The Quaker Housing Trust offers advice, support, grants and interest-free loans to small registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales to help them provide safe, decent and affordable homes for people of all ages who are 'often in desperate need' of housing.
The Trust currently offers two separate restricted funding programmes:
- Best practice grants of up to £6,000 for early in the development of a project to ensure the project reaches the highest possible standards. The grant is to pay for professional fees associated either with an environmental assessment or testing the feasibility of specific proposals to improve, expand or create new genuinely affordable rented housing.
- The Main Grants and Loans Programme to fund projects which create homes. Grants of up to £20,000 are available for capital projects for people with No Recourse to Public Funds. Loans of up to £30,000 (no grants) are for capital projects generating income from their tenants. Awards over £20,000 will require security against the loan.
Until the end of 2026, there is particular interest in:
- Projects in areas geographically underrepresented in previous grant applications (East of England, Wales, Southwest of England (Somerset, Devon, Cornwall)
- Organisations working with people with No Recourse to Public Funds
- Organisations working with minoritised communities (as per the definition in the Equality Act 2010)
- Organisations working with people leaving prison.
Applications will be considered from UK registered charities that are based and operating within England, Scotland or Wales and have an income of less than £1.5 million for the Main grants and loans programme and under £1 million for the Best Practice grants. They must be meeting a real and demonstrable housing need and letting the homes at a realistic rent which low income occupants can genuinely afford. The length of occupancy must be at least three months.
The deadline for applications is 19 June 2025 (12 noon).
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