The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

People’s Postcode Trust funds new projects, or significant expansions of existing projects, in Great Britain. These projects can be up to 12 months in length. They provide funding under the themes: Promoting human rights, combatting discrimination, and preventing poverty.

Postcode Community Trust provides funding under the themes: Improving community health and wellbeing, increasing participation in arts and physical recreation, and reducing isolation.

Grants are given to help educate and inform people about financial literacy, consumer or debt issues. There is a different themed round each year. The Life Changing Transitions round focuses on building financial capability skills and assisting groups who support bereavement, redundancy, retirement, relationship breakdown, homelessness, offenders and resettlement.

Each month the committee makes donations to small general charities and to charities focused on the conservation or wildlife and the environment. Ful guidance is available via the website. For general charities see criteria for the General Fund. For conservation and environmental charities, see criteria for The Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust.

ABCT supports charities that defend human rights and promote respect for vulnerable individuals whatever their circumstances. The Trust is particularly interested in charities that work with marginalised and excluded people in society, with a focus on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners and penal reform, human rights, particularly access to justice.

CAF provides social investment loans which are unsecured (which means they don't take a charge or security against your assets). Investments are tailored to the needs of the organisations they finance and can be used for specific projects or to support day-to-day working capital. They can provide loans to support growth or cashflow needs, build affordable homes and get social enterprises started.

A partnership between Unbound Philanthropy, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Legal Education Foundation is making available £600,000 over three years from 2018 through the Transition Advice Fund (TAF). The fund aims to ensure that EU citizens living in the UK have the support that is needed to secure their right to settled status. TAF will prioritise those who are likely to face barriers, described in this Migration Observatory report, and has a particular interest in the needs and rights of young people. Recent attention given to the Windrush generation and young people who have spent the majority of their lives in the UK but do not have settled status highlights the importance of this fund.

The Cruach Trust is a small Scottish charity, which provides financial support for gardeners, retired gardeners and for preserving gardens throughout the United Kingdom. The trustees also have discretion to make donations to a wide range of organisations in the UK and abroad. Examples of grants are for: supporting a horticultural apprenticeship, arranged through the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; gardens, wildlife and the natural environment; music, the arts and cultural charities; medical research and support; organisations working with children, the elderly and vulnerable.

The Veterans’ Foundation has established a grants programme to support charities and organizations that provide lifetime support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans and their immediate families. They support a broad range of charities and organizations and cover every aspect of social care including: homelessness, employability, poverty, disability, welfare issues, mental health, marriage guidance, care during old age and confidence building.