Henry Duncan Grants was re-launched in 2020 with changes including a move to multi-year grants, unrestricted grants, and a rolling programme of micro grants. The fund will focus on a different theme each year. For 2020 this is - Enabling families to cope with the impacts of poverty. See website for future themes.

Henry Duncan Grants was re-launched in 2020 with changes including a move to multi-year grants, unrestricted grants, and a rolling programme of micro grants. The fund will focus on a different theme each year. For 2020 this is - Enabling families to cope with the impacts of poverty. See website for future themes.

The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

Young Start is a grants programme that distributes money from dormant bank accounts. They will support a wide range of projects for up to three years that will make children and young people aged 8 to 24 confident, healthy, connected or enterprising. They will fund work that achieves at least one of the following three outcomes: children and young people have better physical, mental and emotional wellbeing; children and young people have better connections with the wider community; children and young people get access to new skills and training opportunities which will help them to get a new job or start a business. The National Lottery Community Fund is the new name for the Big Lottery.

People’s Postcode Trust funds new projects, or significant expansions of existing projects, in Great Britain. These projects can be up to 12 months in length. They provide funding under the themes: Promoting human rights, combatting discrimination, and preventing poverty.

The Agnes Hunter Trust was established to support registered charities delivering health and social welfare projects in Scotland. Applications must fit within one of the two policy areas: charities that help disabled people such as those living with learning disabilities, mental ill health, specific types of cancer, cerebral palsy, autism, visual or physical impairments; charities that assist with the education and training of disadvantaged people aged 16 years or over who have left school. This includes those whose life experiences or environment have so far denied them opportunities to develop the skills to support themselves and contribute positively to society. Priorities for the Trust include services or projects that focus on: self-management and awareness; advice, support and information; life-skills training; employability, particularly in relation to IT, literacy and numeracy; helping people participate and contribute to their community.

Postcode Community Trust provides funding under the themes: Improving community health and wellbeing, increasing participation in arts and physical recreation, and reducing isolation.

Funds are given to help disadvantaged young people and to address problems faced by offenders, ex-offenders and their families. There is a preference for supporting smaller charities which provide direct services.

The Trust's biggest category of funding is youth opportunities where they aim to level the playing field for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. They support a wide range of activities including: adventure training and character building, employability skills and opportunities, widening horizons and raising aspirations, youth social action, improving educational attainment, mentoring and coaching, alternatives to local authority care homes, and providing a safe place for young people to socialise and develop. General welfare is their second largest category and includes strengthening family relationships, support for offenders, ex-offenders and their families, supporting rural areas, reducing isolation of the elderly, foodbanks, adoption support, homelessness, early years’ intervention and looked after young people. Conservation, preservation, peace and humanitarian support and Africa are other areas that receive support.

The Foundation aims to make a positive difference to people living in England, Scotland and Wales with special consideration for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Donations are made in two ways: by match funding the money raised by Morrison's colleagues for charities (match funding programme - up to £1000 per request); and by awarding grants to charities which help improve peoples lives. The principle funding sources are the sale of plastic carrier bags and a proportion of income from clothing banks, Morrison's Charity Scratch cards and car park fines.