Localgiving Foundation

Localgiving Foundation empowers UK local communities to thrive by bolstering small charities and grassroots community groups through technological innovation, digital fundraising platforms, capacity-building, and matched funding access. Established with a mission to democratize online giving and address fundraising barriers for resource-strapped organizations, its core values emphasize inclusivity, empowerment, equity, and sector resilience, believing sustainable impact arises from equipping grassroots leaders with donor engagement tools, streamlined grant access, and tech-driven efficiency to foster long-term financial independence and community-led change.

It supports diverse interventions across charitable themes, prioritizing capacity-building for small organizations delivering poverty alleviation including fuel poverty relief through warm spaces, home-based support, and baby banks serving families facing food insecurity and material hardship; children and young people's services tackling deprivation, social-emotional skill development, and educational disadvantage via immersive community hubs, after-school programs, and collaborative youth work; family support encompassing crisis intervention, carer respite, and holistic resilience-building for parents navigating economic pressures; community development strengthening social cohesion, peer support groups, and local outreach addressing isolation in underserved neighborhoods; alongside digital enablement enabling mental health counselling, disability inclusion activities, employability training, homelessness prevention, and refugee integration services through enhanced donor tools and fundraising campaigns. Funded activities favor community-led, preventative approaches like therapeutic play, mentoring, befriending, creative arts, and evidence-based early interventions for children aged 5-19, families in crisis, elderly residents, disabled people with learning disabilities or physical disabilities, and ethnic minority communities building self-reliance.

Explicitly generalist with no thematic exclusions, it uniquely prioritizes tiniest unregistered community groups over larger entities, blending sector-wide tech transformation with direct place-based interventions like educational hubs for disadvantaged Isle of Sheppey children. Distinctives include AI-powered tools reducing admin barriers, partnerships amplifying matched funding for urgent needs, and a philosophy valuing lived-experience leadership, innovation in donor relations, and holistic sustainability for hyper-local, grassroots charities serving rural, deprived, and isolated UK communities.