Raise Your Hands
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Raise Your Hands is a UK-based charitable funder, established over eight years ago, dedicated to amplifying the impact of exceptional small charities transforming the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. It addresses the funding inequity where larger charities dominate resources, championing agile, community-rooted organizations with proven track records, robust leadership, and turnover under £2 million. Its mission emphasizes sustainable, multi-year unrestricted core funding, alongside capacity-building, pro bono advice, and peer networking, rooted in the belief that frontline expertise drives superior outcomes for marginalized youth.
The funder supports a broad spectrum of interventions for children and young people facing challenges like mental and physical health issues, disability, bereavement, family poverty, care experience, homelessness, educational exclusion, trauma, parental mental illness, HIV, bullying, and limited opportunities. Examples include literacy programs (The Literacy Pirates), young carer support (MYTIME), surf therapy (The Wave Project), trauma therapy (Dandelion Time), and leadership for girls (BelEve), prioritizing UK-wide work with local, regional, or national reach, always centered on wellbeing, resilience, and life chances.
Eligible applicants are exclusively UK-registered charities with incomes below £2 million, demonstrating tangible impact, strong governance, and community embeddedness; unsolicited applications are not accepted—selection is invite- or referral-only via a rigorous five-stage due diligence process, with annual monitoring. Typical grants range from £10,000 to £40,000 yearly, often multi-year for core costs, with no fixed deadlines or open calls; meetings are ad hoc. Distinctively, it avoids household-name organizations, project-specific or capital funding, and mainstream streams, focusing solely on unsung high-performers seeking long-term partnerships over one-off grants.
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How much funding does Raise Your Hands provide?
Raise Your Hands typically provides grants ranging from £10,000 - £40,000.
Where does Raise Your Hands fund charities?
Raise Your Hands funds charities operating in UK.
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