We’ve added 85 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK. View the full database for free here.
Cinderella Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Grants for respite breaks, short breaks, holidays, and group activities for young people aged under 25.
Greater Manchester Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Greater Manchester Grants Our priorities are: Preventing homelessness – Since there are many people either living on the streets or in temporary accommodation, we will support activities and services that tackle homelessness. Reducing social isolation – Since social isolation is known to have a negative impact on individual health and well-being, we will support activities and services whose primary purpose is to.
Trailblazer Fund
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: About Youth Music We believe that every young person should have the chance to change their life through music. Yet our research shows that many can’t because of who they are, where they’re from or what they’re going through.
Fund 1: Training for Volunteers
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 12 Apr 2026
Overview: We want sports clubs across Greater Manchester to be places where people feel welcome, supported and safe to take part and thrive. This fund, made possible by Sport England with investment from The National Lottery, helps clubs invest in training and workshops for volunteers, coaches, parents and athletes.
Fund 2: Creating a positive culture
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: 12 Apr 2026
Overview: We want sports clubs across Greater Manchester to be places where people feel welcome, valued, and able to belong. This fund, made possible by Sport England with investment from The National Lottery, helps clubs invest in activities that strengthen positive culture by listening to members of all ages and involving them in shaping club life.
Individual Funding
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 12 Apr 2026
Overview: We offer small grants to safeguarding professionals (such as social workers, lawyers, school outreach officers) representing a young person within the UK, in the care or legal system who is in need of some extra help.
Social Impact Funding
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 12 Apr 2026
Overview: Grants for charities working to address key societal issues affecting young people, aged 18 years old and under, aligned to one of our annual focus areas.
Quarterly Research Grant Funding Programme
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: 13 Apr 2026
Overview: Cure Parkinson’s is advancing Parkinson’s research by delivering preclinical science and clinical trials aimed at developing drugs and other treatments with the potential to slow, stop, or reverse the progression of the disease. Our mission is to achieve a cure, defined as disease-modifying therapies, rather than treatments focused solely on symptomatic relief.
Evishagaran and Craiggore Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 16 Apr 2026
Overview: The Evishagaran and Craiggore Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund was established in 2022 by the ERG Group. The fund aims to provide financial support for the development of locally beneficial community-based projects and initiatives within a 7 km radius of the Evishagaran and Craiggore wind farms, Dungiven.
Grant round: School Attainment
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: Great teaching remains the most powerful lever for improving pupil attainment and narrowing the disadvantage gap, as identified by the Education Endowment Foundation. To help address this, Impetus is launching its 2026 School Attainment Grant Round to partner with one exceptional non-profit organisation.We are seeking a high-potential UK non-profit that delivers evidence-based teacher continuing professional.
JD Foundation Charity Partnerships Grant (Expression of Interest)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: Partnerships will start in February and August 2027 for either 1, 2 or 3 years, at which point you apply for a further partnership.
Changing Futures Lived Experience Support Grant: prospectus
Amount: Up to £750,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: Grant summary This grant will fund a national lived experience provider to work with partners and the central government team to strengthen cross-area learning, and ensure lived experience plays a central role in program design, delivery, and system change both locally and nationally to improve services for people experiencing multiple disadvantage. Changing Futures is a £55.8 million cross-government programme that.
Reel Impact
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: Igniting change and creating equity for Black and Global Majority working in the film and TV industry The Charity is driving industry-wide change by committing to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the film, TV, and cinema industry, making it a fairer and more supportive environment for all. In addition to the Reel Impact Programme, the Charity is recruiting an Anti-Racism Wellbeing Advisor, funded through.
Healthy Heart Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 22 Apr 2026
Overview: Healthy Heart Grants are awarded by Heart Research UK (registered charity number 1044821) as part of its Healthy Heart initiatives. These grants support new projects that work with adults and actively promote heart health or reduce the risk of heart disease through primary or secondary prevention.
Our Cultural Heart
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 22 Apr 2026
Overview: Our Cultural Heart Fund helps local voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations bring creative projects to life. We fund initiatives that celebrate culture and heritage, promote health and wellbeing, and make Kirklees a more connected, inclusive, and vibrant place.
Safe Spaces Youth Work Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 22 Apr 2026
Overview: The Safe Spaces Youth Work Fund supports early intervention and youth work opportunities for young people at risk. We know that funding is only one of the factors that contribute to high-quality youth work opportunities for young people.
Supporting Grassroots Live Music Fund
Amount: Up to £40,000
Closing date: 26 Apr 2026
Overview: The engine room of England’s thriving music ecology, the grassroots music sector encompasses a range of organisations including rehearsal and recording studios, venues, festivals, and promoters. These are the places where musicians and music professionals develop their skills and hone their craft, test out new ideas and approaches, and prepare to engage with and develop audiences.
Haggerston Estate Community Fund – Grants for CVS organisations
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: L&Q Foundation aim to create positive, lasting change for their residents to help them live healthy and independent lives in thriving communities. The Fund is being administered by East End Community Foundation (EECF) on behalf of L&Q Foundation and the Haggerston and Kingsland Residents’ Collective.
