We’ve added 84 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
My Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: The Police and Crime Commissioner makes money available to support communities in the West Midlands who want to make “My Community” a safer place to live and work. The Police and Crime Commissioner and the community create and protect the communities and the purpose of the My Community Fund is to encourage local people to bring forward ideas which reflect their local knowledge and understanding of how to improve.
Open Application Programme
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: The Foundation launched its open application programme in 2025 to enable more charities and community groups to access donations. The Foundation supports projects that address deprivation or disadvantage in our communities, especially among young people.
The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust Fund supports registered charities, exempted and excepted organisations, whose activities benefit residents of Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham and Teesside. Priority will be given to those which ease social deprivation and/or enrich the fabric of the local community and the quality of life of individuals within that community.
Slough – Pride in Place Impact Fund: Community Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: The Pride in Place Impact Fund – Community Grants scheme is administered and funded by Slough Borough Council. Slough Borough Council is inviting registered community groups and charities to bid for a share of £250,000 for projects which improve the town’s physical environment.
Turing Scheme: Funding for International Study and Work Placements
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: The Turing Scheme provides funding for UK and British overseas territories education and training providers to deliver international study and work placements for students and apprentices in the 2026–2027 academic year. The scheme supports placements that enhance transferable skills, global awareness, personal development, and subject-specific learning.
Greater Manchester – Voicescape Community Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 19 Mar 2026
Overview: This fund aims to enable projects that support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, as well as projects that provide education and skills development. Funding can be used for a wide variety of projects and activities that: Support those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as food banks, warm spaces, financial and welfare advice, or baby banks.
Call for Capital Projects – Newark Pride in Place Programme
Amount: Up to £3,646,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Newark Town Board, with support from Newark and Sherwood District Council (NSDC) as the Accountable Body for the programme is launching a ‘Call for Capital Projects’. This call aims to identify potential projects for PiPP investment to deliver on the local vision set out within the Regeneration Plan.
National Adventure Playground Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: A new national funding programme has launched to protect, restore and grow staffed adventure playgrounds across England. Adventure playgrounds provide free, open-access play in communities where children may otherwise have limited opportunities for independence and exploration.
Pride in Place (PiPP) Community Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Newark PiPP Community Grant Scheme will help strengthen the capacity of the community and voluntary sector by providing funding to improve community spaces, as well as helping access opportunities for social, cultural or recreational activities and combatting social isolation. The project delivers on Newark’s PiPP Regeneration Plan priority theme of ‘cohesion’ with a focus on the selected interventions of.
Pride in Place (PiPP) Events Programme Funding
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Events Programme Funding scheme supports local organisations to deliver a range of events as part of the following Seasonal Town Centre Events Programme between April 2026 and March 2027. Funded events must contribute to one or more of the following objectives: Increase pride in the town centre and its public spaces.
Quilter Foundation – Financial Futures Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: 23 Mar 2026
Overview: The Quilter Foundation invites your organisation to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the Financial Futures Fund strategic grants programme. These selective, multi‑year grants back large‑scale UK programmes that deliver financial education at key life moments (e.g.
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust supports socially disadvantaged groups and individuals in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Established in 1969, it was named after Anton Jurgens, one of the founders of the multinational company Unilever.
Quaker Housing Trust Grant (UK)
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 26 Mar 2026
Overview: The Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) provides loans and grants to support small registered charities in England and Wales that create or improve genuinely affordable rented housing. Our funding helps organisations develop high-quality, sustainable housing projects that meet local housing needs, with a particular interest in applications supporting older people in the current funding round.We operate two restricted funding.
Community Contribution Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 27 Mar 2026
Overview: The City of Westminster Charitable Trust is opening the Community Contribution Fund to applications from schools, voluntary and community organisations to support one of the following areas: helping young people reach their full potential, including staying safe, contributing positively to their community and developing longer term skills providing extra support for people who find themselves sleeping on.
Leicester Festivals and events grant
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 29 Mar 2026
Overview: Festivals and events grant Local organisations can apply for funding to run festivals or events in Leicester for 2026-2027. These grants support events that: bring communities together celebrate culture in Leicester attract visitors to the city Previously, we have supported a wide range of festivals and events such as Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Mela.
Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund
Amount: Up to £40,000
Closing date: 29 Mar 2026
Overview: The engine room of England’s thriving music ecology, the grassroots music sector encompasses a range of organisations including rehearsal and recording studios, venues, festivals, and promoters. These are the places where musicians and music professionals develop their skills and hone their craft, test out new ideas and approaches, and prepare to engage with and develop audiences.
Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The new programme has been shaped by feedback from VCFSE organisations at a workshop held in summer 2025 and reflects the Council’s wider strategic approach to improving public mental health across the life course.
Funding Futures Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The effects of the cost-of-living crisis are hitting marginalised and minoritised communities the hardest, with many people struggling to get by – considered too high risk to have access to beneficial financial services, like bank accounts or credit, that others take for granted.
Funding to Enhance STEM Teaching (UK)
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: We are celebrating curiosity in the classroom this March, helping to inspire the next generation of scientists to never stop asking questions!
Main Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
PRS Music Foundation Composers’ Fund (UK)
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Managed by PRS Foundation, The Composers’ Fund supports up to 15 composers per year which provides an opportunity for composers with a strong track record, giving direct access to funding at pivotal stages in their career. A contribution of up to £8,000 – £15,000 is available to composers who are already making a significant cultural contribution in the UK and have the potential for greater impact in the UK and.
Peter Kershaw Memorial Bursary
Amount: Up to £65,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Peter Kershaw Memorial Bursary is an annual award made by the Trustees in memory of the Trust’s benefactor. The bursary is intended to fund the costs of a youth leader, though other forms of youth work will be considered.
Single Homeless and Rough Sleeping Fund
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: New to Cornwall Community Foundation – This fund is offering grants to help local groups support single people who are homeless or at risk. We’re especially keen to fund partnerships that provide practical help, early support, and joined-up services to prevent rough sleeping.
Small Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
Veterans’ Foundation – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) established a Small Grants funding programme in 2024. The grants are to support charities and groups that provide assistance to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.
Alec Dickson Trust
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 1 Apr 2026
Overview: The Alec Dickson Trust supports young people in the UK who want to use volunteering or community service to do brilliant things in their communities . We think that young people are amazing and that they have the potential to make the world a better place through volunteering.
Liverpool – Volunteering for Health Grants
Amount: Up to £17,500
Closing date: 2 Apr 2026
Overview: Volunteering for Health is a three-year programme to build the capacity and capability of organisations and local health and care systems in England, through the development of volunteering infrastructure. The programme, in partnership with NHS Charities Together, NHS England, and CW+ (the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), has been designed to be developmental, recognising.
easyfundraising Impact Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 5 Apr 2026
Overview: The easyfundraising Impact Fund is a grant programme that provides small awards to help good causes with practical costs and projects, alongside the ongoing free donations supporters raise through easyfundraising. We want the funding to be accessible, fair, and spread across as many causes as possible – especially smaller, community organisations where a few hundred pounds can make a real difference quickly.
Diversity Fund (2026)
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: 6 Apr 2026
Overview: The Diversity Fund is part of the Camden Community Wealth Fund pilot phase (2025-26) aiming to invest £2 million in businesses and organisations led by people from diverse backgrounds that deliver positive impact in Camden. This fund is designed to: Support businesses that are run by diverse founders or that contribute to increased diversity in local economic life.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Small grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
Foyle Foundation Fund – Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 14 Apr 2026
Overview: The Heart of England Community Foundation has been selected as one of twelve community foundations across the UK to receive a £200,000 legacy donation from the Foyle Foundation as part of its final round of charitable giving. Grants will be awarded over a period of two years.
Children’s Summer Playschemes
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 16 Apr 2026
Overview: The Woodward Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust. The Trust primarily funds charitable organisations in the UK.
Post-16 and Construction Skills Capacity Funding: 2026 to 2030 in Non-devolved Areas
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: The Department for Education (DfE) is providing funding through the latest round of Post‑16 Capacity Funding, complemented by additional Construction Skills Capacity Funding to increase the number of construction training places. To simplify processes and reduce administrative burdens, the DfE is running a single, unified exercise for both funds.
John Horniman Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: In his retirement John Horniman, a Quaker tea merchant, devoted his energies and accumulated fortune to philanthropic work. Around 1890 he built a convalescent home in Worthing for disadvantaged children from the East End of London and from Birmingham.
The Lord-Lieutenant’s Fund for Young and Talented
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: The Lord-Lieutenant’s Fund for Young and Talented provides grants of up to £1,000 to help talented young sports people in Dorset overcome financial or personal barriers and fulfil their sporting potential. The fund aims to “level the playing field” so every young person has equal opportunities to develop their talent, regardless of background, financial circumstances, or other challenges.
