Funding Opportunities

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Our Aims & Criteria

Our aims are to fund work within each of our funding programmes which:

will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems;

is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and;

encourages or enables groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.

The total amount we can offer is upto £15,000. This can be over three years, two years, or a single grant.

However, most grants we make are for much less than this amount, with the average grant size being £5,000-£6,000.

We aim to help organisations to become sustainable, supporting running and core costs to enable them to have flexibility, security and longevity. We can contribute to project costs or salaries.

We have seven strands

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We will consider applications from UK registered charities based in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

We do not support CICs.

We do not support charities working overseas.

We do fund the following and can be for
Grants for core funding to include staff costs.
Ongoing running costs for specific projects

Promote Health and Well-Being – core funding for areas such as family support eg Home Start, counselling services, suicide prevention, specific carers support, cancer support, prisoner support and rehabilitation,community centres, food banks and debt advice.Typical grant sizes range from £1000-£5,000. We look to support organisations in this category with a total annual income of below £250,000. As this is a broad area we would encourage you to contact us prior to applying for further guidance.

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The Newby Trust (the “Trust”) funds local, regional or national charities registered in the UK within the broad categories of education, the environment, health and social welfare.

The principal purpose of the Trust is to enable people in the UK to improve their quality of life and fulfil their potential. In 2024, the trustees added a new category to provide support for the natural environment.

In the Education, Health and Welfare categories all activities must be undertaken in the UK and the Trust is more likely to fund smaller or medium-sized charities with an annual income of less than £1,000,000. In the Environment category, the Trust will fund larger charities and projects may be outside the UK but the applicant and grant-recipient must be a UK-registered charity. In general, only charities that are invited to apply will be considered for a grant.

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