We are thrilled to announce that Glasspool Charity Trust has been named the Association of Charitable Organisations (ACO) Charity of the Year 2024.
Grants from this fund are exclusively reserved for the service users or clients of chosen frontline partner organisations. If you are an individual or support worker seeking grant support, please note that frontline partner organisations can only assist individuals who meet their eligibility criteria for whole-person support and only if they have the capacity to accept new service users or clients. These organisations retain full discretion in deciding whether to accept an individual for grant and other support.
Updated February 2024
Applications for The Smallwood Trust Board Shadowing Programme are now closed.
If you work in the homelessness sector the St Martin’s Charity are inviting you to complete their Frontline Worker Survey 2024. This is an important survey as past responses have resulted in the establishment of a new mental health fund, a frontline worker wellbeing project and informed homelessness policy.
The government has opened a £70.9m fund to applications from charities today as part of £101.5m pledged to the sector in this year’s spring budget.
The National Lottery Community Fund will distribute grants from the Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund, The Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund | The National Lottery Community Fund which charities can apply until 16 October this year.
21st June 2023
An estimated 1.2 million people in the UK today are living in appliance poverty – without at least a washing machine or fridge-freezer in their homes, according to a new study. Click on the image below to read the report.
The Flexible Frontline Fund – a new programme for Glasspool in April 2024
From the end of January 2024, Glasspool’s flagship grants programme, the Essential Living Fund, will cease and The Flexible Frontline Fund will replace it as our primary programme providing grants for individuals in financial hardship.
Update: 20th April 2023
Applications are now closed.
We are reviewing and assessing the applications and you may be contacted in the coming months for further information.
The final decision on successful Grants Delivery Partners will be made in December 2023.
Thank you to everyone who attended our webinars and submitted an application.
From Monday 20th March 2023
We will not be able to accept any new applications from organisations who wish to register with us, nor can we accept any additional branches of organisations already registered with us.
Further information will be provided during April.
October-November 2022
**EXTENDED DEADLINE** Please note the previously advertised deadline for receiving applications has now been extended to Wednesday 30th November, 5pm.
Glasspool Charity Trust and The Drapers’ Company are launching a new grants programme for individuals in financial hardship living in the London Borough of Waltham Forest from January 2023 to December 2025. The new programme, Essential Living Plus – Waltham Forest, will provide small grants (up to £500 or a maximum of £750 in exceptional circumstances) for a wide range of items or services.
We’re looking for three voluntary or community organisations based in the borough to become our grants delivery partners.