Welcome to the VRF grant application portal

The VRF (Vicar’s Relief Fund) provides crisis grants to individuals at risk of, or currently experiencing, homelessness. Our grants are open to all 4 Nations of the UK and must be applied for via frontline workers.

We consider up to £500 to help access accommodation.

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ IN FULL! – UPDATES TO VRF GRANT SCHEME 

During our closure period we’ve made some important changes to our eligibility criteria, processes and policies.  

These have been made in response to growing need and demand, to maximise impact, for best practice and due diligence purposes, and to increase effectiveness and efficiency of our grants:

Changes to our funding offer

VRF grants will now only be available for accessing accommodation. From April 2025 the VRF’s focus will be on delivering grants to individuals of up to £500 to help access accommodation for costs / items such as: 

We will no longer be accepting applications for clearing arrears to access social housing or to prevent eviction.  

Eligibility criteria changes

We will no longer accept applications where the applicants’ organisation is also the landlord of the accommodation you are applying for.   

For due diligence and best practice purposes, we will contact your line manager to verify any new VRF account requests / registrations. We must have line manager verification before we can approve a new account. 

Changes to payment of grants

Payment of awarded grants will now only be made to the applicant’s organisation. We can no longer make payments directly to landlords or service providers. 

We encourage active use of the VRF but will monitor and if necessary, place a limit on organisations that receive significant funding from the VRF to ensure resource is spent equitably across the four nations and to enable frontline workers from other organisations to benefit from the fund. 

Evidence of spend

We will continue to regularly monitor evidence of spend due within 8 weeks of grants being paid. We will suspend and / or deactivate accounts routinely where evidence of spend is not provided and can no longer accept Evidence Unavailable Forms in lieu of evidence of spend. 

Full details of the above are set out in our Terms & Conditions and Grant Making Policy. Please read the full details before applying for a grant, or before registering for an account with us. 

Registering and applying for a grant:

We do not accept applications from individuals directly. If you are a paid frontline worker, supporting people at risk of, or currently experiencing homelessness, you can apply to us on behalf of the individuals you are supporting.

Before you can submit a grant application on behalf of someone you are supporting, you need to apply for a user account with us, via our flexi-grant portal.

To begin this, scroll down and click on the ‘register’ button at the bottom of this page. After verifying your email address, you will then need to complete a New User Registration form. You will not be able to begin a grant application until this has been submitted, checked, and approved by our team. We aim to process the forms within 5 working days. 

If you have already set up your email address and password, click the ‘login’ button at the bottom of the page to access your account.

For more information relating to our grants and how to register or apply for a grant, please visit our help page.