Alpkit Foundation

Grants of between £50 and £500 are available. Applications will be considered from community groups, schools and organisations based and working within the UK. The specific objectives of Alpkit Foundation are:

• To help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, to develop the capabilities that they grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.
• To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who need such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances, with the object of improving their conditions of life.
• To advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.
• For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training) of people in such ways as the charity trustees think fit.
• To advance sport or games which promote health by physical or mental skill or exertion and which are undertaken on an amateur basis.

The funding is intended for:

• Diversity and inclusion projects that engage individuals and groups from a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Environmental projects that seek to support, conserve, or generate understanding of our environment and wild places
• Health projects enabling people to gain physical and mental well-being from the Great Outdoors.
• Education projects such as First Aid, D of E, Forest Schools and Mountain Leader.
• Participation projects that get more people experiencing the Great Outdoors.

There is particular interest in projects that:

• Encourage responsible outdoor activity.
• Have long-lasting benefits.
• Introduce new people to get outdoors.
• Demonstrate value for money.

Applications can be submitted at any time and will be considered every two months.