Aims/priorities: The Trust holds two grants rounds per year:
- The Spring round is for proposals wanting to work with young people who already have a criminal conviction.
- The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.
The Trust’s funding in 2025 focuses on supporting work with young women and girls who are already in contact with the criminal justice system and those who are highly vulnerable to entering it.
The Trust is looking for proposals that target the most high risk young women and girls and applications will need to demonstrate that they are linked to schemes such as Out of Court Disposals and Point of Arrest Diversion initiatives as well as services working with those known to be at risk, such as girls who are looked after and those who are outside of education or on the edge of being excluded.
Applicant organisations will also need to show that they have strong links with Youth Offending Teams, probation, PRUs, schools and other relevant local partners who come into contact with this group of vulnerable young women and girls.
The Autumn 2025 funding opportunity is only open to organisations where at least 80% of the total beneficiaries of the whole organisation are women and girls.
There is particular interest in projects working with young women and girls who are either care-experienced, come from Black or minoritized/racialised communities, are neurodiverse, excluded from school or vulnerable to being so, are involved with gangs and county lines, and work that is led by people with lived experience.
Who can apply? Registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies that are working within the UK and have a UK office can apply.
Only organisations exclusively led by and for women and girls are eligible to apply: 80% of their beneficiaries must be women and girls.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Have previous experience of working with vulnerable young women or girls either on the edge of the criminal justice system or who already have criminal convictions.
- Be requesting funding for a project working exclusively with young women and girls aged between 11 and 30 years. It is unlikely that the Trust will fund a project across the whole age range.
- Work solely with women and girls.
- Have a proven track record of running projects working with young women and girls that is both gender and trauma informed.
- Be proposing a project with targets that are specifically linked to either reducing the number of young women or girls who reoffend or reduce the number of young women and girls who receive a first conviction.
- Have an average annual income over the past three years of less than £1.5 million.
- Be a registered charity or an organisation set up with a clear social purpose and appropriate governing documents stating this.
Social enterprise and community interest companies must have a governing document which shows the name, aim/purpose, objects of the group, including a dissolution clause. This clause should show that the organisation is a not-for-profit group by confirming that any assets remaining after all debts are paid will be given to another voluntary group with similar aims. This document should also include details of the organisation's Trustees or management committee.
The Trust particularly welcomes applications from organisations working in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Grant amount: Between £30,000 and £80,000 for a duration of 12 months to two years.
A maximum of £40,000 per year can be requested.
The amount of funding must be proportional to the project being undertaken.
Application process: There are two funding rounds per year. Grants are awarded approximately five months after the closing date.
There is a two-stage application process.
- Stage one is to complete the online application form on the Triangle Trust website.
- Stage two will involve a visit from the Trust's Director to the shortlisted applicants (usually between six and eight organisations).
Applications for the:
- First round are now closed.
- Second round open 16 September 2025 and close 20 October 2025. All applicants notified if shortlisted on 18 December 2025.
Full details and the online application form can be found on the Triangle Trust website.
Deadline: Monday 20 October 2025, (midnight).
Contact information: Email: info@triangletrust.org.uk
Website: The Triangle Trust