What We Fund
How we make grants
The Foundation operates a discretionary, trustee-led grant-making model. This page explains how grants arise, who can be considered, and where our current priorities lie.
Priority areas
Trustees give priority to proposals aligned with the following areas, though meeting a priority area supports — but does not guarantee — a grant.
Children & young people
Education, sport or training where financial barriers exist, standing behind children with critical illnesses, and support with health-related challenges, including food allergies.
Health & wellbeing
Grants that contribute to improved physical and mental health outcomes for children, and for people working in hospitality.
Hospitality-related support
Training or entry into hospitality employment, and relief of hardship among those working or seeking to work in the sector.
Who can be considered
- Charitable organisations
- Registered charities and organisations the trustees recognise as established exclusively for charitable purposes.
- Individuals
- Where trustees are satisfied that funding an individual will further the Foundation's charitable objects and deliver identifiable public benefit — for example, support with education or training, sporting development, health improvement, or progression towards employment, including within hospitality. Any private benefit to the individual must be incidental to the charitable purpose, not an end in itself.
There is no automatic entitlement to funding in either category, and every proposal is assessed against the Foundation's mandatory qualification criteria: charitable alignment, public benefit, lawful and appropriate use of funds, and trustee assurance that funds will be properly applied.
How proposals arise
The Foundation does not operate a general public application programme. Grant-making is selective and proportionate to the Foundation's scale and resources.
Potential grants may come about through trustee research, referrals from trusted contacts, direct invitation by the Foundation, or occasionally an unsolicited approach. Receiving an unsolicited approach does not oblige the trustees to consider or progress it — trustees decide whether any proposal proceeds to assessment, and no applicant or potential beneficiary has a right to receive funding.
If you believe your organisation or circumstances align closely with our priority areas, you are welcome to write to us — see our contact details.