This week, we launched a new AI Grant Finding tool that monitors URLs from over 26,000 funders across the UK. As we continue to fine-tune it over the next few weeks, it will make it much easier to stay on top of new opportunities, as well as funders that are closing early or updating their information.
Early signs are positive, and this week we identified 139 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
You can view the full database here or see the latest updates below.
Local Community Skills Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 Apr 2026
Overview: The Local Community Skills Fund aims to support a wide range of initiatives that will make a positive impact on communities across the UK. One key focus is to fund innovative local and community-led projects that may not be eligible for traditional funding sources.
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.
Local Community Spaces Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 28 Apr 2026
Overview: Local Community Spaces funding supports community groups across the UK that provide a safe space for people to meet and spend time together. Accessible community spaces can be a lifeline for local people, but many require funding to repair, renovate and develop so they can continue delivering vital activities and services.
Trading for Good: Community Business
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 29 Apr 2026
Overview: Through practical learning, Match Trading™ grants and expert support, we help people build confidence, skills and connections to grow strong, sustainable enterprises that change lives and protect the planet.
ACEs Main Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Now in its fifth year, the Leathersellers’ Main Charity Grants Programme aims to help prevent and address the harm of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Four year grants of £20,000-£25,000 per annum are available to charities and CIOs throughout the UK.
National Lottery Film Festival and Screening Programme Fund
Amount: Up to £45,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The National Lottery Film Festival and Screening Programme Fund aims to support organisations who are looking to produce film festivals and screening programmes in Scotland for a public audience. Activities supported by the fund should increase the reach, impact and diversity of film screenings and events for communities throughout Scotland and meet Screen Scotland’s Audience Development priorities.
The Charlotte Aitken Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Charlotte Aitken Trust is dedicated to the support of literature, writing and reading. It is funded by the estate of the celebrated literary agent Gillon Aitken (1938-2016) in the name of his only daughter Charlotte, who died in 2011 at the age of 27.
The Cour Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Cour Community Benefit Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the three community council areas of East Kintyre, West Kintyre and Tarbert and Skipness. The fund is provided by Cour Wind Farm Ltd, the company which owns and operates the Cour wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula.
Arts & Activity – A Fund for Adult Health & Wellbeing
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: The Arts & Activity fund supports projects that improve the health and wellbeing of adults aged 25 and over through creative, active and therapeutic approaches. We are particularly interested in projects that use music, art, or physical activity to improve wellbeing, build confidence, and strengthen social connections.
Golsoncott Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 2 May 2026
Overview: The Golsoncott Foundation, established as a Charitable Trust in July 1998 from the estate of the artist and sculptor Rachel Reckitt (1908-1995) is an arts-funding trust whose declared object is … to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular …
Community Hub Bursaries
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 4 May 2026
Overview: Skills Bursaries provide grants of up to £1,000 for people seeking to grow their expertise in community heritage work. Open to applicants at any stage of their personal or professional journey, these bursaries can be used for training, mentoring, attending workshops, or other professional development activities related to heritage and community engagement to be determined by you.
The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 6 May 2026
Overview: The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK (“Foundation”) was set up to continue the philanthropy of Sylvia Waddilove after her death in 2001. The Foundation provides grants to charities and some not-for-profit organisations.
SP Energy Networks Community Benefit Funding Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: SP Energy Networks has announced the opening of its new Community Benefit funding programme. The first tranche of funding will offer grants from a pot of £6.82m alongside practical support to community groups based near eligible transmission infrastructure.
VRU Stronger Futures 3.0
Amount: Up to £200,000
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Overview: We’re proud to launch the £4m Stronger Futures Programme 3.0 from the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit. The aim of Stronger Futures is to enable community-led groups to support those young Londoners aged 8-18 years-old who are most in-need and affected by violence, providing them with skills, opportunities and support during the high risk hours after-school and in holiday periods.
