Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
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- Typical grants
- £1,000 – £10,000
- Applications
- Accepted
- How to apply
- Email application
- Decisions
- Quarterly
Works for Registered charities, CIOs, CICs and community groups.
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wingate.org.ukAbout Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation is a UK grant-making trust that supports charitable work across music, the performing arts, faith, and medical research. It favours smaller registered charities and values independence, flexibility, and a lasting legacy, often backing ambitious projects that might otherwise struggle to find funding. The Foundation likes to fund work that nurtures talent, builds understanding, and creates enduring benefit for individuals and communities. It is distinctive for its hands-on, strategic approach and its preference for smaller organisations delivering high-quality, innovative work with lasting impact.
What Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation funds
The Foundation funds registered charities working UK-wide with children, young people, homeless people, refugees, prisoners, the unemployed, and other disadvantaged groups. In music and the performing arts, it supports creative development and performance opportunities. Through its Medical Research Travel Grants, it enables researchers to visit laboratories to acquire new skills and set up inter-institutional collaborations. It also runs a separate Personal Awards programme. The Foundation supports work across faith, arts, and education, with a focus on nurturing talent and building understanding.
Who can apply
Only registered charities based in the UK may apply for the main grants programme. The Foundation favours smaller organisations and does not fund large charities, including their local branch offices. It supports work benefiting children, young people, homeless people, refugees, prisoners, the unemployed, and other disadvantaged groups. There is no religious restriction on applicants. The Foundation also offers a separate Personal Awards programme with different eligibility criteria.
What Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation doesn't fund
The Foundation does not fund large charities, including local branch offices, nor does it support undergraduate or postgraduate students. It will not cover retrospective costs, and in music it does not fund ticket subsidies. Medical travel grants exclude conference attendance and undergraduate elective travel.
How they like to fund
The Foundation takes a hands-on, strategic approach to grant-making, preferring to back smaller organisations with ambitious, high-quality projects. It welcomes unsolicited applications and considers proposals across its programme areas.
How much does Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation give?
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation runs 3 grant programmes. Every figure below is sourced from their published guidance.
Last verified 8 August 2026 · 24 sourced facts
- Online application form
Those are the published figures. What your charity could realistically get — and whether you'd clear their rules on income, location and legal structure — is what the free fit check answers.
What Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation funds — and what they won't
Visits to laboratories for acquisition of new skills and setting up inter-institutional collaborative research.
The full exclusions list (3)
- No funding for undergraduate or postgraduate students
- No funding for large charities including local branch offices
- No funding for ticket subsidies (music)
Good to know
How to apply to Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation takes applications via email application.
- Published programme route: online application form.
- Decisions are typically quarterly.
- Check whether your charity is in scope before you spend time on a full bid.
What Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation's application asks
We hold the question from Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation's application form, word for word — so you know exactly what you're signing up to answer.
“Specify the benefit to the applicant of a proposed visit, including the relevance to the applicant’s ongoing research programme and career development.”
How it works
- 1Describe your project. Once — used for this funder and others.
- 2See if this could be a fit. Honest check on cause, place, size, and rules.
- 3Draft if yes. From your real data — or move on if not.
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Frequently asked questions
How much funding does Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation provide?
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation runs 3 grant programmes — Grants to Registered Charities: £1,000 – £10,000 · Medical Research Travel Grants: Up to £1,000.
Where does Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation fund charities?
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation funds charities operating in the UK.
Does Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation accepts unsolicited applications from eligible organisations. Current programme status is on this page — do not assume a round is open.
What does Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation not fund?
Their published exclusions include: No funding for undergraduate or postgraduate students; No funding for large charities including local branch offices; No funding for ticket subsidies (music). The full exclusions list is further up this page.
How do I apply for funding from Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation?
Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation takes applications via email application. Published programme route: online application form.
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