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Upcoming Opportunities

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UK funding opportunity for the Youth Homelessness & Racial Justice sectors

Comic Relief is excited to announce the launch a new funding opportunity in the coming weeks with two distinct pathways.

Pathway 1: Seeks to fund organisations providing wrap-around support to young people aged 16–25 who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

Pathway 2: Seeks to fund organisations that have the ambition and experience to advance racial justice through influence and advocacy within the homelessness sector, by challenging the systems and structures that create and sustain racial inequalities.

Further funding criteria is being developed. More information about the funding and the application process will be made available w/c 30th March 2026.

Closed Opportunities

Community Justice Fund

The Community Justice Fund will invest in Led By and For organisations and movements specialising in racial justice and/ or gender justice, registered AND delivering work in Northeast England, Wales, West Midlands and/ or Yorkshire and the Humber.

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Gender Justice Fund

The Gender Justice Fund will invest in women’s rights organisations and feminist movements in Sierra Leone that are creating sustainable change for their communities.

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Re-Rooted: Safety and security for refugees and asylum seekers

The Re-Rooted programme will invest in organisations that specialise in delivering services and support for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, and that are doing influencing work for safer routes and improved outcomes for people affected.

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Tech for Good 2021: Build

This initiative is now closed to applications. Tech for Good: Build is giving organisations the chance to explore new approaches to improve people’s lives, alongside access to technical support from experts and advisors.

Change Makers

This initiative is now closed to applications. Change Makers is supporting innovative solutions to problems affecting vulnerable people that have been overlooked or under-resourced at a local, regional and national level.

Supporting and sustaining specialism

This initiative is now closed to applications. The Supporting & Sustaining Specialism fund is investing in projects to end Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) led by and for Black and minoritised women.

Every Step of the Way: Safe & Supported Beyond Homelessness

The Every Step of the Way programme will invest in organisations that specialise in delivering holistic support for young people aged 16-25 in the UK, who are at risk of, or experiencing homelessness.

Grants

Flexible funding

Building on our promise to stand by the sector, we commit to being a more open and trusting funder by distributing investments in a way that reflects the realities facing our funded partners, and managing our relationships in a way that reflects our confidence in, and respect for, the organisations we fund.

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