Our Grants

We have made a commitment to ensure our grant making is transparent and equitable, working on the basis of trust with the organisations we fund.  Where possible we offer unrestricted funding, this means working flexibly with grantees recognising that they often know how best to spend funds to continue their work, develop and support those most in need. Sometimes the funds we receive come with restrictions, which we have to pass onto the organisations we fund.

We aim to keep our operating costs to a minimum to ensure as much of the funds we raise go directly to supporting as many people as possible.

Current grants

Improving Outcomes

Supporting 59 organisations across England and Wales with £10m in funding over 21 months to sustain and improve access to early social welfare legal advice.

Improving Lives

Supporting 59 organisations across England with £30m of funding over five years to provide social welfare legal advice for people, places, and communities most in need.

Pro Bono

Supporting organisations across the UK with £500,000 of funding over two years to enhance access to pro bono legal services for disabled people.

Previous grants

Open and Trusting Grant-Making

We are committed to being an open and trusting grant maker and strive to work towards IVAR’s eight commitments: to not waste time, to ask relevant questions, to accept risk, to act with urgency, to be open, to enable flexibility, to communicate with purpose and to be proportionate.

Open Grants Data

Transparency is key to our grantmaking process. We share all our grantmaking data to help potential applicants understand our priorities and the work we support. This data can be found on our 360Giving GrantNav here.