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In the meantime, here are the 69 new grants we found this week for charities, CICs, and nonprofits across the UK:


🌟 National Grid Electricity Transmission’s Community Grant Programme – £20,000 – Designed to support community organisations and charities in areas where National Grid’s work is impacting local people through operations and construction activities.

🎯 Alfred Shaw Trust Fund – Individuals – £500 – The Alfred Shaw Trust Fund managed by the Community Foundation for Merseyside was established in memory of Alfred Shaw.

🚀 Alfred Shaw Trust Fund – £2,500 – The Alfred Shaw Trust Fund is managed by the Community Foundation for Merseyside, established in memory of Alfred Shaw and created following the transfer of the trust fund to the Community Foundations.

🌍 High Sheriff and Merseyside Police Charitable Fund – £2,500 – The High Sheriff and Merseyside Police Charitable Fund (“the fund”) aims to work with voluntary bodies and community groups in Merseyside to support community safety, crime prevention and security initiatives locally.

💡 The Bigger Picture – £90,000 – The Bigger Picture supports Scotland-based filmmakers to make creatively ambitious, high-value, high-quality and high-impact shorts to bridge the gap many filmmakers experience before making their first feature film.

SWEF Business Grant – £2,000 – The SWEF Business Grant supports young people living in County Durham or Tees Valley with a business investment they can’t afford but will transform their business.

📚 High Sheriff Youth Awards Scheme – Varies – The High Sheriff Youth Awards Scheme celebrates and recognises young people and their community groups who are making a positive difference in County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton.

🎨 Individual Grant – £2,000 – We’re now accepting individual applications from young Londoners aged 18 to 25 to help remove financial barriers to further study, whether at university or through vocational training.

🤝 Main Fund – £60,000 – Educational Opportunity Foundation awards approximately £700,000 in new grants every year for projects which maximise educational opportunity for children and young people under the age of 25 in the UK and internationally.

🏆 Gwent High Sheriffs’ Community Fund – £7,500 – The Gwent High Sheriffs’ Community Fund aims to provide a safer and better quality of life for the people of Gwent by supporting community-based initiatives and projects that reduce crime and improve community safety.

🌟 Sedel-Collings Support the Supporters – £5,000 – Cornwall Community Foundation recognises the voluntary sector faces unprecedented pressure tackling complex social challenges.

🎯 Autumn 2025 Small Grants Round – £10,000 – The Autumn 2025 Small Grants Round is part of the Charles Plater Trust Small Grants Programme, awarding grants of £1,000 to £5,000, typically around £3,000 to £5,000, designed to support highly localised projects usually at parish or local levels.

🚀 National Lottery Arts & Older People Programme – £10,000 – The National Lottery Arts & Older People Programme aims to strengthen the voice of older people and promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing through encouraging greater participation in the arts.

🌍 ArtRoots Funding – £6,000 – ArtRoots is a funding program by Sustrans Scotland funded by the Scottish Government, providing grants to community-led projects that enhance the National Cycle Network (NCN) with aesthetic improvements encouraging active travel.

💡 Rudbaxton Parish Education Fund – £2,000 – The Rudbaxton Parish Education Fund aims to advance the education of children and young people under 25 living in the Parish of Rudbaxton, Pembrokeshire.

Ashley Family Foundation Grant – £10,000 – The Ashley Family Foundation funds small-scale projects in arts, crafts, and education, focusing on people in Wales, especially those isolated or in need.

📚 Fund for Wales – £2,000 – The Fund for Wales is a national community endowment fund managed by Community Foundation Wales.

🎨 Wales in London Philanthropic Fund – £5,000 – The Wales in London Philanthropic Fund is designed to support enterprising students and early career individuals connected to Wales, helping with education costs, scholarships, bursaries, work experience, and career development mainly in London or outside Wales.

🤝 Surviving Winter fund – £5,000 – The Surviving Winter Fund offers financial support to vulnerable people in Cornwall to help them stay warm, active, and healthy in winter.

🏆 Sedel-Collings fund – £10,000 – The Sedel-Collings Foundation supports small charities and community groups in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly addressing loneliness, disadvantage, and supporting supporters.

🌟 Housing Action Fund – £5,000 – The Housing Action Fund supports organisations with a primary purpose to provide direct support to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, including prevention, crisis support, or ongoing support to move people from homelessness.

🎯 Women and Girls’ Empowerment Fund – £5,000 – The Women and Girls’ Empowerment Fund offers grants up to £1,000 or £5,000 for community-led projects supporting women and girls in Salford.

