Impact London Collective

Registered charity 1209624 · since 2024impactlondoncollective.org·London·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£350k

Annual giving, year to 30 June 2025

From filed accounts

£12,500 to £50,000

Grant range

From the annual report's grant list

£12,500

Typical grant (median)

13 published grants

Invitation only

Unsolicited applications are not accepted

This funder does not accept unsolicited applications. Don't spend time on an approach; the similar funders below support the same kind of work.

Key takeaways

Impact London Collective only considers charities it invites, so an unsolicited request will not be assessed; invitations go out in December and applications close in the fourth week of January.
Its typical grants fall between £12,500 and £50,000, and the median grant is £12,500, so a request towards the lower end is the realistic starting point.
Your charity fits if it is registered, based and predominantly operating in London, primarily focused on women and girls, targets specific marginalised groups, has three years of audited or independently examined accounts, and has total annual income between £350k and £1.5 million; charities outside those limits should not apply.
Charities that have received the £100,000+ grant cannot apply for the following three grant cycles, and merit grant recipients cannot apply in the next cycle.
Expect a half-hour call with the executive director, visits or calls with senior management and calls with four references, so have those ready.

Overview

Impact London Collective is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1209624).

Impact London Collective is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales that makes unrestricted grants to registered charities with a focus on women and girls. It exists to enhance philanthropic engagement by pooling its members' resources and investing them collectively in charities benefiting women and girls, and it particularly backs organisations supporting marginalised women and girls. Its large grants are multi-year, and it awarded £350,000 in the latest year reported in its annual report.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Impact London Collective makes unrestricted grants to registered charities focused primarily on women and girls and based and predominantly operating in London. It particularly backs organisations supporting marginalised women and girls, including homeless women, women refugees, survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, disadvantaged adolescent girls, care leavers and young girls in underserved communities. Its collective-giving model pools members’ resources; its large grants are multi-year. The team reviews the local charity landscape, invites selected charities to apply and assesses their purpose, impact, people and financial position. Members vote among the finalists, and trustees formally approve the selections. It also connects members with grantees and exposes charities to a wider community for pro bono services, mentorship, trustees, volunteers and further donations.

Themes

Marginalised women and girls

Geographic Focus

London.

What they don't fund

Activities that are religious or political in nature
Endowment funding
Debt reduction, interim or bridge funding
Scholarship funding
Charities that are recipients of the large £100,000+ Impact London Collective grant are not eligible for a grant for the following three grant cycles
Merit grant recipients are not eligible for a grant in the following grant cycle
Charities that are not primarily women and girl-focused
Charities not based in London and not predominantly operating in London
Charities that do not target marginalised populations
Charities not registered with the UK Charities Commission
Charities without 3 years of audited or independently examined annual accounts, as required by the Charities Commission
Charities with total annual income below £350k or above £1.5 million

How to apply

The team reviews the local charity landscape and invites selected charities to submit an application at the start of each grant cycle.

Deadlines: Applications are due in the fourth week of January.

Application windows:

Invitations are extended in December, and applications close in January.

Who can apply:

Primarily Women and Girl-focused
Charity based and predominantly operating in London
Registered with the UK Charities Commission
3 years of audited or independently examined annual accounts, as required by the Charities Commission
Total annual income of between £350k and £1.5 million

What to send:

3 years of audited or independently examined annual accounts

Applying again: Charities that are recipients of the large £100,000+ Impact London Collective grant are not eligible for a grant for the following three grant cycles. Merit grant recipients are not eligible for a grant in the following grant cycle.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

It seeks charities that target specific, well-defined groups of marginalised women and girls in London and understand their complex, individual needs.
It assesses charities on whether their mission responds to a compelling need and whether they measure results and outcomes.
It considers the strength of leadership, sound governance and financial security.
Its assessment includes a half-hour call with the executive director, visits or calls with senior management and calls with four references.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

London

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Impact London Collective.

Trust for LondonRollingGave £13.1M Charity of Sir Richard WhittingtonNo public processGave £5.3M The London Community FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £8.5M The London ProjectNo public process The Cherry Family FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £210k Streets of LondonNo public processGave £250k Barbers’ Company General CharitiesRollingGave £237k Foundation for Future LondonFixed deadlinesGave £626k The Mitchell Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £335k Groundwork LondonMixed deadlinesGave £9.5M

Grants

13 published grants analysed · median £12,500

How much do they typically give?

Share of 13 grants in year to 30 June 2025 by size

£10k–£25k62%

£25k–£50k8%

£50k–£100k31%

Median £12,500 (year to 30 June 2025)

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

Beyond the Street · to raise awareness of the sex industry and survival sex, challenge the societal norms that perpetuate harm, transform responses by providing direct support, shaping policy, and equipping others to take action.
£50,000year to 30 June 2025
Centre for Women's Justice · to hold the state to account and challenge discrimination in the criminal justice system around male violence against women and girls.
£50,000year to 30 June 2025
Ella's Home · To ensure women survivors of trafficking and exploitation have all they need to recover and build lives that are safe and free,
£50,000year to 30 June 2025
Sophie Hayes Foundation · provide various programmes including an Employability programme, Conversational English language Courses, and our survivor community CREW (Creative Resilient Empowered Women)
£50,000year to 30 June 2025
Sister System · to help women achieve a life free of abuse, with good mental health, such that they re-engage with education
£40,000year to 30 June 2025
Birth Companion · focus on women caught up in the criminal justice, immigration and children's social care systems
£12,500year to 30 June 2025
Clean Break · raise difficult questions, inspire debate, and help to effect profound and positive change in the lives of women who are criminalised.
£12,500year to 30 June 2025
Rights of Women · to advise, educate and empower women
£12,500year to 30 June 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts.

1 year of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 30 June 2025	£594,372	£383,481	£350,000	Accounts for year to 30 June 2025

Grants paid, all years: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.

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.