Here are 65 new grants now open to charities, CICs, and nonprofits across the UK.
🌟 Beeby Family Fund (Wigton & Surrounding Area) – £5,000
Grants to organisations to support and improve the lives and opportunities of children and young people, primarily to those living in Wigton and the surrounding areas.
🎯 Beverley Trust Fund – £10,000
Grants for young people in West Cumbria to help raise educational attainment and career aspirations by enabling access to study or vocational training.
🚀 CCL Secure Fund (Allerdale and Copeland) – £2,500
Grants for small voluntary and community groups and organisations providing activities that benefit people and communities in the former districts of Allerdale and Copeland.
🌍 Brian & Ann Clark Fund – £1,500
Grants for individuals and charitable organisations to support the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, and the promotion of good health, both physical and mental.
💡 Carrs Group Fund – £3,000
Grants for charitable groups to invest in the well-being and future of Cumbria’s communities and social action at a local level.
✨ CN Group Fund – £2,000
Grants for charitable and volunteer-led groups which help people facing disadvantage.
📚 Crofton Trust Fund – £500
Grants to support community projects which educate the public about agriculture, forestry, and the countryside environment; and which help maintain woodland, agricultural land and buildings for such educational purposes.
🤝 Church & Communities Funding – £120,000
We welcome applications from churches, as well as other faith and community-based organisations in areas of deprivation and/or focused on marginalised groups in Greater London , Northumberland , Tyne and Wear , County Durham, Tees Valley , Lincolnshire and Norfolk that address one of the following priority areas: Building Stronger Communities People in the most disadvantaged communities coming together to address what is important to them: working in areas with the highest deprivation; or from organisations led by/for minoritised communities – including black, minoritised ethnic, LGBT+ and disabled communities, as well as communities of women.
🏆 Older People & Housing Funding Programme – £120,000
We welcome applications from not for profit, community led organisations in Greater London and Norfolk that address one or both of the following priorities: Combatting Loneliness Faced by Older People Working in areas with a high risk of chronic loneliness e.g.
🎨 Professional Inquiry for Practice Transformation (PIPT) Grants – £6,000
The Froebel Trust is a UK-based charity, which aims to promote and advance knowledge and understanding of a Froebelian approach to education, for the benefit of children (birth to eight years) and their families and educators, communities and environments.
🌟 Queen Victoria Fund Reading – £5,000
Queen Victoria Fund Reading (QVFR) is a local grant making charity that prioritises public health initiatives including action on health inequity.
🎯 Grow, Cook, Eat Programme Development Delivery Grant – £343,750
This funding is to strengthen Grow, Cook, Eat, a programme that helps people learn how to grow food, cook healthy meals, and make better choices about nutrition, while supporting wellbeing and building stronger community connections.
🚀 Innovation Fund – £25,000
Rochdale Borough Council created the ‘Innovation Fund’ (‘the Fund’) as part of the Local Welfare Provision programme, which has been in place since the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
🌍 Vision 2030 Community Grants Programme – £5,000
SCVO Vision 2030 Grants – Vision 2030 sets out the ambitions towards making Sandwell (in 2030) a thriving, optimistic and resilient community.
💡 Heritage Grants – £100,000
We help fund historic building restoration projects that provide employment and training in building crafts, from stonemasonry, joinery and ornamental plasterwork to niche crafts such as carving, graining, stucco and scagliola work, mural and fresco restoration, leadwork, thatching, gilding, stained glass conservation and encaustic tiling and tile restoration.
✨ Music Grants – £100,000
The Vinehill Trust will consider applications that support and build the United Kingdom’s choral and organ traditions, whether in the context of school, church, cathedral, or the wider community.
📚 Health Grants – £100,000
Our focus areas Permanent focus areas : We accept applications at any time for projects that address acute conditions, such as: pre-hospital care life-saving equipment/training/intervention suicide prevention services Temporary focus areas: In addition to our permanent focus areas, we have temporary focus areas, covering both physical and mental health, that change each calendar year.
🤝 SUPPORT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROGRAMME – Travel Awards
Supports travel for individual artists and small music groups to develop their skills, expertise, networks, and professional practice .
🏆 Pounds for Purposes – £500
You are never too young to put a good idea into action, especially if you can make a difference to your community or environment in the process.
