Quaker Housing Trust

Loans and grants are offered to charities to provide homes for those in need. We invite applications under two programmes:

Project Development Grants

Organisationsat an early stage in developing a project can apply for a grant of up to £6,000 for research into the feasibility of proposals to improve, expand or create genuinely affordable, environmentally sustainable rented housing for those in need.

We expect you to employ a suitably qualified person to do the work, not necessarily an architect or a surveyor, if exploring the purpose of your project is the aim of the study.

Please see the guidance and checklist of issues that should be addressed at an early stage of a project.

Grants are paid by reimbursing paid invoices for work that has been completed. If funding is awarded, we require a copy of the report to be submitted along with the claim for reimbursement of approved expenditure.

Capital Loans and Grants

We initially invite a simple Expression of Interest from registered charities.  If selected, you will be invited to submit a detailed stage 2 application.  

Interest-free Loans

For projects generating income from rent, we offer interest-free loans up to £30,000 with a 5% administration fee payable at the end of the 10-year loan period.

For awards of over £20,000, we take out a “restriction on title” for properties in England and Wales, meaning the property cannot be sold without our consent - which will be given once the loan is repaid.

Grant Funding

We offer up to £20,000 to housing projects for people designated as having No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) under the Immigration Acts. (Click this link for a definition of NRPF.)

Eligibility

To be eligible for an award, organisations applying for our support must:

●      Be a registered charity

●      Be an organisation with less than £1.5m annual turnover [we make an exception for Quaker bodies]

●      Operate in England, Scotland, Wales,the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

We do not fund:

●      Direct support to individuals

●      Support to groups where the recipients of funding are also the direct beneficiaries (such as self-help groups, full mutual co-operatives or Cohousing groups)

●      Service provision, whether to occupants or other people (e.g. advice, support, training or placement services)

●      Organisational development, operational or running costs

●      Salaries

●      Work which should properly be part of a planned maintenance programme

●      Housing which is to be sold to the occupants or other private owners

●      Housing which is to be rented out for profit or used as an investment property.

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