Local Communities Fund
Amount: Up to £249,999
Closing date: 13 May 2026
Overview: The Local Communities Fund offers support for projects seeking funding in the area of South Cumberland and Whitehaven & Coastal (the former area of Copeland). The fund focuses on four priority areas: Employment & Enterprise Community Wellbeing Children & Young People Places & Spaces Projects must demonstrate that they can align with both the Cumberland Council Strategic Plan and the NDA Local Social Impact &.
SWEF Start-up Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 15 May 2026
Overview: SWEF Start-Up grants are for individuals who are in the early stages of setting up their business, or whose business is currently earning less than £500 per month. This grant provides up to £500 to help get things off the ground.
The Adnams Community Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 15 May 2026
Overview: The Adnams Community Trust (registered charity number 1000203) awards grants to worthy causes for the benefit of those living within a 25-mile radius of Southwold (postcode IP18 6EG). It operates independently of Adnams plc and is funded by a percentage of the profits of Adnams plc, Adnams’ dividends donated by shareholders, customer donations, and legacies.
Community Led Local Development Fund 2026-27
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: The Community Led Local Development Fund is a rural development programme supporting projects that are shaped and delivered by local people. The fund is overseen by the Scottish Borders Local Action Group, a volunteer led partnership made up of representatives from the private, public and third sectors who are committed to improving opportunities across the Scottish Borders.
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund (Main Grants)
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: Our focus for 2025/26 is on young women and girls who are already in contact with the criminal justice system or who are at high risk of being drawn into it. Organisations applying need to be led by women and the total beneficiaries of the organisation need to be 80% women and girls.
B&Q Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: The B&Q Foundation supports UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by funding projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable. They help charities supporting those experiencing homelessness, in financial hardship, impacted by health, disability, or other disadvantage or distress.
Froebel Trust – Open Call Research Grant
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: The Froebel Trust Open Call Research Grants scheme provides funding for a team or collaborative research partnership to develop new and robust knowledge about Froebelian education. This funded research is vital for the Trust to be able to fulfil its charitable mission of enabling early childhood educators, advocating for young children and their families, and informing policymakers.
Rothschild Foundation Grassroots Grants Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: The Rothschild Foundation’s Grassroots Grants Fund supports local organisations in Buckinghamshire, particularly those addressing disadvantage and inequality. The Fund offers support to incorporated community groups, including newly established small-scale charitable organisations, who do not already hold a Rothschild Community Fund grant.
What Matters to You – Make It Happen Fund (North East Dundee)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: The Make it Happen Fund makes a difference by enabling families to set the fund’s priorities and design the funding proposal process. It empowers parents, carers, children and young people to decide how funds are spent, directing investment towards projects that otherwise may be overlooked by traditional funding schemes.
The Beinneun Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 25 May 2026
Overview: The Beinneun Community Fund supports projects that benefit residents of the two community council areas of Glengarry and Fort Augustus (including Glenmoriston). The fund is provided by Beinneun Wind Farm Ltd, the company which owns and operates the Beinneun wind farm.
Scops Arts Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 26 May 2026
Overview: The goal of Scops Arts Trust is to help people to understand, participate in and enjoy the arts, particularly the performing arts. We are keen to find projects which widen access and have a lasting cultural impact on the community.
Wixamtree Trust
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 26 May 2026
Overview: The Wixamtree Trust is a general grant-making charity that primarily supports organisations and projects based or operating within Bedfordshire . It also occasionally funds a small number of national charities connected with its main benefactor.
Community Care Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: We deliver high-quality home care with compassion and a cheery smile. When our Caremark Care Assistants come to visit, they bring with them knowledge and training, along with a personality that delivers compassion, smiles, and laughter too.
The Joicey Trust Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The Trust supports projects or core costs that deliver charitable benefit to communities within the North East or Scottish Borders. Projects can include services, facilities, or core activities that further a charity’s mission.
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust provides grants to UK-registered charities. They fund work in three areas: participation in the performing arts, creative health interventions, and heritage crafts and skills.
Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact
Amount: Up to £8,000,000
Closing date: 2 Jun 2026
Overview: This funding call will support transdisciplinary teams led from Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia to conduct randomised controlled trials that optimise licensed pharmaceutical interventions for infectious diseases. The clinical trial should generate evidence to inform changes to policy, practice and guidelines, and lead to measurable impact in the communities most affected, ultimately improving the treatment and.
Springboard Awards
Amount: Up to £125,000
Closing date: 3 Jun 2026
Overview: Springboard Awards provide small grants to support basic biomedical scientists as they develop their independent research careers. The scheme is a collaboration between the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, Government Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Diabetes UK.
Project Grants
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 12 Jun 2026
Overview: Project Grants of up to £30,000 fund substantial, collaborative projects between at least one GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) or Heritage organisation and one community group. These grants support in-depth research, skills development, and the creation of lasting resources that reflect diverse voices and experiences.
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.
Women and Girls Match Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 19 Jun 2026
Overview: The women and girls sector is grappling with rising challenges and receives only 1.8% of UK grants from Trusts & Foundations. Our campaign aims to address this by empowering women and girls charities to excel in digital fundraising.
London City Airport Community Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 26 Jun 2026
Overview: Awards grants to local organisations creating significant and positive change in diverse, inclusive communities across East London. Launched in 2019, the fund has awarded over £500,000 to more than 150 organisations.
The Span Trust
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 26 Jun 2026
Overview: The Span Trust seeks to fund projects by awarding grants between £5,000 and £20,000 that will alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment. Our Objectives To advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment in areas of social and economic deprivation, in particular through the provision, maintenance or.
Foundation Scotland – Drone Hill & NnG East Berwickshire Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 28 Jun 2026
Overview: The Drone Hill & NnG East Berwickshire Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in the seven Community Councils areas of Reston & Auchencrow, Grantshouse, Coldingham, Cockburnspath & Cove, St Abbs, Eyemouth and Burnmouth. This Fund integrates community benefit funding provided by Greencoat UK Wind (the owners of the Drone Hill Wind Farm in East Berwickshire), and Neart Na Gaoithe (NnG, a joint.
Community Support Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: Brighton & Hove Buses continues to connect communities, by providing access to work, education and healthcare. Social connections, made possible by bus, are vital in bringing people together and help combat isolation and loneliness.
Sizewell C Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 5 Jul 2026
Overview: The Sizewell C Community Fund will provide up to £23m over the next decade for charities, community groups and social enterprises which are delivering projects that benefit local communities in East Suffolk. The focus of the fund is on reducing the impact of the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear power station and leaving a legacy of benefit in the most affected communities.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Large Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 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.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Small grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 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.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Standard grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 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.
Wellcome Early-Career Awards
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: 21 Jul 2026
Overview: This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.
Kinross-shire Fund (Perth and Kinross)- Small Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 27 Jul 2026
Overview: The Kinross-shire Fund supports community groups and organisations within the 73 square miles of Kinross-shire. It is dedicated to improving the lives of people across the shire by awarding grants to a wide range of local projects, groups, and voluntary organisations.
East Coast Community Fund – Main Community Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 29 Jul 2026
Overview: The East Coast Community Fund is part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted’s (formerly DONG Energy) Race Bank and Hornsea Project One offshore wind farms which are located off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast. When they are both operational in 2018 and 2020 respectively, these two windfarms will have a combined capacity of nearly 1.8 gigawatts, making them capable of meeting the electricity needs of.
Marc Fitch Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 Aug 2026
Overview: The Marc Fitch Fund is an educational charity supporting research and publication in British and Irish history and related fields. It operates as a ‘funder of last resort’, stepping in to assist worthwhile projects that are at risk of failing without a grant, and where other sources of funds have been exhausted.
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.
Foundation for Integrated Transport Grants
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 21 Aug 2026
Overview: FIT provides grants for UK-focused projects that promote and deliver transport as a basic right and tackle climate change and emissions from transport. FIT supports both local community initiatives and national initiatives addressing investment and government policy.
General Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund provides grants for general and research work with people with learning disabilities. “Learning disabilities” is the same as “intellectual disabilities”; these terms are inter-changeable.
Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 3 Sep 2026
Overview: Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company (ANCBC) is funded by the ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund for Harestanes Windfarm in Dumfries and Galloway. The fund primarily supports community projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of 42 community council areas in Annandale and Nithsdale as detailed below.
An Suidhe Wind Farm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £9,000
Closing date: 16 Sep 2026
Overview: An Suidhe Wind Farm Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the areas covered by the Community Councils of: Glenorchy and Innishail (Eredine only); Inveraray; Furnace, and by Dalavich Improvement Group. The fund is provided by RWE Renewables and Green Gecco , the owners of An Suidhe Wind Farm near Loch Awe.
Training & Careers in Construction 2026
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 1 Jan 2027
Overview: The Shanly Foundation Training and Careers in Construction annual fund is open to charitable organisations that help people start their journey towards a career in construction. We welcome applications from organisations representing the disadvantaged, disabled, long-term unemployed, youth groups, colleges, schools and educational establishments with a focus on training people for a career within the construction.
Des Rubens and Bill Wallace Grant
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 15 Jan 2027
Overview: The John Muir Trust offers this Grant to give people the opportunity to seek out life-changing experiences in wild places of the world in ways which will benefit both the person, and the wild places themselves. The grant commemorates two former presidents of the Scottish Mountaineering Club who each led inspiring and adventurous lives.
HIE Digital and Technology Adoption Capital Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Mar 2029
Overview: Our Digital and Technology Adoption Capital Grant provides funding for organisations across the Highlands and Islands to support their digital transformation ambitions. Adopting digital technology offers many advantages for your business, including reducing costs, speeding up processes, improving customer insights, enabling faster decision making, lowering carbon emissions, and increasing revenue.
Adint Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trust offers funding to UK registered charities for a range of general charitable work.
Andrew & Mary Elizabeth Little Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Provides relief and direct assistance to aged, infirm, blind, poor, impoverished, distressed or sick person or persons with preference for the City of Glasgow. Funds are given to individuals and organisations.
Angus Council Common Good Funding
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Common Good funds are available in Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar, Kirriemuir and Montrose. The fund is currently under review.
Annie Ramsay Mclean Trust For The Elderly
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Primarily supports organisations in Tayside and Fife who support older people who are disadvantaged economically, socially, or through ill health or disability. This may be done by payment of grants, provision of services or equipment and by assisting organisations with similar objectives.
BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This fund—administered by the British Film Institute (BFI)—supports ambitious, audience-facing independent UK and international film and screen activities of national scale , aiming to widen participation and access across the UK. Outcomes: Projects must aim to deliver at least five of the following outcomes by aligning with the BFI National Lottery strategy: Expand access to a broad range of independent UK and.
Barker-Mill Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Barker-Mill Foundation makes donations to local charities, schools and organisations situated primarily in south-west Hampshire. Priority is given to those operating on the eastern edge of the New Forest and around Southampton, specifically Nursling, Rownhams, Redbridge, Millbrook, and Totton.
Barr Education and Training Fund (South Ayrshire)
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This fund provides bursaries to residents of the Barr Community Council area to help them access training and education opportunities that better equip them with the range of skills needed to enter or retain employment. The Barr Education & Training Fund aims to improve the opportunities and livelihoods of people living in Barr.
Barrhill Community Fund (Small Grants under £5,000)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Barrhill Community Fund is provided by Barrhill Community Interest Company using funds from the Kilgallioch Community Benefit Company and ScottishPower Renewables Mark Hill wind farm. It offers small grants (£1,000 – £5,000), large grants (£5,001 and above), micro grants (up to £1,000 via Community Council), Community Energy grants (formerly Winter Fuel), and bursaries for education and training.
Barrhill Education & Training Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Barrhill Education & Training Fund provides bursaries to improve the opportunities and livelihoods of people living in the Barrhill Community Council area. It supports individuals aged 16 or over who live in Barrhill and are applying for further education or training courses to develop skills that help them enter or retain employment.
