We’ve added 66 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Alongside this week’s update, we’ve also significantly improved our free grant database. You can now explore detailed descriptions and key information for every grant listed below.
The Thomas Devlin Fund
Amount: Up to £1,750
Closing date: 5 Mar 2026
Overview: The Thomas Devlin Fund has now re-opened for 2026 for applications from gifted young people, aged 15 to 19 years, who would like to study, or pursue a career, in creative arts, performing arts or music. The fund was set up in memory of Thomas Devlin who, at the age of 15, was murdered in an unprovoked attack in 2005.
Arts and Culture Grant
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 11 Mar 2026
Overview: The Foundation offers grants to non-profit arts organisations actively engaged in the cultural sector, supporting artistic projects. We support initiatives across the UK and Europe and by invitation only for international projects.
Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: Each year Manchester Airports Group contributes £100,000 to the Fund; any fines levied at aircraft that have breached our stringent noise limits are also paid into the Fund. These funds are then used to support neighbourhood and community projects throughout the area.
LinkedIn’s Future of Work Fund
Amount: Up to £222,694
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: The Future of Work Fund is provided and administered by LinkedIn. In 2025, LinkedIn launched our Future of Work Fund to help ensure that everyone across the global workforce can access the benefits of AI.
Open Application Programme
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: The Foundation launched its open application programme in 2025 to enable more charities and community groups to access donations. The Foundation supports projects that address deprivation or disadvantage in our communities, especially among young people.
West Midlands – Renters Rights Act Campaign Fund
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: The Renters Rights Act Campaign Fund is provided and administered by the West Midlands Combined Authority’s (WMCA). The Renters Rights Act will come into effect from 1 May 2026 and will see the biggest reforms to England’s private rented sector in a generation, bringing in new rights and responsibilities for landlords, letting agents and tenants.
Empower Her Football Activity
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The aim of the ‘Empower Her Football Activity Fund’ is to diversify the women and girls involved in football by ethnicity, faith and low affluence, and to provide opportunities to experience football in different communities and settings across Greater Manchester. The Empower Her Football Activity Fund will do this, by supporting organisations to: Create Opportunities To Play: Develop new opportunities for girls and.
Neighbourhood Investment Funds
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: The Neighbourhood Investment Fund (NIF) is available to communities to make their neighbourhoods better places to live; we’re supporting local people by encouraging groups to apply. £20,000 of NIF is available to every area (ward) in Manchester each year – to help groups carry out events and initiatives that benefit local people and are environmentally sustainable.
Granada Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 25 Mar 2026
Overview: The Granada Foundation was established in 1965 (initially known as the Northern Arts and Sciences Foundation until its name change in 1972) to encourage the study, practice and appreciation of the fine arts and sciences and to promote education, with a particular interest in activity in North West England. Its funds originate from a generous donation from the settlors, Cecil G Bernstein and Sidney L Bernstein (the.
Awards For Trainee And Practising RE/HE Teachers
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 27 Mar 2026
Overview: The trust makes individual awards to increase the numbers of qualified Religious Education and Home Economics teachers, and/or improve the skills and qualifications of experienced Religious Education and Home Economics teachers and to help them stay in the profession.
Community Contribution Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 27 Mar 2026
Overview: The City of Westminster Charitable Trust is opening the Community Contribution Fund to applications from schools, voluntary and community organisations to support one of the following areas: helping young people reach their full potential, including staying safe, contributing positively to their community and developing longer term skills providing extra support for people who find themselves sleeping on.
Programme Awards
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 27 Mar 2026
Overview: We make annual awards for imaginative and impactful programmes that support those training to teach, or those currently teaching Religious Education; Home Economics (including food and nutrition education); Design and Technology (including food and textiles). Programmes should aim to help participants become better classroom teachers.
CVC DIF-Allia Accelerator Challenge
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The CVC DIF–Allia Accelerator Challenge is delivered by Allia Impact, part of Allia Ltd, in partnership with CVC DIF. What you’ll gain Structured six-month support – A focused programme that helps you build confidence in your product, proposition, and growth plan – without the fluff Expert mentoring – Bespoke support from CVC DIF team to tackle the gaps that matter most, including financial planning, fundraising.
Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The new programme has been shaped by feedback from VCFSE organisations at a workshop held in summer 2025 and reflects the Council’s wider strategic approach to improving public mental health across the life course.
