The foundation works in areas that will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems; reduces isolation, stigma and discrimination, and; encourages or enables groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.
Provided by:
The Allen Lane Foundation
Funder website:
Maximum value:
£15,000.00 (over 1 year, 2 years or 3 years - however, the average grant size is around £5,000 - £6,000)
Rolling Programme
This fund operates on a rolling basis with periodic opening and closing dates.
Who can apply
Please also check through the following to make sure you fit our remit:
To make sure grants have an impact, they fund relatively small organisations. If you work across a local area such as a village, estate or town, to be eligible you will need to have an income of less than around £100,000. At the other end of the spectrum, if you work across the whole of the UK you will need to have an income of less than around £250,000.
They fund organisations which are registered charities, and also other organisations which are not charities but which seek funding for a charitable project. (Such as constituted voluntary groups or Community Interest Companies for example.) CICs – please note: We only consider those whose governing boards have a minimum of three unrelated members, and that all have equal control. We also only consider applications from CICs towards the costs of projects that are wholly charitable.
As we are currently receiving much higher numbers of applications, Trustees are focussing on organisations that are more established rather than those set-up in the last 12 months or so.
They make grants across the United Kingdom.
Restrictions
They do not fund bodies such as schools, colleges, universities, NHS bodies or town/city/county councils.
They do not make grants to individuals.
They do NOT fund:
Addiction, alcohol or drug misuse
Animal welfare or animal rights
Annual or one-off events or festivals
Capital grants
Children and young people (within our six beneficiary group programmes we only fund adults. See the Young People’s Programme for details on what it covers)
Endowments or contributions to other grant-making bodies
For-profit organisations
General arts or cultural or language projects
General health or healthcare
General wellbeing projects
Holidays or holiday play-schemes or day-trips
Individuals
Medical research
Museums or galleries
One-to-one counselling or therapy
Organisations that work on a local basis with more than £100,000 income and expenditure
Organisations that work on a national basis with more than £250,000 income and expenditure
Organisations governed by less than three (non-related) individuals
Overseas travel
Physical or learning disability
Private and/or mainstream education
Property purchase, building or refurbishment
Publications
Restoration or conservation of historic buildings or sites
Single nationality community groups; or organisations that work to support one single nationality only
Specific medical health conditions/neurodivergences
Sports and recreation
University or post-graduate education
Vehicle purchase
Work which Trustees believe is rightly the responsibility of the state
Work which will already have taken place before a grant is agreed
Work that takes place within Greater London
How to apply
Please check eligibility, and the guidance within the particular funding programme your work fits, before applying.
To access our online application form you must completete an eligibility questionnaire first.
If your answers to the quiz confirm you are eligible to apply, you will be directed to the application form. Read more on the Applying for Funding Page.
If you are unable to use this or have problems accessing the forms, please email: gill@allenlane.org.uk.
If you have any queries about making an application you are encouraged to email for clarification.
Processing an application and making a grant usually takes between two and six months.
If further information is needed this will be requested and a visit may be arranged where the application can be discussed in more detail. Trustees meet to discuss grant applications three times a year, generally in February, June and October.
For any other general enquiries, please email info@allenlane.org.uk, or phone 01904 613223.
Useful Links
FAQs - https://allenlane.org.uk/faq/