This week we have added or updated 131 new grants that are available to charities, non-profits and schools across the UK this week. To make things easier we have grouped them by Charity, Non-Profits and Schools.
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For Charities
BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The BFI National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund supports the UK’s public screen heritage sector. It funds eligible organisations which hold screen heritage collections to widen access, develop skills and build resilience.
Grant Round Funding Programme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Fundraising for charities and other worthy causes has always been a key part of life at AAB. Through AABIE, we look for applications to our quarterly grant round funding programme and we are actively committed to supporting local charities across all of our communities which range in size, type, requirement and user groups.
Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 2 Apr 2026
Overview: Grants and loans are available to a diverse range of community organisations in Bristol for the development of energy-related projects that will contribute to decarbonisation across the city. The funding programme objectives are: Reducing the use of fossil fuels.
Play for Pride
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 19 Apr 2026
Overview: Many young people from the LGBTQIA+ community continue to face barriers that limit their access to sport, ranging from a lack of inclusive policies to environments that do not feel safe or welcoming. These challenges often intersect with broader systemic inequalities, leaving organisations without the tools or confidence to support diverse identities.
Shared Endeavour Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: Groundwork London continues to administer the Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund (SEF) on behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). For Call Seven, grants of up to £100,000 are available to support initiatives that challenge racism, hate, intolerance, extremism, and radicalisation in London.
Open Grants Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Overview: The Goldsmiths’ Foundation supports organisations that focus on vocational skills and training, working at the intersection of creativity and social change. Our ambition is to support a portfolio of organisations that represent change through the development of technical and vocational skills.
Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Jun 2026
Overview: Help the Homeless is a grant-giving trust, founded in 1975, to help homeless people off the streets and enable them to live healthy, independent lives. We fund a wide variety of organisations and favour small, grassroots charities working to help the most vulnerable people in their communities.
Philip Henman Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 10 Sep 2026
Overview: The Trust was set up in 1986 with equity left by the late Philip Henman. The original aim was to continue funding causes supported by Philip Henman during his lifetime.
The Hospital Saturday Fund
Amount: Up to £13,500
Closing date: 5 Jan 2027
Overview: The Hospital Saturday Fund The Hospital Saturday Fund is a registered charity that provides assistance to registered health charities, hospices, medical organisations, and individuals with a medical condition or disability.
Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust supports socially disadvantaged groups and individuals in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Established in 1969, it was named after Anton Jurgens, one of the founders of the multinational company Unilever.
Archive Records at Risk Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Records at Risk Grant programme provides support for urgent interventions to save significant physical and digital records facing immediate peril across the UK. It aims to safeguard at-risk collections that are not protected by legislation, such as archives of businesses, charities, and private individuals.
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual practitioners, community and cultural organisations.
Aviva Community Fund (Crowdfunding)
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Building stronger, more resilient communities across the UK: that’s what we’re striving towards at Aviva, and it’s how we’ll continue to help small charities and community causes. We know the causes that make the biggest impact are those that are given the opportunity to test innovative ideas and explore new sustainable strategies without fear of risk.
Babeleigh Barton Community Benefit Fund (Parkham Council area)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: To support community organisations within the area of benefit who are providing opportunities to make a positive difference to the lives of members of the local community. Applications that fall within the following funding themes will be considered: Assist families in need Bring people together Develop life skills Enable disabled people Encourage safety and resilience Help people find and keep a home Keep people.
Better Tomorrows Fund
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Set up by David Beeby, High Sheriff of Cumbria 2021-22, the Fund aims to invest approximately £1m over the next three years into quality youth work training and provision, with the ultimate objective of substantially increasing the number of young people having access to support from youth workers. It will encourage people within Cumbria to become accredited in youth work via Cumbria Youth Alliance’s training.
Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF)
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF) supports local economies demonstrably disrupted by HS2 construction. It funds initiatives that enhance business resilience, tourism, and economic activity, including promotional campaigns, events, public realm improvements, and business support services.
CLA Charitable Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The CLA Charitable Trusts seeks to support the most disadvantaged, and especially disadvantaged young people, to access the benefits of the countryside. Our charitable objects are: Advancing people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing through financial support of charities, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, which are delivering access, recreational and educational opportunities within and.