🚀 Sandwell – Community Kitchen Support Fund / Hot Food Provision in Sandwell – £7,500 – Grants for local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organizations to deliver free hot food provision to households experiencing financial hardship, those struggling to afford food, pay essential utility bills, or meet other basic living costs.

🌍 Moto in the Community Trust – £1,000 – Moto Foundation provides small community grants to support local projects around its motorway service areas.

💡 MPGA Grants (Metropolitan Public Gardens Association) – £1,500 – MPGA offers modest grants to help preserve, improve, or reinvigorate public gardens, neglected green spaces, community gardens, school grounds, churchyards, and related sites across London.

Suffolk Futures Fund – £5,000 – The Suffolk Futures Fund is a grant fund established by Suffolk Community Foundation to support initiatives assisting young people aged 16-25 facing additional challenges.

📚 Empowering Communities for Mental Health & Wellbeing – Arts, Culture & Heritage – £15,000 – This fund supports community-based, non-clinical projects in Norfolk that use arts, culture or heritage as the core approach to promoting positive mental health and reaching people who might not engage with formal services.

🎨 SWL Women’s Health Engagement Programme – £2,000 – SWL Women’s Health Engagement Programme offers small grants up to £2k for projects improving awareness, education, and self-management of women’s health (menopause, urogynaecology, menstrual health) targeting women and girls struggling to access traditional NHS services in South West London.

🤝 Digital Inclusion 4 All Project – East Riding Fund – £600 – This fund supports community venues (e.

🏆 Brent Cross Town Community Fund 2025 – £10,000 – Barnet – Brent Cross Town Community Fund 2025 offers a total of £50,000 in grants ranging from £3,000 to £10,000.

🌟 York Community Fund – £1,000 – York Community Fund has been set up as a partnership between Two Ridings Community Foundation, City of York Council, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York CVS and York Together.

🎯 Aplkit Foundation – £500 – The Alpkit Foundation provides small awards of £50-£500 to individuals, community groups, schools, and organisations to encourage people to get outdoors and have great outdoor experiences that might not otherwise happen.

🚀 Winter Resilience Fund – £2,000 – The Winter Resilience Fund provides grants up to £2,000 to small voluntary organisations, community groups, small charities, or other not-for-profits with charitable purposes, based in East Yorkshire, Hull, North Yorkshire, or York.

🌍 Building the Right Home Capital Grants (England) – £1,000,000 – Building the right home is national guidance to provide housing options supporting people with learning disabilities and autism to live in their own homes, reducing reliance on inpatient care.

💡 North Yorkshire Coast Fund – £5,000 – The North Yorkshire Coast Fund has been developed for the wellbeing of people and communities in the former borough of Scarborough, prioritizing work with children and young people to help them thrive and promote good mental health.

Changing Places Toilets Scotland Fund – £10,000 – The fund aims to increase the number of Changing Places Toilets in Scotland — toilets with sufficient space, specialist equipment, and carer support for those with additional access needs.

📚 Earthshot Prize 2026: Nominee Expression of Interest – £1,000,000 – Innovate UK is inviting expressions of interest from individuals, communities, businesses and organisations with solutions that align with the Earthshot Prize’s five themes: Protecting & Restoring Nature; Cleaning Our Air; Reviving Our Oceans; Building a Waste-Free World; Fixing Our Climate.

🎨 Rehabilitation Grants Scheme 2026-2029 – £150,000 – A £3 million competitive grant fund running from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029.

🤝 Strategic Priorities Fund – £25,000 – Team Barrow is launching the ‘strategic priorities’ element of the fund, committing £700K annually from 2025-2029 via a single funding round to award a small number of multiyear grants by March 2026.

🏆 Green Community Grants Programme – £25,000 – The Green Community Grants Programme offers one-year flexible funding for not-for-profit groups in England, Scotland, and Wales with annual incomes between £10,000 and £1 million, with grants up to £25,000.

🌟 North Pickenham Windfarm Community Fund – £3,000 – The North Pickenham Windfarm Community Fund is aimed at small community led organisations that are working in communities within a 5 kilometre radius of North Pickenham Windfarm.

🎯 North Somerset Community Partnership Grant – £20,000 – The Fund has been set up by Quartet Community Foundation and North Somerset Community Partnership to support community-based organisations responding to the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged local people in North Somerset.

🚀 Wales and Africa Grant Scheme – £25,000 – The Wales and Africa grant scheme is a flagship initiative of Welsh Government’s Wales and Africa programme.

🌍 Crisis funding – £10,000 – Crisis funding provides limited emergency support, typically around £10,000, to charitable organisations in Surrey facing urgent financial difficulties to help bridge short-term cash flow gaps and ensure continuation of operations while developing long-term sustainability.