Basil Samuel Charitable Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Basil Samuel Charitable Trust awards grants to registered charities in England and Wales that are carrying out medical, socially supportive, educational and cultural activities, as well as making a number of donations to other charities. The Trust has historically supported a wide range of organisations, including hospices, medical research, museums, and organisations supporting people with a hearing or sight.
Beinneun Student Scholarship Fund
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Beinneun Student Scholarship Fund provides bursaries for individuals living in Fort Augustus, Glenmoriston and Glengarry seeking to improve their employability prospects or develop a new career. It is provided from the Beinneun Community Benefit Fund which supports voluntary organisations, charities, householders, students and social enterprises across these three communities.
Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust continues Dame Catherine’s generous philanthropy by supporting charitable, medical, and academic research organisations through grants and funding. If you’re in education and training, environment and conservation, arts and culture, as well as general charitable purposes, your organisation could be eligible for a grant from the Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust.
Community Champions
Amount: Up to £6,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Each of our 30 offices across the UK makes a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to local organisations. It’s our commitment to leaving a positive lasting legacy in the communities in which we work.
Community Impact Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Benefact Trust’s Community Impact Grant programme supports projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities. The programme has four key objectives: Growing congregations and Christian communities (e.g.
Community Spaces Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding to support local communities experiencing poverty and associated trauma in Scotland. Through our Community Spaces Grants, we want to support local community centres, hubs or anchor organisations who are delivering and/or hosting a range of services and activities in places with higher rates of poverty and associated trauma.
Craignish Trust
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The funding focus for the Trust is the arts, environmental conservation and human rights. Previous awards have included grants to organisations working in conservation, refugees, youth, and music.
Didymus Charity Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our mission is to distribute grants to UK Registered Charities delivering high quality, creative projects, which widen access to and participation in the arts in Greater London and Yorkshire. As a funder we are keen to provide grants for high quality, creative and innovative arts projects that consciously engage those less likely to be involved, and / or aim to address barriers to participation.
Edinburgh Children’s Holiday Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Charities and other organisations can apply for funding to provide holidays for disadvantaged children and their families. Previous grants have been awarded to primary schools, young carers projects and charities working with children living in poverty.
Educational Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The objective of the St Nicholas’ Educational Trust is to provide financial assistance in promoting the education of young people. The Trust provides grants for courses of study or specific educational activities.
Equality and Diversity Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Community groups can apply for help in funding projects, programs or community events within the city that supports Dundee City Council’s General Equality Duty to pay due regard to the need to: Eliminate discrimination Advance equality of opportunity Promote good relations across the range of protected characteristics The General Equality Duty covers the following protected characteristics: Age, Disability, Gender.
For Bute Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: For Bute runs a charity thrift shop to raise funds to support local groups and individuals in Bute. It supports a wide variety of causes including arts and culture, citizenship, community development, transport, education, environment, health, sport, and social care.
Foundation Scotland – Stroupster Wind Farm Education and Training Fund (Dunnet & Canisbay)
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This fund provides bursaries to residents of the Dunnet & Canisbay Community Council area of Caithness to help them access training and education opportunities that better equip them with the range of skills needed to enter or retain employment in key sectors of the local economy. The purpose of Stroupster Wind Farm Education and Training Fund (Dunnet & Canisbay) is to improve opportunities and livelihoods of people.
General Grant Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: BWCF supports small-to-medium sized charities working directly for the benefit of disadvantaged children. Projects typically involve services or activities that enhance the lives of children with additional needs, disabilities, life-limiting conditions, or severe disadvantage.
General Projects Fund
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The RTR Foundation supports projects which focus upon the social lives of people with learning disabilities, particularly those involving the arts and enhancing social interaction. It seeks to support inclusive projects which involve a range of participants from beyond a single type of institution or organisation and/or will seek to develop new ways of working to include new, diverse audiences.
Grants to Voluntary Organisations
Amount: Up to £700
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar gives grants to approved voluntary bodies for social, cultural or leisure purposes. The scheme includes Revenue and Capital Grants, as well as Performance Grants for Community Centres and Village Halls.
