We’ve added 114 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Coastal Communities Fund 2025/26
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 May 2026
Overview: The South Ayrshire Coastal Communities Fund is established to invest funds from the region’s allocation of net revenue from Scottish Crown Estate marine assets. The fund aims to support projects that demonstrate tangible benefits to the economy, safety, health, and wellbeing of coastal communities in South Ayrshire.The fund supports projects that: – Support economic development by promoting sustainable growth and.
Dr Guthrie’s Association SCIO
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 25 May 2026
Overview: Dr Guthrie’s Association supports organisations devoted to the care and welfare of children and young people in Scotland. The Association provides financial support for not-for-profit organisations that care for economically and socially disadvantaged children and young people.
Bristol Youth and Play Support Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 26 May 2026
Overview: The Bristol Youth and Play Support Programme is for organisations in Bristol that work with local children and young people aged 8 to 19 years (up to 25 for young people with learning difficulties).
Canary Wharf Group Community Fund (London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 26 May 2026
Overview: Canary Wharf Group (CWG) understands it has a responsibility to create a positive and lasting impact that goes beyond the buildings and places they create. CWG pride themselves on their ability to create long-standing and meaningful relationships with the communities based around Canary Wharf.
Drapers’ Charitable Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 26 May 2026
Overview: Grants from the Drapers’ Charitable Fund improve the quality of life and aspirations of people and communities, particularly those who are socially excluded or disadvantaged. We give most of our grants to charities in Greater London, where we have our historical roots, for projects in education and social welfare.
Megawatt Community Energy Fund Grant
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 28 May 2026
Overview: The Megawatt Community Energy Fund uses the profit from the business activity of Bristol Energy Cooperative and Low Carbon Gordano to encourage and support community action on reducing carbon in our atmosphere, and/or making energy more affordable. Bristol Energy Cooperative and Low Carbon Gordano are working with Quartet Community Foundation to administer these funds.
Kilbraur Windfarm Community Benefit Trust
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 29 May 2026
Overview: The Kilbraur Windfarm Community Benefit Trust Fund supports community-led organisations and projects that provide economic, environmental, educational, social, or cultural benefits for people living in the area of Kilbraur, specifically the Brora, Golspie, and Rogart Community Council areas. The fund is financed by Kilbraur Wind Energy Ltd (managed by Nadara, formerly Renantis).
SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 29 May 2026
Overview: The SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund provides small grants to projects enhancing communities across the length and breadth of Scotland. Launched in 2024, the fund aims to contribute to initiatives that benefit people across Scotland, including landlords, letting agents, and tenant customers and their wider communities.
Town and Village Partnerships
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) has launched an exciting new initiative, Town and Village Partnerships, to help local communities unlock funding, drive regeneration, and shape the future of their high streets and neighbourhoods. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), this programme offers towns and villages the opportunity to form collaborative partnerships that bring together councils, businesses,.
23 Foundation (Sefton, Everton, and Anfield)
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: Jamie Carragher, Liverpool FC’s number 23 set up the 23 Foundation with the Community Foundation for Merseyside at the beginning of 2009 with the proceeds from his charitable Testimonial match and matched funds secured from the Government. Projects should seek to provide young people with the means to make a difference in society by giving them an outlet through sport and education.
Be Active Wales Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: Up to £50,000 of National Lottery funding is available for equipment and coaching courses for not-for-profit sports clubs or community groups in Wales.
Essentia Foundation (Scotland)
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The Foundation provides financial support to charities and community groups to help achieve the following objectives: Improved health and social welfare of children and young people up to the age of 25 years old. Increased opportunities for training, enhancing learning, upskilling, and developing career opportunities, and supporting young people up to the age of 25 years old to move towards employment.
The Classical Association – General Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The Classical Association is a major provider of grants to classical projects in the UK. Our grants typically fund activities undertaken by schoolteachers, students, academics and organisations with the aims of: Increasing the sustainability and viability of classics as a discipline in UK schools and beyond.
