Aims/priorities: Alongside our national funding round, we are also running two regional funding rounds in Summer 2025:
- North West funding round (for organisations based in the North West of England)
- South West funding round (for organisations based in Cornwall)
We offer unrestricted funding to help your organisation grow, become more sustainable, efficient, or resilient. We are interested in organisational development, and we believe that by asking you and your charity what you need, our grants will create a transformational impact on your organisation.
You can find examples of what we have previously funded here.
Who can apply? To double check your eligibility, please take our short quiz here.
- Registered Charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, and Charitable Community Benet Societies (CBSs)/Non-Charitable CBSs with an asset lock
- Your annual revenue should be less than £500,000
- If you are applying for our national funding round, your organisation must be based in the UK
- If you are applying for our South West funding round, your organisation must be based in Cornwall
- If you are applying for our North West funding round, your organisation must be based in the North West of England (which includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside) o double check your eligibility, please take our short quiz here.
Grant amount: Up to £30,000, spread across 1 to 3 years
Application process: Register your interest in applying (2–3 minutes). Registration will be open for one week from 12pm (midday) on Thursday 27 March to 12pm (midday) on Thursday 3 April. During this window, the link to register your interest in applying to your chosen funding round will be on our Apply for Funding webpage.
Please only register for one funding round and submit one registration per organisation. If you submit multiple registrations, we will only accept one in the interest of fairness.
On Friday 4 April, everyone who has registered will receive conrmation of whether they have been allocated a place on the funding round along with details of how to apply. If there are more applicants registered than places available, places will be allocated at random.
Once you have received conrmation of your place on the funding round, write and submit your application before the deadline of 5pm on Monday 28 April.
If you are registering for one of our regional funding rounds, we are hosting an online Q&A session on Tuesday 18 March, 12pm to 1pm. If you want to hear more from The Fore team about our application process and pose your own questions before you register your interest in applying, please sign up here. If you can’t make it on the day, please still register if you would like to receive the recording.
Deadline: Thursday 3 April 12pm (midday) 2025.
Contact information: For more information about our application process, please explore our website: Home - The Fore
Website: Home - The Fore