Albert Hunt Trust

Core funding is available to support local charities throughout the UK that:

• Provide hospice care - this is a priority area.
• Provide support for the homeless.
• Promote health and wellbeing for areas such as family support, such as Home Start, children and young people counselling services, suicide prevention, specific carers support, cancer support, prisoner support and rehabilitation, community centres, food banks and debt advice. From October 2024, priority is being given to services that support children and young adults up to the age of 25, not to organisations providing adult mental health support.

The following funding is currently available:

• Core funding of hospices - typical grant sizes now range from £10,000 to £30,000 (a decrease from the previous £20,000 to £40,000).
• Core funding support for the homeless - typical grant sizes now range from £4,000 to £7,000 (a decrease from the previous £5,000 to £10,000).
• Promoting health and wellbeing - typical grant sizes range from £1,000 to £5,000.

UK registered charities based in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can apply.

Organisations applying in the:

• Health and well-being category should have a total annual income of below £150,000 (previously was £250,000).
• Support for the homeless category should have a total annual income of below £1 million (previously it was £500,000).

The Trust is ‘committed to providing unrestricted core funding’ to help with general running costs for example towards bills or rent and towards overall salary bill but will consider specific project costs if this is a current funding priority for the applicant.

The Trust is open for core funding applications but closed to capital funding applications.

Groups that wish to apply under the health and wellbeing heading should first contact the Trust to see if their application would be considered.