We’ve added 39 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Jerwood Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 18 Mar 2026
Overview: Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts across the United Kingdom. It welcomes funding applications from organisations dedicated to making art accessible for public benefit, as well as those interested in collaborating with or drawing from the Jerwood Collection.
Adventure Playground Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Adventure Playground Fund is a £500,000 fund designed to support adventure playgrounds in England to build financial resilience. Outdoor child-led play that enables appropriate risk-taking is valuable in childhood [1] .
Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: Help the Homeless is a grant-giving trust, founded in 1975, to help homeless people off the streets and enable them to live healthy, independent lives. We fund a wide variety of organisations and favour small, grassroots charities working to help the most vulnerable people in their communities.
Grants for Physical Activity Providers
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: The Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme offers funding in 2026 to support new physical activity projects that help people with Parkinson’s live well through movement. Grants of up to £3,000 are available to enable activity providers to create opportunities for those who are currently inactive to start and sustain physical activity.
The Albert Hunt Trust
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: The Albert Hunt Trust provides core funding to small and medium-sized UK registered charities that deliver meaningful support in priority areas. We focus on making a tangible difference to organisations, their projects, and the people they serve.
Christian community engagement
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 26 Mar 2026
Overview: Birmingham City Council is offering engagement grants to support community and third sector organisations working with Christian communities across Birmingham. The funding enables the development and delivery of culturally relevant, evidence-based health and wellbeing interventions that address identified health inequalities, promote sustainable engagement with health initiatives, reduce isolation, strengthen.
Grant round: School Attainment
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 29 Mar 2026
Overview: Great teaching remains the most powerful lever for improving pupil attainment and narrowing the disadvantage gap, as identified by the Education Endowment Foundation. To help address this, Impetus is launching its 2026 School Attainment Grant Round to partner with one exceptional non-profit organisation.We are seeking a high-potential UK non-profit that delivers evidence-based teacher continuing professional.
Charity Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: We believe in Arts for All and will use our grants to make a positive contribution to people’s lives through the arts. Never has there been a greater need to support our local arts organisations and museums and continue the vital contribution of skills development in the arts and heritage sector.
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.
BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: 9 Apr 2026
Overview: Awarding National Lottery funding to develop innovative new solutions which tackle the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges. Between 2026 and 2029, up to 12 challenge calls will be identified where innovative new thinking could catalyse a step change in the industry, while producing learning and insights that benefit the whole screen sector.
Elephant Trust
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 12 Apr 2026
Overview: The Elephant Trust, founded in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, supports the development, understanding, and appreciation of the fine arts in the United Kingdom. The Trust provides grants of up to £5,000 to visual artists and small organisations/galleries to create and produce new work or exhibitions.
Grassroots Facilities Programme
Amount: Up to £1,500,000
Closing date: 15 Apr 2026
Overview: The Northern Ireland Football Fund Grassroots Facilities Programme Pilot Stage is a new initiative by the Department for Communities to invest in modernising grassroots football infrastructure across Northern Ireland. As part of the long-standing Northern Ireland Football Fund, this Pilot Stage tests demand, gathers insights into grassroots needs and challenges, and allows participant feedback to shape the design of.
Green Opportunities Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: Green Opportunities Fund Our three-year, £2.2 million Green Opportunities Fund is a partnership between the Co-op Foundation and Co-op. It is funded through the sale of compostable carrier bags in Co-op stores.
Open Programme
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 24 Apr 2026
Overview: We support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people. We believe in justice not charity.
MPGA Grants (Metropolitan Public Gardens Association)
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: 12 May 2026
Overview: The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association (MPGA) is a long-established London charity, founded in 1882, dedicated to protecting and enhancing the capital’s green spaces. For over 140 years, it has provided modest grants to community projects that improve, preserve, or create public gardens, parks, and neglected areas across all 33 London boroughs.
Community Grants & Small Community Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 15 May 2026
Overview: The Clark Foundation was established in 1959 to provide grants to support local community projects in welfare, education, recreation and health. We support projects in places where employees and ex-employees of Clarks and their families are likely to live and work.
The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 15 May 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.
Neighbourhood Proportion
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: Neighbourhood CIL (NCIL) is intended to help address the demands of a new development on the local area. It is therefore distributed and spent at a local level to help smaller scale projects.
Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 6 Jun 2026
Overview: Each year Manchester Airports Group contributes £100,000 to the Fund; any fines levied at aircraft that have breached our stringent noise limits are also paid into the Fund. These funds are then used to support neighbourhood and community projects throughout the area.
Achlachan Wind Farm Community Fund (Highland)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: This fund is provided by Whirlwind Renewables, developers of the Achlachan Wind Farm. Starting in April 2019, the fund will receive approximately £30,000 annually (index-linked) for the life of the Achlachan Wind Farm, expected to be 25 years.
Bishop Fox’s Educational Foundation
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: This Fund is to help young people in and around Taunton achieve their goals. We’re interested in supporting you to pay for things like: books on your college or university reading list specialist equipment needed for your area of study, such as a laptop tools and clothing to help you undertake an apprenticeship fees and other costs when studying certain accredited courses that are not eligible for a student loan.
