Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe

The fund supports grassroots projects tackling homelessness, poverty, and crisis across England and Wales, with a particular emphasis on South East England, including areas like Brighton, Hastings, and Eastbourne. Funding covers emergency relief such as meals, toiletries, sleeping bags, and night shelters, as well as longer-term self-sufficiency through education, training, employment, and healthcare. It also funds targeted interventions like counselling for veterans with PTSD and mobile food vans. Occasionally, the fund supports international work, such as empowering widows in Tanzania. The focus is on tangible, beneficiary-centred impact, blending immediate practical help with sustainable change.

Eligible applicants are UK-registered charities, preferably small to medium grassroots organisations delivering direct aid. The fund prioritises homeless, unemployed, and disadvantaged individuals, including ex-armed forces members with PTSD and domestic abuse survivors with children. It also supports community groups. The fund operates invite-only, so unsolicited applications are not accepted; funding occurs through trusted partners or trustee outreach. There is no religious restriction.

The fund excludes large-scale or capital projects that do not clearly align with its mission. It prioritises tangible, beneficiary-centred impact over non-aligned causes, avoiding bureaucracy and focusing on direct aid.

The fund operates invite-only, building relationships with trusted partners and charities. It provides grants to organisations and individuals, blending emergency relief with long-term self-sufficiency. The fund is run by a small, multi-generational family board of trustees with no paid staff, emphasising personal engagement and local responsiveness. It sustains operations through modest donations and investments.