Woodleigh Impact is a charitable foundation, committed to funding the most impactful organisations.  Our priority cause area is the alleviation and prevention of poverty in very low income countries and our strategy is to focus on one country - Sierra Leone.  In addition, we are interested in the prevention of climate and environmental breakdown by supporting emerging social movements and we fund UK based organisations on an ad hoc basis.

We aim to support small to medium-sized organisations with strong leadership and deep community connections.  These organisations will typically be either grass-roots or founder-led, and will do a do a finite number of things very effectively.  We are also happy to support new initiatives, and we carry out our own research to identify promising interventions with the potential for high and sustained impact, with a view to helping people or existing organisations to launch them.  We like funding work which is neglected by other funders and are willing to fund activities which are highly ambitious but could have a massive impact if they come off. 

We don't have an application process or accept unsolicited requests; instead, we carry out our own research and use our own networks to identify organisations to fund.  We look for a clear explanation of the problem(s) an organisation seeks to address and why their solution is the best one, and evidence for their theory of change.  

Woodleigh Impact was established by the Clarke family in 2021.  As a guide, most of our grants are in the range £2,000 to £20,000 and we fund around a dozen organisations each year.  In addition, we may allocate larger sums for particularly strong teams with genuinely scalable activities.

Woodleigh Impact - Charity Number 1195788  114, Otley Road, Guisley, Leeds LS20 8LZ               www.woodleigh-impact.org