Grass Pitch Maintenance Fund
Amount: Up to £3,200
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: A fund providing six-year tapered grants to help eligible organisations enhance or sustain the quality of their grass pitches. We accept applications to purchase materials and engage professional contractors over a six-year period to increase the levels of maintenance works carried out on their grass pitches, with an aim of improving the quality of those grass pitches to the Grounds Management Association (GMA).
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.
Hedley Foundation
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Hedley Foundation provides grants to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need. Last year we supported hundreds of small charities, improving lives and lifting people’s aspirations.
Help for Kids Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Help for Kids is a local children’s charity based in the heart of Dundee and Perth, facilitated through a partnership with The Evening Telegraph. Our primary aim is to support local children through the provision of individual funding, as well as funding for clubs and organisations.
Hope Trust Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Hope Trust was established in 1892. In terms of its current constitution the trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the income of it to pay and apply the same to or for the benefit or in furtherance of: advancing the cause of temperance through the promotion of temperance work and the combatting of all forms of substance abuse promoting Reformed theology and Reformed church life especially in Scotland and the.
Hornsea 3 Legacy Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Each year £100,000 of the Hornsea 3 Community Fund commitment is ring-fenced to support a single capital flagship project that is ‘Inspired by Green’. Ørsted is keen that organisations applying for funds are reflecting on their environmental impact and are taking positive action in relation to environmental sustainability and carbon reduction.
Inverclyde Windfarm Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Inverclyde Windfarm Fund is a 10-year grant scheme partnership between Inverclyde Renewables LLP and Inverclyde Community Fund. The Fund has been created as a result of the investment by Inverclyde Renewables LLP, who built the windfarm development, which is owned by James Jones & Sons Ltd and Gresham House Asset Management.
Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Jimmie Cairncross Charitable Trust can support a wide range of charitable activities in the Perth and Kinross region. The objective of the Trust is to support a wide range of projects in and around the city of Perth, which the Trustees feel are beneficial to the local people.
Large and Small Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Syder Foundation is a family foundation based in Berkshire, UK. The Foundation awards grants throughout the year to registered charities working across a wide variety of charitable purposes.
Mainhouse Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The objective of the trust is to support general charitable activities including health, education, social needs, animal welfare and the relief of poverty. There has been an emphasis on Scottish charities in general and those based in the Scottish Borders in particular, although both national and international charities have featured in their grant giving.
Making Local Life Better Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Making Local Life Better Fund is made up of money from individual and corporate donors and seeks to prioritise smaller grassroots community, voluntary and charitable groups improving the lives of local people, particularly those who are vulnerable, under-represented or disadvantaged. Grant themes include: Arts, culture, and heritage Education, training, and employment Environment, wildlife, and biodiversity.
Margaret Archibald Bequest Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: A trust for the charitable purposes of persons in need who have reached the age of 65, and live in the Parish of Dalry. The Trust is administered by North Ayrshire Council as Trustee through the Garnock Valley Locality Planning Partnership who approve any awards for funding.
Marsh Charitable Trust – Grants Programme (UK)
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Marsh Charitable Trust provides unrestricted grants of up between £300 and £2,000 to small, UK-registered charities working in the fields of social welfare, literature, arts and heritage, environmental and animal welfare, education and training, and healthcare. The aim is to help organisations pay for various running costs, such as volunteer expenses, training days, equipment maintenance and other core outgoings.
Martineau Care Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Martineau Care Fund provides grants of up to £1,000 to help purchase daily living equipment or provide support for people in Suffolk living with illness or disability who cannot afford these costs. Applications must be submitted by a Registered Health or Social Care Professional on behalf of individuals with a verified medical condition or need.
Minibus Donations
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Dennis Wise In the Community was founded in 2000 by ex-Chelsea FC captain Dennis Wise. The non-profit organisation raises money to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities.
Non-Profit or Community Project Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We provide funding to not-for-profit enterprises, community projects and charities based in Norfolk and Suffolk that have youth wellbeing at their core. Each year the Kerrison Trust donates to young people living in Norfolk and Suffolk and to the non-profit organisations who support them.