COLLABORATE Programme – Because We Are Better Together
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The COLLABORATE programme is open to tackle a social issue at a local level. In line with the priorities of The Halifax Foundation, your charity must support people in greatest need.
Chalk Cliff Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Chalk Cliff Trust is a foundation set up to provide grants and donations to charities, action groups and benevolent organisations predominantly in the East Sussex area. We will consider any such organisations involved in the following areas of activity, Youth schemes and activities, eg youth centres, clubs, arts-focused projects.
Charles and Elsie Sykes Trust – Grant (Yorkshire)
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Charles Sykes started his career as a twelve year old office boy, and became a successful businessman in the West Riding knitting wool trade with his own four-storey mill at Princeville, Bradford. He never forgot his roots and pledged that if he ever became wealthy he would help those in distress who had not been as fortunate as himself.
Charlotte Ballard Fund (Ledbury)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Charlotte Ballard Fund is dedicated to supporting children and young people living in Ledbury . The fund provides grants for education and training as well as relief of hardship .
Children’s Alliance Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through our community work, we aim to give children and young people a better start in life through the medium of water. The heart of our work, though, is done within our communities where we will deliver activities that directly impact children’s health and wellbeing.
Climate Change Community Fund (CCCF)
Amount: Up to £7,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Launched in 2023, the Climate Change Community Fund (CCCF) is a grant available to local community groups and organisations to address climate change and its effects, through their own community-led projects. Stevenage Borough Council aims to empower these groups to take action against climate change and create community value locally.
Community Action
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund It starts with community We fund community projects that help people connect, grow and build a better future. We focus on supporting people facing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination.
Community Builders Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Builders Fund provides loans 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 Champions
Amount: Up to £6,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Each of our 30 offices across the UK makes a donation every quarter to local organisations. It’s our commitment to leaving a positive lasting legacy in the communities in which we work.
Community and Environment Fund (CEF)
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding to offset disruption caused by HS2 construction (London to West Midlands). Supports community and environmental projects enhancing quality of life for affected communities.
Core Grants
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Core Costs support essential organisational and administrative spending. These are the key expenses required to keep your organisation running.
Drax Community Fund
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: At Drax we seek to be a good neighbour and have a positive impact in the communities and regions where we operate. To achieve this, we have a designated Community team that works closely with local community leaders and grassroots civil society.
Egin Grants scheme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We want to help community groups in Wales who are starting to take action on climate change and live in a more sustainable way. Our grants will help groups who are receiving support from Egin to kick start their ideas.
Employee Nominated and Charity of the Year – The Access Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Access Foundation invites nominated charities in two categories to apply for grants: Access Group Employee Nominated charities Access Group Charity of the Year Funding supports two key areas: Supporting the most disadvantaged in society Projects that positively benefit the natural environment Grants must be for specific services, initiatives, or projects with clearly identified, measurable outcomes.
Enabling Community Budgets
Amount: Up to £7,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Enabling Community Budgets (ECBs) are intended to support activities delivered by community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations. A total of £412,500 has been allocated from New Homes Bonus (funding generated through new houses built in the district) for 2024/2025.
Esmee Fairbairn Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We fund organisations that we believe will make the greatest long-term impact and change systems for the future – work that has the potential for wider influence or spread; takes a collaborative approach; and centres lived experience, justice and equity. We focus our support on a small number of longer-term grants for organisations and work that fit our strategy.
Eveson Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Eveson Trust support people with disabilities; people needing help with mental wellbeing; children in need; older people; people experiencing homelessness; hospitals; hospices and charities undertaking medical research in our areas of remit.
Eye Wind Turbines
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding is generated on a yearly basis for projects within a 10km radius of the wind turbines at Brome Industrial Park, formerly Eye Airfield. The Grants Team can advise whether Eye Wind Turbines Section 106 would be available or applicable for your project.
Fairer Life Chances
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This funding is for projects that support children, young people and families. Or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.
Flexible Finance Fund
Amount: Up to £1,500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Flexible Finance Fund is a partnership between Social Investment Business, The Ubele Initiative and Create Equity . It will be providing £4m of funding and support to 15-25 Black and Racially Minoritised charities and social enterprises in England with a material package of funding and support to help them to grow or take on assets and become more resilient.
