Help The Homeless makes grants to charitable organisations with the aim of helping homeless people return to the community and enabling them to rebuild their lives.

Help The Homeless is cost efficient charity with very small overheads, and so able to distribute a large proportion of funds to the organisations nationwide that help some of the UK's most disadvantaged people.

Funding Information

Help the Homeless fund capital costs with grants of up to £5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Your organisation must be a registered UK charity with the Charity Commission in England, Wales or Northern Ireland or a registered Scottish Charity.
• Help the Homeless are able to help only small and medium-sized charities with an annual turnover of under £1m and with ‘unrestricted reserves’ of under six months annual running costs based on their latest published annual accounts. Note: they do not consider any ‘tangible fixed assets’ as unrestricted reserves.
• Help the Homeless can only accept applications towards the funding of ‘capital’ projects. They are unable to accept applications towards running/core costs. Note: they are unable to consider requests for computers and IT equipment.
• All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than simply offering shelter or other forms of sustenance.
• There should be a minimum period of two years between the receipt of a decision or receiving a grant from them and making a further application.

For more information, visit Help the Homeless.