This grants programme runs once a year.

The 2026 round will only fund autistic-specific holiday schemes. The programme will be for autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK, including sessions for siblings.

Not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply for grants of up to £15,000 which are usually for part of the costs to run the activity schemes.

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Have a safeguarding policy.
• Have Public Liability Insurance.
• If paying staff, have Employer’s Liability Insurance.
• Use professional trained staff and volunteers (not parents/guardians).
• Have bank account with two people to authorise or check on payments.
• Have an income of less than £1 million.

Please note there is a high demand for this programme and last year the grant round closed for applications one day after it opened.

The 2026 round open for expressions of interest 2 February 2026 with a deadline of 13 February 2026 (17:00).