“In his work... he showed an absolute faith and sincerity which was never shaken, and his deep concern for the individual meant that much of this time was spent in visiting or helping people in trouble.”
Dr Kenneth Southall speaking about his father, Wilfred Southall
Social Action
This broad category heading is sub-divided into five focus areas, outlined below. Successful projects will fit within at least one of these areas:
1. Poverty-related disadvantage
Applications within this sub-category should be from organisations that are tackling the underlying causes of financial poverty. Examples might include projects that provide financial and vocational training, employment, long-term secure and stable housing, and/or projects that tackle social injustices and inequality.
For UK-based charities operating overseas, at present we are only open to applications from charities that we have previously supported. For these charities, we will also consider projects that improve infrastructure and create access to life-changing healthcare and clean water.
Please note that we rarely give grants to organisations that are focussed upon emergency relief (e.g. foodbanks, fuelbanks and emergency accommodation). Also, we rarely fund charities that provide statutory services (e.g. adult social care, children’s services and general education) and we do not provide replacement funding where statutory support has been withdrawn.
2. Human rights and equality
Within this sub-category we are currently most interested in receiving applications from causes that are helping refugees and asylum seekers to integrate within UK communities
3. The rehabilitation of offenders
4. Freedom from addiction and substance abuse
5. Building community
Within this sub-category we are looking for applications that can demonstrate the bringing together of disparate and otherwise disconnected groups to form peaceful communities. More specifically, successful applications will be from those who are bringing together people from different faith groups, people from different ethnic groups and backgrounds, people from different socio-economic backgrounds and/or people with differing political views. Applications that focus on just one demographic (e.g. youth clubs) and that do not explain the benefit of the project within the wider community are often unsuccessful.
Typically, we favour causes that are community-focused, make good use of volunteers, meet a tangible need and are well-connected and well-regarded within their locality.
Some examples of recent grants are listed below:
| SUB-CATEGORY | CHARITY NAME | PROJECT | AMOUNT GRANTED | YEAR OF AWARD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addicition | Surrey Drug & Alcohol Care | Support for a telephone counselling service addressing individuals' problems with drugs/alcohol through a programme of counselling sessions with a professional specialist. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Addicition | Outside Edge Theatre Company | Support for 'Wellbeing Drama Taster Sessions' in London drug and alcohol treatment facilities. | £5,000 | 2020 |
| Community | STAA Allotments | Support for monthly Open Days for everyone in the diverse community of St Ann's, especially local families, to offer respite and enjoyment and to build community cohesion. | £3,000 | 2022 |
| Community | House on the Corner Community Project | Support for weekly activities for all age groups to help people avoid social exclusion and build self esteem. | £2,500 | 2022 |
| Community | Pecan | Support for HOurBank; a skills sharing project which connects people's needs with another's skills thus encouraging community cohesion and supporting isolated. | £5,000 | 2019 |
| Community | Feast Youth Project | Support for the establishment of a 'Dialogue Hub' that will provide training and resources across the UK to help teenagers to bridge social divides and live well with difference. | £5,000 | 2019 |
| Community | Sheffield Methodist District | Support for 'Safe Space Dialogue' activity with communities in South Yorkshire, to counter narratives which are sources of tension, and help people live together better with difference. | £5,000 | 2022 |
| Human Rights | Doncaster Conversation Club | Support to continue a programme of activities for asylum seekers and refugees living in Doncaster with the aim of promoting and maintaining their physical and mental health. | £2,400 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Aberaid | Support for an Arabic language teacher for Syrian Refugee children in Aberystwyth, so that children can integrate within Wales while continuing Arabic, to stay connected with family. | £2,000 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Together We Grow (via the Community Foundation for Calderdale) | Support for leisure activities for asylum seekers in the UK, including a Summer holiday visit to Fleetwood. | £5,000 | 2020 |
| Human Rights | Destitution Project | Support for work with asylum seekers and refugees in Bolton. | £1,000 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum | Support for work with asylum seekers and refugees in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Hackney Migrant Centre | Support for a weekly drop-in service for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants in need: offering free legal and welfare advice and longer-term casework. | £1,000 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Birmingham Churches Together | Support for a one-to-one befriending scheme that links trained volunteers to asylum seekers and refugees. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Human Rights | Refugee Info Bus | Support to maintain and expand legal information, phone charging and Wifi service for refugees trying to reach the UK from Calais and Dunkirk. | £2,000 | 2020 |
| Human Rights | Hope at Home | Support for the recruitment of new 'hosts' and associated costs to free people from slavery and human trafficking. | £4,300 | 2020 |