Foundation Scotland – Watten Wind Farm Trust (Highlands)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Watten Wind Farm Trust provides grants of up to £10,000 to support charitable activities in the Watten community in Highland, Scotland. The trust was formed in partnership between Watten Community Council and Foundation Scotland to efficiently manage funds from different donors.
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.
George’s Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: George’s Fund is a charitable fund that supports projects for children between the ages of 3 and 11 in Herefordshire. The fund was created in memory of Laura Hughes’ son, George, who tragically passed away from a brain tumor at the age of five.
Grants for Projects/Groups
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Fletchers Foundation is a charitable foundation launched by Fletchers Group, a trading name of Fletchers Solicitors. The Foundation was born in 2022, out of Fletchers Group’s aim to be a responsible business.
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.
Grants to Charities
Amount: Up to £60,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The MCF is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales. Our Charity Grants programme is open to registered charities in England and Wales working with any of our four main priority groups: Early Years Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) Domestic Abuse Dementia.
Grassroots Football – Pavilion & Clubhouse Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Pavilion & Clubhouse Grants support minor and major building works that enhance facilities, improve health and safety, reduce operating costs, increase income streams, and help maintain or increase participation in football. This includes the refurbishment, modernization, or creation of new or replacement changing rooms, toilets, and clubhouses.
Green Oak Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Green Oak Fund aims to benefit organizations and activities in Herefordshire as determined by its donors. The fund has a particular focus on projects that benefit the environment or promote arts and heritage.
Historic Houses Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Historic Houses Foundation gives grants for the repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including their gardens, grounds and outbuildings. We also give grants for the restoration and conservation of works of art in historic house collections open to the public.
Impact Loans
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We have a range of loan products within Impact Loans England that support charities and social enterprises that are registered and delivering social impact in England. We are also able to make a small number of loans in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Iron Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Iron Fund has been established to provide grants to alleviate the needs of people in Herefordshire. It favours projects that encourage community cohesion, alleviate issues of isolation, and reduce disadvantage.
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. These funding guidelines relate to our strategy for 2025 to 2030.
Lairg Wind Farm Community Fund (Highland)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This fund supports charitable activities of benefit to those living within the Lairg Community Council area. The fund is provided by Lairg Wind Farm Ltd, the operator of the three-turbine wind farm at Cnoc Na Inghinnin.
Large Grants
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through our Large Grants, as with all our funding, we want to support work that seeks to prevent or reduce poverty and trauma for people and places in Scotland. We know that often where people experience poverty, they may also experience related types of trauma.
Lead the Change
Amount: Up to £123,353
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We help people and organisations to make a difference to the communities and places they love. Together, we are investing over £170 million each year into people, community groups, and grassroots charities.
Leek Building Society Charitable Foundation
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The objective of the grant programme is to have a positive impact on the lives of disadvantaged or vulnerable people in local communities around Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire where branches of Leek Building Society operate. Grants are available for projects that: Prevent or relieve poverty.
Morrisons Foundation (England, Scotland and Wales)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Morrisons Foundation provides funding to support projects that: tackle poverty and social deprivation enhance community spaces, facilities and services improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.
National Lottery Community Fund – The UK Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The UK Fund offers larger amounts of funding for existing projects. We’ll fund projects that help bring diverse communities together.
North Sheffield – Healthy Holidays (HAF)
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: SOAR manage the Healthy Activities and Food ( Healthy Holidays ) programme for two localities across the north of Sheffield. The citywide programme provides free, fun activities and food for families eligible for means-tested free school meals, over the holidays.
Patna Community Fund (East Ayrshire)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Patna Community Fund distributed funds provided by Greencoat from the South Kyle Wind Farm. Main grants from the fund can support projects located within or directly benefiting people in the Patna Community Council area.
People and Places
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund has announced changes to its main funding initiative following extensive consultation with communities. Following the launch of new strategy – It Starts with Community, the Fund has refreshed its funding offer to support communities in Wales.
