The Solidarity Fund supports organisations in England that address the root causes of inequality, including poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination. The programme aims to strengthen existing work and enable long-term, systemic change rather than short-term interventions.
Funding Details
- Amount: £1 million to £5 million total funding per organisation
- Duration: 5 to 10 years to spend the allocation
- Expected recipients: Approximately 10 organisations in the first year
- Geographic scope: England only
- Application timeline: Ongoing applications accepted
Organisations must be led by and accountable to people with lived experience of the issues they aim to address.
Core Focus Areas
The programme funds work that:
- Addresses root causes of poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination through systemic change rather than immediate symptom relief
- Builds solidarity by bringing people together across different issues and communities to tackle underlying causes of inequality
- Empowers communities by developing skills, confidence, and organisational capacity for sustained advocacy and change
- Creates and shares learning from those experiencing inequality to amplify their voices and enable informed action
Preferred Approaches
- Systems change initiatives that transform how organisations and sectors operate
- Community organising and power-building activities
- Knowledge creation and sharing rooted in lived experience
- Cross-community collaboration and solidarity building
- Work that extends or redirects existing organisational expertise
Application Considerations
- Organisations need not be long-established but must demonstrate capacity for significant impact
- Funding is unlikely to support work completely unrelated to current organisational activities
- Applications should demonstrate how the work builds upon existing knowledge, relationships, and community learning