An overview of the Merchant Taylors’ Foundation small grants scheme and their application process, with time for questions at the end.
Their Small Grants Scheme is for community-based charities who operate exclusively in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets. They also consider applications from organisations who can demonstrate they deliver most of their charitable activity in one or more of these boroughs.
Your organisation must be working with people who are in need due to age, ill health, disability, financial hardship, or any other form of disadvantage.
Following a recent review, they have identified a gap in applications from organisations supporting aging or older people and they actively encourage these charities to apply. By older people they mean those of retirement age and above. If your project does not work with older people, they still welcome your application.
For one-off grants, they award between £500 and £5,000. For multi-year funding (up to three years), the total amount you can apply for is £9,000
Eligibility criteria:
- Your organisation must be a UK registered charity
- Your organisation must be supporting ‘people who are in need due to age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or some other form of disadvantage
- Your organisation operates exclusively in/or most of our charitable work is in one or more of the Small Grant Scheme’s four boroughs (Hackney, Lewisham, Southwark, and Tower Hamlets).
- Your organisation is not an international, national, or regional charity.
The deadline for applications is 31 December 2025.
Further information can be found here.