Awards from the UK Portfolio

The UK Portfolio explores new and innovative approaches, and develops and tests new ways of building a stronger civil society. Our funding supports projects and ideas of UK-wide impact and significance that focus on transformational change.

We experiment with how to do things differently and share learning and insights to continually improve our grantmaking practice with the Fund, the wider sector and beyond

We want to support underrepresented communities

We're particularly interested in projects led by, or supporting people and communities experiencing ethnic or racial inequity, discrimination or inequality, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and people who are seeking asylum or who are refugees. We want to see more people in these communities represented in our funding.

You can apply if you are a UK-based: ​ 

• registered charity   
• community interest company (CIC)
• Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) 
• community benefit society 
• co-operative society (if it has a not-for-profit clause and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority) 
• voluntary or community organisation   
• statutory body (including town, parish and community councils) 
• company limited by guarantee (if it has a not-for-profit clause or is a registered charity).