| Poverty | Scholarships for Street Kids (S4SK) | Support for non-formal education classes for out-of-school-and-working children from deprived families in Myanmar. | £4,854 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Traidcraft Exchange | Support to train disability-inclusive groups in the use of environmentally sustainable approaches to livelihood ventures. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Salt of the Earth | Support for a short stay Women's Refuge facility to house and support women in crisis from domestic violence. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | AdAmi Project | Support for young mothers in Sierra Leone to return to education, formal and vocational. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | African Initiatives | Support for anonymous HIV testing for pupils and their parents, including transport, sanitary materials, testing kits and counsellors | £1,300 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Saltbox | Support to cover volunteer costs for the Money Matters project, working with Foodbanks in Stoke-on-Trent to alleviate poverty-related problems | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Water Harvest | Support to provide clean water for poverty-stricken areas in India. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Cecily's Fund | Support for Peer Health Educators, who are orphans that have been funded through school by Cecily's Fund. | £2,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Makhad Trust | Support for the restoration of two wells bringing drinking water to communities and families. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Bonny Downs Community Association | Support to run a weekly face-to-face debt advice service in Newham. | £2,900 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Kids Club Kampala | Support towards the running of a vocational Carpentry Training Project in the slums of Kampala. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Nepal Youth Foundation UK | Support for children in Nepal who have been abandoned or orphaned. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Down Syndrome International | Support to help the Rwanda Down Syndrome Organisation (RDSO) to develop activities and improve financial sustainability. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Children of Rwanda | Support to give more children and families improved access to education and health care. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Children in Need India | Support for a project focused on working with tea plantation communities to ensure women and children have access to healthcare, nutritional support and education. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | African Outreach | Support to improve the livelihoods of poor and disadvantaged young people in Liberia, though an accredited vocational, education, training and internship programme. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Kids Aid Tanzania | Support towards the establishment of a chicken farm, the profits from which will enable children to go to, and remain at school. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Tushinde Children's Trust | Support to run a schools outreach programme in a Nairobi slum. | £2,670 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Fresh Start | Support to set up a community kitchen, garden, thrift shop, community fridge/larder to support individuals and families in an area of multiple deprivation. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Child of Hope | Support to provide extra food supplements and medicines to slum children to improve access to life and education chances. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | CHASE Africa | Support to improve access to family planning information and services in marginalised rural communities of Kenya. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | re:work ltd | Support towards running costs, to enable services to continue to run while key staff work to improve the charity's sustainability. | £5,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Zambia Orphans Aid UK | Support to enable orphans and vulnerable children to go to school and to provide nutritional support to families who are fostering such children. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Second Sight | Support for cataract operations at the MHKS hospital in Bihar, India. | £10,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Health Prom | Support to care for women with complications of late pregnancy or who live too far from a health centre to travel to it once they go into labour. | £2,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Livingstone Tanzania Trust | Support to achieve 'water security' at Bambay Primary School. | £3,400 | 2019 |
| Poverty | Medair UK | Support for work with vulnerable Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Poverty | FareShare Yorkshire | Support to provide cool boxes so that more charities and community groups can collect surplus food each week | £2,775 | 2020 |
| Poverty | Baynards Zambia Trust | Support to source and sell sanitary products to eliminate period poverty. | £3,000 | 2020 |
| Poverty | Peasholme Charity | Support for 'My Money. My Life.' - a financial capability advice and support project, one-to-one coaching and community drop-in activities. | £4,500 | 2020 |
| Poverty | On Call Africa | Support to deliver healthcare programmes in rural Zambia. | £3,000 | 2020 |
| Poverty | BASED UK (Baha'I Agency for Social and Economic Development) | Support to cover the cost of providing pre-school teacher training sessions in eSwatini with the aim of poverty alleviation. | £3,000 | 2020 |
| Rehab of Offenders | Nehemiah Project | Support for core costs for supporting addicts and/or prison leavers who face homelessness. | £2,000 | 2019 |
| Rehab of Offenders | Forgiveness Project | Support for the delivery of the RESTORE project at women's prison HMP Eastwood Park, Gloucestershire. | £3,000 | 2019 |
| Rehab of Offenders | Create (Arts) Limited | Support for the delivery of Inside Stories with 12-16 prisoners at HMP Oakwood in 2019/20, enabling them to write, record and illustrate original stories for the children in their lives. | £4,709 | 2019 |
| Rehab of Offenders | Alternatives to Violence Project | Support to fund the enrolment of prisoners onto the AVP distance learning course. | £2,000 | 2020 |
| Rehab of Offenders | West Yorks Community Chaplaincy Project | Support to empower ex-prisoners to break the cycle of re-offending and resettle positively in the community | £5,000 | 2020 |