Focus Fund
What is the Focus Fund?
The Focus Fund exists to support churches in the nation’s most economically challenged areas to bring people to Focus who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Who is it for?
Through the generosity of those who contributed to the giving offering at Focus, funds are available for:
Churches in the most deprived areas of the country
Churches already budgeting, raising, and contributing some level of support for their own congregation’s tickets
How does it work?
We will ask you to:
Tell us the number of tickets impacted by your Focus Fund request (even they are partial subsidies rather than whole).
Tell us how much of a grant you are applying for, after taking into account personal contributions and church contributions towards the total cost of those tickets.
Once we have reviewed and processed the grants, we will then ask for names for accurate data tracking, budgeting and review for our systems.
Senior Leaders or designated Focus leads can fill out the application form (see below). Some churches prefer to apply for a sum to cover several tickets. Others prefer to apply for a sum that enables them to offer partial support to a greater number of people. Your application will be reviewed alongside all the applications we receive. We will then offer you a grant for you to book people directly onto Focus.
USEFUL INFOrmation
Before filling in the Application Form, we suggest you build your own spreadsheet as follows:
Name
Ticket Type (adult/student/youth/child)
Personal contribution £
Church contribution £
Total amount requested £
In the Application Form we will ask for the following information:
The total amount of personal contributions being made
The total amount of the church contribution being made
The total amount required
TIMELINE
You can apply straight away. The deadline for receiving your application is 28 March 2026. We will then review all the applications for the Fund and administer it fairly. We want you to be able to offer support to those who may need it as early as you can, so that they can look forward to coming to Focus and we will endeavour to do this as quickly as possible.
Next steps:
1. Fill out the Application Form, which automatically connects to our system.
2. Check out the Getting our Churches to Focus document with some top tips from the Network on budgeting and fundraising for Focus.
WHAT ARE THE TICKET PRICES?
*Prices are calculated at early bird rate and the early bird rate for Focus Fund bookings will be honoured regardless of date.
