We’ve rounded up 133 new grants now open to charities, CICs, and nonprofits across the UK.
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🌟 Building the Community-Pharmacy Partnership Programme – £12,000
BCPP is a regional community development programme funded by the Department of Health (DoH) and developed and delivered by Community Development and Health Network (CDHN).
🎯 Reach Fund – £15,000
The Reach Fund helps charities and social enterprises raise investment, the programme offers grants on average between £5,000 and £15,000.
🚀 Individual Grants – £3,000
We provide: Immediate Resettlement Grants: If you’ve just arrived at a Refuge or Youth Support accommodation, we can help with essential items like clothing and food.
🌍 Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) – £15,000
The Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) is delivered by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) in partnership with the British Council.
💡 Support for the Work of Professional Composers – £3,000
Funding supports: Performance, commissioning or recording of music by professional British/Irish composers active in the last 100 years who lack broad national/international recognition (or are early-career).
✨ The Hospital Saturday Fund – £13,500
The Hospital Saturday Fund will consider giving grants towards medical projects, capital projects, medical care or research, hospice/respite care and in support of medical training.
📚 Aughrim Landfill Programme – £10,000
Aughrim Landfill Programme is a partnership between Aughrim Landfill Ltd and Groundwork NI.
🤝 Teacher Training Scholarships – £31,000
As an RSC scholar, you’ll receive both financial and practical support to help you make the most of your studies and thrive in your career.
🏆 DCF Bursary Scheme – £1,000
This fund is now OPEN for Round 4 – Applications received by the 4th of January will receive a decision by late February.
🎨 Achievement Award Scheme
This page invites organisations that are not currently running the Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Award Scheme to apply to join the scheme .
🌟 Educational Visit Grant – £1,200
Educational Visit Grants support schools and youth organisations with the costs of making visits to museums, theatres, science shows, and more.
🎯 Leader Awards – £1,000
Jack Petchey Foundation Leader Awards recognise the incredible commitment of adults who go above and beyond at the schools and youth organisations they support and who exemplify dedication to support young people.
🚀 Individual Grants for Volunteering – £500
This programme is for young people who want to take part in a volunteering project!
🌍 Wheelchairs for Children
We fund a range of wheelchairs, including: Lightweight manual wheelchairs Powered wheelchairs Sports wheelchairs All-terrain wheelchairs All wheelchairs Variety provides are bespoke in order to meet the needs of the user.
💡 Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE)
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs helps provide aspiring European entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a small business in Europe.
✨ Group Grants – £2,600
Our funding focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community.
📚 Individual Grants – £1,500
Our funding focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community.
🤝 Heritage Revival Fund – £350,000
The Heritage Revival Fund has been created to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.
🏆 The Boring Fund – £200
The Boring Fund aims to help small non-profit organisations cover some of the boring costs that keep them running.
🎨 Creative Careers Service Grant (2026/27-2028/29) – £7,000,000
This grant is for £7M to design and deliver a refreshed UK-wide creative careers service over 3 years.
🌟 Regenerative Fund for Nature – £500,000
Launched in January 2021, the Regenerative Fund for Nature is consistent with Kering’s Biodiversity strategy .
🎯 Path Accessibility Fund – £10,000
The Path Accessibility Fund exists to remove physical barriers on public paths and rights of way that restrict access, especially for people with reduced mobility.
🚀 Community Energy Fund – £40,000
The Hounslow Community Energy Fund (HCEF) aims to support community-led decarbonisation projects which benefit the wider community.
🚀 Grange Wind Farm Community Fund – £5,000
The Object of the Trust is to support volunteer led not-for-profit projects that improve the lives of people living within a ten-mile radius of The Grange Wind Farm at Tydd St Mary, Lincolnshire, where priority is given to projects providing a service for people living within a five-mile radius.
🌍 Disabled Children’s Holiday Grant (Individual)
The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.
💡 Disabled Children’s Holiday Grant (Group)
The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.
✨ General Programme – Main Grants (General Grants ≥ £9,000)
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field.
📚 The Port of Dover Community Fund – £10,000
If you have applied through the Annual route, there is no need to apply to this fund also – you will automatically be considered.
🤝 North Petherwin Community Fund – £1,000
North Petherwin Fund welcomes applications to support community projects in the following Areas: North Petherwin.
🏆 Trewen Wind Fund – £5,000
Trewen Wind Fund welcomes applications to support community projects in the following Areas: Trewen nr Launceston.
🎨 Natural Environment Improvement Fund – £1,000,000
At Commencement of the Sizewell C project, the Natural Environment Improvement Fund will be available to enable the Natural Environment Awards Panel (NEAP) to fulfill its role.
