Groundswell Small Grant Award Scheme

Foundations: used their £500 award to create a communal garden in their hostel in Belfast

Groundswell’s Grant Award Scheme offers grants of up to £700 to homeless people to set up their own projects.

We welcome applications from anyone with experience of homelessness, ie. rough sleepers, Travellers, squatters, refugees and asylum seekers, residents of hostels and B&Bs etc. Anyone without a secure tenancy.

The project you are trying to set up can be a service user group, an arts group, a business, a charity – any kind of self-help initiative. So far we have given out £150,000 to over 300 homeless-led self-help projects. To find out more about the projects that have won Groundswell Awards, visit the 'Previous Winners' section.

Do you want to apply for a grant? OK, here's what you need to do: Read through our Grant Guidelines page first - it explains all you need to know how applying for Groundswell Grant. See the Apply for a Grant page of the website do download an application form. If you are still in doubt as to whether you are elligible to apply, then please call us on 020 7737 5500