🎨 Grants & Commissions Programme – £10,000
The John Feeney Trust Grants & Commissions Programme funds organisations with proposals that improve, promote, and celebrate the city of Birmingham through: Arts Commissions — funding to commission an artist or team to create new public work (all art forms).
🌟 Health Data Research UK- Biomedical Vacation Scholarships – £2,000
The HDR UK-Wellcome Biomedical Vacation Scholarship (BVS) programme is designed to support undergraduates, in the middle year(s) of eligible degree programmes, to undertake their first health data research project.
🎯 University of Leicester- Biomedical Vacation Scholarships – £2,000
The University of Leicester is delighted to offer four Biomedical Vacation Scholarships funded by the Wellcome Trust.
🚀 Queen Mary, University of London- Biomedical Vacation Scholarships – £2,000
Projects will be 6-8 weeks in duration over the summer holidays and are full time, unless otherwise agreed with your Academic supervisor.
🌍 Grass Roots Fund 2026 – £250
The Grass Roots Fund 2026 is a small, rapid‑release grant scheme designed to support local community activity and wellbeing projects immediately after Christmas — addressing increased social and emotional pressures in the community.
💡 Sunshine Coaches
Our Sunshine Coaches are valuable community assets, opening up a world of opportunities, enabling tens of thousands of children to access life-changing experiences every day.
✨ Funded Holiday Programme
The Family Holiday Charity provides funded holiday breaks and day trip opportunities to families who are struggling financially and have not had a holiday together in at least four years.
📚 Variety Great Days Out
Each year, we take thousands of children to one of our themed parties, the seaside, the circus, the theatre, the zoo, a theme park or other attractions around the UK.
🤝 Communities Investment Fund (CIF) – £250,000
Communities Investment Fund (CIF) is a long running fund that has supported dozens of social businesses in Wales to grow through the provision of millions of pounds of social investment loan finance.
🏆 Wales Micro Loan Fund – £50,000
The Wales Micro Loan Fund is funded through The Development Bank of Wales to support small and medium sized enterprises .
🎨 Veterans’ Foundation – Standard & Salary Grants – £75,000
The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) has established a substantial grants programme to support charities and organisations that provide support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.
🌟 Quarterly Research Grant Funding Programme – £250,000
Curing Parkinson’s needs world-class collaborative science involving researchers, clinicians, the pharmaceutical industry and, most importantly, people who are living with Parkinson’s.
🎯 Wellcome Career Development Awards
The Wellcome Trust is a research charity that funds research to improve human and animal health.
🚀 The Theodore Salvesen Memorial Trust – £1,000
The Theodore Salvesen Memorial Trust is a grant giving charity registered in Scotland as charity number SC008336.
🌍 International Events Funding Programme
The International Events Programme is one of EventScotland’s core funding programmes and is open for applications all year round.
💡 IOP Teacher Training Scholarships – £31,000
The IOP is awarding 175 scholarships, with multiple benefits, including: support to develop your physics teaching skills including online and face-to-face continuing professional development (CPD) workshops; subject-specific mentor available for regional groups and 1:1 sessions throughout your training and continuing support for your ECT years; funding of £31,000 (tax free); the benefits of IOP membership for your training year.
✨ Physics Benevolent Fund
The Physics Benevolent Fund is an independent charity that is administered by a Board of Trustees which meets regularly to consider applications for support.
📚 Accessibility Fund – £500
The Accessibility Fund, a partnership between the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and the Physics Benevolent Fund , is aimed at supporting members who wish to attend physics-related events to develop their careers but face additional costs because of a disability or because they are the primary carer for a family member, by providing grants for their accessibility needs or caring responsibilities.
🤝 UK City of Culture 2029 – £10,000,000
UK City of Culture is a competition run by DCMS, inviting places across the UK to set out their vision for culture-led transformation.
🏆 Small Grants Programme – £4,500
Provides smaller grants targeted at local community and charity-led activity that addresses urgent needs of people facing disadvantage, exclusion, or isolation in the Westmorland area (Cumbria), UK .
🎨 Main Grants programme – £20,000
Our Main Grants Programme provides grants of between £4,500 to £20,000 (per year) towards revenue or capital costs.
🌟 Hadfield Trust Grants – £5,000
The Hadfield Trust gives grants to charitable organisations in Cumbria.
