Jeans for Genes Grants 2025
Core grants of up to £5,000 are available to UK registered charities within the genetic condition community as a contribution towards their organisation’s running costs.
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o Application deadline: FRIDAY 14th MARCH 2025.
o Funder: Jeans for Genes Campaign (founded 2011 as Genetic Disorders UK. Charity number 1194407. Total charitable expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2024: £350,295 (2023: £517,540; 2022: £433,871)).
o Who can apply: UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of between £20,000 and £3 million.
o Key words: Core Grants, Genetic Condition Community, United Kingdom.
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The Jeans for Genes Campaign encourages children and adults to wear their jeans to school, work or at home in exchange for a small donation. These monies are then distributed within the genetic condition community to charitable organisations that support individuals and families affected by a genetic disorder, via the Jeans for Genes grant programme. Jeans for Genes Week in 2025 is scheduled for Monday 15th to Sunday 21st September 2025.
Genetic conditions occur when a mutation (a harmful change to a gene, also known as a pathogenic variant) affects a person’s genes or when they have the wrong amount of genetic material. The most common types of genetic disorder/condition in the UK are:
o Cystic Fibrosis.
o Down Syndrome.
o Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy.
o Huntington’s Disease.
o Sickle Cell Anaemia.
o Tay-Sachs Disease, and
o Thalassemia.
This programme didn’t run in 2024, but we’re pleased to see that it’s back for 2025. Grants of up to £5,000 are available as a contribution towards an organisation’s running costs. These could include, for example:
o Support costs.
o Management costs.
o Communications.
o Income generation.
o Administration costs.
o Governance activities.
o General overheads, and
o Other spending that is not project specific.
Applicants must:
o Be a genetic condition specific charity or a charity whose beneficiaries are solely those with genetic conditions and/or their families.
o Be at least 18 months old and have published their first set of annual accounts.
o Be based in and delivering their work in the UK.
o Have an annual income of between £20,000 and £300,000 (as reported in their most recent set of accounts filed with The Charity Commission), and
o Have appropriate safeguarding policies in place.
Funding is not available for:
o Autism.
o Cancer (except for those types of cancer that are caused by a genetic disorder).
o Diabetes.
o Dyslexia.
o Dyspraxia.
o Individuals, or
o Laboratory-based research.
Further information, guidance and other useful resources are available on the Jeans for Genes website.
The deadline for applications, which should be submitted by email, is Friday 14th March 2025. Awards are expected to be confirmed in May 2025.
Contact details for the Jeans for Genes Campaign 2025 are:
Genetic Disorders UK/ Jeans for Genes
199 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 5NE
Email: grants@jeansforgenes.