Refugees and asylum seekers
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We focus on opportunities that raise aspirations and add to the positive narrative about refugees’ contributions to society. This means we fund work that’s closely aligned with our criteria of doing things differently, enabling innovation and the potential for wider application.
Refurbishment Fund – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Refurbishment Fund helps support groups most severely affected by Covid-19 continue to deliver their services as safely and efficiently as possible. Since the onset of the pandemic, John Lyon’s Charity has worked hard to respond to the crisis as quickly as possible to ensure all groups could continue delivering their vital services.
Scoping Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding is available for European institutions to commission an independent consultant to survey all or part of a collection that needs to be evaluated for its content, condition, size, relevance, provenance and its significance to the holding institution. We welcome applications from a variety of organisations including museums, universities, public, private, and institutional libraries and archives, heritage.
Small Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Requests for funding must fit within one of the following areas of EKCT’s remit to: Support beneficiaries located in Sussex, within one of EKCT’s focus areas as follows: Care of the elderly Disability General welfare Hospices Youth Wildlife & environmental conservation Deliver international or UK based wildlife & environmental conservation projects. Deliver international reproductive health family planning projects.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Priority will be given to organisations that support those that are most disadvantaged. This could be because you are based in an area of disadvantage or because you work with a community disadvantaged for some other reason.
South West Water – Our Water Saving Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Community projects, big and small, can make an extraordinary difference to the amount of water saved each year. Every year, we put aside £75,000 to help fund not-for-profit organisations and community groups with projects that benefit the community and help to save water.
Southwark Charities – Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Southwark Charities manages almshouses on behalf of Southwark (Christchurch & St Mary’s) Charities, offering older people the opportunity to lead independent lives in a safe, secure and supported environment. Southwark Charities makes grants to a diverse range of local community groups and Charities who are working with Southwark’s older people.
Sports Foundation for the Disabled Organisation Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting clubs, organisations and charities: We provide funding for organisations who support people with disabilities. Funding individuals with physical disabilities and visual impairments: We provide funding for people at all levels in sport from grassroots sports through to elite athletes Covering the whole of South West England and Wales: Our funding is entirely focused on those individuals and groups that.
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.
Supporting Great Ideas (Wales)
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through Supporting Great Ideas, we can make grants to organisations that support innovative and strategically important project ideas that encourage positive social change in Wales. We are here to help and want to talk to you about your ideas to support innovative and strategically important project ideas that encourage positive social change in Wales.
Teme Valley Youth Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of the funding is to support projects which will inspire young people (age 11 to 25) to volunteer, play an active role in their local communities, develop new skills and advance their education. Grants are available for adiverse range of projects involving young people in North Herefordshire and South Shropshire, including the market towns of Kington and Leominster.
The Albert Hunt Trust
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Albert Hunt Trust provides core funding to small and medium-sized UK registered charities that deliver meaningful support in priority areas. We focus on making a tangible difference to organisations, their projects, and the people they serve.
The John James Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The John James Charitable Trust was founded over 30 years ago by a Christian businessman from Leeds. His guiding principles were the command in 1 John that Christians are to love one another, and the statement in the letter of James, that faith without works is dead.
The Percy Bilton Charity – Grant for Organisations
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Percy Bilton Charity is a grant-making trust that provides assistance to organizations and individuals in need across the UK. Charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items).
Thorne Farm Wind Turbine Community Benefit Fund (Pancrasweek, Pyworthy and Holsworthy Hamlets area)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: To support community organisations within the area of benefit who are providing opportunities to make a positive difference to the lives of members of the local community. Applications that fall within the following funding themes will be considered: Assist families in need Bring people together Develop life skills Enable disabled people Encourage safety and resilience Help people find and keep a home Keep people.
True Colours Trust UK Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with: disabled children and young people; children and young people with life-limiting conditions; and their families.
Venturesome Impact Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: At CAF we have been social investment pioneers since 2002. We believe all purpose-driven organisations should be able to access affordable, flexible finance to grow their social impact and become more resilient.
Villages Windfarm Community Fund (Holton, Sotherton and Westhall)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Villages Community Fund aims to support projects which will benefit the residents of the parishes of Holton, Sotherton and Westhall. The purpose of the Villages Community Fund is to support any type of activity that involves local people through small community organisations that benefit their community.
