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Societe Generale - Bright Futures Grants
Created: 15/05/2025
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
The Societe Generale (SG) UK Foundation’s new fund, Bright Futures, is investing £1 million over three years to empower and equip people from marginalised groups to access education and employment, driving lasting social and economic impact.
Designed by the foundation with input from the Bright Futures Committee of representatives across SG UK, the fund’s two investment pillars include:
- Donations: One-off investments of £2.5k to staff-nominated organisations focused on supporting health and wellbeing initiatives for marginalised people.
- Grants: Larger, long-term investments of £10k - £50k supporting confidence, aspirations, and mental health for marginalised people.
Bright Futures Grants are designed to support organisations which are providing opportunities to develop aspirations, confidence, and mental health, helping individuals from marginalised communities to build brighter futures and contribute meaningfully to society.
The Foundation invests in projects that develop key skills, attitudes and attributes to foster equitable education and employment outcomes nationwide. Funded initiatives must demonstrate a clear and measurable impact, ensuring that individuals from marginalised communities are supported to meet one or more of the following goals:
- Pursue and sustain their aspirations
- Enhance their confidence and self-belief
- Strengthen their mental health, wellbeing, and resilience
The fund is administered by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
Fund award sizes
Minimum: £10,000
Maximum: £50,000
Notes on award amounts:
Multiple year funding may be available after the pilot year. Unrestricted project funding meaning funds can be flexibly allocated to resources within the parameters of the project.
Who can apply?
Organisations will need to demonstrate how they align to the key purpose of: empowering and equipping people from marginalised groups to access education and employment. Organisations must be located in the UK and support UK based beneficiaries.
Exclusions
Organisations that:
- Do not support marginalised groups to access education and employment.
- Are located outside of the UK or support beneficiaries based outside of the UK.
- Are not registered charities with any of the UK Charity regulators or that do not have a recognised charitable purpose.
- Unlawfully discriminate on the basis of age, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, marital status or disability.
- Focus their mission, or the majority of their activities or services, on lobbying, or the organisation is considered as a single-issue interest group.
- Have generated adverse media coverage in the past 12 months on areas such as operations or conduct. Organisations which are:
- Government entities, political subdivisions, and state instrumentalities.
- Political parties, activities, campaigns, candidates, or partisan groups.
- Religious organisations where their mission or most of their activities or services promotes the furtherance of the religion or aims to benefit members of that faith only.
- Acting as a conduit for donations to be passed onto a third party. This may also impact donations to specific funds or campaigns.
- Individuals or organisations which provide financial or non-financial benefit to private individuals or entities (e.g. shareholders or members), except when those individuals or entities are beneficiaries receiving support through the charity’s legitimate charitable activities.
- Organisations or projects which do not further a recognised charitable purpose
- Projects which are requesting funding for: Capital or building projects; Debt repayment; Retrospective projects
- Organisations or projects which don’t align with the values of the SG UK Foundation, and which could damage its reputation or that of the SG UK Group.
How to apply
Submit an expression of interest form via the CAF website.
The closing date for expressions of interest is 11.59am on Tuesday 03 June 2025.
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