📅Deadline: 30th November 2025
Grant Amount: £200
The Boring Fund, founded by Christina Poulton, offers UK-based grassroots charities, CICs, and voluntary groups with £200 grants to help cover essential but often overlooked overhead expenses like insurance, web hosting, admin time, training, and office costs.
This initiative is part of a broader commentary on the complexity of funding systems, specifically aiming to simplify the process:
- Only a 5-minute application,
- No reporting or red tape,
- Funds are allocated randomly, ensuring fairness.
📌 Eligibility:
- Registered not-for-profit organisations (charities, CICs, constituted groups) based in the UK with a UK bank account;
- Typically under £150,000 annual turnover, with minimal paid staff.
Excluded: PTAs, individuals, for-profit entities.
📅 Timeline:
- Applications open 1–30 November,
- Successful applicants notified by 19 December.
This fund is ideal for small community-run libraries that struggle with funding classic “boring” essentials granting you £200 free to spend on the basics, no strings attached. Consider applying if covering these everyday costs is currently a challenge.