Resilience Grant Programme

This grant programme is currently closed to applications.

What is the Resilience Grant Programme?

The aim of this Resilience Grant Programme is to support local organisations with charitable aims to be better equipped to survive and thrive through challenges and opportunities. This year’s Resilience Grant Programme focuses on organisations helping those in financial hardship.

This programme is not designed to support the direct delivery of services and activities. Instead, it is to support organisations to develop their ways of working and strengthen their resilience.

What do we mean by ‘resilience’? Please read section 1 in the Guide for Applicants

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What you can apply for

We recognise that you will know what can help your organisation be more resilient. So a grant can be towards any reasonable costs for your organisation or project, but has to be towards strengthening your resilience. It must be towards work or activities that have a medium to long-term impact on your organisations. Section 3 of the Guide for Applicants provides more information on what you can apply for.

Who can apply

This programme is for charitable organisations that support individuals and communities experiencing financial hardship, whose core work achieves one or more of the following outcomes:

• Improved access to support that helps people secure a home and/or sustain safe and stable accommodation.
• Improved ability for people to manage and cope with their financial challenges.
• Improved skills: people improve or develop new skills to help them move towards employment and/or being work-ready.
• Improved financial literacy: people understand their finances and have greater confidence when budgeting and managing their money.
• Improved understanding of, and access to, benefits and entitlements.

Applicants must be based and working in Bristol, Bath & North-East Somerset, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire (collectively referred to as the ‘West of England’). Your primary function and service must be supporting people experiencing economic disadvantage. In addition, you must be one of the following:

• constituted voluntary or community organisation
• registered charity
• not-for-profit company, including Community Interest Companies where they are not limited by shares and most directors receive no payment from the company

Please see our eligibility criteria page for further information. See page here

This programme is aimed at organisations that already have a track record but may need some support to adapt or be better equipped. So, to be eligible you must have been operating for at least three years.

How to apply

Apply online using the link below. You can return to your online application form as many times as you like, though do save the form as you go along. Please read through the Guide for Applicants before applying. Also, we have further information to help you apply. See our Help & Guidance page here.

We have a plain text version of our Resilience form available here. Please note that you cannot use this paper form to apply and applications must go through our online form. If you need adjustments to this process for accessibility reasons please contact us directly.

Please note that previous rounds for this programme have been popular and we do have limited funds. Last year, 55% of the applications received were successful.

Decision turnaround

We aim to inform applicants of our decisions by the end of September 2025. Please consider this when planning the work you seek a grant towards. We will not fund activities that have already taken place. You can find out why we take some time to decide here.