OUR APPROACH
CHK Foundation undertakes its own research to determine the charities it wishes to consider for funding and will make direct contact to begin discussions about opportunities. Applications for funding are therefore not invited.
We award grants under three different programmes:
CHK Main Grants
For the 5 years to December 2028, we are using our Main Grant Programme to support UK registered charities working to protect the environment, or helping young people leaving secondary education to transition successfully into employment
CHK Discretionary Fund
Grants from this fund are made at the discretion of the trustees in line with their philanthropic interests
CHK Emergency /Disaster Fund
Grants from this fund provide financial support for charitable work both nationally and internationally in response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises.
OUR AWARDS
Open data
For awards from 1 January 2020, we publish our grants via 360Giving, an initiative that aims to help UK funders publish their data in an open and standard format online. You can explore our grantmaking, and that of over 100 other funders, using 360Giving’s GrantNav and Insights tools.
Click here to link to an entry about CHK Foundation on 360Giving’s GrantNav.
Our grant data can also be downloaded in the following Excel spreadsheet:
CHK Foundation Grants awarded and paid from 1 Jan 2020
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Examples of recent grants
Recent CHK Emergency /Disaster Grants
British Red Cross Society awarded a grant for the Red Cross Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territory Appeal
AfghanAid awarded a grant for their Afghanistan Earthquake October 2023
British Red Cross Society awarded a grant for their Morocco Earthquake and Libya Floods Appeals
Hands Up Foundation awarded a grant for work supporting the most vulnerable Syrian communities
Plan International UK awarded a grant for their Sudan Appeal.
Hands Up Foundation awarded a grant for their Emergency Earthquake Appeal, Syria
Examples of CHK Foundation Main Grant Awards from the 2019-2023 Young People at Risk Grant Programme
Mindfulness In Schools Project (registered charity number 1168992) was awarded a grant to subsidise training for 36 state school teachers in how to teach mindfulness to primary school age children and 5 teachers to become School Mindfulness Leads
OCD Action (registered charity number 1154202) was awarded a grant to assist in the development of services aimed at supporting young people suffering with OCD
IntoUniversity (registered charity number 1118525) was awarded a grant to support, over the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years, three key programmes of support (Transitions Support /Holiday Workshops /Mentoring) to young people at key pressure points in their lives.
Volunteering Matters (registered charity number 291222) was awarded a grant to run a grandmentors programme for 2 years and, during that time, to develop and deliver a sustainable placed based funding model
Carefree – Fostering Independence Cornwall (registered charity number 1124492) was awarded a grant to research/explore /develop housing options with interested stakeholders to create a sustainable housing model for care leavers in Cornwall by 2025.
7 charities (listed below) have been funded to set up and deliver the first 2-years of the Gloucestershire Mentoring Programme (GMP). The GMP aims to offer long term relationships with a trusted adult to girls and young women living in Gloucestershire who are considered at risk of crime.
- 1625 Independent People – a registered society (Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, reg: 23964R exempt from registration with the Charity Commission)
- The Door – registered charity number 1131919
- Breathe Youth – registered charity number 1180351
- We All Matter – registered charity number 1170638
- Nelson Trust – registered charity number 1056672
- Young Gloucestershire – registered charity number 281797
- Thames Valley Partnership – registered charity number 1031545
The Avenues Youth Project (registered charity number 1090210) was awarded a 2 year grant to expand their Seniors programme.
The Mix (registered charity number 1048995) was awarded a grant to make The Mix the leading online resource for information reflecting young people’s experiences of drugs and addiction.
Break (registered charity number 286650) was awarded a grant for ‘Fostering Futures’, to provide intense wrap-around support to young people leaving foster care in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire to enable them to make successful transitions to independent living.