The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) offers advice, support, grants and interest-free loans to grassroots housing organisations to help them provide safe, decent and affordable homes for people of all ages who are ‘often in desperate need’ of housing. This includes:

• People with mental and physical health problems.
• People with learning difficulties.
• People who would otherwise be homeless.
• Women escaping domestic violence.
• Single parents.
• Young families.
• People moving out of institutional care.
• People with addiction problems.
• Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants.
• Survivors of trafficking.

Charitable organisations with an annual turnover of up to £1 million and without access to sufficient income, reserves, nor other fundraising, to pay for the work they want to do can apply for:

• Best Practice Grants - up to £6,000 to pay for professional fees associated either with an environmental assessment or testing the feasibility of specific proposals to improve, expand or create new genuinely affordable rented housing.
• Main Grants and interest free loans - up to £50,000 for a mixture of grants and loans. Up to £25,000 for grants.

In addition, the Trust provides match funding to Quaker meetings, organisations and charities to test the feasibility of using part or all of a Quaker own property for social housing on its own, or alongside the creation of modern convenient buildings for use by Quakers. There are five funding rounds per year.