Merchants House of Glasgow Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 Jun 2026
Overview: The Merchants House is one of the oldest Social Enterprises in Glasgow. The income generated from the letting of office space in the Merchants House, along with a lively Events Programme and income from unrestricted funds is made available to support charities in Glasgow and the surrounding area.
Healthy Heart Grants – England (North)
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 3 Jun 2026
Overview: The Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Grants support community projects that promote healthier lifestyles and reduce the risk of heart disease. The fund seeks innovative ideas to help adults live longer, happier lives, especially in at-risk communities.
Community and digital grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 Jun 2026
Overview: Clarion Futures delivers a range of grant programmes which support those working to improve the lives of our residents, as well as helping them stay more digitally connected. Community Grants support projects which improve the lives of our residents, and help them to thrive as part of vibrant, connected, and sustainable communities.
Realising a New Economy – New Economy Infrastructure
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: 11 Jun 2026
Overview: The New Economy Infrastructure strand, currently open for applications until September 2027, supports organisations central to economic systems change aiming for a stronger sector capable of challenging entrenched economic norms. It focuses on UK organisations with a primary economic systems change mission, offering flexible core support for long-term capacity building, collaboration, and scaling impact.
Just Play Kickabout Sessions for Women
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 12 Jun 2026
Overview: The Just Play programme is a national initiative led by The FA (England Football) to support informal, recreational football for adults. This opportunity specifically supports Just Play Kickabout sessions for women aged 18+ only, which are designed to be a social and low-pressure ‘turn up and play’ offer, prioritising enjoyment and regular participation over competition.
Commonweal Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trades House of Glasgow Commonweal Fund is available to charities and organisations within the city of Glasgow and surrounding areas. The committee has a free hand to make grants to all schemes for social improvement.
Community Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 19 Jun 2026
Overview: One Community Foundation aims to strengthen local communities by providing funding to help build a sustainable and confident voluntary sector in Kirklees. Many Funds are considered by our grants panel at the same time.
RWE Bowbeat Wind Farm (Innerleithen) Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 21 Jun 2026
Overview: The RWE Bowbeat Wind Farm (Innerleithen) Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in the Innerleithen & District Community Council areas. This Fund is provided by RWE Renewables UK Operations Limited, the owner of RWE Bowbeat Wind Farm.
Central District Alliance Social and Community Fund 2026
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 22 Jun 2026
Overview: This is the third round of the Central District Alliance’s Social and Community Fund. The Business Improvement District represents St Giles, Holborn, Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell, and Farringdon.
Main Fund
Amount: Up to £90,000
Closing date: 22 Jun 2026
Overview: We support work that improves the quality, sustainability, and access to education for young people up to the age of 25 within marginalised and deprived communities worldwide. We will fund between £30,000 to £60,000 per project (maximum £30,000 per year for multi-year projects) for projects which: Improve access to education – including increasing the number of educational opportunities, especially for girls,.
Royal Irish Academy Disinformation Research Grant 2026
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 24 Jun 2026
Overview: The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Disinformation Research Grant 2026, supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, is part of the commitments made under the National Counter Disinformation strategy. The grant supports nuanced, collaborative research on different aspects of disinformation, involving research across multiple disciplines and networks with national and international partners.
Sir Halley Stewart Fund: Medical grants (including Expression of Interest)
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 29 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trust funds medical projects that are practical and capable of clinical application within 5-10 years. They may include a social or ethical element.
Sir Halley Stewart Fund: Religious grants (including Expression of Interest)
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 29 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trust is committed to advancing the Christian religion but also welcomes applications from other faith communities. Projects must be ground-breaking and inspirational, focusing on themes like the church and its relation to current social problems, Christian communication, and enhancing multi-faith dialogue.
Sir Halley Stewart Fund: Social grants
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 29 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trust welcomes proposals for catalysing Social initiatives in the UK that are either practical on-the-ground projects (development projects) or focussed on the practical impact of research findings (research projects). Social priorities attempt to: Prevent and resolve conflict, promote reconciliation, encourage re-connection between family members.
The Britford Bridge Trust
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Britford Bridge Trust (the “Trust”) is a charitable trust registered in England & Wales (registered number 1160012). The primary charitable purposes of the Trust are the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage, or science.
