Domestic Abuse 

Through our Domestic Abuse priority we support charities working with children and young people, aged up to 18 (or 25 with SEND), who have experienced domestic abuse. Parents or carers are included as long as they are being supported in that role for these children and young people.

Examples of services we are interested in funding include counselling and therapeutic support, healthy relationships, and other in refuge or community based children and young people’s services. We will consider applications for targeted preventative approaches that increases understanding of harmful behaviours, however due to limited resources we are unable to consider preventative work that is open to all children and young people.

We are interested in funding projects that work towards the following outcomes:

• Learning coping strategies and tools to effectively handle challenges
• Increased self-esteem, resilience, confidence, and feelings of safety and wellbeing
• Positive behavioural change
• Children will have better relationships with their family and peers
• Improved understanding of domestic abuse and harmful behaviours
• Improved engagement with education and other related support services

Grant Programmes 

SMALL GRANT 

These grants are for smaller charities whose annual income is between £25,000 and £500,000. 

Small grants are unrestricted and do not have to be used on a specific purpose, although we do ask grant recipients to report on how they used the funding. 

Small grants range from £1,000 – £5,000 per year, for up to three years. 

The total amount of the grant requested must not exceed 20 per cent of the total income of the charity, averaged over the past two years. 

LARGE GRANT 

These grants are for larger charities whose annual income is between £500,000 and £5m. 

Large grants are restricted for specific projects with defined goals and budgets, and may be spent on, for example, salaries, equipment, training, monitoring and administration. 

Large grants usually range from £10,000 to £60,000 in total spread over one to three years. The Freemasons’ Charity has a preference for multiyear funding (for example, £20,000 per year for three years or £30,000 per year for two years). We will consider one year grants only in exceptional circumstances such as for pilot projects.