How we fund
We provide grant funding to charities, voluntary organisations and NGOs delivering life-saving and life-changing work in the UK and around the world – often at moments when support is most urgently needed.
Our funding is focused on supporting interventions that prevent loss of life, create opportunity and deliver measurable, lasting change for those in greatest need.
“Our priority is supporting and funding the delivery of interventions which save a life that would otherwise be at risk before we step in to help. Actions that save and transform lives are central to our work. But being a source of hope - showing that there are helping hands in our world, ready to reach out and catch those who find themselves falling - is just as important to us.”
Our grant awarding process
Our approach to grant-making is structured, transparent and focused on delivering real, accountable impact and outcomes.
Stage 1: Submission
Applicants are required to demonstrate how their work contributes to lives saved or significantly improved, aligned with the Foundation’s published definitions.
Stage 2: Assessment
Applications are reviewed as part of a structured due diligence process, including assessment of governance, compliance, safeguarding, financials and delivery capability.
Stage 3: Review
Submissions are reviewed and challenged as part of the decision-making process, ensuring that proposals are robust, credible and aligned with the Foundation’s priorities.
Stage 4: Decision and monitoring
Funding decisions are made based on the cumulative assessment. Where funding is awarded, a clear evidence and monitoring framework is agreed, with reporting required against defined outcomes.
We don’t have any current open calls for grants at the moment.
Please check back regularly as we will advertise here the date when we will be open for enquiries, and the themes for which we will invite expressions of interest.
Please do not make enquiries or submit applications unless there is an open call for enquiries and you are invited to do so – we will not be able to respond to unsolicited requests for support.
Organisations who have previously received funding from our Foundation will only be eligible to re-apply, to an open call, 3 years following completion of their funded project.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have questions? We have the answers!
Below you’ll find responses to some of the most common enquiries about the Randal Foundation, our grant process and how you can get involved. If you don’t find the information you’re looking for, feel free to contact us directly.
Is the Foundation a registered charity and where can I find out more information about this?
Yes, our Foundation is a registered charity and has a dedicated page on the Charity Commission website, which you can view.
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.
Our UK registered charity number is 1176129.
How do we define directly saving a life or significantly improving a life?
The number of lives directly saved or significantly improved is collated from the careful and detailed monitoring of data and information provided by the individual charities that have received grants. Please see the definitions below for further clarification on how we define directly saving a life and significantly improving a life:
Lives directly saved: An individual whose life is directly saved is a life that was at serious and credible risk of loss before the provision of grant funding and, as a result of expenditure of the grant funding directly or indirectly for the benefit of the individual, has significantly lowered the risk of loss of life.
Lives significantly improved: A significant improvement in the quality of life of an individual is achieved where grant funded expenditure directly enables a long term or permanent betterment of an individual’s life chances, personal circumstances or physical or mental health.
How do I contact the Foundation?
Please visit our Contact Us page to send your message to us.
Who is eligible for grant funding?
We make grants to UK registered charities and organisations working inside and outside of the UK. We will make exceptions to this from time to time, but we will do so by directly approaching organisations with whom we wish to work.
We do not accept unsolicited enquiries from non-UK based organisations for funding.
Can I apply at any time?
In 2023 we stopped accepting general enquiries for grants.
We have moved to a more focussed approach, where we make ‘calls’ for applications, linked to the themes of interest of our Trustees. This is to ensure that we deliver our strategy for saving and significantly improving lives.
We encourage a high standard of applications in response to tailored calls for funding which the Trustees may wish to distribute.
Where can I find out about your grant funding opportunities?
You can find information about our grant funding opportunities on our website and across our LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook channels. We announce calls for grant enquiries throughout the year and also share updates on our funding, partnerships and the impact of the projects we support.
What value of grant funding can I apply for?
We make grants across a range of values. When we make a call for grant funding, we will indicate the range of values we will accept enquires for. Applicants should ensure that their enquiry is specific, matches the call for grant funding made, provides an evidence-based proposal for the grant required and shows the cost effectiveness of the cause.