Funding for hospices and palliative care organisations (Health & Disability)
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 1 Jul 2026
Overview: Our funding for hospices and palliative care organisations supports places which provide excellent care to patients and their families. We award grants towards new buildings, refurbishment work and equipment.
Funding for special schools and colleges (Health & Disability)
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 1 Jul 2026
Overview: We support special schools and colleges for children and young people with special educational needs. We award grants to projects which support pupils at secondary level to develop skills which would help them to gain employment or live independently after school or college.
Active Spaces Fund
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 8 Jul 2026
Overview: Active Spaces Fund is for projects in London that will improve and activate spaces, places and facilities to help the least active children, young people and underserved groups and communities to lead active and healthy lives. The focus is on supporting capital projects that will build, renovate or protect spaces, places and facilities so that they can be used to deliver sports and physical activities for years to.
Individual Funding
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 13 Jul 2026
Overview: Small, one-off grants to meet a specific, immediate need of a single child or young person in the UK — typically when that child is in care or legal system, or in other precarious/harmful situations (abuse, addiction impacts, homelessness, caring responsibilities). The grant is meant to provide essential support such as items or activities that help with healing, stability, opportunity or recovery — opportunities.
Social Impact Funding
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 13 Jul 2026
Overview: Grants for charities working to address key societal issues affecting young people, aged 18 years old and under, aligned to one of our annual focus areas.
Argyll and Bute Council – Common Good Funds
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 15 Jul 2026
Overview: Argyll and Bute Council is responsible for the administration of 4 active Common Good Funds: Oban, Campbeltown, Rothesay, and Dunoon. Whilst custom and practice have in effect established certain principles in each case and particularly in unusual cases, the Members of the Fund must consider whether or not it is a ‘reasonable judgement’ for them to consider making an award from the relevant Common Good Fund.
Green Community Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 15 Jul 2026
Overview: The Green Community Grants Programme offers one-year flexible funding for not-for-profit groups in England, Scotland, and Wales with annual incomes between £10,000 and £1 million, with grants up to £25,000. To be eligible, organizations must have operated for at least 12 months, and their aims/objectives must align with one of two funding themes: contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate.
Supporting Change – Carers
Amount: Up to £2,000,000
Closing date: 15 Jul 2026
Overview: Supporting Change – Carers is a funding programme by The National Lottery Community Fund for projects that improve the health of unpaid carers in Scotland. The programme supports work that both leads to transformational change and reduces health inequalities.
Cockayne Grants for the Arts
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: Cockayne Grants for the Arts provides funding for arts projects in London. The goal is to support art as a way of enriching life experience.
Grants for Projects
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: Everybody deserves an opportunity to improve their lives. If your circumstances have led to you living in temporary or emergency accommodation, it’s vital you get the right support.
Old Luce Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 10 Aug 2026
Overview: This charitable fund is provided by Barlockhart Moor Wind Energy Ltd; Carscreugh Renewable Energy Park Ltd; Glenchamber Wind Energy Ltd, SSE, 2020 Renewables, Greencoat and ScottishPower Renewables, owners of nearby wind farms, who channel their community benefit funds through this single fund. The fund has been established by Old Luce Community Council, with the aspiration that all of the funds benefitting the Old.
The Cherry Family Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 10 Aug 2026
Overview: The Cherry Family Foundation awards grants to charities in London, the South East, and the East of England to help young people aged 10 to 30 advance in life. The Foundation was set up in 2021 by two brothers, Graham and Richard Cherry, to give back to the communities where they have grown up, live and work.
IT4Good Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 14 Aug 2026
Overview: The IT4Good Grant Programme supports technology-focused projects that create a social impact. It funds initiatives that use information technology (IT) innovatively across areas like: Digital inclusion Education IT for charities Public understanding of IT Examples include software, apps, training platforms, AI tools, hardware accessibility solutions, digital services, analytics, robotics, etc.
The Adnams Community Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 14 Aug 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 Grants & Small Community Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 15 Aug 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 Aug 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.
Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) program supports charities helping children, young people, and parents overcome trauma from ACEs through evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions. ACEs include sexual abuse, physical/emotional abuse or neglect, domestic violence exposure, parental substance abuse or mental illness, bereavement, and parental imprisonment.
Physical Health Funding
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: Supports UK-based charities that provide therapeutic interventions, condition-specific information, or direct healthcare services to people with physical conditions, disabilities, or life-changing injuries. Priority is given to evidence-based therapies (e.g., physiotherapy, hydrotherapy), specialist single-condition charities, and direct healthcare to marginalised communities.
Keynsham Town Council – CIL Funding
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 11 Sep 2026
Overview: Keynsham Town Council is inviting local groups, charities and organisations to apply for a share of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding for projects that improve community infrastructure within Keynsham. Community Infrastructure Levy is a proportion (15%) of the planning charge that B&NES Council receive from developers of new building projects in the Keynsham area.
Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 14 Sep 2026
Overview: The Andrew Wainwright Reform Trust’s objectives are framed in general terms to work for a just and democratic society and to redress political and social injustices. It is a wide-ranging remit for reform, but the Trust will prioritise organisations that are ineligible for charitable funding because they are considered too political or radical to come within the Charity Commissions guidelines.
Emerging Justice fund
Amount: Up to £225,000
Closing date: 17 Sep 2026
Overview: Our Emerging Justice fund aims to create opportunities for ‘by and for’ organisations to explore ways that the law could help them to achieve the change they seek. Are you a community organisation that: Is ‘by and for’, that is, led by the communities you serve?
Strengthening Justice fund
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: 17 Sep 2026
Overview: The Strengthening Justice fund provides flexible grants to support organisations that are already using and shaping the law in partnership with the communities they serve. The fund aims to connect these organisations more closely with communities facing injustice and to provide the space required to respond to emerging opportunities and challenges.
Fidelio Charitable Trust – Grants in Support of the Arts
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 25 Sep 2026
Overview: Fidelio welcomes applications for grants in support of the Arts, particularly for Music, including Opera, Lieder and Composition, and Theatre. Fidelio aims to provide support for individuals (over the age of 21) or groups of exceptional ability, to enable them for example: To receive special tuition or coaching (e.g.
Michael Tippett Musical Foundation
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: This fund aims to support the two objectives of the Foundation: To award grants to support the development of group music making, especially involving young people, with composing central to the project. To support the performance or recording of works by Michael Tippett (Please note: As of 2026, the Foundation will no longer accept open applications for such projects.
Small Grants – Digital Funding for Small Charities
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: We support UK-based charities with an annual turnover of under £1 million, offering funding for a wide range of digital projects. Whether that’s building a new website, developing online resources, or improving digital accessibility, our aim is to help you reach more people, raise more funds and deliver more impact.
Responsive Grant-Making Programme
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The Responsive Grant-Making programme is the main grant-making programme of The Paristamen Charity (SCIO SC050822). They offer flexible, unrestricted, one-off grants to support small-to-medium-sized charities.
Jerwood Art Fund Commissions
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 2 Oct 2026
Overview: In partnership with Jerwood Foundation, Art Fund is supporting museums and galleries to commission UK based early to mid-career artists working across all visual forms and disciplines. These grants aim to provide museums and galleries with 100% of the funding required to commission early to mid-career artists to create new work of exceptional innovation and quality – furthering the artist’s development at a pivotal.
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund – Project Grant
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 9 Oct 2026
Overview: Funding is available for research, education, and community projects that aim to improve and enhance road design, engineering, and aesthetics in the UK, with a focus on improving the experience of road users. The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund (RJRF) supports projects that promote advances in UK transport policy, design, management, and practice.
Realising a New Economy – Transforming Financial Systems
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: 6 Nov 2026
Overview: The ‘Transforming financial systems’ funding strand is open until September 2027. It examines the financial system’s role in the economy, aiming to expose hidden systems and explore transformation opportunities.
Better Futures Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 31 Dec 2026
Overview: We provide help to support nature, community and opportunities around the South West. South West Water are part of the Pennon Group alongside Bristol Water, SES Water and Bournemouth Water.
