Funding
Affordability presents a key barrier to individuals undertaking vital training to enhance their employment opportunities.
Bursaries: Funding
for Training
Supporting
Rehabilitation
Local Community Skills Fund
Transitions Commission
At the City & Guilds Foundation, we focus our funding where it matters most, supporting people who face the biggest barriers to work. We do this through a blended approach of grants, social investment funding and matched donations that open up opportunities for skills and employment.
Our Bursary programme helps individuals in genuine financial need access training to upskill, while our strategic social investments fund supports displaced people, former offenders, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Through the Transitions Commission, we’re providing funding for vulnerable young people at risk of falling out of education, employment or training, helping them to successfully progress in FE or work. And with our Local Community Skills Fund, we’re empowering communities across the UK to deliver training that equips people with vital skills locally.
Everything we do is designed to remove barriers, build confidence, and create pathways into meaningful and sustainable employment.
It is humbling to work on Foundation programmes and see the difference that funding and recognition has on individuals. This year we have worked in a more agile way so that we can quickly support those people in genuine need to develop the skills and access opportunities that they so desperately need to succeed.
We do have key funding priorities but if you’d like to get in touch about possible opportunities, please fill out the form below: