The Sasha Foundation Grants

Overview

Sasha was an adventurous, outgoing and outdoors girl with an enormous empathy for those troubled by the world they faced. She travelled in Kenya, Nepal, Australia and many corners of Europe.

The Foundation is endowed to provide financial support and guidance to established charitable organisations that the trustees believe would be her choice and ambition to support if she were here to decide.

• In the UK this involves supporting young people with a bias towards young people, who are suffering from depression and mental health issues or who are confronting drug abuse issues.
• Additionally, it involves supporting education and healthcare projects and programs in the third world, with a bias towards education for young women.

Who do they support

• The goal is to make grants to a wide range of organisations. Trustees are particularly keen to help grassroots community groups and small-to-medium-sized voluntary organisations in the primary areas of benefit. 
• While not excluding large UK-wide or International charities, the Foundation normally only makes grants to such organisations where there are strong relationships in the primary area of benefit and the proposal has potential to achieve a substantial impact. 
• Organisations do not have to be registered charities to apply, but the Foundation will only make general running cost or unrestricted grants to charities. 
  • You must have a governing document (constitution, rules, memorandum, and articles of association etc.), a governing body of at least three unrelated individuals, and a bank account in your group’s name with at least two unrelated signatories.
• Grants to other types of organisation will always be restricted for a specific well defined and regulated charitable purpose. 
• Trustees expect that grants will normally support recipients in maintaining, expanding, or providing new services the outcomes of which demonstrably support the Foundation’s core Objectives, with an emphasis on quality and effectiveness

Youth Mental Health (UK-based):

• Support for young people experiencing issues such as depression, bipolar disorder, or drug-related mental health challenges.
  • Grants may support counselling, education, awareness campaigns or targeted support services.

Health & Education for Young Women (Overseas):

• Projects promoting girls’ access to education or healthcare in developing countries.
  • Focus is often on countries such as Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, or other low-income regions.

Funding Level & Notes

Typically grants will be up to £10,000 and at most will be for 50% of the total budgeted cost of the proposed project/program.

They can be towards running costs (including salaries), projects, equipment or capital developments - conditions apply. The work can be new, continuing or a one-off initiative.

Supported projects