# Grants available from Standard Life Foundation for financial wellbeing work

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/05/07/grants-available-from-standard-life-foundation-for-financial-wellbeing-work/
- Published: 2019-05-07T08:45:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Standard Life Foundation is offering grants to support work on financial wellbeing.**

The Foundation is inviting proposals from organisations seeking funding for policy
work, campaigning and research focused on its three programme areas:

 * Income (wages, welfare benefits, pensions, and taxation)
 * Spending (cost of living, consumer spending, gambling, borrowing and payment 
   problems)
 * Assets (general saving, retirement saving, housing and taxation)

Organisations have until 3 June 2019 at 1pm [to apply](https://www.standardlifefoundation.org.uk/funding/overview).
There is no minimum or maximum size of grant, however most grants will range between
£10,000 and £250,000, with the majority for between £50,000 to £150,000 in total.
Few grants will be made for more than £150,000.

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This is [Standard Life Foundation](https://www.standardlifefoundation.org.uk/home)‘
s second funding round of 2019 and will be the final call for applications for 2019.
The Foundation intends to make grants of around £2million per year.

The Foundation has also launched a new website with funding guidelines to help applicants
with their proposals.

Mubin Haq, Standard Life Foundation Chief Executive, said:

> “We’re delighted to invite applications for funding and look forward to making
> our first grants in June 2019. We want to offer more than just money and to be
> engaged in the issues we’re funding.
> “We encourage people to get in touch with their ideas for how we can ensure we
> improve living standards and tackle financial problems. We don’t just fund research,
> we are interested in campaigns and policy work to ensure strategic change in this
> area – for work that could make a real and lasting difference to the lives of 
> people living on low to middle incomes in the UK.”

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