OLEV Grant Schemes for Electrical Vehicles
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2027
Overview: The government offers grants to help with the cost of buying and installing chargepoints for electric vehicles. This supports the wider use of electric and hybrid vehicles via the Office of Low Emission Vehicles (OZEV) / Office for Zero Emission Vehicles.Grants for installing electric vehicle chargepoints are available for individuals, landlords, businesses, the public sector, charities, and education.
Andrew Basnett Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Andrew Basnett Fund was established to honor the talents of blacksmith and art metalworker Andrew Basnett by inspiring and supporting the next generation of artisans. The fund supports blacksmithing education and training through bursaries, masterclasses, and discretionary grants for initiatives focused on developing the craft of blacksmithing.
Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Sir Jules Thorn’s endowment was provided primarily for medical research and medical care. Sir Jules was also a great humanitarian and, in accordance with his wishes, the Trustees allocate resources each year to support smaller charities across the UK.
Aughrim Landfill Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Aughrim Landfill Programme is a partnership between Aughrim Landfill Ltd and Groundwork NI. Funding for Aughrim Landfill Programme is through the Landfill Communities Fund (LFC) and is derived from Aughrim Landfill Ltd’s operations at Aughrim landfill site.
Axis Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Axis Foundation provides grants to individuals and causes that bring permanent, meaningful, and beneficial change. The Foundation’s support must be impactful and demonstrably meet the criteria of making positive and lasting change.
Capacity Building – Media Support
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: John Lyon’s Charity provides an additional strand to the Capacity Building Fund by providing communications support delivered by Goodwork to its groups across the Beneficial Area. The Charity will provide funding to help charitable organisations learn and grow from a PR and Communications perspective as well as offer media and messaging training.
Church of England’s Boiler Replacement Hardship Grant Fund
Amount: Up to £45,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The new Boiler Replacement Hardship Grant Fund aims to support churches/church halls with limited budgets with the costs of replacing a gas boiler with an alternative low carbon heating system. The fund is from the Church of England’s Net Zero by 2030 programme, which aims to equip, resource and support all parts of the church to tackle climate change through reducing carbon emissions from the energy used in its.
Community Builders Fund
Amount: Up to £1,500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Builders Fund provides loans of between £100k and £1.5m to UK charities and social enterprises based in England, Wales and Scotland. The fund is supported by the Government guarantee scheme – Growth Guarantee Scheme.
Community Service Small Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Berkhamsted Town Council provides Community Service Small Grants of up to £1,000 for local projects or services. To be eligible, the project or service must be based in and/or directly benefit the community or residents of Berkhamsted.
Community Services Fund
Amount: Up to £6,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Pub is The Hub’s Community Services Fund is currently offering grants of up to £6,000 to publicans in rural, remote or deprived areas to support the introduction of new services and activities that benefit local communities. The programme aims to help rural pub owners, licensees and their local communities to work together to support, retain and provide local services, where possible, within a local pub.
Community Shares Booster Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Shares Booster Fund is a funding scheme to support community share offers. The Booster Fund provides support to get your share offer ready.
Cumber Family Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Cumber Family Charitable Trust dispenses grants made out of the income received from its investments. The main aim is on farming and the countryside, and they support agricultural and conservation work both locally and in the Third World.
Dormant Assets for All
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This funding is for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Northern Ireland. It helps organisations to build skills and capacity, be more resilient, and prepare for future challenges.
Express Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of this Express Grant Programme is to support local grassroot groups and small to medium sized organisations working with communities experiencing inequalities and disadvantage. This programme will funds activities, projects and services that: Help people affected by economic disadvantage, such as poverty, unemployment, low income; and/or Improve access to appropriate and affordable services and support for.
Funding for Projects that Raise People’s Quality of Life (England & Wales)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Bernard Sunley Foundation aims to provide greater opportunities for the young, elderly, disabled, and disadvantaged by supporting capital projects in the areas of: Community Education Health Social welfare The types of projects that could be supported include: improvements to village halls supporting children and adults with special educational and learning needs improvements to hospices and treatment clinics.
