The Rayne Foundation

The Rayne Foundation makes grants to charitable and not-for-profit organisations across the UK in four areas of special interest:

• • Young people’s improved mental health;

• • Arts as a tool to achieve social change;

• • Improved quality of life for carers and for older people;

• • Better opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers.

As an independent funder, an important part of our role is to support work which is untried, tests new approaches and has clear objectives. We favour work which could change the way issues are tackled in our society and which could have lessons for others beyond the funded organisation.

We receive many more applications than we can fund and for this reason have a two-stage application process to reduce the time and effort you spend making your application.

What sort of grant can we make?

We will consider funding salaries and project costs (including a reasonable contribution to overheads or on-costs) for up to three years. We do consider grants towards an organisation’s core costs but we only tend to award these when an organisation is making a step-change in the way that it works or tackles a particular issue and where a core grant will provide greater flexibility during the transition period.

Typical grant size

Our grants typically fall in the range of £10,000 - £20,000 per annum for up to three years. We prefer to fund alongside others as we are unlikely to be able to fund your project in full. We will also consider the size of your request relative to your overall turnover. Small, newer organisations in particular are unlikely to receive a larger grant from us if that would equate to more than 10% of total income. Please consider all of these factors when deciding how much to ask for.