This fund is now closed
The annual Jeans for Genes fundraising event encourages children and adults to wear their jeans to school or to work between Monday 15 and Sunday 21 September 2025 in exchange for a small donation. The total donations then go into the creation of this fund.
This funding focuses Jeans for Genes’ grant making on trying to achieve two ambitious impact goals:
- Organisations serving the genetic condition community become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable, improving their ability to meet needs and provide appropriate support in the long term.
- Everyone in the UK living with a genetic condition and their family can access the appropriate support when they need it so that they feel supported, valued, and included.
To work towards these impact goals, the Jeans for Genes Grant Programme is comprised of two strands of funding:
- Core cost funding—small front-line genetic condition charities can apply for single-year grants of up to £5,000 towards their organisation’s core costs to enable them to be in a stronger, more resilient position to continue to provide vital support to their communities in the long term.
- Project funding—single-year project grants of up to £20,000 for front-line genetic condition charities so that individuals living with a genetic condition and their families can access the right support at the time they need it.
In addition, there are six funding priorities for each funding strand.
Core costs:
- Be empowered, strong, and sustainable
- Be flexible and responsive to changing circumstances
- Invest in organisational development, systems, and processes
- Strengthen their governance
- Effectively demonstrate the impact that they make
- Collaborate, share expertise, and resources
Project funding:
- Create added support networks or develop existing ones
- Inform and empower individuals living with a genetic condition and their families and carers
- Address a key transition point
- Improve the physical, mental, or emotional well-being of affected individuals, families, and carers
- Enable knowledge, awareness, skills, or attitudes to be acquired that are then applied so that those with a genetic condition and their families are supported, valued, and included
- Engage with diverse and marginalised communities who are also living with a genetic condition to identify and challenge policies, practices, and perceptions that contribute to health inequalities
Completed applications in PDF format should be submitted by email between to grants@jeansforgenes.org. If you have any queries about the guidelines, please email grants@jeansforgenes.org.
Click here for more information and to apply