Alice Roughton Foundation

Alice Roughton Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1205083).

The Alice Roughton Foundation is a registered charity whose main objective is to relieve poverty or financial hardship through the relief of homelessness, by facilitating affordable housing and services for people in need who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the UK. It makes grants or loans to other charities that directly meet its objectives, and in the longer term it will consider investing in properties that such charities can use. It will consider gifts ranging from smaller amounts up to a maximum of approximately £25,000, depending on the applicant's needs and merits. It made grants totalling £29,000 to five charities in one year, and its annual report shows £28,512 paid.

Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report (year to 30 September 2025) only: no website or other web source for the charity was found. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 30 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The Foundation’s main objective is to relieve poverty or financial hardship through the relief of homelessness, facilitating affordable housing and services for people in need who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the UK. It makes grants or loans to other charities that directly meet its objectives. It considers smaller and medium charitable organisations with limited financial resources or limited recourse to other finance, and projects less likely to receive support from statutory institutions, other grant-making bodies or lenders. Projects must be exclusively charitable, fall within its objects and be located in areas of need within the UK. Grants are allocated according to available funding and merit; where good applications exceed resources, trustees favour organisations working with people most in need, projects less likely to receive other support, and small grants that can make a notable difference or enable a larger project to proceed.

Themes

• Homelessness relief

Geographic Focus

The UK.

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Who can apply:

• The Foundation will only fund projects and activities that are exclusively charitable, fall within the objects of the foundation and that are located in areas of need within the UK.
• Smaller and medium charitable organisations with limited financial resources or limited recourse to other sources of finance

What the charity says:

• Trustees allocate grants according to available funding and merit.
• Trustees favour organisations dealing with those most in need, particularly people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, recently out of prison or with poor mental health.
• They favour organisations less likely to receive support from other agencies or organisations.
• They favour cases where a small grant might make a notable difference or enable a larger project to proceed, such as meeting a shortfall in funding.
• Trustees may also apply other priorities they decide from time to time.