Transport for Greater Manchester – Small Grants Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: Transport for Greater Manchester’s new Small Grants Scheme focuses on one‑off purchases or short activities that help people walk, wheel or cycle more often. Funding is flexible and easy to access, giving groups at any stage of development the chance to support active travel in ways that work for them.
Lead the Change Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: Lead the Change is a new, three‑year initiative launched by BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co‑op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Postcode Justice Trust, UK Community Foundations and The National Lottery Community Fund. The programme supports young people to build stronger relationships, feel more connected and take a leading.
Kirklees – Our Cultural Heart
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 22 Apr 2026
Overview: Our Cultural Heart Fund helps local voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations bring creative projects to life. We fund initiatives that celebrate culture and heritage, promote health and wellbeing, and make Kirklees a more connected, inclusive, and vibrant place.
Sea-Changers Innovation Fund 2026
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers first set-up the Innovation Fund in 2021 because the seas remain in crisis. Climate change, pollution, over-fishing and the decline of key marine species are all affecting the UK’s coast and seas.
Youth Support Grant (Diocese of Sheffield)
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Hollowford Trust is a Christian Trust Fund managed by members of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Sheffield (which covers most of the county of South Yorkshire, and small parts of East Riding, North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire). This fund aims to assist young people aged between 10 and 25 years who live in or near the Diocese of Sheffield, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capabilities,.
Cambridge Building Society Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: Grants to support work with a direct connection to homes or housing. The Cambridge Building Society Community Fund offers grants to support local voluntary groups, community groups and organisations that are undertaking charitable work with a connection to homes or housing.
Personal Awards
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: Purpose: Personal Awards are designed to support individuals (not organisations) who have an idea or project that can act as a catalyst for beneficial change in one of the Wingate Foundation’s core thematic areas: music, performing arts and Jewish / interfaith work. Scope: • Must relate to one of the existing subject areas supported by the Foundation.
Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize UK
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: There is a wealth of data about mental health available that could be used to gain new insights but is not currently being accessed by researchers – this Prize is a solution to that problem. The Mental Health Data Prize UK is an open challenge for teams with a bold idea for a new digital tool or application that uses existing mental health data in innovative ways.
FCC Community Action Fund – England
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: The Fund supports physical improvement, refurbishment, conservation or enhancement of public amenities in eligible locations. Projects may include work such as: Improvement of village halls, community centres, sports pavilions, pavilions with public access.
John Watson Trust – Support the Education of Young People with Physical or Learning Disabilities (Scotland)
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: The John Watson’s Trust is a small Edinburgh-based Scottish charity (registered number SC014004) that awards grants for educational purposes to children and young people up to and including the age of 21 who have a physical or learning disability or who are socially disadvantaged. The Trust aims to support beneficiaries whose education is threatened by poverty, illness, disability, or other challenging.
Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: In July 2025 Welsh Government and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) launched a new, long-term, co-created New Approach to Volunteering in Wales (you can read more about the New Approach here). The Approach contains a Vision for Volunteering in Wales where: Volunteering is a ‘way of life’ in Wales.
The Elmgrant Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 May 2026
Overview: The Elmgrant Trust is a charity which makes grants for charitable purposes to individuals living in the south west of England and to organisations and groups with projects in the south west. By so doing it aims to improve the quality of local life and welfare through education, the arts and social sciences.
Material Focus – Electricals Recycling Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The Electricals Recycling Fund aims to grow existing methods or test new creative and practical ones for recycling small household electricals. If you have a project that would make it easier for the public to repair, reuse or recycle their electricals.
Free Support to Expand Classical Studies in Schools (UK)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: Classics for All, a UK-based educational charity that promotes the teaching of classical subjects, is offering free support to UK state schools that want to introduce or expand classical studies. This can be done either as part of the curriculum or as an enrichment/club activity.
Charitable Giving
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 Jun 2026
Overview: In addition to venture commitment to supporting education, care for older people, and social enterprise, SMV has a tradition of supporting a broad range of local causes that benefit Greater Bristol. The venture also manage numerous trusts and funds on behalf of other charitable organisations.
War Memorials Grant Scheme (UK)
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The War Memorials Trust provides grants to repair and conserve free-standing war memorials in England.
National Churches Trust – Large Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 7 Jul 2026
Overview: The National Churches Trust Large Grants programme provides the organisation’s largest grants of up to £50,000 (grants of £40,000–£50,000 are extremely limited and reserved for exceptional cases demonstrating a very high case for investment). Grants support major urgent structural repair projects to Christian places of worship costing over £80,000 (including VAT), or the installation of kitchens and accessible.