🌟 The Britford Bridge Trust – £50,000
The Britford Bridge Trust (the “Trust”) is a charitable trust registered in England & Wales (registered number 1160012).
🎯 Hardship and Access Grants – £100
The Hellenic Society may be able to offer small hardship and access grants for those who, due to unexpected hardship, need a small amount of financial aid to help complete a programme of study or to help overcome issues of access: for example, attendance at a summer school when a language or other skill (such as epigraphy, numismatics or papyrology etc) is required to begin or access further study.
🚀 Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust – £3,000
The Robert Clutterbuck Charitable Trust exists to help other charities by making grants to them.
🌍 Cultural Capital Fund – Schools – £5,000
To encourage schools to prioritise and provide more arts activities for their pupils we are pleased to offer our Cultural Capital Fund (CCF).
💡 Schools in Partnership Fund (London) – £60,000
We are committed to helping the most disadvantaged young people by promoting the crucial link between schools, home-life and the community.
✨ School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) – £5,000
The School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) is designed to enable organisations to deliver fun and accessible activities for children and young people during the school holidays.
📚 Open Programme – £20,000
The Open Programme funds a wide range of activities and organisational costs that support the life-chances of children and young people.
🤝 Capacity Building – Learning and Development Fund (Micro Grant) – £500
The Learning and Development strand of the Capacity Building Fund seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to attend training sessions which are not a statutory requirement for their role but would enhance their ability to undertake their job effectively.
🏆 Capacity Building – Media Support (Micro Grant)
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.
🎨 Cultural Capital Fund – Arts Organisations – £30,000
The Cultural Capital Fund (CCF) has relaunched to offer expanded and accessible support for schools eager to bring impactful Arts experiences to their students.
🌟 Refurbishment Fund – £30,000
The Refurbishment Fund focuses on renovation and repair.
🎯 Rhododendron Trust Grants – £2,000
The Rhododendron Trust is a grant-making charity focused mainly on the welfare of the disadvantaged in the UK and overseas, but also supporting arts and wildlife charities.
🚀 Childminder Grant Scheme – £250
This Grant Aid scheme is designed to support Childminding Services in Shetland.
🌍 Early Learning and Childcare Fund – £2,500
This grant aid scheme is designed to support: Providers delivering Early Learning and Childcare; Voluntary and private sector organisations registered to provide Day Care and/or Out of School Care; It is funded and administered by Shetland Islands Council and managed by representatives from Shetland Islands Council and Shetland Preschool Play.
💡 BMTA Trust Grants – £1,000
The BMTA Trust provides one-off grants to help individuals and their families overcome financial barriers that hinder education, training, employment, or progression within the UK motor trade/automotive industry.
✨ FTCT Family Support Grants
We provide financial grants to families where a parent works (or has worked) in the clothing or textile industry and is experiencing financial difficulty.
📚 Educational Grants
We support with educational costs for children at UK schools and universities, whose family circumstances have been affected by adversity.
🤝 Wispers Trust Grants / Bursaries
Wispers Trust was established after the closure of Wispers School for Girls to provide financial assistance to pupils in Years 10–11 (GCSE) or Years 12–13 (A-Level) whose education is under threat because: A bereavement involving a parent/guardian who pays fees; OR A loss of employment causing reduced family income due to unforeseen circumstances (not due to disciplinary dismissal).
🏆 The School Fees Charitable Trust Grant
Grants are made to cover the final year of the GCSE course and the final year of A levels, or years of equivalent examinations (e.g.
🎨 GDST Bursaries
GDST Bursaries provide means‑tested financial help so that families who could not otherwise afford independent school fees can send their daughter to a GDST school.
🌟 Educational Support Grants
RMNEF provides educational support and maintenance financial assistance to children and young people who are in financial need because at least one parent has served at sea in one of the qualifying maritime sectors: Merchant Navy seafarer Professional sea-going fisherman RNLI lifeboat crew member Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) service Support is tailored to the individual’s circumstances and can include assistance at different stages: Daycare, preschool, nursery Primary and secondary education Further and higher education Career training and apprenticeships This support is means-assessed and based on the family’s financial situation, domestic context, health, and educational need
🎯 Financial Assistance Grants
The Royal Medical Foundation is a charity founded by Dr John Propert in 1855 and administered by Act of Parliament.
🚀 Prince of Wales Award – £1,000
The Prince of Wales Award recognises and supports community-led projects that make a meaningful contribution to rural life in Devon, particularly those that: Engage and educate young people Have a sustainable community benefit Involve volunteers and local participation Past winners include village allotments, community shops, primary schools with outdoor learning spaces, and health support groups.
