The Charles Hayward Foundation’s Main Grant Programme awards funding to UK registered charities with an annual income over £350,000. The Programme makes grants in the following categories:

Heritage and Conservation

The main focus in this category is on protecting, restoring and interpreting past inventions, discoveries, industrial sites and defining moments that have shaped our history and identity, and displaying them in a modern context for public engagement, use and learning. Projects could include:

• Conservation and preservation of pictures, manuscripts, books and objects for public display, use and interest
• Development of libraries, museums and galleries
• Adaptation of former Industrial Heritage sites to creative and educational spaces

Up to £50,000 may be applied for under this category.

Social and Criminal Justice

Projects in the following subcategories will be considered:

• Targeted early intervention programmes aimed at reaching the most troubled and vulnerable families in a community.
• Preventative and diversionary projects for young people at risk of offending including tailored interventions identifying and addressing the particular needs of girls and young women.
• Programmes, particularly those with a focus on young offenders, combining prison based and community interventions dealing with rehabilitation of offenders, accommodation and support on release, helping with maintaining family relationships, mentoring, and mapping and creating pathways to employment.
• Schemes offering viable alternatives to custody, in particular for women and young people.
• Programmes of support directed towards rehabilitating the victims of domestic abuse and criminal exploitation.

Funding priorities include:

• The trustees look for a holistic approach addressing multiple and complex needs with a range of appropriate interventions.
• They like to see programmes tailored to individual needs and local situations involving families and communities; these can be designed and delivered in partnership.
• The Foundation is open to creative and specialist approaches and trialling new solutions.
• Programmes should be of appropriate duration and intensity, have a clear rationale and be properly monitored and evaluated.
• There should be a plan for the future, including an ‘exit strategy’.

Between £15,000 – £25,000 per annum over one to three years may be applied for under the Social and Criminal Justice category. Pilot projects can apply for up to £25,000, if it addresses complex problems in an innovative way and may lead to replication if proven effective.

Deadline: Ongoing

This fund is not managed by Funding for All. Please click ‘Funder’s website’ above and contact the funder directly for more information.