Pink Ribbon Foundation Grants
The Pink Ribbon Foundation’s mission is to help breast cancer charities help their clients recover from their cancer and then live longer, healthier, happier lives.
Through its grant making the Pink Ribbon Foundation funds practical projects and initiatives, which aim to help registered charities to deliver good physical and mental health to individuals with, and recovering from breast cancer.
The Pink Ribbon Foundation funding criteria is developed around clearly defined themes, some of which may vary from year to year however, all aim to reflect important factors that underpin healthy recovery from breast cancer.
For the 2024 grant period and with requests for assistance growing, the Foundation decided to focus in the main on organisations with limited financial resources to deliver their services.
Maximum value:
£6,000
Who can apply
The Pink Ribbon Foundation’s mission is to help breast cancer charities help their clients recover from their cancer and then live longer, healthier, happier lives. Through its grant making the Pink Ribbon Foundation funds practical projects and initiatives, which aim to help registered charities to deliver good physical and mental health to individuals with, and recovering from breast cancer.
The Pink Ribbon Foundation funding criteria is developed around clearly defined themes, some of which may vary from year to year however, all aim to reflect important factors that underpin healthy recovery from breast cancer.
We are a social enterprise / a Community Interest Company / a for profit organisation delivering a charitable project. Can we submit an application for funding?
Yes, as long as your organisation is legally constituted, the proposed project is clearly for public benefit and fits the focus of an open funding programme.
Restrictions
Can we submit multiple applications?
No. The Pink Ribbon Foundation will only accept one application per organisation for each year.
If your organisation is part of or affiliated to a national organisation, body or network, we encourage you to contact your national office or HQ to find out whether there are plans to submit an application on behalf of the national network before you make a start on an application for funding.
I am an individual. Can I submit an application for funding?
No. We do not fund individuals or causes that will benefit just one person. This includes grants for educational bursaries, gap year or elective projects, and academic research as part of undergraduate or postgraduate education.
Eligible expenditure
Does the Pink Ribbon Foundation provide funding for an organisation's core operational costs or overheads?
The Pink Ribbon Foundation funds projects and initiatives that make a direct impact on individuals with breast cancer in the UK. Your application should relate to a specific project, not 'business as usual' or core costs. That said, we have ‘helped out’ with core costs should the need be vital to the continuity of an organisation.
Recognising that there will be an element of core costs incurred in delivering a project, the Pink Ribbon Foundation will accept that successful grant recipients may allow 15% of the total amount of grant funding awarded as a contribution towards core costs. This part of the grant if asked for is therefore unrestricted funding for successful applicants to use however they wish.
Will you consider funding a project that is already running or does it have to be new work?
In most instances, we will consider funding delivery for projects that are already up and running. These can also be pilot programmes that are being rolled out to reach a new or much wider audience or projects that take a new approach in tackling a specific challenge.
How to apply
The Foundation evaluates each application against a set of very strict criteria. These criteria are weighted dependent upon agreed giving principles determined for each year. For example, we may prefer in one year to weigh grants towards smaller or new organisations, another year we may prefer to give to special projects. For the 2024 grant period and with requests for assistance growing, the Foundation decided to focus in the main on organisations with limited financial resources to deliver their services.
The application deadline to apply for 2023 grants has now closed; however, we are happy to receive grant applications for the 2024 grant round. Grant applications must be hard copy and must reach the Pink Ribbon Foundation by Friday 31st May 2024. We hope to announce grant awards by mid-July. Please note that an application must include a set of accounts.
Please also note that not fulfilling the terms of the grant will invalidate any further applications.
Lastly we appreciate if you could get any 2024 application in before the deadline to make registration and evaluation easier.