The Boring Fund helps small non-profit organisations (based in the UK) cover a bit of the boring costs that keep them running. Boring but essential things like insurance, web hosting, admin time: the stuff that’s always so hard to find funding for. ​​

​It’s partly a funding experiment, partly making a point about the state of the stupid funding system.

Small, grassroots organisations shouldn’t have to jump through endless hoops to get support. We want to take away the red tape that so often makes fundraising complicated, intimidating and unfair for people doing the proper work on the ground, particularly for marginalised groups. (Big funders with wads of cash, please take note!)

The Boring Fund keeps things easy with the simplest application process, £200 grants, and no reporting. 

​Who can apply?

Organisations that: 

• are not-for-profit
• are based in, and primarily delivering work in, the UK
• have a UK bank account in the name of the organisation

​Not-for-profit means any surplus is reinvested into the organisation or its work, not given to individuals. (Not-for-profit doesn’t mean you can’t pay people fairly for work they do for your organisation, it’s just if you have surplus (profit) left over after paying for all your costs, this can’t be given to people as bonus extra money.)

You must be a small organisation. This means at least one – and I’m expecting most of – the following would be true for your organisation (not all of these things have to be the case. e.g. you might have a higher annual income but no staff or fundraising support):
 

• Annual turnover (amount of money coming into the org) under £150,000
• Very small number of paid staff e.g. 0-3 people who do the day to day running of things and juggle all the jobs, probably part time or freelance. (you may have a wider pool of freelance group leaders or volunteers or whatever but I’m talking about main people who put the work in to run the organisation)
• No fundraising team or regular paid fundraising staff member
• No confirmed core funding or significant multi-year funding–doing stuff on a shoestring, making it work, scrabbling to find enough money for the ongoing boring costs