Responsive Grants Programme 2024

The Responsive Grants Programme provides single year grants to address specific challenges faced by charity partners of the Leathersellers' Foundation. This programme is by invitation only and is targeted to current or recent grantees, with focus and criteria changing each year. In 2023-24, the programme aims to support current Main Charity Grant Holders to invest in their energy sustainability and reduce energy costs. The programme provides three opportunities: Carbon Literacy Training and Certification, Energy Audits, and Capital Improvement Grants (up to £10,000). Responsive giving is about recognizing additional pressures placed on grantees by things beyond their control and assigning funds to help them overcome these challenges, thereby improving their long-term resilience and ability to carry out core areas of their work. The Foundation has held responsive grants programmes in previous years, including the Jubilee Fund 2021-22 that provided £210,000 to support charity partners rebuilding post-pandemic, and the 2022-23 programme that supported ten charity partners with £15,000 each to address the cost-of-living crisis.