The key dates in the application process for 2024 are:

Applications for more than £350,000 need to be considered by the LEF’s full Board, if approval is recommended by the Grants Committee, so notification would be by late June (for the Spring Round) or late December (for the Autumn Round).

Updating our strategy

In 2024, our Spring and Autumn grant rounds are taking place as usual under our Stronger Sector and Fairer Systems funding programmes. Please do make sure to check our guidelines for any updates before submitting any application. Our current guidelines will continue to apply as will our other priorities (listed here), such as ensuring that people with lived experience are at the heart of leadership and strategy.

In 2025, our Spring grant round will only be open for renewals for organisations currently funded under LEF’s open programmes, whose grants are due to end during 2025. It will be closed to all other applications as we prepare to announce our new strategy. Our Autumn 2025 grant round will then be open to everyone for new applications under our new strategy.

Although our new strategy won’t be announced until summer 2025, we want to make sure that this period of strategic review causes as little uncertainty as possible for our grant partners. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the LEF staff member who is managing your grant if you are a current grant partner, or contact us via our website. You can read more about our new strategy here.