Free the Fund Community Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Groundwork is working with Rowntree’s for a third year to deliver the Free the Fund Community Grant Programme – an exciting initiative that supports adult wellbeing by mobilising community action to create better places, improve prospects and bring about positive change. This year, four community projects in the UK and Ireland will receive funding of up to £10,000 to host fun, summer activities in the local.
Healthy Holidays
Amount: Up to £22,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Healthy Holidays is a partnership between Leeds Community Foundation and Leeds City Council, expected to be funded by the Department for Education. The fund will support community organisations to provide engaging and fun activities and healthy food for children eligible for free school meals and other targeted children from low-income families in the school holidays.
Peter Kershaw Memorial Bursary
Amount: Up to £65,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Peter Kershaw Memorial Bursary is an annual award made by the Trustees in memory of the Trust’s benefactor. The bursary is intended to fund the costs of a youth leader, though other forms of youth work will be considered.
Sheringham Shoal Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Sheringham Shoal Community Fund will support projects proposed by groups inspired to do something new and positive in their community. Projects should focus on one or more of the following objectives: To contribute to reducing climate change.
Single Homeless and Rough Sleeping Fund
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: New to Cornwall Community Foundation – This fund is offering grants to help local groups support single people who are homeless or at risk. We’re especially keen to fund partnerships that provide practical help, early support, and joined-up services to prevent rough sleeping.
unAwards
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The unAwards are delivered by Unlimited Theatre, a UK not-for-profit organisation and registered charity focusing on creative support and legacy for artists.
Community Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: One Community Fund aims to strengthen local communities by providing funding to help build a sustainable and confident voluntary sector in Kirkless. That’s why, thanks to our generous donors, from March 1st, 2023, community projects and registered local charities can apply for up to £3000 from out Community Grants Programme.
Individual Grant (Relief in Need)
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: We welcome applications from people who are experiencing difficult circumstances. This may be because of low income or poor health.
Transport for Greater Manchester – Small Grants Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: Transport for Greater Manchester’s new Small Grants Scheme focuses on one‑off purchases or short activities that help people walk, wheel or cycle more often. Funding is flexible and easy to access, giving groups at any stage of development the chance to support active travel in ways that work for them.
Veterans’ Foundation – Major Grants
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation, a registered charity, raises most of its funding for its grants programmes through the Veterans’ Lottery, which it launched in 2016. In its 10th anniversary year, the Foundation has launched a new Major Grants Programme to generate sector-wide learning and build strategic partnerships addressing key issues affecting the Armed Forces community.
Manchester’s Rising Stars Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: Our Manchester’s Rising Stars Fund is unique, enabling ambitious, talented 15 to 22 year old Mancunians to achieve their potential and flourish! We support young people across the city whose family or personal circumstances mean they face financial barriers that are out of their control.
Stronger Communities Fund
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: The Stronger Communities Fund is primarily aimed at community groups and grassroots charities. We aim to offer support to ambitious groups where up to £4,000 can make a real difference to their work and their communities.
Cambridge Building Society Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: Grants to support work with a direct connection to homes or housing. The Cambridge Building Society Community Fund offers grants to support local voluntary groups, community groups and organisations that are undertaking charitable work with a connection to homes or housing.
Cambridge In Need
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: We have over 50 funds offering grants to Cambridgeshire-based projects that help to improve the quality of life across the county. Currently, approximately 1 in 2 applications receive funding, but many projects do not receive the full amount that has been applied for.
Hardship and Access Grants
Amount: Up to £100
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: 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.
Lincolnshire – Q Futures Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: This is a new funding opportunity designed to support communities across Greater Lincolnshire, with a focus on projects creating employment, training and skills opportunities, helping local people to thrive now and in the future. Fund Themes & Priorities: Overcoming barriers to employment Working in partnership to create strong integrated local communities Digital inclusion.
HPC Community Fund Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 5 May 2026
Overview: Hinkley Point C (HPC) is one of the biggest developments that Somerset has ever seen. Building work started in 2017 and is expected to continue until at least 2027.
Manchester Guardian Society Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £3,500
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: The Manchester Guardian Society Charitable Trust is a grant making charity based in Manchester which makes donations to a wide variety of community based organisations in the Greater Manchester area. The Trustees are particularly interested in assisting the following:- Organisations for young people e.g.
