Get InVOLved Innovation Fund

What is it?

Funding and advice to help organisations explore new ways to make volunteering more inclusive, for those that work with:

• Adults who have learning disabilities
• Autistic or neurodivergent adults
• Looked-after children / children leaving care

Projects will support people from these groups who face barriers in engaging in volunteering or become volunteering ready.

Who can apply?

Constituted organisations that have up to date policies and work with the target groups.

What will the fund support?

Projects that:

• work with people (from the groups opposite) who don’t currently volunteer
• offer activities to help them become ‘volunteering ready’
• create opportunities so they can experience volunteering
• are a new development for the organisation

Awards are for short term projects (up to six months) and can be funded up to £7,500.

How to apply

Send us your Expression of Interest. If it sounds like something that fits our criteria, we’ll work with you to develop a project to put forward to our panel of experts.

Funds will be given out between July 2025 and January 2027.