The Pixel Fund Grant
The Pixel Fund
This Fund provides grants of between £2,500 and £5,000 to charities based in the UK in order to support the improvement in mental health and well-being of children and young adults.
Subject to approval by the Trustees, we generally offer first grants of between £2,500 and £5,000. However, no single grant is ever more than 5% of annual income. We’re also happy to look at follow-on applications to existing grantees that have delivered on commitments. Although there are many worthy charities throughout the UK doing important work in their respective fields, we can't support them all. The hardest thing we do is turn down applications, so please make our lives a little easier and consider if you fit our target profile group (see our Mission Statement).
Are you eligible to apply?
Our focus is the mental health and well-being of children and young adults, we will not grant to projects or organisations that are not core-focused on mental-health-related matters.
Young adults means those under 26 years old at the start of any granted project or work stream. Where a project includes over 25s we would consider granting an appropriate percentage of the total costs.
We only make grants to charities registered in England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. If an organisation is not on the respective charity register we cannot grant to it. We do not grant to
Charities registered overseas
Charities where the project / service is delivered overseas
Independent schools (other than those supporting children with special educational needs)
Individuals
Religious organisations
Exempt charities
Trustees have a strong preference for organisations with annual income of under £10m.
We are paperless. We do not accept anything posted to our address unless specifically requested by us. Unsolicited mail is recycled before it is opened.
We expect good governance. Once we have granted you, we like to leave you alone to get on with your good work, therefore we need to have faith in your governance structures. For established organisations* this means
Fixed Trustee term limits beyond which sitting Trustees cannot remain in post
Considered organisational risk policies
No, or at least declared and recognised, conflicts of interest within the governance structures
A sustainable pension scheme
New Charities: Charities will need to have submitted at least a first full set of accounts on the Charity Commission website before we will consider granting to an organisation.
Like everyone, we’re busy. We do our best to make our processes as pain free as possible, both for yourself and for us, so please read the following carefully.
*What is an established organisation? In the past The Pixel Fund has made grants to organisations with annual incomes ranging from £40,000 to £30m. We are very aware that smaller organisations will struggle to adhere to our governance requirements. For us, there needs to be an awareness of the issues and as an organisation grows there needs, in our opinion, to be moves to put strong governance structures in place. As an organisation grows Pixel Fund Trustees will be increasingly less forgiving of poor governance. Organisations that are moving toward to £500,000 mark in terms of annual income need to be already looking at these issues very carefully and should be putting good governance structures in place. An organisation heading towards an annual income of £1m would be unlikely to be granted to if it didn’t, for example, have fixed term trustee limits in place.