Eligibility Criteria:

1. Your group's aims and activities align with the focus of the Roots Fund, aiming to achieve systemic change. This means that a) your group sees itself as contributing in any way to change the stories, power structures or economic conditions that create the injustices you aim to tackle, and b) your group understands systemic change can grow through various smaller scale grassroots efforts, including creating spaces to learn and develop tools to build a more just world.
2. You are based in the UK or Ireland.
3. You have £5,000 or less in your organisational bank account, or you have received £5000 or less to fund your activities in the past year.
4. Your group has been active for at least 6 months.
5. Your group is a grassroots organisation. A grassroots group is an informal, community-led collective driven with focusing on local or specific issues from the bottom up.
   If you are registered we will make you ineligible for this particular pot of funding, but we may direct you to other funders you can apply to, so please get in touch at [email protected]
6. Joint applications are welcome, that is, if you'd like to submit your application with more groups. You would still apply for a £1000 grant.
7. You are not a commercial entity or a business.
8. You are not applying as an individual.
9. Your group has at least 3 members.
10. You are a group being driven by affected communities impacted by the far-right, racism, Islamophobia, Afriphobia, or neo-colonial violence and abuse. This means that affected communities are actively represented in your group and their voices shape its decision-making process.

Application form 

The Application Form will be open from 10 to 31 August (23:59): Apply here.

Any questions? Ask us directly on either of the two drop-in sessions on the 18th and 27th of August (5-6pm)

Register to the drop-in sessions here.

Or email Illa at [email protected] (expect a reply within 5 working days).

How we make decisions? Edge Fund is a participatory grant-making body. This means that Edge grantees decide how funds are redistributed, guaranteeing that it is those with experience and expertise in campaigning for the causes we support who lead the decision-making process. This process takes place through our Funding Working Group, made up of members of 6 grassroots organisations with the remit to give shape to these guidelines, assess applications and shortlist grantees with the support of the Edge Team. Meet the 2026 Funding Working Group here!