Welcome for Newcomers Grant

They want to support newcomers to the UK by providing grants that will combine practical and specialist assistance. They want to fund social and community activities that build trust, connection and a sense of belonging. For example, cooking or language classes, sports and volunteering. Their priorities are:

• Specialist support, for example with IAA-regulated immigration advice, rights and entitlements, destitution and housing matters, healthcare and therapeutic trauma support, English language education and employment. This includes culturally specific support, for example women-only or LGBT+ services. We anticipate that grant holders will deliver much of this work, but we aren’t prescriptive. We understand that providing high-quality support might mean referring people to specialist providers.
• Enabling belonging through regular social contact and relationship building within newcomer communities and between newcomers and other residents. This might be through activities involving food, sport or the arts, volunteering or community sponsorship.
• Influencing work to help improve local conditions for Welcome. This might mean strengthening links with local employers and educators or influencing local authority policies and practices that impact newcomers’ rights. And their ability to connect with and participate in the community.

Eligible organisations:

• A record of provision for at least 18 months in the three core elements of welcome work

• Charitable purpose, mission or objects to support newcomers to the UK

• Ongoing, long-term access to a safe, accessible physical space or spaces where the work is delivered.

• A year’s worth of accounts that have been audited or independently examined

• Up-to-date Safeguarding policy and practices

They prioritise:

• A distribution of grant holders across the UK, working in different urban/rural contexts.
• Organisations/partnerships that can demonstrate how they ensure that the people with lived experience they support shape or lead their work.
• Organisations/partnerships that are rooted in their local communities, cooperate and collaborate with other local stakeholders and decision-makers to strengthen local Welcome.

Submit an expression of interest form by 5pm on 26/08/26. You will be notified by the end of the week commencing 14th September if you’re invited to submit a full application.