Fundraising Donation
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Greggs is proud to support community activities through the donation of products or vouchers. The Fundraising Donation programme provides one-off donations to help charities, community groups, and specific schools run successful fundraising or community events.
Garfield Weston Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, grant-making charity that supports causes across the UK. In total, they donate around £100 million each year.
Garfield Weston Foundation – Major Grant (Expression of Interest)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded, grant-making charity that supports causes across the UK. Major Grants are for requests of £100,000 and over.
Grants for work in Israel
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trust in Israel favours organisations whose services are equally accessible by all citizens, and whose work provides direct benefits to people who are living in challenging and/or vulnerable circumstances. Our priority areas are: Building an equitable and shared society between Arabs and Jews Improved mental health and resilience-building in the periphery Supporting refugees and asylum seekers.
John Ellerman Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £180,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our overarching aim as an organisation is to advance wellbeing for people, society and the natural world. Our funding guidelines relate to our strategy for 2025 to 2030.
Major Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Major Grants Programme supports small to medium-sized local charitable organisations with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. The fund is open to eligible organisations with an annual income under £500,000.
Management Agreements for Field Monuments
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We can offer funding to improve the management of monuments via term agreements with landowners or tenants. England’s landscape has a rich and diverse legacy of field monuments that help us understand all periods of our past, from prehistory to the Cold War.
Marchig Animal Welfare Trust Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Marchig Animal Welfare Trust was established in 1989 by the late Madame Jeanne Marchig of Geneva, because of her deep concern for nature and animals and in memory of her husband, the painter Giannino Marchig. The objects of the Trust are to protect animals and to promote and encourage practical work in preventing animal cruelty and the relief of animal suffering.
National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland provides funding for projects that bring people together and improve communities across Northern Ireland. Your project should do at least one of the following: bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities improve the places and spaces that matter to communities help people reach their potential by offering support at an early stage.
National Lottery Awards for All Scotland
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We fund projects that bring people together and help communities across Scotland thrive. Social connections and community activities are at the heart of healthier, happier lives, that’s why we support community-led projects.
National Lottery Awards for All Wales
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We provide funding for projects that bring people together and improve communities across Wales. You can apply for a grant of between £300 and £20,000 for projects lasting up to 2 years.
North Somerset Community Transport Grant
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The grant supports local volunteer-run community transport schemes and car schemes, especially those that provide accessible, affordable transport to North Somerset residents with limited mobility. Two types of schemes recognised: Community transport groups operating under a permit (section 19 or 22), providing minibuses for regular shopping trips, day trips, dial-a-ride, group hire, etc.
Ordsall, Quays, Pendleton and Charlestown Community Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Ordsall, Quays, Pendleton and Charlestown Community Grant (part of the Devolved Budgets/Budget Group Grants scheme) supports community benefit projects within the Ordsall, Quays, Pendleton and Charlestown areas of Salford. The funding supports five priority areas: Children and young people Crime and disorder Environmental improvements Older people Community cohesion Priority goes to local applications, but.
People in later life and their carers
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We focus on projects and organisations reimagining community provision for people drawing on care in later life. This means we fund work that’s closely aligned with our criteria of doing things differently and enabling innovation with the potential for wider application.
Pixel Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Pixel Fund supports projects aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults. Specifically, the target beneficiaries are children and “young adults” — the fund defines “young adults” as those under 26 years old at the start of any granted project or work stream.
READY Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: READY raises money to help young people with disabilities play sport and take part in healthy activities for fun and fitness. They provide grants for specialist sports equipment, activities, and training to enable young athletes to access sports and recreational activities.
SWEF Enterprise Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise Fund exists to support young people (aged 18-30) who cannot afford to invest in their own businesses or raise money externally. SWEF believes that a successful business can transform the lives of individuals and their families, while also increasing economic activity in their local community.
Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) – Welcoming Spaces
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Following the success of programmes in 2022-23 and 2023-24, SCVO and Sandwell Council are working together to build a longer-term community space initiative that offers year-round welcoming sources of information, advice and company/ friendship. The fund is not seeking (at this stage) to develop new initiatives but rather coordinate all those publicly accessible spaces that are already open (for a variety of.
