THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Grants are available for UK charitable organisations based and working in the UK that are working to save lives and improve the quality of life of desperate and disadvantaged people. The Foundation is currently inviting enquiries from UK organisations that are delivering directly life- saving impact, and/or impact which is significantly improving lives.
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o Application deadline: none – a Grant Enquiry Form may be completed at any time.
o Funder: The Randal Charitable Foundation (founded 2017. Charity number 1176129. Total value of all grants awarded during the year ended 31 December 2022: £770,226 (2021: £889,519; 2020: £1,061,385)).
o Who can apply: registered UK charities, voluntary groups and Community Interest Companies.
o Key words: the Relief of Sickness and Ill-Health, the Relief of Poverty, Advancement of Education. Relief of those in Need because of Youth, Age, Disability, Financial Hardship, Poverty, Social Disadvantage, United Kingdom.
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In general, the Randal Charitable Foundation provides grants, bursaries, endowments and other financial aid for projects and activities that aim to save lives and improve the quality of life of the most desperate and disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. Its objectives include:
o Directly saving lives, including suicide prevention.
o Enabling children facing extreme hardship or social disadvantage to access education.
o Helping people living with severe mental health issues.
o Improvements to primary healthcare, globally, and to aid the distribution of quality medicines to lower and middle-income countries.
o Prevention or relief of poverty and improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable.
o Relief of sickness, protection of good health, and the raising of life expectancy, and
o Tackling social disadvantage because of age or disability.
Examples of the type of projects that have previously been supported include:
o Enabling young people to reach their full potential.
o Home care for elderly patients leaving the hospital.
o Projects that address the root causes of addiction.
o Projects that address poverty or provide a family relief from poverty.
o Suicide prevention.
o Support for people with a critical illnesses, a disability, and people suffering from loneliness and social isolation, and
o Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse.
PLEASE NOTE: the Foundation is currently inviting enquiries from UK organisations based and operating in the UK for grants of between £5,000 and £30,000. Enquiries are invited from organisations delivering directly life saving impact, and/or impact which is significantly improving lives as a direct result of their interventions in the following themes:
o Alleviating poverty, specifically directly and sustainably alleviating extreme poverty
o Tackling mental ill-health, exclusively direct and immediate (rather than indirect) suicide prevention
o Women and children at risk of immediate harm due to violence or exploitation, specifically those facing heightened risk due to multi-factor circumstances.
To make an enquiry, complete the online Enquiry Form on the Foundation’s website (scroll down the page), where further information about this grant call can also be found.
To make an initial enquiry about the Foundation’s current call for funding, complete the Grant Enquiry Form on its website.
Further information and guidance is available on the Foundation’s website.
Contact details for the Foundation are:
Dr Nik Kotecha OBE
Chair
The Randal Charitable Foundation,
5 Pavilion Way,
Loughborough,
Leicestershire,
LE11 5GW
Tel: 01509 217705
Email: grants@