Volunteering Wales Strategic Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: In July 2025 Welsh Government and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) launched a new, long-term, co-created New Approach to Volunteering in Wales (you can read more about the New Approach here). The Approach contains a Vision for Volunteering in Wales where: Volunteering is a ‘way of life’ in Wales.
Enovert Community Trust Programme – (England – Various Locations)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 29 May 2026
Overview: The Enovert Community Trust has announced that the next closing date for applications to its grants programme is the 24th May 2024. The Trust is committed to supporting community and environmental projects, such as improving community halls, creating new children’s play areas, restoring green spaces and habitats, and enhancing community sports and recreation facilities.
Thalia WB Community Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The Thalia WB (formerly Amey) Community Fund is part of the national Landfill Communities Fund scheme. The fund offers grants for capital projects to improve the local environment, including public buildings and amenities, habitats and architecture.
Blackridge Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 21 Jun 2026
Overview: The Blackridge Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in the Blackridge community council area. The fund is a vehicle through which several different funds are administered, including those provided by: Gresham House, the owners of Torrance Wind Farm.
Brighter Futures
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust believes that too many people are struggling at the sharp end of socio-economic problems; facing chronic poverty or simply isolated and overwhelmed by desperate circumstances. Too many young people face poverty of opportunity, disadvantaged by circumstances beyond their control with huge barriers to employment.
Ouseley Church Music Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trust’s object is to promote and maintain a high standard of choral service in the Church of England, the Church in Wales, and the Church of Ireland. This includes support for the education of pupils attending any school where the choral liturgy is sung within one of these three denominations.
Through the Gate
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust recognises that a significant proportion of the people in UK prisons will have had chaotic and complicated lives: growing up in local authority care, excluded from school, living with drug or alcohol problems or struggling with mental health issues. After serving their sentences, many face the additional consequences of living with their criminal record.
Marc Fitch Fund Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Aug 2026
Overview: The Marc Fitch Fund makes small grants towards the costs of publishing scholarly work in the fields of British and Irish national, regional and local history, archaeology, antiquarian studies, historical geography, the history of art and architecture, heraldry, genealogy and surname studies, archival research, artefact conservation and the broad fields of the heritage, conservation and the historic environment.
Cinderella Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 7 Aug 2026
Overview: Funding from Cinderella Grants is available for individuals or organisations to support the costs of respite care and support (including holidays) for children and young people under the age of 25 who are sick, convalescent, have special educational needs, or are disadvantaged. The respite care should provide a positive experience for the young person or provide a beneficial short break.
Greater Manchester Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 7 Aug 2026
Overview: Funding to prevent homelessness, reduce social isolation or support for vulnerable families & children. The priorities are: Preventing homelessness – Since there are too many people either living on the streets or in temporary accommodation, we will support activities and services that tackle homelessness.
Godolphin Edwards Fund (Organisations)
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Godolphin Edwards Fund started life as the Godolphin Edwards Relief in Need Charity, (registered number 244238), many years ago. The fund was to ‘relieve either generally or individually persons resident in the parishes of Acton Burnell, Frodesley, Pitchford and Langley & Ruckley who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by making grants of money or providing or paying for items, services or facilities.
Ford Britain Trust (Large grants)
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: 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 helps local communities Ford Britain Trust pays particular attention to projects focusing on education, the environment, children, those with disabilities, youth activities, and projects that provide clear benefits to local communities.
Ford Britain Trust (Small grants)
Amount: Up to £250
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: 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 helps local communities Ford Britain Trust pays particular attention to projects focusing on education, the environment, children, those with disabilities, youth activities, and projects that provide clear benefits to local communities.
Main Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The Foundation receives around 150 applications a year. Capital projects and revenue funding (core costs, salaries and project costs) are accepted for consideration.
Major projects
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The CA provides funding for a small number of major projects, considered to be of fundamental benefit to the discipline. Successful applications are typically for projects that look to support and encourage the study of classical subjects in schools and sixth-form colleges.
Scholarship schemes
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The David Snowdon Trust scholarship support is offered to individuals (students) who require financial assistance during higher education studies. One example includes a recipient supported through an Ulverston Scholarship while completing a veterinary degree.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The Foundation receives around 150 applications a year. Capital projects and revenue funding (core costs, salaries and project costs) are accepted for consideration.
