Live programmes
Homewards Fund
Homewards is the initiative of HRH Prince William and the Royal Foundation. The Homewards Fund, which is used to support the implementation of action plans in each of the six flagship locations identified by Homewards is being managed and administered by Homeless Link working in partnership with The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales.
Find out moreNight Shelter Transformation fund
The Night Shelter Transformation Fund is available to small to medium faith and community sector organisations to enhance their services and improve outcomes for people experiencing rough sleeping.
Find out moreReach Fund
The Reach Fund helps charities and social enterprises raise investment, with the programme offering grants on average between £5000 and £15000. The grant is aimed at helping these organisations provide the final information that investors need before they can invest. If you're looking to raise repayable finance in the next 6-12 months and have a clear social mission, this fund could be ideal.
Find out moreCommunity Builders Fund
The Community Builders Fund supports impact-led charities and social enterprises across England, Wales, and Scotland with flexible loans of £100k to £1.5m to help them grow and build long-term resilience. Delivered by Social Investment Business (SIB) in partnership with specialists, the £17m fund supports communities improving people’s lives and the environment they live in.
Find out moreEnergy Resilience Fund
The Energy Resilience Fund offers a blended finance package (60% loan, 40% grant) to be used for energy saving measures. Eligible organisations across England can apply for up to £250k for things like installing a heat pump, solar, or electric vehicles.
Eligible organisations can apply for up to £250,000, with flexible finance designed to help cut costs, lower carbon emissions, and future-proof services.
Find out more on eligibility criteriaNote:
Homeless Link is an access point approved by the Reach Fund and we can refer organisations to apply for this grant.
If you would like to discuss the Reach Fund, Energy Resilience Fund or the Community Builders Fund, and find out if these investments are for you, your eligibility or the application process, contact Nitya Teagarajan
Talk to us
For more information on our grants, funding and social investment work, please get in touch with the team, Tom for Grants and Nitya for Social Investment.
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Tom Flynn
Senior Grants Manager
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Nitya Teagarajan
Senior Social Investment Programme Manager
Resources to support your organisation
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Bitesize learning: Steps to success in grant fundraising
Updated: 07/8/24
This bitesize learning series provides essential insights into grant applications, covering strategy, planning, and delivery.
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Diversifying your income: writing a successful application
Updated: 20/12/23
Writing grant applications can be challenging, especially if it's not your only job. As a grant provider we have reviewed many applications and want to share with you some tips and information around how to write a successful application.
Learning and insights from our funded work
We have written up learnings and findings from our past funds that are useful for organisations embarking on this journey.
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Learning from Immigration Advice Programme
This briefing is aimed at those exploring how to deliver immigration advice for rough sleepers, be this from the perspective of local or central government, immigration advice services or homelessness sector service providers.
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Funding Homelessness Prevention
Report defining the parameters of an ideal voluntary and community sector funding programme to advance homelessness prevention in England.
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Fairness in Enterprise
With the huge amount of potential learning from the EPD programme, and having identified an area of specific concern relating to ethical enterprise development, Homeless Link had a unique opportunity to reach into this area to understand and enhance the business models of enterprises and the roles and experience of service users within this.
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Delivering for Women: Learning from the Ending Women’s Homelessness Fund
Our research, published today, documents some of the key insights and impacts of the Ending Women’s Homelessness Fund.
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Our Housing First Research
Homeless Link’s Housing First England research programme is designed to learn directly from services about how Housing First operates in England. We are using this new evidence to continue to develop services, to strengthen the relationship between these providers and the related services working with them to support residents, and to ensure that Housing First is a viable option for all those that need it.
Past funds
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Albert Hunt Capital Capacity Fund
The Albert Hunt Capital Capacity fund gave organisations the chance to improve their evidence of need to approach capital funds going forward.
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Thrive together fund
The new Thrive Together Fund provided unrestricted funding to unlock the growth of small and medium sized charities and social enterprises.
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Enterprise Development
Homeless Link works with our members to help them develop trading and other income generation. In recent years this has included a specific Enterprise Development Fund.
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Immigration Advice to Rough Sleepers
Funded by the GLA and managed by Homeless Link, the Immigration Advice for Rough Sleepers Fund delivered seven projects across London to better integrate homelessness and immigration services.
