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Alpkit Foundation

Alpkit Foundation Grants

Small awards of around £50-£500, given as money or outdoor equipment, from the Alpkit Foundation (a charity funded by 1% of Alpkit's sales) to community groups, organisations and individuals that get people outdoors and tackle barriers to accessing the outdoors. Projects can be about diversity and inclusion, the environment, health and wellbeing, or outdoor skills education, anywhere in the UK. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis every couple of months; the Foundation has supported over 3,000 projects with more than £1 million in small grants.

Apply on the funder’s site
You could get
£50 – £500
no fixed round
Deadline
Rolling
apply any time
Effort
Light
short form, little evidence needed

Who can apply

  • Community groups, individuals and organisations running UK projects that encourage people to get outdoors and tackle barriers that stop people accessing its benefits
  • No legal-structure, income or governance requirements are published
  • Previous recipients include schools, scout and cadet units, climbing walls, forest schools and individuals

What it funds

Small, direct-impact awards (financial or equipment support) for UK projects that encourage responsible outdoor activity, have long-lasting benefits, introduce new people to the outdoors and demonstrate value for money. Four areas:

  • Diversity, participation and inclusion (engaging people from a diverse range of backgrounds with the outdoors)
  • Environmental (projects that support, rewild, conserve or generate understanding of the environment and wild places)
  • Health and wellbeing (physical and mental wellbeing from the outdoors)
  • Education (development of outdoor skills and activities for wider groups, such as Hill and Moorland / Mountain Leader, First Aid, DofE and community-focused Forest Schools)

Multiple awards over time are welcomed, each assessed on its merits.

What it will not fund

  • Holidays
  • Charity challenges
  • Commercially led travel expeditions
  • Scout Jamborees
  • Retrospective applications
  • Projects outside the UK

How to apply

  1. Check your project meets the criteria on the Alpkit Foundation 'Apply' page
  2. Complete the online application form embedded on the Apply page
  3. Trustees review applications on a rolling basis every couple of months and award the funds available for that period

Apply at least 3 months before the project starts so trustees can consider it at their next meeting; retrospective applications are not supported.

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