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Grants

Social Investment Business funding for social enterprises

Social Investment Business grant and blended finance programmes

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

Runs a rotating set of grant, loan and blended finance programmes for charities and social enterprises on behalf of government and foundations. Amounts differ by programme, from small capacity-building grants to multi-hundred-thousand-pound loans.

Funder

The Social Investment Business Foundation

private · national

Deadline: One call a year — Individual programmes open and close on their own timetables; several are time-limited and close when the fund is fully committed.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

UK charities, social enterprises and community businesses; some programmes are restricted to England only.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The Companies House number, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.sibgroup.org.uk/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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