Available Funding

Home Instead Charities Small Grants

Home Instead Charities’ Grant scheme aims to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people aged over 55. The events should seek to combat loneliness and social isolation to ensure participants stay fit, active, healthy and connected to their local communities.

Grants can be used for:

• Regular weekly or monthly events and activities such as weekly cinema club, weekly knit and natter or Thursday lunch club
• One off activities such as a day trip or a Christmas lunch
• Activities such as yoga or a guest speaker for your group such as a local historian

They cannot be used for:

• Salaries
• Core/running costs
• Capital and/or revenue projects
• Set up costs
• They are not able to fund the same project twice in one year.

Grant amounts:

There are two levels available:

• up to £500 for small grass roots organisations
• up to £1,500 for small local registered charities.

Deadline(s): There are four application windows per year: January, April, July and October.

For the next round, applications will be accepted from 1 October to the 31 October and will be awarded in November 2025