Programmes
Programmes – Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust
The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust awards grants through specific funding programmes, each with its own aim(s), often based on community consultation.
Our current open programmes are listed below, as well as details of how grant funding has already been spent in support of the Armed Forces community.
Each of our open programmes has its own specific programme guidance, which you should read carefully before deciding whether or not to apply. Our guidance documents explain the eligibility for the programme, and the checks that we will carry out.
If you have existing grants with us we may use information from these as part of our assessment and decision making. We may also look at how much funding we have awarded your organisation and the proportion of how much funding from us makes up your overall income.
Some of our longer running programmes may not always be accepting new applications. You’ll find these listed separately below. Click on a programme for more details.
Our current open programmes
Servicewomen: Seen & Heard programme 2025/26
Part of the Armed Forces Covenant Fund, The Servicewomen: Seen & Heard Programme will award grants of up to £100,000 for two-year projects that expand support options for serving women, ensuring they are aware of, and able to access, help that is tailored to their specific needs.
Armed Forces Families Fund: Early Years programme 2025-26
This programme will award grants of between £5,000 and £80,000 on behalf of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund Early Years Programme for projects which help enhance early childhood education and childcare settings of young children from armed forces families.
Empowering Bereaved Military Families Programme
This programme will offer a single portfolio grant of up to £1.8 million, to achieve long term, transformational change in the non-statutory support provided to bereaved military families.
Open to: Registered charities
Major Capital Grants Programme
This programme will award grants of between £75,000 and £500,000 towards projects that support significant refurbishment, including extensions and new builds, of rental accommodation that will offer high quality support for Veterans with a housing need.
Open to: Registered charities or registered social housing providers
Free From Fear Programme
Grants between £75,000 and £150,000 to focus on addressing domestic abuse through preventative measures or providing support routes for survivors in Armed Forces communities.
We’ll update this page as and when new funding opportunities are added. In the meantime you may wish to stay in touch via our e-newsletter – sign up at the bottom of this page. You can find information on any of our funding programes here.
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Discover more about our programmes
We’ve delivered a number of inspiring funding programmes that support the Armed Forces community.
Why not browse them to discover more about the issues we’ve tackled, the grants we’ve made and the impact these funds have had .
For details of the LIBOR grants that we currently manage, click here.
Want to know more about the grants we’ve awarded from various programmes across the UK?
You can access all of our grant awards at the link below.
Whether you’d like to know more about eligibility, what support we’ve given in your area, how we make our decisions, or something else. Check out our handy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page to see if we can help!
It’s really important to check your eligibility to apply for funding from the Trust, especially if you haven’t applied before.
Our quick-to-use eligibility checker will guide you through the key things we look for from applicants. We recommend you take a few minutes to use it before beginning your application. On completion of the checker, you’ll be taken straight back to this main Programmes page.