North Pickenham Windfarm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: 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.
Oakland Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation’s focus is to help ‘disadvantaged children under the age of 16 and their families‘ , particularly projects in areas where their main sponsor ‘Oakland International’ is an integral part of the local community (Redditch, Bardon, Corby, Knottingley, and Skelmersdale). We provide support based on the following themes: Education: to help children access educational projects, no matter their background.
Prudhoe Street Mission Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Prudhoe Street Mission was founded in 1910 and was formed into a Christian Charitable Foundation in 2012 to give financial help and support to those within Newcastle, Gateshead, North & South Tyneside boundaries. The Foundation funds local groups, churches and charities.
Racial Diversity UK Fund
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Racial Diversity UK Fund (RDUK) supports research on racial diversity within the UK. The programme is funded by an endowment that supports work relating to the Commonwealth.
Reeds Grassroots Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Improving life chances in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland Reeds Grassroots Fund About Reeds Grassroots Fund Reeds Grassroots Fund supports projects in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland that aim to improve mental health and tackle disadvantage and inequalities that limit life chances, especially for children and disadvantaged communities.
Regional Grants
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our grant making will deliver longer-term and larger scale investments around three key themes. These themes draw on the success of past and current strategic partnerships that have demonstrated proven results.
Renewable Energy Fund – Micro Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through funding from South Lanarkshire’s Renewable Energy Fund, Community Councils across South Lanarkshire have each been given £5,000 annually to provide Micro grants to support local communities. Additionally, six community councils are providing Micro grants from the Clyde windfarm fund.
SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund (Business Grants)
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund is here to help ambitious young entrepreneurs, aged 18-30, who are driven to grow their businesses but face financial barriers. If you’re in Calderdale and need support to make a game-changing investment in your business, this grant could be just what you’re looking for.
SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund (Start Up Grants)
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund is here to help ambitious young entrepreneurs, aged 18-30, who are driven to grow their businesses but face financial barriers. If you’re in Calderdale and need support to make a game-changing investment in your business, this grant could be just what you’re looking for.
Scottish Land Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Scottish Land Fund supports rural and urban communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets. It funds projects that empower communities through asset ownership and strengthen their voices in the decisions that matter to them.
Sir James Knott Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £45,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: In the last financial year, the Sir James Knott Trust made grants to the value of £3.2m. The Trust funded over 400 organisations who went on to support people across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and Hartlepool.
Support to community facilities
Amount: Up to £12,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This is a closed grant aid scheme designed to assist a number of named voluntary organisations, which manage and/or maintain youth facilities and sports facilities, with their annual running costs. We hope this scheme makes a real difference to the quality of life for people living in Shetland.
Supporting Resilience Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding of between £2000 – £10,000 is available to grant holders to undertake work which contributes to organisational and staff resilience.The Supporting Resilience Fund is our latest Funder Plus support offer to our grant holders. Open to existing holders of Small Grants, the fund offers funding of between £2,000-£10,000 for one year.The fund is focused on supporting our grant holders to become strong and.
Swire Charitable Trust – Grant Programmes
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Swire Charitable Trust is an independent UK grant-making charity that provides funding to UK registered charities through three main programmes: Opportunity Programme (Improving Life Chances): Supports frontline charities helping people who “fall through the gaps.” Priorities include children and young people (e.g. care experienced, homeless, refugees, NEET, young carers), ex-service people facing homelessness.
The 7 Stars Foundation Apprenticeship Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The7stars foundation is offering funding to charities, CICs, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Homes to offer apprenticeship training for their staff, which will result in support and benefit to young people challenged by the issues we prioritise.The funding offered through this programme covers the employer contribution relating to the apprenticeship training for their staff. This is typically 5% of the.
The Archer Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Archer Trust provides grants to small UK charities that support disadvantaged or marginalised people. They prefer to support organisations working in areas of high unemployment and deprivation, and those which make good use of volunteers.
