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THRIVE programme will open for applications on 1st September 2025 and close at 12 noon on 26th September 2025.
We will be offering 3 online pre-application sessions @ 11am on Thursday 28th August 2025, Tuesday 2nd September 2025 and Thursday 4th September 2025 – (Please email grants@halifaxfoundationni.org to register)
THRIVE is delivered in partnership with our sister foundations across the UK – Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales, Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands, and Bank of Scotland Foundation. This has been made possible thanks to an additional donation from our sole funder, Lloyds Banking Group to celebrate 40 years of grant giving.
What do we mean by financial resilience?
Financial resilience is about being prepared for life’s ups and downs. It’s the ability to foresee, plan for, and adapt to changes and unexpected financial challenges. Whether it’s a small shift or a sudden shock to your personal or household finances, financial resilience means having the strength to not just survive but thrive.
THRIVE aims to support charities in providing financial advice, building financial resilience, delivering financial education, or encouraging good financial health among people in greatest need. This could include providing practical financial support, budgeting assistance, help with debt management, financial education, and personalised advice, to help people navigate financial challenges and build long-term resilience.
In addition, this grants programme is open to charities who offer, or who would like to offer financial resilience related activities but for whom this is not their core purpose e.g. we know that many charities have a primary purpose such as homelessness, disability, ethnicity, mental health and domestic abuse and that financial resilience and support intersects with many of these issues.
All financial advice must be provided by professionally trained advisors.
THRIVE will provide support of up to £15,000 over 2 years.
Community Foundation
The Community Foundation’s vision is a fair and equitable society for everyone. We want to see a place where generosity and fairness changes lives, communities flourish, and everyone feels they belong. We want to support and continue to advocate for and give greater voice to those most marginalised in our community.
Following the hate riots in the summer of 2024, the rise in misinformation and disinformation, and our Building Solidarity conference in January 2025, the Foundation has developed a small grants fund to support grassroots initiatives. We recognise the value of grassroots community activity to help educate and inform and change lives.
Between £3,000 to £5,000
Community Foundation NI is working in partnership with SWEF Enterprise Fund
To be eligible to apply, you need to: – Be between the ages of 18-30 – Live in Northern Ireland – Applications must come from a majority shareholder – Be from a low-income household or facing other financial challenges preventing you from developing your business
Up to £2000
The National Lottery
Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund supports amazing community-led projects.
They offer funding from £300 to £20,000. And can support your project for up to two years.
They can fund projects that’ll do at least one of these things:
- bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities
- improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
- help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage
- support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.
Between £300 to £20,000
The National Lottery
Strengthening Communities is funding for community led projects. It will help us deliver our strategy, ‘It starts with community.’
They know that communities have many strengths and resources. They’ll fund projects that use these to help make people’s lives better.
Your project must:
- involve people who experience poverty, disadvantage or discrimination
- support people early to help prevent negative experiences
- be led by your community and build on its strengths and connections.
Any size of organisation can apply for £200,000 to £500,000.
Only smaller organisations can apply for less than £200,000
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