Grants for Youth, Arts, and Community Projects

In this week’s funding roundup, we’re highlighting some fantastic grants that can help bring positive change to your community. Whether you’re involved in youth programmes, arts initiatives, or community projects, there are several exciting funding opportunities available. Take a look at the latest grants and find out how they could support your work!

• Community Energy Fund.  £10m grant scheme for urban and rural communities to develop energy services to benefit their local area.
• Arts, Health And Wellbeing Lottery Funding. £50k to provide high-quality creative projects that deliver health and wellbeing benefits for the people of Wales.
• Young People’s Programme. £25k  to support young people who are facing difficult challenges and barriers to accessing support and opportunities.
• History In The Making Grants. £15k  to enable underrepresented young people (aged 13-25) to research, discover and commemorate local histories.
• Metal For Good Grants. £3k to support projects and activities that use music as a tool for change and the values of rock and metal community to help create an equal society. 
• Environmental Grant Scheme. £20k to reduce the impact of climate change.
• Community Climate Change Fund. £500  to community-based organisations taking measures locally to tackle the climate emergency.
• Action Against Homelessness Fund. £150k to support organisations working to combat homelessness through supporting discrete projects and activities as well as providing unrestricted funding.
• Careers In Construction Grants. £150k to support organisations working to deliver pathways into a career in the construction industry through supporting discrete projects and activities as well as providing unrestricted funding. 
• Digital Inclusion Small Grants Programme. Grants  to support digital inclusion projects that develop the digital skills of local residents and communities, particularly those that are most at risk of experiencing digital exclusion. 
• Continuo Foundation. £8k for projects that will bring inspiring live music to communities across the UK.
• Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner. £20k for services that help support victims of crime and reduce crime and disorder.
• Hedley Foundation. £5k to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need.
• Memorial Grant Scheme. VAT reclaim scheme which means the funding is intended to cover the costs of VAT already paid.
• Ssen – Powering Communities To Net Zero Fund. £20k to help communities become more resilient and to support the adoption of low-carbon technologies that will help achieve net zero.
• Suffolk Smokefree Generation Fund. £7k for projects that address smoking cessation within high-risk groups
• Nhs North East And North Cumbria Northern Cancer Alliance Community Connectors Fund. £500 to connect those who have experienced cancer (either directly or indirectly) and provide community-based support to contribute towards their wellbeing, to live with and beyond cancer.
• Nhs North East And North Cumbria Northern Cancer Alliance Prehabilitation Fund. £10k to improve the quality of life, health and treatment options/outcomes for cancer patients in the North East and North Cumbria.
• Proud To Pitch In. £4k to grassroots and community sports clubs across the United Kingdom.
• Free Trees For Schools And Communities. Tree packs for schools and community groups.
• Heg Community Fund. £35k to community organisations providing activities that make a difference to their local communities.
• Transpennine Route Upgrade Community Fund. £20k  for regeneration by enhancing and protecting community ‘spaces and places’ along the route or to develop job skills.
• Barclays Community Football Fund. £1k to provide accessible football activities for the most underrepresented groups of young people.
• Rowing Foundation Grants Programme. £4k to support junior & student rowers, and adaptive rowing for all ages in the UK.
• Professional Enrichment Programme. £1k for qualified UK teachers to visit a German school for one or two weeks during 2023-24.
• Active Spaces Fund. £80k to improve sports spaces and inspire activity in London.
• Elevate Fund. £25k to support projects that boost the employability of individuals.
• Renew Small Grants Programme. £2k for creative groups and individuals with ideas for bringing Redditch and Bromsgrove’s redundant and unusual spaces back to life.
• Fellowship Fund. £2k to support one-off events that promote equality and diversity in Waltham Forest.
• Business Renewables Energy Efficiency Sunderland. To support eligible businesses and organisations to upgrade old and inefficient lighting and heating systems and insulate walls and roofs of premises so they can reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions.
• Embedding Prevention Of Veteran Suicide Programme. £100k to address mental health wellbeing, help seeking, and stigma within the Armed Forces community.
• Early Career Promoter Fund. £3.5k to support independent promoters.
•  Stroupster Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund. £25k  to support charitable activities in the Dunnet & Canisbay Community Council area in Caithness, Scotland.
• Young & Talented Cornwall Creative Writing Fund. £1k o support and encourage young writers in Cornwall, between the ages of 16 and 23. 
• Active Lives. £30k to enable life-enhancing opportunities for individuals living in the most disadvantaged areas in the UK who encounter physical, mental, social, or economic barriers.  
• Positive Futures. £30k to enhance the lives of children and young people living in the most disadvantaged areas in the South East of England who encounter physical, mental, social, or economic barriers.
• Combined Small And Events Grant Programme. £6k to support a range of projects that benefit local residents and communities.