Helping businesses direct funds more meaningfully to small, local, high-impact non-profits.
What’s in it for
non-profits?
There are tens of thousands of small and local charities and non-profits in the UK, often formed at grassroots level as a result of their leadership’s experience or expertise, who are able to make a big impact with a small amount of funding. However, they can struggle to attract the funding they need to grow their impact as they grapple with grants that involve complicated applications processes or restrictive funding pots.
Often making their first steps into funding applications – non-profits are offered a simple, informal and friendly process that helps them to get their message in front of funders who really care about the impact they are making and are proud to support them in their goals by offering unrestricted funding.
What’s in it for businesses?
All of our Amplify Funding Programmes are funded by our partner businesses.
An increasing number of businesses want to be involved in making a meaningful difference in their local communities, and they want to empower their employees in the process. But doing so alongside the day-to-day running of a business can be logistically difficult
We put the hard work into finding and selecting the kinds of non-profits businesses are interested in supporting, by doing the necessary due diligence, communicating with their employees and their leadership to engage them in the decision-making process whilst using a minimum of their time and resources.
If you are a business currently looking for more meaningful ways to give to charity, please head to our Business page to find out more about how we could help you!
Programmes currently taking applications
John Good Group: Grants for Good
The Grants for Good Fund awards £60,000 of funding annually between twenty charitable organisations. The applications cycle runs quarterly, meaning every three months, we will share £15,000 between five shortlisted projects.
Watch this space for more programmes coming soon!
Here are some of the latest projects to benefit from one of our Amplify Funding Programmes:
Set up by young people, for young people, Youngwilders is a non-profit organisation focused on accelerating the rewilding of the UK and educating and energising a new generation of environmentalists.
YourStance are working to prevent deaths and life-changing injuries in young people who are at risk of being a victim of violence, by teaching them lifesaving “zero-responder” skills. Through a large team of volunteer medical professionals, they educate young people to enable them to respond with first aid before medical help arrives.
Team 1C started off as a group of parents/carers of children with CHD (congenital heart defects) gathering on Ward 1C at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Recognising how much help was needed to support children and their families both at home and abroad, they have spent the last 5 years fundraising for some amazing initiatives, including funding surgery children abroad, supporting local hospital wards in England, and volunteering at Ronald McDonald House.
Taking Baby Steps is a brand-new Community Interest Company (CIC), formed by experienced health specialists Sue and Jane to provide support to families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death and/or birth trauma with talking therapy sessions. They set up their organisation to make this much-needed and helpful therapy available to more people, as soon as they need it, having witnessed a gap in the local services available and long NHS waiting lists.
The BillyChip is an alternative to cash that allows the public to give direct donations to rough sleepers and homeless people without the fear of their donation being misused for drugs or alcohol. They can be redeemed in coffee shops and takeaways for the minimum of a hot or cold drink of their choice, many outlets offer more. The BillyChip is the legacy of its inventor, Billy Abernethy-Hope, a twenty-year-old ambulance driver from Bristol who tragically died before he could see his idea become a reality.
Sanitree is a social enterprise based across Scotland and India. Not only are they making menstruation more sustainable by manufacturing and selling reusable pads, they are also providing employment for women in Jaipur, India, who make the pads. They also have an outreach programme helping girls in Rajasthan to stay in education.
Set up by young people, for young people, Youngwilders is a non-profit organisation focused on accelerating the rewilding of the UK and educating and energising a new generation of environmentalists.
YourStance are working to prevent deaths and life-changing injuries in young people who are at risk of being a victim of violence, by teaching them lifesaving “zero-responder” skills. Through a large team of volunteer medical professionals, they educate young people to enable them to respond with first aid before medical help arrives.
Team 1C started off as a group of parents/carers of children with CHD (congenital heart defects) gathering on Ward 1C at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Recognising how much help was needed to support children and their families both at home and abroad, they have spent the last 5 years fundraising for some amazing initiatives, including funding surgery children abroad, supporting local hospital wards in England, and volunteering at Ronald McDonald House.
Taking Baby Steps is a brand-new Community Interest Company (CIC), formed by experienced health specialists Sue and Jane to provide support to families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death and/or birth trauma with talking therapy sessions. They set up their organisation to make this much-needed and helpful therapy available to more people, as soon as they need it, having witnessed a gap in the local services available and long NHS waiting lists.
The BillyChip is an alternative to cash that allows the public to give direct donations to rough sleepers and homeless people without the fear of their donation being misused for drugs or alcohol. They can be redeemed in coffee shops and takeaways for the minimum of a hot or cold drink of their choice, many outlets offer more. The BillyChip is the legacy of its inventor, Billy Abernethy-Hope, a twenty-year-old ambulance driver from Bristol who tragically died before he could see his idea become a reality.
So encouraging to know that people believed in our cause
“This is amazing, thank you so so much! Making the shortlist means everything to me. Since I lost my brother just a few months ago, I have put absolutely everything into this project to ensure no other siblings wake up and feel how I feel when I open my eyes each morning. By being shortlisted to receive funding from the Matthew Good Foundation, I feel like my hard work has been worth it, and I’m so grateful to be considered.
Thank you for believing in me.“