Scottish Land Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Scottish Land Fund supports communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and buildings. It will fund projects that empower communities through asset ownership and strengthen their voices in the decisions that matter to them.
Sir William Boreman’s Foundation
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Sir William Boreman, minor nobleman and clerk to the Royal Household, was a philanthropist who bequeathed the school he had founded, together with adjacent land and property in Greenwich, to the Drapers’ Company in 1684. While the school has long since ceased to exist, the Drapers’ Company continues to nurture Sir William’s endowment and honour his original intention to support education in the local area.
Small Grant (Plymouth and South West Devon)
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Livewell Foundation supports projects and initiatives that will help improve health and wellbeing, prevent ill health or reduce social isolation within Plymouth and South West Devon. The funding priorities remain for projects or initiatives that will: Improve health and wellbeing Reduce mental and physical ill health Reduce social isolation This could be for one or a combination of two or three of the above.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Forte Charitable Foundation (previously Trusthouse 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. The Small Grants programme provides single-year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running, and project costs.
Small grants (up to £500)
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation set aside a pot of money each year for small grants of up to £500 which groups can apply for at any time of the year (subject to there still being funds left in the pot). Since it is for a smaller amount, they have made the application process more straightforward and, if the grant is approved, funds can normally be made available immediately (not being subject to board approval).
Strengthening Communities
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Strengthening Communities is our funding for community led projects. It will help us deliver our strategy, ‘It starts with community.
Strengthening Organisations
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Strengthening Organisations fund is provided by The National Lottery Community Fund for organisations in Scotland that currently receive funding from them. The fund aims to help these organisations adapt, develop, and improve.
Supporting Great Ideas
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting Great Ideas helps organisations bring bold ideas to life. These ideas should lead to positive and lasting change in Wales.
Sustainable Steps Wales – Egin Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This funding supports community groups in Wales that are taking action on climate change and aiming to live more sustainably, or helping them kick-start their ideas. To apply, your group must have received support from the Egin mentoring programme and completed an action plan.
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 Bernard Piggott Charitable Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Bernard Piggott Trust supports registered charities in the greater Birmingham area and the North Wales region. The Trust was set up by Captain George Bernard Piggott in 1969 to perpetuate his support for charities in these areas.
The Country Trust Educational Programmes – Expression of Interest
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Country Trust supports better life chances for disadvantaged children through hands-on food, farming and countryside experiences. They offer a variety of programmes tailored to the needs of primary schools and groups supporting vulnerable children.
The Solidarity Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This funding is for organisations in England dealing with the causes of inequality, specifically poverty, disadvantage, and discrimination. It supports long-term, lasting change and expects applicants to involve people with lived experience in their initiatives.
The UK Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The UK Fund offers larger amounts of funding to help you develop work that’s already making a difference. To get funding you’ll need to show what’s working, how you know it’s having a proven impact, and why it’s ready to scale.
The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust supports UK registered charities of ‘national significance’ whose work meets the objectives of the Trust. The Trust’s objectives include: Promoting health or the saving of lives.
Trust for London Grant Funding
Amount: Up to £300,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Trust for London is a charitable foundation funding a fairer London. We fund work that will achieve long term change to create a city where everybody has a chance to thrive, no matter who they are.
Wheelwrights Charity Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Wheelwrights’ Charity was established in 1983 by the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights, one of the City of London’s historic livery companies. The charity supports projects aligned with its core mission of improving mobility for disabled people and preserving the ancient craft of wheelwrighting.
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.
Young Start – Main Grants
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Young Start Programme is offering funding to help children and young people across Scotland become more confident, so they can realise their own potential. Young Start Programme wants to fund work that achieves at least one of the following three outcomes : children and young people have better physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing children and young people have better connections with the wider community.
Young Start – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Young Start – Small Grants is a development programme from The National Lottery Community Fund in Scotland. It is designed for organisations that support children and young people aged 8 to 24 and want to learn how to meaningfully involve them in their work, activities, or services.
