Longleigh Foundation
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- Typical grants
- £20,000 – £45,000
- Applications
- Accepted
- How to apply
- Two-stage application
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longleigh.orgAbout Longleigh Foundation
The Longleigh Foundation was established by a major social housing provider to support residents facing severe hardship. Their mission is to provide short-term, practical support at times of acute difficulty, preventing financial hardship and emotional distress. They value compassion, collaboration, and agility, working in a trust-based, relational way. Distinctively, they focus on immediate crisis intervention rather than long-term projects, offering individual grants for essential items and services that statutory agencies do not cover.
What Longleigh Foundation funds
The foundation funds individual grants for social housing residents experiencing disability, mental health challenges, homelessness, domestic abuse, poverty, and other crises. Support is for essential items and services that statutory agencies do not cover, helping families, children and youth, refugees and migrants at critical moments. They focus on areas served by Stonewater and other housing associations, as well as communities with a significant presence of social housing.
Who can apply
Individual grants are available to social housing residents, specifically customers of Stonewater or other housing associations, who are facing severe financial hardship or emotional distress. The foundation prioritises those at particularly heightened times of difficulty, including people with disabilities, those experiencing homelessness, and families with children. There is no religious restriction on applicants.
What Longleigh Foundation doesn't fund
The foundation does not fund anything that Stonewater or statutory agencies should cover. Exclusions include repayments of debt, loans, rent, deposits, or overdue bills; vehicles and vehicle repairs; luxury or non-essential items such as expensive electronics or premium brands; gardening implements and garden clearances; and property adaptations including painting and decorating.
How they like to fund
The foundation offers multi-year support through individual grants, which are intended as very short-term, practical assistance. They do not require match funding. They welcome unsolicited applications from eligible residents.
How much does Longleigh Foundation give?
Longleigh Foundation runs one grant programme. Every figure below is sourced from their published guidance.
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- Online portal
- Decisions in ~1 weeks
- Multi-year funding
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 Longleigh Foundation funds — and what they won't
Our Individual Grants are intended to be a very short-term, practical form of support for customers at particularly heightened times of difficulty that have or could place them into severe financial hardship and/or emotional distress.
The full exclusions list (1)
- Anything Stonewater or statutory agencies should cover. Repayments of debt, loans, rent, deposits, or overdue bills. Vehicles and vehicle repairs. Luxury/non-essential items (e.g. expensive electronics, premium brands). Gardening implements, garden clearances. Property adaptations (including painting and decorating).
Good to know
How to apply to Longleigh Foundation
Longleigh Foundation takes applications via two-stage application.
- Published programme route: online portal.
- Check whether your charity is in scope before you spend time on a full bid.
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 Longleigh Foundation provide?
Longleigh Foundation runs one grant programme — Individual Grants: £350 – £2,500.
Where does Longleigh Foundation fund charities?
Longleigh Foundation funds charities operating in the UK.
Does Longleigh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Longleigh Foundation accepts unsolicited applications from eligible organisations. Current programme status is on this page — do not assume a round is open.
What does Longleigh Foundation not fund?
Their published exclusions include: Anything Stonewater or statutory agencies should cover. Repayments of debt, loans, rent, deposits, or overdue bills. Vehicles and vehicle repairs. Luxury/non-essential items (e.g. expensive electronics, premium brands). Gardening implements, garden clearances. Property adaptations (including painting and decorating).. The full exclusions list is further up this page.
How do I apply for funding from Longleigh Foundation?
Longleigh Foundation takes applications via two-stage application. Published programme route: online portal.
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