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Gower Street is a spend out trust and as of March 2026 the vast majority of the funds are allocated. We remain advocates for relationship based, open and trusting grant making and are still keen to understand the diversity of work taking place in the sectors we engage in. These are primarily climate and environment work in the UK and Ghana and environmental education in Ghana. We are happy to hear about work in this space to help build our understanding and share with other funders. However it should be clear that Gower Street is no longer in a position to consider unsolicited applications for funding. 

 

You can read more about the approach we have taken to grant making during the spend out in this case study on the Better Funding website. A key feature of our grant making process has been to respect people’s time and only invite applications that had a high chance of success. Over the past 4 years, 107 applications were considered by the trustees and 96 of these were approved. Gower Street awarded any unsuccessful applicants that were invited to apply with a one-off donation of £500 as compensation towards the time spent on the application process.

 

If you would like to get in touch you can reach the co-directors directly via sally@gowerstreet.org or tessa@gowerstreet.org.  Gower Street welcomes feedback on our practice as a grant maker. If you would like to share this feedback anonymously you can do this via Grant Advisor.