Commonwealth Foundation Grants 2026 for Civil Society Organisations (up to £60,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 23, 2025

Applications are open for the Commonwealth Foundation Grants 2026 for Civil Society Organisations. The open name grants search to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and resolution-makers, together with civil society participation in coverage improvement and implementation.

Applications should handle a number of of the three precedence themes:

Health Justice: Projects may assist civil society to interact meaningfully with authorities on:

• Equitable entry to important medicines.
• Universal well being protection.
• Realising the fitting to well being: higher availability, accessibility, high quality, participation and accountability in well being companies and supply.
• Programmes and insurance policies that target social determinants of well being as part of the inclusive proper to well being.
• Challenging systemic discrimination in well being programs and selling equitable entry to well being companies for marginalised teams and people with particular wants.
• Promoting the participation of marginalised teams and people with particular wants in resolution-making processes.
• Promoting well being and nicely-being by combating communicable and non-communicable illnesses.

Freedom of Expression: Projects may assist civil society to interact meaningfully with authorities on:

• Promoting artwork and creativity as technique of advocating for and elevating consciousness of freedom of expression. 
• Advancing a authorized and regulatory atmosphere that protects and upholds freedom of expression for all. 
• Advancing a authorized and regulatory atmosphere that promotes the liberty, development, and vibrancy of civil society. 
• Promoting entry to data and transparency in governance, together with via a free and impartial press, sturdy freedom of knowledge legal guidelines and their sensible application. 
• Advancing civil society engagement in nationwide, regional and/or worldwide mechanisms and processes to promote freedom of expression (e.g., nationwide human rights establishments; Universal Periodic Reviews).

Climate Justice: Projects may assist civil society to interact meaningfully with authorities on:

• Exposing and addressing adverse social and distributional outcomes of local weather change mitigation insurance policies and/or encourage assist for the event of professional-poor mitigation approaches.
• Ensuring illustration, inclusion, and defending the rights of these most susceptible to the consequences of local weather change. 
• Addressing the social, political, and financial root causes of local weather injustice. 
• Strengthening the voices of these most affected by the local weather disaster in multilateral and nationwide areas.  
• Ensuring that the voice, company, and management of younger ladies and men are on the centre of coverage discussions and resolution-making in any respect ranges. 
• Advocating for corrective justice for environmental hurt, together with compensation mechanisms, entry to justice and efficient treatment, and authorized empowerment. 
• Ensuring accountability and efficient treatment for human rights harms attributable to local weather change.  
• Developing, reviewing, enhancing, and monitoring legal guidelines, insurance policies and practices selling local weather justice.  
• Exposing and addressing the elements that contribute to the elevated vulnerability of social teams to the results of local weather change. 

Grants

• They supply grants of up to £60,000 to civil society organisations within the Commonwealth.

Eligibility

• The applicant should be a not-for-profit civil society organisation (CSO) registered in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation Member State.
• The applicant organisation should have a minimal of three years’ demonstrable expertise engaged on participatory governance and advocacy throughout the space/theme(s) of the proposed challenge. Organisations which have been registered and working for lower than three years will not be eligible.
• Applicant organisations which can be at present implementing, or which have not too long ago accomplished, a Commonwealth Foundation grant however haven’t acquired their closing cost, will not be eligible to apply to this grant name.
• The challenge should search to facilitate change via constructive engagement between civil society and resolution-makers, together with civil society participation in coverage improvement and resolution-making, inside a number of of the Foundation’s precedence themes (see above).
• Proposals should relate to tasks which can be anticipated to start after the 1 August 2026 and earlier than the top of September 2026.

Application

Applications open at 1pm BST on 16 September 2025 and shut at 1pm BST on 23 October 2025.

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For extra data, go to Commonwealth Foundation Grants.