🌍 Kent County Agricultural Society Scholarship Scheme – £1,000
The Kent County Agricultural Society has set up a scholarship scheme to help fund up to nine students through their degree courses for each year of their studies.
💡 Tyrone Farming Society Bursaries – £1,500
We support a student at each of CAFRE’s 3 Campuses on a full time study programme every academic year 1 Student of Agriculture, Greenmount Campus of CAFRE 1 Student of Equine Studies, Enniskillen Campus of CAFRE 1 Student of Food Science, Loughry Campus of CAFRE The £1,500 Bursary provides financial support for one year of study.
✨ Chris Lambert Bursary – £1,500
The Chris Lambert Bursary Chris Lambert was Secretary of the Westmorland Agricultural Society from 1973 until his death in 1998.
📚 John Holford Charity Grants
Purpose: To relieve conditions of need, hardship, or distress for residents within defined Cheshire localities.
🤝 Wingates Wind Farm Community Grants Scheme – £2,000
The Wingates Wind Farm Community Fund has been set up by the operator Infinis, to provide grants for the benefit of communities in the area immediately surrounding the wind farm.
🏆 Wiltshire Community Transport Development Fund – £1,000
Funded by Wiltshire Council and managed by Community First, the Wiltshire Community Transport Development Fund has been created with the aim of supporting existing community and voluntary transport groups to provide a wider range of service, enable communities to trial new services which assist local people to better access local facilities and to support the establishment of wholly new community and voluntary transport groups
🎨 Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) – Wiltshire & Swindon – £10,000
Designed to offset environmental impacts of landfill operations by funding local community & environmental capital projects.
🌟 Community Relations / Cultural Diversity – £10,000
The CR/CD Funding Scheme supports projects that have an intentional good relations purpose from the outset, connecting people of different cultures, traditions and backgrounds, and directly addressing sectarianism and/or racism.
🎯 Shelroy Charitable Trust Fund – £350
The Shelroy Charitable Trust Fund exists to provide small grants in cases of need on behalf of individuals who live in Norfolk, particularly where there is evidence of need related to disability or health conditions.
🚀 Community Fund – £3,000
The Viridor & Prosiect Gwyrdd Community Fund is a £50,000 per annum donation that Viridor has committed to make available to community initiatives that operate in the Local Authority regions that make up Prosiect Gwyrdd; Caerphilly County Borough Council, City of Cardiff Council, Monmouthshire County Council, Newport City Council and Vale of Glamorgan Council.
🌍 Customer Donation Fund – £1,000
This scheme aim to encourages community groups to continue the valuable work they do in their local communities.
💡 International Opportunities Fund – £7,500
The Fund supports Wales Arts International’s main priority to ‘nurture Wales’ international artistic, creative and cultural potential in a way that is fair to people and to the planet’.
✨ NMCT Conservation Grants – £10,000
The NMCT is the only UK grant-giver that focuses solely on the care and conservation of manuscripts in the UK.
📚 The Joicey Trust Grants
The Trust supports projects or core costs that deliver charitable benefit to communities within the North East or Scottish Borders.
🤝 Joffe Trust Financial Integrity Grants – £40,000
We are a grant making trust that supports civil society leaders to build a fairer world.
🏆 Art Fund – Student Opportunities – £10,000
The programme enables students to explore an interest in the arts alongside future career options, while providing organisations with extra capacity which is skilled and accountable.
🎨 Organisation Grant – £5,000
We welcome applications from local charitable, voluntary and community organisations working to help and support people living within our area of benefit.
🌟 Individual Grant (Relief in Need) – £1,000
We welcome applications from people who are experiencing difficult circumstances.
🎯 The Listed Places of Worship (LPW) Grant Scheme – £25,000
The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme is provided by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and managed by East Midlands Business (EMB Limited).
🚀 Community support scheme – £500
There are so many incredible organisations that work to make our local community a better place and improve the lives of those within it, that it seems almost impossible to support them all.
🌍 Peter Sell Award – £5,000
The Peter Sell Annual Award aims to widen engagement within the Scout and Guide movements, especially targeting individuals who haven’t participated before.
💡 Access Without Limits Community Funding – £10,250
Our Access Without Limits Community Funding is now open for applications until January 2026.
✨ Energy Resilience Fund – £250,000
The Energy Resilience Fund (ERF) provides a blended funding package of loan (60%) and grant (40%) to bolster the energy resilience of eligible charities and social enterprises in England.
