THE VETERANS' FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 1166953 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£17.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£8.2m

Accounts grants total

£8.8m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Eligible organisations must complete an online application form after passing an eligibility checker. The Veterans’ Foundation uses a rolling grants approach for Standard and Salary Grants on a trial basis to remove pressure of deadlines.
Deadlines: The Small Grants programme is rolling with no specific closing date, though applicants may submit no more than one application per quarter. Standard and Salary Grants have decision timelines of 12-16 weeks. Major Grants applications are currently closed for 2026.

Summarised from www.veteransfoundation.org.uk · www.veteransfoundation.org.uk/fundraise-for-veterans/ · www.veteransfoundation.org.uk/fundraisers/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (2 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Accommodation/housing (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Durham (1 grantee)
Liverpool City (1 grantee)
Newcastle Upon Tyne City (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Support provided to the Armed Forces Community	FY2025	£2.9m	Support provided to the Armed Forces Community
Health & Wellbeing – Support through peer/professional outreach services (e.g. Social Events, Sports, Arts & community hubs, drop-ins, advice services, etc)	FY2025	£1.5m	Health & Wellbeing – Support through peer/professional outreach services (e.g. Social Events, Sports, Arts & community hubs, drop-ins, advice services, etc)
Health & Wellbeing - Support for mental and physical health challenges (e.g. Counselling Support)	FY2025	£1.0m	Health & Wellbeing - Support for mental and physical health challenges (e.g. Counselling Support)
Family & Carers Welfare and Wellbeing and related support	FY2025	£805k	Family & Carers Welfare and Wellbeing and related support
Health & Wellbeing - Mental Health & to reduce social and build community	FY2025	£708k	Health & Wellbeing - Mental Health & to reduce social and build community
Homelessness / Housing and related support	FY2025	£653k	Homelessness / Housing and related support
Tackling Disadvantage and Other Aspects of Service Life (Includes grants for support to reduce social and build community)	FY2025	£623k	Tackling Disadvantage and Other Aspects of Service Life (Includes grants for support to reduce social and build community)
AF&V Launchpad Limited	FY2024	£80k
Heropreneurs	FY2024	£30k
AF&V Launchpad Limited	FY2022	£161k
Heropreneurs	FY2022	£60k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 8248000 vs reference 8805000 (6.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.