Woodsmith Foundation – Small Grants for Everyday Essentials and Activities
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 5 Nov 2026
Overview: The Woodsmith Foundation, an independent charity, was launched in 2013 to leave a positive legacy from the Woodsmith Mine to the boroughs of Scarborough, Redcar and the North York Moors National Park. This new programme is for organisations who require funding towards everyday essential items and everyday activities.
Tomorrow’s Climate Scientists
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Dec 2026
Overview: The Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme provides funding of up to £3,000 to UK schools and colleges to run long-term investigative STEM projects in partnership with STEM professionals from academia or industry. The scheme supports the development of students’ practical STEM skills, research experience, problem-solving, data handling, and awareness of STEM careers.
Andor Charitable Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Andor Charitable Trust offers grants s in the following areas of interest: Medical and ancillary services (including medical research). Education.
Boost Charitable Trust (Small & Large Awards)
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Boost provides funding and support to inspiring programmes which help improve the lives of the disadvantaged and disabled through the power of sport. Since inception, Boost has awarded grants totalling in excess of £2.7 million.
Central Fund – Suffolk Community Council
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Central Fund is the Suffolk Community Foundation’s year-round accessible grant programme, primarily for grants up to £5,000 (including support via the Suffolk Giving Fund). It serves as the main entry point for applications when no suitable open named fund matches a project, allowing the foundation to route eligible requests to appropriate small donor funds (where possible, based on timing and availability) or.
Cobalt Community Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supports local community groups and organisations to deliver a project or event that benefits residents in Cobalt’s neighbourhoods (specifically Croxteth, Fazakerley, Sparrow Hall, and Norris Green). Projects should align with one or more of six priority themes such as community cohesion, wellbeing, skills, safety, inclusivity, and environmental improvements.
Community Mental Health Prevention and Wellbeing Grant – Smaller Grants
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The scheme aims to support charitable organisations with community preventative mental health support programmes that meet the identified needs and assist West Northamptonshire Council in achieving one or more of its corporate plan, strategic aims, objectives or priorities with the aim of creating an equitable, accessible and sustainable solution for local communities.
Education Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation supports learning experiences and life skills for children and young people, particularly for the disadvantaged, those with disabilities or special needs. Trustees are keen to encourage young people to experience the outdoors and to try new pursuits.
Energy Resilience Fund
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Energy Resilience Fund is finance to enable community and social enterprises to retrofit energy generating/saving technology on community owned or managed buildings, with an initial focus on stabilising or reducing energy costs.
Grants for Individuals
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our individual grants programme aims to support motivated adults living in the UK to undertake education and training that will increase their chances of employment. We offer grants up to £1,500 to undertake accredited vocational training up to level 3 ( Qualification levels explained) and towards other costs associated with studying.
Hargreaves Foundation (UK)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Hargreaves Foundation is a grant-making charitable foundation set up in 2020 by Peter Hargreaves and his family. Applications are open for organisations seeking funding to support those under the age of 18, and living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education.
Heart of Bucks – Skills for Good Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Skills for Good offers funding to help charity staff and volunteers access training and formal qualifications that strengthen the services they deliver. The fund is designed for local charities and community groups that want to improve an existing service or develop a new one, but don’t have the resources to invest in professional development.
Henry Smith Charity – Christian Grants programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Christian Grants programme supports initiatives that promote Anglican Clergy Wellbeing.
Major Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Major Grants programme supports eligible charitable organisations delivering family support services in deprived communities across the UK, with a strong preference for front-line organisations working directly with families in need. Grants are used for core costs, salaries, running costs or project costs, enabling sustainable service delivery rather than one-off events or purely capacity building.
Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The focus of our support is the conservation and maintenance for the benefit of the public of the natural environment and its indigenous woodland flora and fauna with particular reference to the conservation and maintenance of the character and amenity of rural areas.
Medlock Charitable Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: About the Medlock Charitable Trust The Medlock Charitable Trust is a grant-making organisation focused on supporting all sectors of the community and alleviating deprivation in the UK. With a primary focus on funding projects in Somerset and Boston in Lincolnshire, the trust works with charities supporting the young, elderly, disabled and vulnerable through education, healthcare, housing, sport, arts and culture,.
PBC RBKC Business Support Programme
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The PBC RBKC Business Support Programme is a comprehensive free business advisory and support service for residents and entrepreneurs in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. It provides: Fully funded personalised 1-to-1 business advice (worth up to £2,000).