💡 Economic Inactivity Trailblazer Grants – £10,000 – This strand of the One Oldham Fund is designed to tackle the high levels of economic inactivity in Oldham by supporting voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to deliver holistic, community-led initiatives.

Worcestershire Public Health Community Wellbeing Grants – £3,000 – The Worcestershire Public Health Community Wellbeing Grant Programme supports local groups and small organisations with one-off grants up to £3,000 for sustainable community-based projects that improve wellbeing, build connections, or create safer spaces.

📚 Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Awareness & Screening Participation Small Grants Scheme – £10,000 – This is a competitive small grants programme supporting community groups in Lancashire & South Cumbria to deliver cancer awareness, screening participation, and early diagnosis activities—especially for lung, bowel, and pancreatic cancers, but others may be considered.

🎨 Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund – £4,000 – The Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund supports charitable and community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support.

🤝 Zurich Municipal Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2025 – £10,000 – About the grant / Description: The 2025 Diversity and Inclusion awards are set to reward small charities with incomes up to £100,000, to celebrate the big impact you have on our communities.

🏆 Public Health Thriving Together Fund: Large Grants – £25,000 – The Thriving Together Fund (large grants) provides charities and organisations in County Durham with funding to deliver new or sustain existing (beyond the life of their original funding) projects, activities, and initiatives that enable individuals to thrive, support good health and wellbeing, and addresses key public health issues.

🌟 The Britford Bridge Trust – £50,000 – The Britford Bridge Trust (the “Trust”) is a charitable trust registered in England & Wales (registered number 1160012).

🎯 Community Neighbourhood Grant – £2,000 – The  Community Neighbourhood Grant  is here to support those small, grassroots groups working hard to make life better in their local area.

🚀 Digital Divide – The Access Foundation Grant – £49,999 – The Access Foundation awards grants to charities and not-for-profit organisations to mitigate the digital divide by supporting projects that make IT facilities, support, and learning accessible to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.

🌍 Worshipful Company of World Traders – Grant – £5,000 – Objectives of the Trust: To promote World Trade in all its aspects.

💡 Sir James Knott Trust – Grant – Varies – In 2019 we took stock of our approach to grant making.

Bicker Wind Farm Trust – £5,000 – The Object of the Trust is to promote renewable and efficient energy and not-for-profit projects that conserve or improve the environment within a ten mile radius of Bicker Fen in the Borough of Boston, although priority may be given to projects within five miles.

📚 Laceby Solar Farm Community Fund – £10,000 – The Object of the Fund is to support volunteer led not-for-profit projects that improve the lives of people living in Laceby, Irby, Riby, Barnoldby le Beck, Bradley, Aylesby and Beelsby, North East Lincolnshire.

🎨 Children’s Alliance Fund – £15,000 – Through our community work, we aim to give children and young people a better start in life through the medium of water.

🤝 Funding to Support Service Children in Schools (Wales) – £5,000 – Funding is available to help schools and local authorities provide additional support to children from families of Service personnel.

🏆 Responsive Grant Programme – £1,000 – The Responsive Grant-Making programme is the main programme where we are pleased to consider applications for support.

🌟 Professional Enrichment Programme – £1,000 – Funded opportunity for qualified UK teachers to  visit a German school for one or two weeks  during 2023-24.

🎯 School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) – £5,000 – The School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) is designed to enable organisations to deliver fun and accessible activities for children and young people during the school holidays.

🚀 The Nineveh Charitable Trust – £15,000 – Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations and schools in the UK for a broad range of projects and activities that promote a better understanding of the countryside.

🌍 National Lottery Awards for All – £20,000 – Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society.

💡 Edina Trust – Science Grant Scheme (England, Scotland and Wales) – £800 – Edina Trust supports schools, schools can use their grants for science resources, gardening equipment, science weeks, science subscriptions, science visits (in or out of school) and improving school grounds for science.

Charles S French Charitable Trust (Essex & NE London) – £5,000 – The principal objective of the Charles S French Charitable Trust is to provide grant giving support to a wide range of charitable activities, primarily within Essex and North East London, whilst maintaining and developing the value of the Trust’s investments and assets.

📚 Buttle UK – Chances for Children Grants – £2,400 – Grants of up to £2,400 are available to support the needs of vulnerable children and young people (aged 2 – 18) who have experienced a recent crisis or change in life that has had a significant impact on their wellbeing and their education.

🎨 Andor Charitable Trust – Grant – £3,000 – The Andor Charitable Trust offers grants s in the following areas of interest: Medical and ancillary services (including medical research).

🤝 Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust – Grant – £10,000 – The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust supports socially disadvantaged groups and individuals in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

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