Applicants should approach funding requests by stating the exact amount needed to enable them to deliver their project.
What types of grants are available?
We typically provide grant funding for projects and interventions delivered over a 12-month period. Funding opportunities are advertised on our website
By invitation only, we may invite organisations to apply for multi-year strategic partnership grants. These partnerships are identified by our Trustees, and we do not accept unsolicited applications for this funding.
Causes should approach funding requests by stating the exact amount needed to enable them to deliver their project.
It is important that organisations are specific about where funding is lacking and how a grant from our Foundation will enable the organisation to continue to carry out its operations or project effectively. We will not provide funding to organisations where they are not able to demonstrate a genuine need for our funding.
What happens after I have made an application?
Our Board of Trustees meets quarterly to consider funding enquiries and applications. The time it takes to receive a decision will depend on where your enquiry falls within our meeting cycle.
Should the Trustees wish to progress your enquiry, we may invite you to submit further information or a full application. We will notify you of the outcome by email, whether your application is successful or unsuccessful.
What information is required on the Application Form?
Please see our Applications page, which has full details on all information required by the Trustees.
What projects do you fund and is my application likely to be approved?
Our Foundation supports organisatons involved in directly saving lives and significantly improving lives. Our work is focused around key themes which are the interest areas of our Founders and Trustees. For more detail about these areas please visit the Our Work section.
You can also find information on all grants made by the Foundation.
Previous grants should be viewed as examples of our past funding rather than an indication of future funding decisions. Our Trustees aim to support a broad range of projects, and all applications are assessed against our current funding strategy.
Following the introduction of our new strategy in January 2024, some areas we previously funded are no longer within our funding priorities.
What does the Foundation require from all organisations/charities that receive grant funding?
In addition to a range of information on your organisation and your project we ask applicants to provide clear evidence of forecast impact against our targets – saving lives and significantly improving lives.
Following the completion of the grant funding period, we then ask you to update this information and provide firm evidence of your impact including the actual number of lives directly saved and actual number of lives significantly improved by the grantee organisation, through our funded project/intervention. We also ask for a full report on how all funds were used, and a wider range of impacts and outcomes that you achieved.
Who makes decisions on behalf of the Foundation?
Enquiries are reviewed by our Executive team and all full applications are considered by our board of Trustees. You can find more information on our Governance page, which also includes Trustee information.
How does the Foundation monitor grants given?
Organisations receiving a grant from our foundation must provide monitoring information to us, over the life of their project. For larger projects, or those spanning more than one year, we will ask for twice annual monitoring forms to be completed. All charities/organisations who have received grant funding are also required to complete an end-of-project monitoring form.
Once a completed grant monitoring form is received, it is carefully reviewed to ensure the funds are being utilised for the purpose agreed and in a cost effective manner, as per the agreed Terms and Conditions set out at the time of the grant.
Monitoring information is also used to inform Trustee decisions on whether to request further information from grantees, whether to continue funding (in the case of multi-year grants), or inform decisions to cease/withdraw funding.
What information is requested on the monitoring form?
We request that all organisations which have received grants, fully complete our monitoring form(s).
The areas we particularly focus on are clear evidence on how the funds were used, if targets were achieved, if there have been any changes to the project/cause and if these have had any impact on the project. We also ask for grantees to outline any challenges they have faced.
We ask whether any safeguarding concerns arose during the funding period and if the timescales outlined within the original application were achieved (e.g. project completion).
Finally, but importantly, we monitor if the number of lives directly saved and lives significantly improved estimated within the original application aligns with actual impact achieved.
We require high quality, accurate information/ evidence from all grant receiving causes, specifically in relation to the figures provided for the number of lives directly saved and lives significantly improved. This data is used within the charts illustrated on our home page, and contribute towards the achievement of our goal to directly save and significantly improve one million lives in the UK and around the world.
My project is completed. Can I apply again for funding?
We ask that grantees do not re-apply for three years, following the end of a grant funded project. Trustees may approach grantees directly during this period, but no applications will be processed if received from grantees who apply, without invitation, during this period.