🎯 Travel Grants (Early Career MRSB) – £1,000
The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) Travel Grants will give the opportunity for UK or overseas travel in connection with biological study, teaching, or research to those who would otherwise be unlikely to have it.
🚀 Travel Grants (AMRSB) – £1,000
The Royal Society of Biology (RSB) Travel Grants will give the opportunity for UK or overseas travel in connection with biological study, teaching, or research to those who would otherwise be unlikely to have it.
🌍 Broadcast Content Fund – £100,000
The Broadcast Content Fund aims to help the sustainable growth of Scotland’s broadcast production sector, encouraging the development of new projects, the scaling up of already successful activities and the production of commissioned programmes.
💡 Distribution Fund – £15,000
The Distribution Fund supports the distribution of Scottish feature films to reach a wide and diverse audience in Scotland.
✨ Rise programme – £30,000
Under the Rise programme, The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust will award grants of up to £30,000 to pilot projects that provide additional capacity to charities.
📚 Individual Grant (Relief in Need) – £1,000
We welcome applications from people who are experiencing difficult circumstances.
🤝 Theatre Breakthrough Fund (North)
The Theatre Breakthrough Fund (North) is a new fund of approximately £2,000,000 to support Black, Asian and ethnically diverse theatre makers in the North to make ambitious new work.
🏆 The Edward Wood Fund – £500
The Edward Wood Fund is available to support individuals who are hearing impaired up to the age of 19 years old.
🎨 Arts-based Learning Fund – £300,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation envisions a more equitable school system where high-quality arts-based learning is a core part of all children’s education.
🌟 Youth Fund – £150,000
Provides funding for eligible organisations to deliver projects aligned with the fund’s priorities.
🎯 Allen Lane Foundation – £15,000
Provides funding for eligible organisations to deliver projects aligned with the fund’s priorities.
🚀 Severn Trent Community Fund – New Project Funding – £50,000
Our Fund aims to support the wellbeing of communities in the Severn Trent region.
🌍 Live Well Community Fund – Coaching Grants – £1,000
This grant supports one-to-one coaching for leaders within the voluntary/community sector to improve wellbeing, leadership capacity, reflection, and organisational impact.
💡 Youth Grant – £10,000
We are pleased to announce that this year’s Halton Borough Council Youth Grant is now available for applications for the period of 2026- 2027 to support the delivery of a range of positive activities for the young people living in the Halton Council area.
✨ Tees Valley Community Grants – £3,000
Point North’s Tees Valley Community Grants Programme provides grants focusing on sustaining health and wellbeing and reducing inequalities.
📚 Access Without Limits Community Funding – £10,250
Our Access Without Limits Community Funding is now open for applications until January 2026.
🤝 Sheringham Shoal Community Fund – £5,000
The Sheringham Shoal Community Fund will support projects proposed by groups inspired to do something new and positive in their community.
🏆 Dudgeon Community STEM in Schools Fund – £10,000
The Dudgeon STEM in Schools Fund aims to inspire pupils and students in primary/secondary schools and colleges (up to and including year 13) to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, so that those pupils are more likely to continue education or employment within the STEM areas in Breckland, Great Yarmouth, and North Norfolk.
🎨 Naturesave Trust Grants – £5,000
This grant supports small-scale UK-based projects by charities, social enterprises and grassroots community organisations that promote sustainable development, conservation of nature, biodiversity, and community engagement with the environment.
🌟 CABWI Lifelong Learning and Development Fund – £40,000
The fund supports projects that enable young people (16+) and adults to gain skills, qualifications, confidence, work experience and training aimed at improving employability.
🎯 Intelligent Energy Charitable Trust – £15,000
The Intelligent Energy Charitable Trust seeks to support charitable and voluntary organisations that deliver positive impact in the local Charnwood community.
🚀 Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme – £5,000
Provides funding for eligible organisations to deliver projects aligned with the fund’s priorities.
🌍 Scaling Impact in Health and Care Fund – £500,000
The Scaling Impact in Health and Care Fund supports charities and NHS organisations to expand proven health and care interventions and deliver them more widely.
💡 Knowsley Youth Workforce Development Fund – £100,000
The Knowsley Youth Workforce Development Fund supports local youth organisations to develop their workforce by funding accredited training and qualifications in youth work, SEND (Special Educational Needs & Disabilities), care-experienced youth support, and other specialist skills.
