Commissioned Rehabilitative Services General Grant Scheme

Document research last revised 2026-08-14.

Grant Name

Commissioned Rehabilitative Services General Grant Scheme

Programme / Delivery Body

HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), an executive agency sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. (GOV.UK)

Opportunity Type

Rehabilitation / probation services / reducing reoffending

Primary Area

Criminal justice, probation, rehabilitation and desistance

Minimum Award

£8,000. (Find a Grant)

Number of Awards

Not specified as a fixed number. The scheme is designed to enable HMPPS to make multiple competed general grant awards across probation regions. (Find a Grant)

Application Deadline / Scheme Closing Date

29 March 2027 at 5:00pm. (Find a Grant)

Applicant Classification

Non-profit. (Find a Grant)

Organisation Legal Structure

Applicants registering an interest must provide information about their organisation's legal structure. The public grant page does not specify a restricted list of permitted legal forms. (Find a Grant)

Organisational Convictions / Offences

Organisations must declare relevant organisational convictions or offences as part of registration. (Find a Grant)

Key Organisational Requirements

Applicants must be non-profit-making organisations and provide basic organisational/contact information, legal-structure information and declarations concerning organisational convictions/offences. Additional requirements may be specified for individual competitions. (Find a Grant)

Target Beneficiaries

Depending on the individual competition, services can support people with shared protected characteristics, people with shared experiences, or people requiring interventions that promote rehabilitation and desistance. (Find a Grant)

Eligible Activities

Rehabilitative services designed to improve engagement with probation or other rehabilitative activities, support rehabilitation and desistance, and generate knowledge about activities that effectively support those outcomes. (Find a Grant)

Geographic Funding Structure

England and Wales are divided into 12 probation regions, with each region having access to a budget in each financial year that can be used to commission rehabilitative services, including through grant awards. (Find a Grant)

Application Method

Organisations interested in upcoming grant opportunities should register their interest through the Probation Grants Applications Portal. Individual competed grant opportunities are then managed through the portal. (Find a Grant)

Initial Registration Information

Basic contact information, the organisation's legal structure, and declarations relating to organisational convictions/offences are required when registering an interest. (Find a Grant)

Application Stages

1. Register interest on the Probation Grants Applications Portal. 2. Monitor/access individual grant competitions published through the portal. 3. Submit the information required for the relevant competition by its specific deadline. The public umbrella listing does not provide a universal assessment process for every future competition. (Find a Grant)

Decision / Assessment Process

Not specified at umbrella-scheme level on the current public listing. Assessment arrangements should be taken from the documentation for each individual competed grant opportunity. (Find a Grant)

Monitoring Requirements

Not specified at umbrella-scheme level on the current public listing. Grant-specific monitoring and reporting requirements should be verified from the individual competition documents before publication. (Find a Grant)

Reporting Requirements

Not specified at scheme level on the public Find a Grant record. (Find a Grant)

Objectives

1. Improve people's engagement in and experience of probation and other rehabilitative activities; 2) support an individual's rehabilitation and desistance journey; and 3) improve HMPPS's knowledge of which activities work to support people and encourage rehabilitation and desistance. (Find a Grant)

Wider Policy Objective

The scheme supports HMPPS's wider role in protecting the public, carrying out court sentences and supporting rehabilitation. (Find a Grant)

Historical First Competition

The original scheme page states that the first competed application process, planned for August 2022, concerned grant awards across multiple probation regions supporting people from ethnic minority groups. This is historical information about the first competition and should not be presented as the current eligibility/focus of every grant under the scheme. (Find a Grant)

Current Round Availability

The umbrella scheme remains listed as open, but the public page does not identify one universal current grant round. Specific opportunities and their dates are communicated through the Probation Grants Applications Portal. (Find a Grant)

Application Link

Ministry of Justice Probation Grants Applications Portal / Jaggaer e-sourcing platform. (Ministry of Justice Commercial)

Separate Newer HMPPS Grant Programme

The Ministry of Justice has also developed a separate Rehabilitation Grants Scheme 2026–2029, with successful grants intended to operate from April 2026. This should not automatically be treated as a replacement for this CRS General Grant Scheme, because the CRS listing itself remains live with a March 2027 closing date. (GOV.UK)

Important Notes

This is an umbrella grant scheme, not necessarily one continuously open call with identical requirements. Individual competed grants may differ in target group, region, award value, timetable, deliverables and application requirements. Your website should therefore distinguish the overall scheme closing date from the deadline of any specific funding round. (Find a Grant)

Last Verified

14 August 2026

Official source

Read the funding authority guidance