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The Fine & Country Foundation

The Fine & Country Foundation grants

Grants of up to £3,000 for registered charities, in the UK or overseas, working on homelessness and poverty, from the charity of the estate agent Fine & Country. A charity must first be nominated by its local Fine & Country office, which signs the form. There are two rounds a year: applications in March (spring) and October (autumn), with grants paid in May and December. Charities near a Fine & Country office are more likely to be funded.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
Up to £3,000
Closes in
13 days left
31 October
Effort
Moderate
full application with documents

Who can apply

  • Registered charities (the charity number must be on all documents), in the UK or internationally, that are homeless charities, poverty prevention schemes or housing associations, with a project that prevents homelessness, cares for homeless people or helps them off the streets permanently
  • The charity must be nominated by a Fine & Country office, which completes and signs Section One of the form
  • Charities in the region of a Fine & Country office are more likely to be funded, though others are considered
  • Consecutive grants are allowed, six months apart at most, once the earlier grant is confirmed as spent

What it funds

  • Prevention of homelessness, care of the homeless, or constructive projects to get homeless people off the streets permanently
  • Projects or items, and overheads, for homeless charities, poverty prevention schemes and housing associations

several projects in one application may be split into separate small grants, and the same charity can hold several small grants for different projects or items

What it will not fund

  • Salaries (no salary requests are permitted)
  • Organisations that are not registered charities
  • A new application before confirming the previous grant has been fully spent on the specified project or items
  • Applications without a Fine & Country representative's signature
  • Applications outside the spring and autumn periods
  • Incomplete applications: the form and the signed terms and conditions must both arrive before the deadline
  • Employing an external fundraising agent or paying fundraising commission (grant terms)

How to apply

  1. Find your nearest Fine & Country office (agent finder on fineandcountry.co.uk) and ask to be nominated
  2. If the office agrees, download the application form and have the Fine & Country representative complete and sign Section One
  3. Complete Section Two: charity details, amount (up to £3,000), 200-word summaries of the charity and project, a detailed financial breakdown, grants received in the last 24 months, and bank details; sign to accept the terms and conditions
  4. Email the form and signed terms to grants@hq.fineandcountry.com during the application period, copying in the nominating Fine & Country agent
  5. The Foundation confirms receipt within two weeks; trustees review autumn applications in November and successful charities hear by the end of November
  6. If funded, send an evaluation report (up to 1,000 words) and a project summary (up to 500 words) within 30 days of completing the project

the autumn period is October, with funds paid in December; the spring period is March, decided in April, paid in May

Have ready

  • Application form with Section One signed by the nominating Fine & Country office
  • Signed terms and conditions (pages 4-5 of the form)
  • Detailed financial breakdown of the project or items
  • Any additional documents, such as financial records or brochures, named on the form

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