The Bill and Lorraine Budge Foundation
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The fund was established by Bill and Lorraine Budge and supports charitable organisations whose focus relates to the health, education and the well-being of children and young people. The fund is particularly interested in groups working in the Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray areas but will consider organisations from across the UK operating nationally and internationally.
The Dulverton Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £40,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity. We support UK charities with a national reach tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts.
The February Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The February Foundation provides grants to UK registered charities. Since starting in 2006, their main focus has been end-of-life care in a hospice and hospice-at-home context, but they fund various other areas not explicitly excluded.
The Headley Trust
Amount: Up to £200,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: What we fund Arts & Heritage UK Regional museums and galleries (including local authority museums); curators; acquisitions; display, study, acquisition of British ceramics; industrial, maritime, built heritage conservation; archaeology; arts education digitisation and outreach. Repairs and restoration for pre-1850 Anglican cathedrals.
The Maple Trust
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Maple Trust provides financial support to charities registered in the United Kingdom, with preference given to organisations with projects based in Scotland. The Trust focuses its grant making on children, young people, and adults with poor health, disabilities, or facing disadvantage.
The Mount Fund – Small Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust aims to assist disadvantaged people towards greater independence or a better quality of life. The Small Grants Programme focuses on registered charities operating in specific regions and rotates its funding priorities based on the upcoming board meeting.
The Nineveh Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: 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. We promote: The health, welfare and education of the general public The study and appreciation of agriculture, silviculture, ecology and land management The study and appreciation of land and estate management that encourages conservation of.
The Percy Bilton Charity – Grant for Organisations
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Percy Bilton Charity is a grant-making trust that provides assistance to organizations and individuals in need across the UK. Charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items).
The Prospectory – Idea Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: It has been set up in memory of Peter Williams by his family. Peter spent his life generating a diversity of technical ideas and experimenting to see if they might work.
The Rooney Family Foundation
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Rooney Family Foundation was set up by members of the Rooney family, who are Trustees, to provide financial support for disadvantaged children and their families. The aim of the fund is to support organisations and projects providing vital care and support to disadvantaged children with disabilities, and their families, in the Scottish Borders and Edinburgh City.
The Sackler Trust Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Sackler Trust has been supporting research and education charities across the UK since 2010. Over that period, the Trust has committed more than £60 million in support of charitable activities in the fields of medical science, healthcare, and access to education and the arts, as well as supporting community organisations, heritage sites and projects which promote social good.
The Sir Bernard & Lady Schreier Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Schreier Foundation delivers its vision primarily by giving grants to UK mental health charities, enabling them to continue providing excellent services directly to beneficiaries. Our Funding Priorities: Empowering young people (including children) affected by mental illness Supporting all those affected by mental illness Helping other mental health charities prevent mental illness, improve early intervention.
The South Kyle Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The South Kyle Wind Farm Community Benefit is providing assured income to the communities of Dalmellington, Patna and New Cumnock in East Ayrshire and Carsphairn in Dumfries & Galloway. Foundation Scotland administers the fund in partnership with four organisations in the area of benefit – Dalmellington Parish Development Trust, Patna Action Group, New Cumnock Development Trust and Carsphairn Renewable Energy Fund.
William A Cargill Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trust supports hospitals, charitable institutions and societies within the UK and overseas whose work is likely to benefit the community. Activities funded: General charitable activities, Health care and wellbeing, Mental health care, Respite and holidays, Social care and welfare.
Wise Music Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Wise Music Foundation was originally established in 1990 as The Music Sales Charitable Trust. Its aim has always been to help a broad range of domestic and international charitable causes, not necessarily music-related ones.
Wooden Spoon Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through the power of rugby, Wooden Spoon aims to ensure every child and young person has access to the best life opportunities. Projects must enhance the lives of children and young people with a cognitive age under 25 who are disadvantaged physically, mentally, or socially.
Young People’s Programme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation is keen to support young people who are facing difficult challenges and barriers to accessing support and opportunities. Recent updates to the guidance in this programme are that the Foundation aims to focus on children who are considered persistently absent from school, those leaving school with no qualifications, and children and young people in/leaving care.