Partnership Fund – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Partnership Fund is available to support community and voluntary sector led initiatives that help to achieve National Park purposes. The fund is open to applications from constituted community groups, charities, and other organisations.
Quixwood Moor Wind Farm Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Quixwood Moor Wind Farm Community Fund provides financial assistance to community groups and voluntary organisations that enrich lives around the Quixwood Moor wind farm. The Quixwood Moore Wind Farm is located on the eastern side of Berwickshire, close to Grantshouse, in the Scottish Borders.
SWEF Enterprise Fund- BUSINESS Grant
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise Fund awards grants to young people in Dorset who are in need of financial support to launch or develop a new businesses that is within its first two and a half years of trading. We support applicants with business costs that they would otherwise be unable to afford and that will help the business make a transformational change or take take a significant step forward in its development.
SWEF Enterprise Fund- START UP Grant
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise Fund awards grants to young people in Dorset who are in need of financial support to launch or develop a new businesses that is within its first two and a half years of trading. We support applicants with business costs that they would otherwise be unable to afford and that will help the business make a transformational change or take take a significant step forward in its development.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Forte Charitable Foundation is an independent foundation which makes grants of around £2.5 million a year to charitable organisations based in, or working in, areas of extreme deprivation in the UK. Projects must have a focus on Community Support: Community Services: information, advice and guidance services; community transport schemes; employability training; volunteering; healthy eating and living; foodbanks.
Social Welfare
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation pledges grants to assist the most vulnerable in society such as those seeking help with addiction, homelessness, ex-offenders and victims of domestic and sexual abuse. Our social welfare funding areas: Addiction and Rehabilitation Almshouses Animal Welfare Armed Forces and Veterans Domestic and Sexual Abuse Elderly Ex-Offenders Homeless Poverty Relief Overseas Social Enterprises.
St Austell Brewery Charitable Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Since 2003, the St Austell Brewery Charitable Trust has been proudly supporting local charities, community causes, and individuals in need across the South West – helping to make a meaningful difference, close to home. Our annual Celtic Beer Festival is the headline fundraising event, bringing people together to raise vital funds for the communities we serve.
The Johnson Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Johnson Foundation was started by Wirral businessman and philanthropist Peter Johnson in 1987. One of Merseyside’s best-known businessmen, he founded Park Group Plc, the Christmas hamper and financial product firm in 1966 and was the owner of both Everton and Tranmere Rovers football clubs.
The Owen Family Trust grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The origins of the Owen Family Trust can be traced back to the second generation of the Owen Family, and Sir Alfred Owen, Head of the Owen Organisation and the Rubery Owen Group of companies. To Sir Alfred, the role of community, philanthropy and the encouragement of a better society were things that mattered hugely and were another responsibility that came with running a large business.
The Seafarers’ Charity – Merchant Navy Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Seafarers’ Charity (formerly Seafarers UK) provides funding to charities that support people who work at sea in the UK and internationally. In a typical year, it awards more than £2 million in grants to support many maritime welfare charities.
The Social Economy Growth Programme – for early stage organisations
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Social Economy Growth Programme is a peer‑learning initiative designed to strengthen early‑stage organisations across the social impact economy. It supports not‑for‑profit trading organisations including social enterprises, community businesses, cooperatives, and charities — that are working to grow their trading activity and deepen their impact in the West Midlands.
The Tabhair Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Tabhair Trust is passionate about nurturing small to medium sized charities in their aspirations to change communities and restore broken lives through providing opportunities for education, training and personal advancement. We welcome applications from charities that combine support services with enterprising mission to improve social wellbeing and employment opportunities in the lives of the disengaged and.
VCS Grants Programme 2024 to 2031 – Organisational Development Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Camden Council Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Organisational Development Fund is part of the broader VCS Grants Programme 2024–2031. Launched on 9 March 2026, it provides grants of up to £10,000 to support VCS organisations in becoming more resilient, sustainable, and adaptable.
West Suffolk – UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Go for It Grant
Amount: Up to £300
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Go for It Grant provides funding for individuals or groups that are inspired to bring communities together to form not-for-profit organisations. As long as you can demonstrate the need for your idea and have a clear plan of how the funding will be spent you can apply, and we can award funding to the organiser’s account.
Winter Warmth Fund
Amount: Up to £350
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Hundreds of older people in Cumbria are in danger of becoming ill or even dying because of the cold. The county has very high levels of ‘excess winter deaths’ – people who die because they cannot afford to heat their homes and feed themselves properly, which can be as high as 500 older people in a bad winter.