Womble Bond Dickinson Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The charitable objects of the Womble Bond Dickinson Foundation are broad, enabling its trustees to identify particular areas of priority to support, and to adapt to changing need over time. The current areas of focus of the Womble Bond Dickinson Foundation are: To unlock potential and make a positive difference, particularly in the communities in which the partners and employees of Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP.
Wooden Spoon Society Grant (UK)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Projects must fall within Wooden Spoon’s Vision Statement: “Through the power of rugby, every child and young person has access to the best life opportunities, no matter what their background”. The project must enhance and support the lives of children and young people with a cognitive age under 25 that are disadvantaged physically, mentally, or socially.
Worshipful Company of World Traders – Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Objectives of the Trust: To promote World Trade in all its aspects. The relief of poor persons engaged in, or affected by, world trade and their dependants.
Young Start
Amount: Up to £100,000
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.
npower Business Solutions Foundation
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants are available for not-for-profit and educational institutions within 50 miles of nBS’ offices in Solihull and Leeds to support projects that have a positive impact on local communities, improve places and spaces, and provide opportunities for individuals to reach their potential. The funding aims to: Improve the environment.
For Non-profits
Shared Endeavour Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: Groundwork London continues to administer the Mayor of London’s Shared Endeavour Fund (SEF) on behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). For Call Seven, grants of up to £100,000 are available to support initiatives that challenge racism, hate, intolerance, extremism, and radicalisation in London.
A Place for Sport – Crowdfunder
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: A Place For Sport offers clubs a great opportunity to engage with their community and raise money. If clubs or community organisations can raise money towards a targeted goal, Sport Wales will pledge funds up to 50% towards the given project.
Archive Records at Risk Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Records at Risk Grant programme provides support for urgent interventions to save significant physical and digital records facing immediate peril across the UK. It aims to safeguard at-risk collections that are not protected by legislation, such as archives of businesses, charities, and private individuals.
Babeleigh Barton Community Benefit Fund (Parkham Council area)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: To support community organisations within the area of benefit who are providing opportunities to make a positive difference to the lives of members of the local community. Applications that fall within the following funding themes will be considered: Assist families in need Bring people together Develop life skills Enable disabled people Encourage safety and resilience Help people find and keep a home Keep people.
Better Tomorrows Fund
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Set up by David Beeby, High Sheriff of Cumbria 2021-22, the Fund aims to invest approximately £1m over the next three years into quality youth work training and provision, with the ultimate objective of substantially increasing the number of young people having access to support from youth workers. It will encourage people within Cumbria to become accredited in youth work via Cumbria Youth Alliance’s training.
Community Action
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund It starts with community We fund community projects that help people connect, grow and build a better future. We focus on supporting people facing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination.
Core Grants
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Core Costs support essential organisational and administrative spending. These are the key expenses required to keep your organisation running.
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Animal Welfare Fund aims to effectively improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, by making grants that focus on one or more of the following: Relatively neglected geographic regions or groups of animals Promising research into animal advocacy or animal well-being Activities that could make it easier to help animals in the future Otherwise best-in-class opportunities The Fund focuses on projects that primarily.
Egin Grants scheme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We want to help community groups in Wales who are starting to take action on climate change and live in a more sustainable way. Our grants will help groups who are receiving support from Egin to kick start their ideas.
Employee Nominated and Charity of the Year – The Access Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Access Foundation invites nominated charities in two categories to apply for grants: Access Group Employee Nominated charities Access Group Charity of the Year Funding supports two key areas: Supporting the most disadvantaged in society Projects that positively benefit the natural environment Grants must be for specific services, initiatives, or projects with clearly identified, measurable outcomes.
Fairer Life Chances
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This funding is for projects that support children, young people and families. Or that help people to be healthier and have better access to support.
Foundation Scotland – Watten Wind Farm Trust (Highlands)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Watten Wind Farm Trust provides grants of up to £10,000 to support charitable activities in the Watten community in Highland, Scotland. The trust was formed in partnership between Watten Community Council and Foundation Scotland to efficiently manage funds from different donors.
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.
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.
