United St Saviour's Charity grants

Overview

United St Saviour's Charity is a local foundation focused on the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation and housing, based in Southwark, London. Its Core Grants programme offers three-year core or unrestricted grants of £30,000 to £150,000, proportionate to an organisation's turnover, to groups aligned with its vision of equity, empowerment and prevention. Separately, its recorded past grants — largely emergency COVID-19 relief funding awarded in 2020 — had a median of £6,425 across 47 recorded grants.

What they fund

United St Saviour's Charity funds the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation and housing, with its Core Grants programme favouring organisations aligned with equity, empowerment and prevention.

Who and where

It is a local foundation focused on Southwark, London, funding other charities and voluntary bodies working with groups including disabled people, children and young people, and elderly people.

Who they help

Where they fund

What United St Saviour's Charity says in its own guidance

Quoted directly from the funder’s own website, with a link to the page each quote came from. Always the most current word is theirs — check the source before you apply.

What a typical grant looks like

Recent grants

• Community SouthwarkThe funding is to develop an online VCS support system composed of three linked digital platforms: 1. online interface that triages volunteers 2. database of VCS organisations which will support the matching of vulnerable individuals with available services 3. public interactive map of covid-19 support in Southwark£20,000June 2020
• Astbury Road Area Residents Association (ARARA)The funding is to - fund several initiatives to boost morale in lieu of our cancelled summer street party and community gardening workshop; - replace lost revenue from fundraising events; - provide food and transport to residents in need; - ensure all our volunteers are adequately equipped with PPE.£3,500June 2020
• Salmon Youth Centre in BermondseyAdapting our services to offer more support to local struggling families who have been hard-hit by the pandemic, and offering academic support to children and young people who ordinarily struggle in school and who are now chronically behind academically because they have not received any homeschooling during lockdown. One to one wellbeing support to children and young people who are in crisis.£21,500May 2020
• Citizens Advice SouthwarkThis funding will be used to help us increase our capacity to provide advice on welfare benefits and employment, and to switch more of our services to digital channels by redeploying (and bringing back into delivery) volunteers to work from home at a time of increased demand.£12,478May 2020
• Dads HouseThe funding is for providing food to vulnerable families in crisis during the Pandemic. Recipients who have fallen through the net & not receiving other funding. For many this is the first time they have had to rely on a foodbank for food, emotional support, and a place to turn to.£10,000May 2020
• Lambeth and Southwark MindOur main purpose is to promote, preserve and safeguard good mental health and to assist in the relief and recovery of people in the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark who are experiencing mental health problems or conditions of mental or emotional distress that require treatment, advice or support. We do this through the provision of free, innovative, long-term psychotherapy services.£7,179May 2020

From grants United St Saviour's Charity publishes openly via 360Giving (the UK open grants-data standard), used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

Their charitable objects

As registered with the Charity Commission (their formal purposes):

The relief in need of persons resident in the area of benefit in particular by the provision of accommodation and by such other means as the trustees think fit.

How to approach them

Start with the official sources — they’re always more current than any directory, including this one.

Common questions