Hatch Enterprise

Hatch Enterprise funds early-stage social enterprises and ventures at pre-start, launch, or growth phases. Its support spans causes including disability, education, ethnic minority empowerment, and women's enterprise, as well as broader work with underrepresented founders. The charity provides grants alongside non-financial aid such as skills development, mentoring, and peer learning to help ventures develop and scale. Geographically, it works across the United Kingdom, with a particular emphasis on founders who experience systemic disadvantage.

Registered charities and social enterprises based in the United Kingdom are eligible to apply. Hatch Enterprise prioritises founders who are women, ethnic minorities, or disabled or neurodiverse individuals, as well as others facing systemic disadvantage. The organisation supports early-stage ventures and typically works with founders who have engaged with its programme pathways. Unsolicited applications outside these pathways are not accepted.

Hatch Enterprise does not provide general operating support for established charities or large organisations. It also does not fund unsolicited applications that fall outside its programme pathways. The charity focuses its resources on early-stage social enterprises and underrepresented founders.

Hatch Enterprise offers grants as part of a blended support model that includes non-financial elements such as skills development, mentoring, peer learning, and networking. It prioritises collaborative ecosystem-building with peer organisations and takes an evidence-based approach to creating systemic change. The charity does not specify multi-year or one-off funding, and all funding is channelled through its programme pathways.