52 Lives

Registered charity 1166238 · since 201652-lives.org·United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Your organisation is unlikely to be eligible for 52 Lives' main open grant.
The Kindness Fund makes small grants to children from Year 3 to Sixth Form, and the money is granted via the school, so a charity cannot apply to it directly.
The Second Chance Fund helps people the charity has already helped, so it is not open to new applicants.
The charity has no publicly published application process, and neither the annual report nor the register gives a grants figure or grant range, so the size of any award and the timing cannot be judged from what is published.
If your work is with primary schools, the School of Kindness offers free workshops and resources, and asking the charity directly is the most sensible first step.

Overview

52 Lives is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1166238).

52 Lives is a charity registered in England and Wales that aims to change someone's life every week of the year and to inspire people to be kind. It began as a Facebook page set up as a way for friends and family to help people. Its programmes include the Kindness Fund, which makes small grants to children with ideas for spreading kindness, the School of Kindness, which offers free workshops and resources to primary schools, and the Second Chance Fund, which provides essential small items to people it has helped before.

What they fund

Priority Areas

52 Lives aims to change lives through practical help for people in need and to inspire kindness. It chooses people from nominations, shares their stories and asks supporters to provide what they need. The School of Kindness offers free workshops and resources to primary schools. Its Kindness Fund makes small grants to children with ideas for spreading kindness in their school or community, with the money granted via the school. The Second Chance Fund provides essential small items to people the charity has helped before when they need extra support. Its approach combines tangible help with encouraging kindness and strengthening communities.

Themes

Kindness projects
Essential small items

Geographic Focus

The UK.

How to apply

For the Kindness Fund, children in Year 3 through Sixth Form can apply for small grants for ideas spreading kindness in their school or community; grants are made via the school.

Who can apply:

The Kindness Fund: Funds are granted via the school, and applications are open to children from Year 3 up to Sixth Form.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to 52 Lives.

LifeLine ProjectsRolling The Linder FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £484k One Kind ActRollingGave £767k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£350,453	£315,907	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£357,383	£408,461	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£345,407	£335,688	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£370,827	£328,783	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£369,915	£394,339	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.