The Grocers' Charity
The Grocers’ Charity typically provides one-off grants up to £5,000 for U.K. registered charities.
The Grocers’ Charity awards about £1 million pounds each year to UK-registered charities. For our open grants, we typically provide one-off grants of up to £5,000. We receive over 1,000 applications a year and award 14% of the applications received on average.
We only accept applications via our online form. Please do not send unsolicited information by post or email. If you are unable to apply online because of an impairment, please contact us before sending information by post.
The deadlines for an initial enquiry are:
6 September
10 January
Who can apply
The Grocers’ Charity typically provides one-off grants up to £5,000 for U.K. registered charities, This year we are leaning towards, but not exclusively funding, applications which support youth e.g. preventing (re)offending; helping those struggling due to financial hardship and environment charities helping to reduce plastic waste and reducing emissions.
Areas of funding are:
Relief of Poverty
Elderly
Disability
Health
Military
Heritage & The Arts
Environment
Children & Young People
Restrictions
Applications will NOT be considered from:
Places of worship;
Educational establishments (schools, colleges, universities);
Individuals;
Charities whose beneficiaries are overseas;
Non-UK registered charities (not regulated by the Charity Commission);
Charities with a turnover of over £500,000, except for Health/Medical Charities (up to £15m turnover).
How to apply
The Charity Trustees meet four times a year to review grant applications in December, March, April and June. The process between receiving an initial application can be months in advance of receiving a grant (or not). Check the process and dates below. Questions which are on the online forms are provided in the Resources section.
Select the grant funding area you are interested in to check your eligibility and to send a short expression of interest via our online Initial Enquiry form.
Up to 3 weeks after the deadline, you will receive an email letting you know if your initial application will proceed to the second stage.
If you move on to the second stage, a link in the email will open the second stage application form. You will have approximately one week to complete it.
For more information, and to apply, please visit: https://grocershall.co.uk/the-charity/apply-for-a-grant