Grants for Sports, Education, and Community Wellbeing

This week’s funding roundup showcases some fantastic opportunities for projects in sports, education, and community wellbeing. Whether you’re enhancing local sports programmes, improving educational resources, or delivering initiatives that support community health, there are several grants open for applications. Explore the latest options and see how they can help take your project forward!

• Combined Small And Events Grant Programme. £6k to support a range of projects that benefit local residents and communities in Hastings.
• Climate Co-Operators Community Fund. £5k to support projects and activities that raise awareness of climate change and deliver activities and events that will benefit individuals and communities.
• Apart Not Alone: Support For Serving Families Programme. Up to £15,000 for projects that will help to mitigate the impact of long or frequent involuntary separation for families, spouses, and serving personnel, including reservists and their families.
• Compassionate Communities Fund. £50k to deliver projects and activities that support the health and well-being of people living in Northwest London.
• Reducing Health Inequalities Through Physical Activity Grant. £5k to reduce health inequalities and promote healthy communities among various local populations, including ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and those experiencing social exclusion.
• Oxfordshire – Smokefree Community Fund. £1k  to support smoke-free places and events to reduce smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke in the community.
• Walking, Cycling And Active Travel Promotion Grants. £5k to encourage people in Cambridge to use forms of active travel, such as walking and cycling, more often.
• Ingenious Investment Fund. £20k to support the innovative use of technology to new ways of working to reach hard to reach groups.
• Cash For Kids Sports Challenge. £5k to encourage more children to play sports in their communities.
• Investing In Spaces And Places Grant Programme. £25k for grassroots organisations to improve community spaces and places across the UK.
• The Harris Foundation Schools Progression Award. £5k to schools looking to deepen their music provision and support/or continue to support groups of music makers within their school.
• Nature Networks Fund. £1m to improve the condition and resilience of Wales’ network of protected land and marine sites.
• Through The Serving Families: On The Move Programme. £120k to assist military families in accessing services as they relocate.
• Greater Manchester – Voicescape Community Fund. £1k to enable projects that support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis.
• Africa-Uk Physics Partnership Collaborative Research Projects. To build and sustain a skilled and talented cohort of early career African physicists.
• Trading For Good. £10k to develop and grow projects that tackle social and environmental challenges through strong trading income streams.
• Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund. £5k to increase opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas to play sport and enjoy its many benefits.
• Stay Well This Winter Grants. £3k to support vulnerable people most at risk of becoming unwell over winter.
• Sharing Together Fund. £2.5k to fund ideas which encourage the creation of new networks, and which strengthen existing networking opportunities.
• Re:purpose Grants Programme. £25k to deliver inclusive growth for the creative industries by empowering local businesses and organisations to repurpose space for cultural and creative uses and to develop sustainable business models that are purpose-driven.
• Democratic Participation Grants. £25k for targeted awareness-raising and related informational activity in trusted community settings for groups most under-registered and under-represented.
• Community Grant Fund. £5k to voluntary and community groups in Middlesbrough for community development projects.
• Solihull Community Buildings Fund. Capital grants to improve access and use of independently owned community buildings in the borough.
• Hull Community Fund. £10k to support voluntary and community groups in Hull by offering activity grants to help address gaps in provision and step change grants to help groups increase their capacity or support them towards sustainability.
• Summer Community Fund. £3k for projects that will engage vulnerable young people in diversion, prevention, and intervention activities during the summer holiday period.
• It4Good Grant Programme. £15k to support IT projects and activities that relate to IT.
• Stem Grants. £10k to support initiatives that encourage young people to study science subjects at school.
• The Finnis Scott Foundation. £60k  for grants to support projects in the areas of horticulture, plant sciences as well as the study, exhibition and conservation of fine art.
• Auto Trader Community Fund. £1k  for grassroots community groups based in any of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.
• National Churches Trust – Large Grants Programme. £50k for Christian places of worship needing major, urgent structural repairs
• Funding For Short Courses And Summer Schools In 2025. £1k to hold short courses, summer schools and online training resources in science or technology.
• Full Of Life Fund. £250 to support a programme of events to connect older residents across local communities with activities and groups that can support their health and wellbeing, helping them stay physically active and socially connected. 
• Empower Rivers Community Grants. £20k to support volunteer-led water quality monitoring and river restoration projects across Greater London.
• Built By Nature Fund. £210k to support strong multi-stakeholder networks to stimulate demand for mass timber and to fund solutions addressing key barriers to scaling mass timber in construction.
• Somerset Community Foundation – Main Grants. £5k so local groups can provide the extra support that some people need in the community.