The Fred Hollows Foundation UK

Registered charity 1140288 · since 2011hollows.org/uk·International·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

The foundation's stated themes are eye health, health human resource development and eye care research, and it works through partners to add or strengthen eye-health activity within their existing strategies and priorities, so a request should show how it would do that.
Its geographic focus is given as the world, but no typical grant size, annual giving total or grant range is stated, so a grant writer should not assume an amount and should ask before building a budget around one.
No application process is published in its annual report or on its website, so the contact shown is the route in, and a short enquiry first is the sensible starting point.
No exclusions or eligibility conditions are stated, so nothing here rules out any organisation, though an approach with no eye-health element is unlikely to match the stated themes.

Overview

The Fred Hollows Foundation UK is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1140288).

The Fred Hollows Foundation UK is a charity registered in England and Wales that exists to advance health, education and the relief of poverty and disability, with a focus on preventing or curing blindness and vision loss. It describes itself as an independent, secular professional development organisation working to promote good health, with particular focus on eye care in developing countries. It works through partners, planning and funding eye-health and health human resource development programmes, and promoting and conducting research into eye care.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation focuses on eliminating avoidable blindness and improving Indigenous Australian health. It works through partners—primarily local, regional and national governments, alongside civil society, private-sector and international organisations—to strengthen eye-health systems. Its partners deliver surgeries, training, screenings and research, supported by the foundation’s funds, technical expertise and networks. The foundation also invests in research and technology, trains local eye-care professionals and uses advocacy to promote access to eye care. Its approach is collaborative, building on local capabilities and working towards sustainable, affordable services.

Themes

Eye health
Health human resource development
Eye care research

Geographic Focus

The World.

How to apply

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

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The foundation supports partners to add or enhance eye-health activities within their existing strategies and priorities.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

International

Similar funders

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£2,232,997	£2,410,105	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£1,803,093	£2,046,808	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£1,853,665	£1,858,877	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£1,434,741	£1,456,927	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£776,001	£797,652	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

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.