Aces Main Grants Programme 2024

Grants of up to £100k to help prevent and tackle the consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

We use this term to recognise traumatic events that occur during childhood that can have a significant impact on a person’s physical, emotional and mental health throughout their life. Examples include:

• abuse – physical, sexual or psychological/emotional
• neglect – physical or psychological/emotional
• domestic abuse
• substance misuse by a close family member
• mental illness of a close family member
• having a close family member serve time in prison
• parental or caregiver separation or divorce on account of relationship breakdown

We recognise that charities working to prevent the occurrence of and/or support recovery from ACE’s cover a broad range of activities including working with victims of child sexual exploitation, county lines, gangs, those cared for by the local authority, homelessness, human trafficking, asylum seekers and refugees.

The ACEs Main Grants Programme provides multi-year grants of up to four years of £20,000-£25,000 per annum, to charities and CIOs throughout the UK.