📚 The Stobart Sustainability Fund
Eddie Stobart Ltd is a company with a conscience, and the company want to help create a greener, more sustainable world.
🤝 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) – £50,000
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides grants to community‑based organisations for sustainable development projects.
🏆 Responsive Grants – £1,000
This is our main grantmaking programme where we respond to applications received.
🎨 Conservation – Objects and Works of Art – £7,000
To support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognized national or international importance, such as objects and works of art in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings or landscapes accessible to the public.
🌟 Arts – Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals – £7,000
To support opportunities for professionals (working creatively) within the performing and visual arts, at an early stage in their careers.
🎯 The Archer Trust Grant – £5,000
The Archer Trust is a UK charitable trust focused on providing grants to small charities where a small amount will make a big difference.
🚀 Grant Making Programmes – £10,000
Ibrahim Foundation grants support projects that help transform communities by focusing on: Community building: Enhancing engagement, leadership, and social capital.
🌍 Old Possum’s Practical Trust Grants – £5,000
Valerie Eliot founded Old Possum’s Practical Trust in January 1990.
💡 Yapp Charitable Trust Grants – £3,000
The Yapp Charitable Trust provides sustained core funding (running costs and salaries) to small, established charities in England and Wales that work with specific vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
✨ Drapers’ Charitable Fund – £25,000
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.
📚 Migration Programme
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charity using all its resources for social justice.
🤝 Marchig Animal Welfare Trust Grants
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.
🏆 R W Mann Trust Grants – £5,000
The R W Mann Trust is an endowed, grant-making Charitable Trust founded by Dr R W Mann OBE, DCL, and his wife Margery in 1957 by a gift of shares from Victor Products (Wallsend) Ltd.
🎨 Ove Arup Foundation Grants – £20,000
Ove Arup Foundation allocates funding each year to commission research or instigate new teaching initiatives that enhance new thinking and knowledge in the built environment through the interdisciplinary nature of design.
🌟 Saint Sarkis Charity Trust Grants
The Saint Sarkis Charity Trust was founded in 1954 by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian primarily to provide financial support for the Armenian Church of Saint Sarkis in London and for the Gulbenkian Library at the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem.
🎯 Pink Ribbon Foundation – £6,000
The Pink Ribbon Foundation’s mission is to help breast cancer charities help their clients recover from their cancer and then live longer, healthier, happier lives.
🚀 Roman Society Grants for Schools – £600
The Roman Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire.
🌍 Small Grants to Schools – £600
The Jerusalem Trust makes available to schools a number of grants to support the purchase of resources for teaching Christianity in Religious Education.
💡 JMK Award – £30,000
The JMK Award offers one young director the opportunity to direct a full-scale professional play.
✨ Fidelio Charitable Trust – Grants in Support of the Arts – £5,000
Fidelio welcomes applications for grants in support of the Arts, particularly for Music, including Opera, Lieder and Composition, and Theatre.
📚 Elephant Trust – £5,000
The main purpose is to support new work in the fine arts — including imaginative proposals for producing new art or exhibitions.
🤝 Mayor’s Active Travel Fund – £500,000
We want to provide opportunities for people across our city, towns, rural and coastal areas to make affordable, sustainable choices, and enjoy safer journeys to school and work.
🏆 SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund (Business Grants) – £2,000
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.
🎨 SWEF Enterprise & Business Fund (Start Up Grants) – £500
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.
🌟 Brian Treffry and Joan Oliver Fund – £500
Supporting Talented Young Artists in Nottinghamshire.
🎯 Newport Live Act Fringe Festival – Artist Call Out – £1,500
CC-2026 is a paid artist residency programme where individual artists, artistic companies, or creative collaborations are invited to: Take over non-traditional spaces in Newport (e.g., libraries, museums, shop units, outdoor sites) for two weeks during Newport Live Act Fringe Festival (March 9–22, 2026).
🚀 The Good Business Fund – £15,000
The Good Business Fund is a grant offered to charities and social enterprises.
🌍 Resonance Enterprise Investment Fund – £250,000
The Resonance Enterprise Investment fund invests in high impact social enterprises enabling them to access the growth investment they need.
💡 Minnygap Community Fund (Small Grant) – £600
The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living within the Johnstone, Templand, and Kirkpatrick Juxta community council areas.
✨ Minnygap Community Fund (Standard Grant) – £12,000
The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living within the Johnstone, Templand, and Kirkpatrick Juxta community council areas.
📚 Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund – £10,000
A fund for community groups and charities of all types and sizes: the Park Spring Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports community organisations close to the Park Spring wind farm in North East Barnsley.
