# Two funding rounds for social mobility charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/03/24/two-funding-rounds-for-social-mobility-charities/
- Published: 2025-03-24T16:17:36+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Persimmon Charitable Foundation has launched a new open application programme
for charities and community groups that are focused on social mobility.**

A **total of £200,000** is available, spread over two application rounds. Each round
will offer two grants of £50,000.

The first, which is now open, will award the two grants in May.

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A second round of funding will open in June, with the further two £50,000 grants
awarded in
September.

Applications are encouraged from organisations that focus on social mobility and
youth development, including learning and training.

![Children cycling outside Persimmon homes.](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2025/03/children-cycling-outside-persimmon-homes-2024.jpg)

Photo: Persimmon Homes Ltd

Anthony Vigor, Chair of the Foundation, said: “This new open application programme
will create new opportunities for us to support organisations that tackle inequality
and aid social mobility, helping us to
change more lives.”

The Persimmon Charitable Foundation was set up in 2015 to help support the communities
in which
Persimmon Homes operates. It supports projects that address deprivation
or disadvantage, especially among young people. These include social mobility and
youth development, such as learning and training.

Since 2022 the Foundation has donated over £1 million to good causes.

The deadline for applications for the first round of funding is **11.59pm on Sunday
13 April** **2025**.

Details are available from the [Persimmon Charitable Foundation](https://www.persimmonhomes.com/corporate/foundation).

 * **[Persimmon Homes creates £750k community fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/18/persimmon-homes-creates-750k-community-fund/)(
   18 March 2015)
 * **[Persimmon Homes to give £1 million a year to youth causes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/12/persimmon-homes-to-give-1-million-a-year-to-youth-causes/)(
   12 February 2019)
 * **[Leicester charity wins £250,000 home](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/09/27/leicester-charity-wins-250000-house/)(
   27 September 2012)**