In making changes to our Open Grants Programme, much will actually remain the same. We will continue to provide capital funding to meet infrastructure needs for small- and medium-sized organisations working for disadvantaged and marginalised individuals and communities.

These are the organisations at the heart of our mission and strategy. But we know demand is unpredictable. When it outstrips supply, we want to be as transparent as possible about how we make decisions. We also need to be able to keep making decisions in a timely way when demand is very high.

To allow us to meet both these goals:

• We will publish a new Impact Framework, setting out the projects and organisations we will prioritise for funding, when we cannot meet all demand.
• We will launch a new two-stage application process, and forms, which will only ask for detailed information for those applicants that have a higher chance of success.

We are working on these developments, as well as a new website, at the moment, and aim to launch the Impact Framework and new application forms before the second half of the year.

In our next post, we’ll share more about how we’re working in partnership with other organisations to allow us to stay open while we make changes.

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