Community Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: The Community Grant from Wessex Community Bank supports small grassroots groups, volunteers, and local organisations to fund activities, projects, and events that build stronger communities and promote local engagement or development. Running since 2018 (with proud support for many groups since 2020), this scheme provides straightforward small awards to help deserving doers deliver real, positive change on the.
Grants for Good Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: Grants for Good provides unrestricted funding to small and growing UK-based charities, voluntary groups, community organisations, and social enterprises that deliver significant positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. The programme offers a simple, straightforward application process with flexible funding that can cover any organisational costs, including core running expenses.
Halsary Windfarm Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: The fund is provided by ScottishPower Renewables, the company that owns and operates the Halsary Windfarm. The Fund will be worth approximately £30,000 annually for the life of the windfarm, expected to be 25 years.
Fund to Leave Scotland
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Fund to Leave Scotland, launched nationally from February 2026, provides women in Scotland with up to £1,000 to cover essential costs associated with leaving an abusive relationship, planning to leave, or staying safely after separation. This can include expenses for relocating, enhancing home security (such as reinforced locks, alarms, or cameras), immediate essentials like food, clothing, school uniforms,.
Weavers’ Company Charitable Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 2 Jul 2026
Overview: The Weavers’ Company Charitable Grants support the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders and disadvantaged young people in the UK, with a strong emphasis on reducing reoffending and promoting positive life choices. The fund prioritises innovative projects that help ex-offenders, young offenders, and young people at risk of offending to overcome barriers, particularly through building skills for sustainable.
Small Health & Wellbeing Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 10 Jul 2026
Overview: The Evelyn Trust is a grant-making charity supporting medical research and health & wellbeing projects in Cambridgeshire. The Evelyn Trust awards grants for health and wellbeing projects that fit the following criteria: Projects that are in line with areas of focus for support based on studies which have identified areas of need in Cambridgeshire, including mental health, care for the elderly and community health.
Cambridge 2030 Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Aug 2026
Overview: Cambridge is a city of contrasts. Alongside world-leading universities and a booming knowledge economy, some communities, particularly in King’s Hedges and Arbury in North Cambridge, face deep inequalities in income, education, health, and access to opportunity.
Blackford Community Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 7 Aug 2026
Overview: The Blackford Community Fund is a charitable fund to benefit residents of the Blackford Community Council area in Perth & Kinross local authority. The Fund has been created with a donation by Ochil Developments (the developer of the G West development near Blackford) to Blackford Community Council, and community benefit funds provided by EDF Power Solutions, owner of the Burnfoot Hill, Burnfoot North and Rhodders.
Clocks conservation grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 14 Sep 2026
Overview: We give grants of up to £10,000 for the conservation of turret clocks in Anglican parish churches in England. We fund the conservation of mechanical clocks, including early electro-mechanical clocks with artistic, historical, archaeological or architectural significance.
Grassroots Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: Grassroots Grants, delivered by Groundwork in partnership with People’s Postcode Lottery, provides unrestricted funding of up to £2,000 to around 700 small, local organisations in England. The programme supports voluntary and community groups making a positive difference in their communities, with flexible funding for core organisational costs (e.g., rent, utilities, staff/volunteer expenses, equipment, training, or.
BlueSpark Foundation
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: BlueSpark provides funding for projects which aim to improve the education and development of children and young people by means of educational, cultural, sporting or other activities. Subject to that overriding objective, the Trustees have absolute discretion as to the making of grants.
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.
Jane Cart Trust (St Albans)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Mrs Jane Cart’s Trust is a historic charity established in 1736 following the death of Jane Cart, a generous benefactor from Dunstable. It provides financial support to Church of England clergy and their dependents, particularly those who currently work or have previously worked in the Diocese of St Albans.
Nadara Gordonstown Wind Farm Community Fund (Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This fund supports charitable projects that benefit people living in the Auchterless, Inverkeithny & Fisherford Community Council area. It is part of Gordonstown Wind Farm Community Fund provided by Nadara, the owner of the Gordonstown Hill Wind Farm in Aberdeenshire.
Nuffield Foundation
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Racial Diversity UK Fund (RDUK) supports high-quality research that deepens understanding of racial diversity, racial inequalities, discrimination, and disadvantage in the UK, with a particular lens on the long-term societal impacts of migration from former British colonies since 1948. The fund aims to generate robust evidence that illuminates why some racial disparities persist while others have narrowed, what.
Schools Screen Education Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Schools Screen Education Fund, offered by Screen Scotland (part of Creative Scotland), provides funding to support schools across Scotland in delivering innovative film and screen education projects. The fund aligns with Screen Scotland’s ambition to ensure every child and young person in Scotland has the opportunity to make or collaborate on a film or screen product, recognising that talent is everywhere and.
Tesco Stronger Starts
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Tesco Stronger Starts is a community grant programme from Tesco, delivered in partnership with Groundwork UK, focused on helping children and young people across the UK access healthy and nutritious food as part of their daily routine. The programme aims to spark curiosity, confidence, and joy in eating well, while supporting physical and mental health to build stronger foundations for life and healthier.
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.
