London Fund

what is the London fund?

Thanks to the generosity of City Bridge Foundation, The LGBT+ Fund, powered by Consortium, will be awarding a total of £785,000 over a 3-year period to organisations and groups supporting London’s LGBT+ communities.

This fund has been designed to provide accessible, flexible, and community-informed funding for LGBT+ organisations and groups in all 32 boroughs. We have a particular focus on groups that are grassroots, volunteer-led, under-resourced and often excluded from mainstream funding. It aims to strengthen support for communities facing the greatest inequity, including trans-led, global majority-led, faith-inclusive and other intersectional groups. We want to support groups that provide a wide range of activity such as frontline services, community spaces, collaboration, leadership, organisational resilience, and work addressing housing insecurity, health inequalities and access to trans-affirming care.

Groups can apply for a 1, 2 or 3 year grant for amounts between £2,000 - £20,000 yearly.

The fund opens to applications on Wednesday 17th June 2026 at 12pm noon and closes to applications on Wednesday 12th August 2026 at 12pm noon.

We can award grants towards:

• Core or running costs such as staff salaries, building rent, utilities, management, administration and training costs.

• Project and activity costs such as a venue hire, refreshments, volunteer expenses or participant transport costs.

who can apply?

Organisations/groups with a yearly income of £500,000 or less in the last financial year are eligible to apply to the fund.

Applicants must be a UK based non-profit organisation/group delivering activities and services to the LGBT+ community in one or more of the 32 boroughs of London. Ideally, applicants will be based in London, however we appreciate that many organisations/groups are based just outside of London, or do not have a permanent address/base. In these instances, the majority of your work should take place in London and benefit LGBT+ Londoners.

Organisations/groups must have been supporting the LGBT+ community in London for a minimum of 1 year to apply to the fund.

We primarily seek to support LGBT+ led by and for organisations/groups, but understand that for some organisations/groups, supporting the LGBT+ community in London is a large element of what they do, but isn’t their sole purpose for existing. For example, a mental health charity based in London that runs a regular LGBT+ group. In this instance, for wider organisations applying, any provision for the LGBT+ community should be led by an LGBT+ person.

Our guidance document includes more information on which boroughs and LGBT+ communities we are prioritising funding.

Please be aware that funding is limited, and we expect the programme to be oversubscribed. We are unlikely to be able to fund all applications received, and only a limited number of larger grants are likely to be awarded. Based on similar programmes we have delivered, approximately 1 in 5 applications may be successful.

how to apply

Applications can be submitted online using the link on this page via a written form or video application. We encourage you to visit the eligibility checker page, fund guidance before applying. We also have a frequently asked questions page.

We have a plain text version of the application form to view here. Applicants cannot use this to apply, all applications must be submitted via out online forms.

We appreciate it may be some people’s first time submitting a funding application and/or some people may find form-filling challenging. We want to remove as many barriers to receiving funding as possible through this Fund. The Giving team are available to provide support and advice with your application and are also happy to do a supported application where we accept application form answers via a call.

If you think you may need assistance in applying, please do get in contact early once the fund opens to ensure there is enough time for the team to provide appropriate support.

decision turnaround

Once the fund closes to applications, light-touch due diligence checks are undertaken, and the decision-panel make their assessments of the applications. Due to the number of applications we are expecting, we anticipate communicating funding decisions by the end of November 2026.

fund timeline

Wednesday 17 June 2026

Fund Launches

The fund will open to applications at 12pm noon.

Wednesday 17 June 2026

Wednesday 12 August 2026

Application Window Closes

The fund will close to applications at 12pm noon.

Wednesday 12 August 2026

August/September 2026

Due Diligence Checks

All applications will go through a light-touch due diligence process by our Giving Team to ensure eligibility and to provide any relevant information to our community panellists.

August/September 2026

October/November 2026

Community Panel Assessments

Decisions will be made by a community panel, formed of LGBT+ people with a diverse range of lived experiences.

The panellists will look to make a collective decision on whether to award a grant, based on eligibility and priority of need.

October/November 2026

By 30 November 2026

Outcomes Communicated

All applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by the end of November 2026.

By 30 November 2026

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Applying is as simple as 1, 2, 3...

1. Check your eligibility

Check whether you are eligible to apply for this fund before you begin your application. Click on the button below to find out more.

Eligibility Checker

2. Read the guidance

It is essential that you read the fund guidance before you begin your application. Access the guidance document using the button below.

Download Guidance

3. Create your application

Once you've checked your eligibility and read the guidance, you can begin your application by clicking on the button below.

Apply Here

Frequently Asked Questions

We have compiled a list of frequently asked questions, as well as some questions which are specific to this fund.
Click on the button below to find out more.

FAQ's

If you have any other questions about the fund, that you can't find answers to using the resources above, then please get in touch with the Giving Team who will be more than happy to help.