🤝 Loscar Wind Farm Community Fund
The Loscar Wind Farm Community Funds make small grants to support environmental sustainability and general community activities.
🏆 Blackstone Edge Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund – £5,000
The wind farm is situated in West Barnsley located at Blackstone Edge; the area of benefit is a 5km boundary of the wind farm site* This includes Dunford, Gunthwaite & Ingbirchworth, Langsett and Penistone Parishes, Upper Denby and parts of Holmfirth.
🎨 Community Grants April 2026 (General) – £5,000
The SYCF Community Grants Programme is made up of several funds provided by generous local donors.
🌟 QFutures – £15,000
The aim of this funding is to help community organisations support people in South Yorkshire from pre-employability through to established pathways into employment.
🎯 Financial Giving- Community grants – £400
Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.
🚀 Moving On Up – £15,000
The Moving on Up fund is generously supported by Quickline , specialist broadband providers to rural communities.
🌍 SYCF Small Grants Programme – £1,000
These grants are intended for small, developing and less well-resourced groups and organisations from across South Yorkshire, where small amounts of funding can make a real difference.
💡 Full ADOPT Grant: Round 5 – £100,000
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £4.5 million for on-farm trials and farm experiment projects.
✨ Ford Britain Trust (Small grants) – £250
Ford Britain Trust was established back in April 1975, with the purpose of supporting the local communities where Ford and its employees live and work.
📚 Ford Britain Trust (Large grants) – £3,000
Ford Britain Trust was established back in April 1975, with the purpose of supporting the local communities where Ford and its employees live and work.
🤝 Instant Impact Fund – £5,000
First-time taster trips/Revival trips (one-way) for groups of young people (from UK schools and youth groups) to a partner school or youth group in Germany.
🏆 Al Tajir Trust Grants & Partnerships
The Trust’s current focus is on a programme of grants and partnerships with other institutions to advance science, education, religious understanding, and research in Britain or any of the Arab or other Islamic states.
🎨 Standard Innovation Voucher – £7,500
The Standard Innovation Voucher scheme encourages new collaborations between a Scottish organisation and a university or college.
🌟 Take It Away – £20,000
Take it away offers interest-free loans for musical instruments, equipment, and software.
🎯 The Wakeham Trust Grant – £2,500
The Wakeham Trust is a grant making organisation that support organisations and registered charities as well as small community and voluntary groups within the UK that want to improve their communities.
🚀 Independence at Home Grants – £600
Independence at Home is a charity that provides grants to people of all ages who have a physical or learning disability or long term illness and who are in financial need.
🌍 Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund – £3,000
Each year Manchester Airports Group contributes £100,000 to the Fund; any fines levied at aircraft that have breached our stringent noise limits are also paid into the Fund.
💡 Major projects – £5,000
The CA provides funding for a small number of major projects, considered to be of fundamental benefit to the discipline.
✨ Teaching Conferences Grant – £400
Provides small bursary support to help conference organisers offer support to self-funded PhD students who are giving papers at UK classics conferences.
📚 Branch Grants – £1,000
The CA is proud to support the work of our local branches and we offer generous start up grants, support for speakers’ travel and accommodation expenses, and funding for a range of outreach activities.
🤝 Summer School Grants – £2,500
The CA supports a number of summer school bursary schemes enabling people who would not otherwise be able to do so to attend extra-mural courses in Greek, Latin, Classical Civilisation and Ancient History.
🏆 Outreach Grants – £750
The CA supports a wide range of outreach events to promote the public awareness of classical topics.
🎨 Schools Grants – £500
Funding one or more of the following types of event: School talks, events or interactive sessions on the classical world; Workshops and theatrical performances; Greek and Roman study days; Transport costs and/or entrance fees for groups of school students to attend one-day events off-site where this would otherwise be difficult financially (such events might include museum study days, classical exhibitions, re-enactments, trips to archaeological sites); Transport/membership costs for local CA Branches events; Reasonable travel expenses and associated costs for speakers and/or organisers; Materials for Greek and Roman study days (e.g.
🌟 Surviving Winter 25/26 – £5,000
Surviving Winter is Suffolk Community Foundation’s annual appeal to support vulnerable people through the coldest months of the year.
🎯 Cancer Community Partnership Fund
This funding has been made available by the Suffolk & NE Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB).
🚀 Human-Nature: Alternative Narratives Creative Collaboration Grants (UK-Malaysia) – £20,000
Human-Nature is a collaborative programme aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of the human relationship to nature and each other, for a more inclusive and sustainable future.
