancing quality of life for Essex residents by...
Faringdon United Charity CIO
Verified openMatching programme: Grant Programme
Faringdon United Charity CIO upholds a longstanding mission to alleviate need, hardship, and distress through targeted, flexible support for local res...
February Foundation
Verified openMatching 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 ...
Forces in Mind Trust
Verified openMatching programme: Grant Awards
Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), established in 2011 with a £35 million endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund, is an independent UK funder de...
Forever Manchester
Verified openMatching programme: CDL Fund
Forever Manchester is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to empowering grassroots community activity and building resilient neighbourhoods...
Forever Notts
Verified openMatching 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...
Fort Augustus & Glenmoriston Community Company
Verified openMatching 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...
Frieda Scott Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Garfield Weston Foundation
Verified openMatching programme: Major Grant
The Garfield Weston Foundation, family-founded in 1958, drives its mission to strengthen society through enduring philanthropic support for charities ...
Great Dunmow and District Round Table Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching programme: Donation Programme
Great Dunmow and District Round Table Charitable Trust strengthens Essex communities through volunteer-led, event-based fundraising that channels reso...
Hackney Parochial Charities
Verified openMatching programme: Hackney Parochial Charities Project Grants
Hackney Parochial Charities, a historic charitable trust established in 1603 with the first legacy from Thomas Heron, is dedicated to relieving povert...
Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust
Verified openMatching programme: Seasonal Support Fund
The Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust is a historic grantmaker rooted in longstanding community charities, dedicated to alleviating poverty, relieving...
Harry Bottom Charitable Trust
Verified openMatching 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...
Henry Smith Charity
Verified openMatching programme: Christian Projects Grant Programme
The Henry Smith Foundation, formerly Henry Smith Charity and one of the UK's oldest independent grant-makers since 1628, channels the legacy of founde...
Hertfordshire Community Foundation
Verified openMatching programme: HCF Foundation Grants
Hertfordshire Community Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to channeling local philanthropy into grassroots solutions that alleviate depri...
Hilden Charitable Fund
Verified openMatching 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 ...
Housing Pathways Trust
Verified openMatching programme: Main Grants Programme
Housing Pathways Trust, a historic almshouse charity rooted in seventeenth-century principles, drives community transformation by enabling those in ne...
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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.
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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?
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