Grassroots Football – Pavilion & Clubhouse Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Pavilion & Clubhouse Grants support minor and major building works that enhance facilities, improve health and safety, reduce operating costs, increase income streams, and help maintain or increase participation in football. This includes the refurbishment, modernization, or creation of new or replacement changing rooms, toilets, and clubhouses.
Internet Freedom Fund
Amount: Up to £900,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Internet Freedom Fund is the primary opportunity through which Open Technology Fund supports innovative global internet freedom projects. These projects are focused on technology development and implementation, but can also include applied research, convenings, and digital security projects.
Lead the Change
Amount: Up to £123,353
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We help people and organisations to make a difference to the communities and places they love. Together, we are investing over £170 million each year into people, community groups, and grassroots charities.
Migration Fund
Amount: Up to £240,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We envision a world in which everyone is free to move, and no one is forced to move. For us, this means a world where: respect, care and interdependence underpin our relationships with one another differences of opinion and perspectives provide opportunity for reflection and growth, and shared learning allows us to both shape our future actions and to stop us from deepening and consolidating harm.
National Lottery Community Fund – The UK Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The UK Fund offers larger amounts of funding for existing projects. We’ll fund projects that help bring diverse communities together.
People and Places
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund has announced changes to its main funding initiative following extensive consultation with communities. Following the launch of new strategy – It Starts with Community, the Fund has refreshed its funding offer to support communities in Wales.
Project Grants
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Project Costs support the aims and delivery of a specific piece of work. This work will usually be time-limited, and based on a defined set of activities.
Refugees and asylum seekers
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We focus on opportunities that raise aspirations and add to the positive narrative about refugees’ contributions to society. This means we fund work that’s closely aligned with our criteria of doing things differently, enabling innovation and the potential for wider application.
Regional Grants
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our grant making will deliver longer-term and larger scale investments around three key themes. These themes draw on the success of past and current strategic partnerships that have demonstrated proven results.
Scoping Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding is available for European institutions to commission an independent consultant to survey all or part of a collection that needs to be evaluated for its content, condition, size, relevance, provenance and its significance to the holding institution. We welcome applications from a variety of organisations including museums, universities, public, private, and institutional libraries and archives, heritage.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Priority will be given to organisations that support those that are most disadvantaged. This could be because you are based in an area of disadvantage or because you work with a community disadvantaged for some other reason.
South West Water – Our Water Saving Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Community projects, big and small, can make an extraordinary difference to the amount of water saved each year. Every year, we put aside £75,000 to help fund not-for-profit organisations and community groups with projects that benefit the community and help to save water.
Sports Foundation for the Disabled Organisation Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting clubs, organisations and charities: We provide funding for organisations who support people with disabilities. Funding individuals with physical disabilities and visual impairments: We provide funding for people at all levels in sport from grassroots sports through to elite athletes Covering the whole of South West England and Wales: Our funding is entirely focused on those individuals and groups that.
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.
Thorne Farm Wind Turbine Community Benefit Fund (Pancrasweek, Pyworthy and Holsworthy Hamlets area)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: To support community organisations within the area of benefit who are providing opportunities to make a positive difference to the lives of members of the local community. Applications that fall within the following funding themes will be considered: Assist families in need Bring people together Develop life skills Enable disabled people Encourage safety and resilience Help people find and keep a home Keep people.
npower Business Solutions Foundation
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants are available for not-for-profit and educational institutions within 50 miles of nBS’ offices in Solihull and Leeds to support projects that have a positive impact on local communities, improve places and spaces, and provide opportunities for individuals to reach their potential. The funding aims to: Improve the environment.
For Schools
Bristol City Leap Community Energy Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 2 Apr 2026
Overview: Grants and loans are available to a diverse range of community organisations in Bristol for the development of energy-related projects that will contribute to decarbonisation across the city. The funding programme objectives are: Reducing the use of fossil fuels.
Amicable Society’s School – Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: At the Amicable Society, we aim to provide financial support to schools in the London parish of Rotherhithe.
Children’s Alliance Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through our community work, we aim to give children and young people a better start in life through the medium of water. The heart of our work, though, is done within our communities where we will deliver activities that directly impact children’s health and wellbeing.
