Skills that stay in the area.
Training that ends with someone qualified and employed locally, rather than a course that ends with a certificate.
- Three-year funding
- Open to small organisations
- Reporting twice a year
A SMALL FOUNDATION FUNDING LOCAL WORK, ONE YEAR AT A TIME
Fund the work. Not the paperwork.
Three programme areas, multi-year grants and an application that fits on two pages. We would rather read about the work than the theory.
Grove is a fictional foundation, drawn as a website concept. No funds are given, no grant is open and no figures are published here.
03PROGRAMME AREAS
02APPLICATION PAGES
03YEAR GRANTS
01 / WHAT WE FUND
Local work. Longer runways.
Short grants buy a project. Longer ones buy a habit. Grove funds organisations that can show what they would do with three years rather than three months.
Grove is fictional, shown as a design concept. Programmes, amounts and partners are illustrative, and nothing on the page constitutes an offer of funding.
How a decision is made ↗02 / PROGRAMMES
Three areas. One application.
3 programmes
Ground that is looked after.
Community growing, repair and shared spaces, funded for the maintenance as well as the start.
- Capital and revenue
- Maintenance included
- Open to collectives
Time, not just money.
Youth work funded with a person attached: a paid coordinator for three years, not a budget line for activities.
- Salary contribution
- Three-year commitment
- Peer review each year
Programmes, criteria and funding amounts are illustrative. This page is a design concept, not a grant programme.
03 / HOW FUNDING WORKS
Two pages. Two decisions.
A foundation that takes six months to say no is not being rigorous, it is being slow.
Two pages, no portal.
What the work is, who does it, what it costs and what changes if it works. Sent as a document, read by a person.
Eight weeks, then an answer.
A short call, two references and a decision at the next trustee meeting, either way.
Twice a year, plainly.
What happened, what did not, and what the next year needs. No template longer than the work itself.
PROGRAMMES / APPLICATIONS / REPORTING
A foundation website built around clear programme areas and one honest enquiry.
04 / PARTNER WITH US
Describe the work. See the shape.
Prepare a partnership enquiry and download a copy for yourself. Nothing is sent from this form and no application is opened.
PARTNERSHIP ENQUIRY
Build a foundation website with Elvarnue ↗
The enquiry is assembled on your device so you can see what a foundation needs before it can tell you whether to apply.
Make the work easy to understand.
A website for your foundation ↗THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE DESIGN / ELVARNUE
Help an applicant decide whether to apply.
Foundations, community trusts and grant-making organisations.
The problem this addresses
Grant pages describe values and hide criteria. Stating programme areas, decision timing and what a short application contains saves months for both sides.
Explore the interactions
- Filter programmes by learning, land or youth.
- Read the decision timeline before writing anything.
- Prepare an enquiry around programme, organisation type and timing.
What we could deliver for you
A responsive foundation website with programme templates, criteria pages, an application guidance section and enquiry fields. Grant management systems, applicant portals and payment processing are separate scopes.
What we need to get started
Verified programme criteria, decision timelines, governance wording you must publish and the questions your grants team answers most often.
Design decisions
- No impact figures or beneficiary counts appear, because a concept page cannot substantiate them.
- The decision timeline is public, since the most common complaint about funders is silence.
- Donation buttons are deliberately absent; taking money would need a real payment and compliance scope.