Grants to Organisations

Our Guidelines

You can download a full copy of the guidelines here.

Richard Reeve’s Foundation was established in 1706.  Our aim is to increase access to education and training for disadvantaged people who are living, studying or working in the London Boroughs of Camden, Islington and City of London. 

We do this by supporting local organisations, charities and schools which are implementing projects that help to reduce the barriers to education and training that disadvantaged people face.  We are primarily interested in funding projects for young people up to the age of 25 but we will also consider applications from groups who are addressing the education and training needs of people up to the age of 40.

What do you mean by disadvantaged people?
We believe that the following groups may experience difficulties when trying to access training or education.  If you wish to apply for a grant you must provide evidence to show how the project will help remove the barriers to participation for at least one of these groups:

  • Looked after children
  • Asylum seekers
  • People with poor or limited English language skills
  • Those who do not have a level 2 or 3 qualification
  • Low income parents with pre-school age children
  • Care leavers
  • Excluded pupils
  • People who have experienced mental ill health or substance misuse
  • Long term unemployed
  • Young people at risk of offending or ex offenders
  • People from Black and Minority Ethnic group

Does the Foundation have particular interests or themes?
These are our current themes.  Your application must clearly demonstrate how your project will address at least one of them. 

  • Skills for independent living
  • Training and education for long term unemployed people
  • Family learning
  • Young people at risk of exclusion
  • Innovative vocational training for young people (aged 25 or under)

Priority will be given to applications that:

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  • Address a significant gap in provision
  • Reach and engage the wider community
  • Test out new ideas or practices and/or or take a risk in order to address a difficult issue
  • Take an enterprising approach to achieving the project aims

Who can apply?
To be eligible to apply for an award you must be either a registered charity, a constituted community group that has been established for at least 12 months,  a state school or a not for profit company limited by guarantee.  You must be based or working within our area of benefit, which is Camden, Islington and the City of London.  Colleges and Universities within our area may only apply for funding for community based projects. 

Please note that we can only consider funding organisations based outside our area of benefit if they are able to demonstrate that at least 75% of beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries are currently within it.

We are happy to fund existing projects but we would like evidence of their success, either by external evaluation or by clear indication from the independent referee.

We are unable to make awards to statutory providers such as local councils and health trusts or to private educational establishments.

Click here to see a list of recently funded projects.

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