Climate Change Community Fund (CCCF)
Amount: Up to £7,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Launched in 2023, the Climate Change Community Fund (CCCF) is a grant available to local community groups and organisations to address climate change and its effects, through their own community-led projects. Stevenage Borough Council aims to empower these groups to take action against climate change and create community value locally.
Community Action
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund It starts with community We fund community projects that help people connect, grow and build a better future. We focus on supporting people facing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination.
Community and Environment Fund (CEF)
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding to offset disruption caused by HS2 construction (London to West Midlands). Supports community and environmental projects enhancing quality of life for affected communities.
Dorset Community Tree Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Dorset Community Tree Fund is co-ordinated by the Dorset National Landscape Team and supports community projects related to trees and tree planting throughout the Dorset Council area. Trees are important in many ways: they support wildlife, slow water, sequester and store carbon, filter and cool air, and contribute to our collective culture and memories, health and wellbeing.
Egin Grants scheme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We want to help community groups in Wales who are starting to take action on climate change and live in a more sustainable way. Our grants will help groups who are receiving support from Egin to kick start their ideas.
Enabling Community Budgets
Amount: Up to £7,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Enabling Community Budgets (ECBs) are intended to support activities delivered by community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations. A total of £412,500 has been allocated from New Homes Bonus (funding generated through new houses built in the district) for 2024/2025.
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.
Funding for Schools Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: LoveReading exists because reading matters, and books change lives. It’s well-documented that reading for pleasure, and improving reading standards, has a huge impact on children’s wellbeing, academic achievements, and future success.
Grants for Projects/Groups
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Fletchers Foundation is a charitable foundation launched by Fletchers Group, a trading name of Fletchers Solicitors. The Foundation was born in 2022, out of Fletchers Group’s aim to be a responsible business.
Green Oak Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Green Oak Fund aims to benefit organizations and activities in Herefordshire as determined by its donors. The fund has a particular focus on projects that benefit the environment or promote arts and heritage.
Lead the Change
Amount: Up to £123,353
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We help people and organisations to make a difference to the communities and places they love. Together, we are investing over £170 million each year into people, community groups, and grassroots charities.
Neighbourhood Investment Funds
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
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.
North Sheffield – Healthy Holidays (HAF)
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: SOAR manage the Healthy Activities and Food ( Healthy Holidays ) programme for two localities across the north of Sheffield. The citywide programme provides free, fun activities and food for families eligible for means-tested free school meals, over the holidays.
People and Places
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The National Lottery Community Fund has announced changes to its main funding initiative following extensive consultation with communities. Following the launch of new strategy – It Starts with Community, the Fund has refreshed its funding offer to support communities in Wales.
Screen Education Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding to increase abilities in and access to screen education across Scotland. The Screen Education Fund exists to support pilot projects with innovation at their core alongside programmes of work which aim to develop increased understanding of the potential of screen education, and support the provision of screen education and the new curriculum in a variety of formal, informal and non-formal settings.
South West Water – Our Water Saving Community Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Community projects, big and small, can make an extraordinary difference to the amount of water saved each year. Every year, we put aside £75,000 to help fund not-for-profit organisations and community groups with projects that benefit the community and help to save water.
Teme Valley Youth Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of the funding is to support projects which will inspire young people (age 11 to 25) to volunteer, play an active role in their local communities, develop new skills and advance their education. Grants are available for adiverse range of projects involving young people in North Herefordshire and South Shropshire, including the market towns of Kington and Leominster.
True Colours Trust UK Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with: disabled children and young people; children and young people with life-limiting conditions; and their families.
Wooden Spoon Society Grant (UK)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Projects must fall within Wooden Spoon’s Vision Statement: “Through the power of rugby, every child and young person has access to the best life opportunities, no matter what their background”. The project must enhance and support the lives of children and young people with a cognitive age under 25 that are disadvantaged physically, mentally, or socially.
npower Business Solutions Foundation
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants are available for not-for-profit and educational institutions within 50 miles of nBS’ offices in Solihull and Leeds to support projects that have a positive impact on local communities, improve places and spaces, and provide opportunities for individuals to reach their potential. The funding aims to: Improve the environment.
