# Funding offered for small UK charities’ digital presence

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/02/27/funding-offered-for-small-uk-charities-digital-presence/
- Published: 2026-02-27T11:56:49+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Fat Beehive Foundation is offering grants of up to £2,500 to help UK-based
charities with an annual turnover of less than £1 million improve their digital 
presence. **

Every year, the Fat Beehive digital agency allocates a portion of its profits to
the foundation, to make sure that small charities across the UK have the opportunity
to expand their reach and change more lives for the better.

Recognising the difficulty small organisations face in securing funding for digital
transformation, the foundation aims to bridge this gap.

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The funding supports specific digital projects such as building new websites, developing
online resources, or improving digital accessibility, rather than general IT needs.
Trustees are particularly keen to support traditionally hard-to-fund organisations,
including those working with prisoners, refugees, or disadvantaged youth.

Grants are awarded twice a year. The next application deadline is **31 March 2026**,
for review at the April trustee meeting, with the subsequent deadline being the 
end of September for the October meeting. Charities must allow up to three months
for a response and are required to provide a supporting quote for the work.

The guidance on applications is _very_ clear: charities need to check that they 
are eligible first so as not to waste their time or that of the foundation. The 
[Fat Beehive Foundation](https://www.fatbeehivefoundation.org.uk/) is _not_ a funder
of general IT support e.g. software and hardware.

 * **[Funding developments in December 2025](https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/12/16/funding-developments-in-december-2025/)(
   16 December 2025)
 * **[Two new foundations for the UK, digital funding for small charities, and more grant news](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/08/02/two-new-foundations-for-the-uk-digital-funding-for-small-charities-more-grant-news/)(
   2 August 2024)**