The David Snowdon Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The David Snowdon Trust was established by a Declaration of Trust dated 5 October 1999 whose objects are such general charitable purposes as the Trustees shall think fit. The charity was founded by Cumbrian businessman David Snowdon and incorporates a charity founded by the late Neville Talbot, a Lake District hotelier.
Peter Kershaw Trust – Ordinary Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: The Peter Kershaw Trust is a small registered charity operating in the Greater Manchester and North Cheshire area. The grants are for registered charities operating in Greater Manchester to support a wide variety of purposes under the general heading of “social welfare”, such as assisting people with medical conditions, disabilities, addictions, to help the aged, youth work etc.
The Prince Philip Trust Fund grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The Prince Philip Trust Fund particularly focuses on supporting people and projects in the area covered by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead that are involved with disability, health, the elderly, families, children and young people, those in social need and the arts. On occasion, we will consider funding projects which take place outside the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, provided that a.
Teaching Conferences Grant
Amount: Up to £400
Closing date: 1 Dec 2026
Overview: Provides small bursary support to help conference organisers offer support to self-funded PhD students who are giving papers at UK classics conferences. Conferences must have a significant scholarly focus on classics and be held in the UK.
Bee Green Grant Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Gawcott Solar is a Community Interest Company that owns a community solar farm at Gawcott Fields Farm, located between the village of Gawcott and Buckingham. Surplus income from the solar farm is used to support local community organisations and fund energy and environmental projects in the area.
Bristol Youth & Community Action – Holiday Activities Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Bristol Youth & Community Action is a steering group of people made up of the current, past and future high sheriffs, representatives from the voluntary sector, the business sector and Bristol City Council. It meets regularly to make decisions on how the donations received from the High Sheriff’s appeal and other fundraising activities by the High Sheriff will be spent.
Outreach Grants
Amount: Up to £750
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The CA supports a wide range of outreach events to promote the public awareness of classical topics. Activities might include: Public talks, interactive sessions or workshops on the classical world; Regional Greek and Roman days involving local communities; Theatrical performances (where there is significant outreach component that merits funding); Other outreach initiatives aimed at young people.
Protective Security for Mosques Scheme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Places of worship will receive £28 million in funding to help keep them and their attendees safe, the Security Minister announced today (21 June 2023). The funding is part of the government’s commitment to ensure that faith communities in England and Wales are protected from the threat of hate crime and terror attacks, and can practise their faith freely and without fear.
QFUTURES Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Quickline Broadband is a provider that brings fast and reliable broadband services to rural areas. They utilize the latest broadband technology to ensure high-speed internet access even in remote locations.
Schools Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: 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,.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Forte 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. Projects must have a focus on Community Support: Community Services: information, advice and guidance services; community transport schemes; employability training; volunteering; healthy eating and living; foodbanks.
Solar PV and Battery Grant for Businesses
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Apply for a grant to help your organisation install solar panels and/or a battery system that can help your business: reduce energy bills and protect against rising energy costs cut carbon emissions and improve environmental performance increase energy independence and resilience As part of the council’s work to support the achievement of net zero emissions by 2045 for the district, we are committed to supporting.
St Austell Brewery Charitable Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Since 2003, the St Austell Brewery Charitable Trust has been proudly supporting local charities, community causes, and individuals in need across the South West – helping to make a meaningful difference, close to home. Our annual Celtic Beer Festival is the headline fundraising event, bringing people together to raise vital funds for the communities we serve.
Summer School Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: 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. We also provide bursaries for courses specifically aimed at teacher’s professional development, such as the British School at Athens School Teachers’ Course and the ARLT Summer School.
Winter Warmth Fund
Amount: Up to £350
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Hundreds of older people in Cumbria are in danger of becoming ill or even dying because of the cold. The county has very high levels of ‘excess winter deaths’ – people who die because they cannot afford to heat their homes and feed themselves properly, which can be as high as 500 older people in a bad winter.
Winter Warmth Grant
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Winter Warmth Grant supports community groups in providing winter warmth essentials to families and individuals in Doncaster, helping residents stay warm during the colder months. Examples of supported items: advice packs, draft excluders, slow cookers, warm clothing, hot water bottles, electric blankets, and blankets.
Youth Led Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Youth Led Grants is an initiative funded by the Welsh Government to support a range of volunteering projects and activities that are led and carried out by young people. Youth Led Grants give young people a platform to become decision makers, allocating funding for youth-led volunteering that takes place in communities across Wales.
