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Housing Pathways Trust (Pathways Housing)

Pathways Main Grants Programme

Housing Pathways Trust (charity 211053) is an Ealing-based not-for-profit that provides affordable housing for older people. Its Main Grants Programme gives £1,000 to £10,000 a year to charities, community groups and voluntary organisations whose work benefits residents of Ealing and Brentford. Priorities include poverty, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence, health and employment. Applications are made on an online form in three windows a year; the current window closes on 24 November 2026.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
£1,000 – £10,000
Deadline
37 days left
24 November
Effort
Moderate
full application with documents

Who can apply

  • Charities, community groups and voluntary organisations working in Ealing and Brentford, whose project benefits residents of Ealing and Brentford only (not the rest of Hounslow)
  • The online form accepts these legal forms: charity, CIO, CIC, provident society and company limited by guarantee
  • Commercial organisations, individuals and statutory services cannot apply
  • Also excluded: organisations with more than six months' free reserves and those already receiving Pathways funding
  • The assessment says you must not have been funded by Pathways in the past 3 years
  • No income limit is set for the Main Grants Programme
  • Applicants must show safeguarding arrangements where relevant, an equal opportunities framework, user involvement, and monitoring and evaluation systems

What it funds

Projects benefiting residents of Ealing and Brentford that:

  • Strengthen the local voluntary and community sector
  • Alleviate poverty by tackling root causes
  • Promote healthy living and nutrition, including bringing disadvantaged people together to cook and eat
  • Provide for people on low incomes
  • Overcome isolation
  • Tackle homelessness or help non-statutory groups threatened with homelessness
  • Support survivors of domestic violence
  • Help disadvantaged people access services
  • Improve the emotional and physical health of disadvantaged people and carers
  • Provide counselling and support
  • Improve employment and educational opportunities

The list is not exhaustive.

Start-up or core costs directly related to the project may be funded.

Some capital costs directly tied to the project (e.g. essential equipment and computers for project workers) can be part of a larger grant.

Pilot projects and action research are welcome, and so are partnerships with statutory bodies if a voluntary organisation leads.

What it will not fund

  • Work that does not benefit residents of Ealing and/or Brentford
  • Applications from individuals
  • Services run by statutory or public authorities, or which the Trustees consider they should run
  • Work that is a statutory duty
  • Commercial organisations
  • Retrospective funding
  • Travel and transport costs
  • Promotion of political or religious beliefs
  • Projects outside the funding priorities
  • Rapid response to emergency situations
  • Debts or loans
  • Capital costs related to premises or buildings, including building refurbishment or purchase
  • Organisations with more than 6 months' free reserves
  • Organisations currently receiving grant funding from Pathways

How to apply

  1. Read the Main Grants Programme eligibility criteria (https://www.yourpathways.org.uk/grants/pathways-main-grants-programme/eligibility-criteria-main-grants-programme/)
  2. Gather your accounts, annual report, constitution, safeguarding policy and equal opportunities policy in digital form
  3. Complete the online Main Grant Application Form (https://www.yourpathways.org.uk/grants/pathways-main-grants-programme/main-grant-application-form/), covering organisation details, project description, outcomes, budget, finances, beneficiary monitoring and two referees
  4. Upload the supporting documents and submit before 24 November 2026
  5. An assessor may contact you for more information
  6. Outcomes are announced by the end of February
  7. If successful, accept the terms and conditions in writing before the grant is paid, then provide regular financial and monitoring reports and a final report

Application windows are 25 Nov-24 Feb, 25 Feb-24 Jul and 25 Jul-24 Nov, with outcomes by end of April, October and February respectively

Pathways warns that because of high demand it may end a grant cycle early without notice, so apply early

The form has 'Save and Continue'; the resume link expires after 100 days

Queries to info@yourpathways.org.uk or 020 8579 7411; contacting staff to influence the outcome disqualifies the application

Have ready

  • A set of accounts (e.g. audited accounts)
  • Annual report
  • Constitution and/or management structure
  • Safeguarding policy
  • Equal opportunities / equality and diversity policy
  • Project budget breakdown (entered in the form)
  • Details of two referees

If the application funds staff, also a job description, person specification and proposed salary levels

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