The North East Fund for the Arts
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: Supporting communities to access high quality arts activities.
The Playschemes Fund
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: Supporting summer playschemes to address school holiday hunger.
Addressing Mental Health Inequalities in Minority Ethnic Groups
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 28 Apr 2026
Overview: Fund Background Addressing Mental Health Inequalities in Minority Ethnic Groups is a partnership between Leeds Community Foundation and Synergi Leeds. Standing on the shoulders of epistemic justice efforts over many decades, the programme seeks to fund Black-led community initiatives to work within their local community, alongside statutory services, with the ultimate aim of reducing the rate of Black men being.
A Place to Belong: Every Step of the Way – Service Delivery
Amount: Up to £200,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Comic Relief’s vision is “a just world free from poverty.” As part of this vision, we believe that everyone deserves a safe and decent place to call home. Young people experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable in society, research shows that around half of adults who experience rough sleeping were first homeless before the age of 25, highlighting the importance of early prevention of homelessness, and.
A Place to Belong: Every Step of the Way – Systemic Change
Amount: Up to £450,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Comic Relief’s vision is “a just world free from poverty.” As part of this vision, we believe that everyone deserves a safe and decent place to call home. Young people experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable in society, research shows that around half of adults who experience rough sleeping were first homeless before the age of 25 [1], highlighting the importance of early prevention of homelessness,.
Aces Main Grants Programme 2025
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Now in its fifth year, the Leathersellers’ Main Charity Grants Programme aims to help prevent and address the harm of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Four-year grants of £20,000–£25,000 per annum are available to charities and charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) throughout the UK.
Sea-Changers Innovation Fund 2026
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The William Grant Foundation is supporting Scottish based innovation projects with a generous donation of £16,500. The William Grant Foundation is a non-profit association established to support charitable causes in Scotland.
Answer Cancer: Round 8
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: Would you like to help Answer Cancer grow communities’ knowledge of cancer and increase the uptake of cancer screening across Greater Manchester? The Answer Cancer fund is offering grants of up to £4,000 to Greater Manchester based voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver projects that will: • promote the NHS national screening programmes for breast, bowel, and cervical cancer •.
CANARY WHARF GROUP COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAMME
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 May 2026
Overview: Canary Wharf Group (CWG) understands it has a responsibility to create a positive and lasting impact that goes beyond the buildings and places they create. CWG pride themselves on their ability to create long-standing and meaningful relationships with the communities based around Canary Wharf.
New Adult Social Care funding opportunities 2026-27
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 4 May 2026
Overview: During 2026-27 the Council will be offering two grant funding opportunities which align with our ambitions in Adult Social Care Early Intervention and Prevention and the Council’s new vision for a healthy, fair and sustainable Cambridgeshire. The funding streams are: Adult Social Care Seed Funding Grants for innovative community-based projects An opportunity to administer a Local Mental Health Community Fund that.
Apply Now: Foundation Round 5
Amount: Up to £55,000
Closing date: 5 May 2026
Overview: The Mayor of London, London Marathon Foundation, and Sport England have come together as funders—working in collaboration with London Marathon Events and London Sport—to create Go! London.
Isle of Dogs & Millwall Park Endowment Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 5 May 2026
Overview: East End Community Foundation (EECF) has two funding streams available: the Isle of Dogs Grants Chest and the Millwall Park Endowment Fund. Both funds provide grants to support positive community activities across their respective geographic areas of benefit.
Ideas Fund
Amount: Up to £80,000
Closing date: 7 May 2026
Overview: At Aberdeen, we believe investing is about more than numbers — it’s about ambitions, dreams, and the confidence to shape your future. From novice to expert, individual to institution, every day we work to help millions of people turn their financial goals into reality.
Individual Awards
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 7 May 2026
Overview: Individuals based in the UK who can demonstrate the barriers they face and explain how receiving an award will support their music-making are eligible to apply for the Individual Awards. The proposal must fit the description of the current award categories.
Schools and Community Groups
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 7 May 2026
Overview: Schools and community groups that are not-for-profit and based in the UK, including educational establishments, community organisations, and similar not-for-profit groups that are bringing music-making activities to their communities, are eligible to apply for schools and community group awards, provided their project fits the relevant award category description.
The Ultach Fund / An Ciste ULTACH
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 7 May 2026
Overview: The Ultach Fund was established with capital from The Iontaobhas Ultach Trust. It exists to support the work of communities across Northern Ireland who wish to use and promote the Irish language, through the work of registered charities, voluntary and community groups.
Manchester Guardian Society
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.
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.
Marine and fisheries grants
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 15 May 2026
Overview: The Marine Fund Scotland for 2026–27 is focused on supporting projects that deliver outcomes relating to Scotland’s Blue Economy Vision, which was published on 31 March 2022. These General Guidance notes provide information for individuals and organisations interested in applying to the Marine Fund Scotland 2026–27.
Community Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 17 May 2026
Overview: One Community Foundation aims to strengthen local communities by providing funding to help build a sustainable and confident voluntary sector in Kirklees. That’s why, thanks to our generous donors, from March 1st, 2023, community projects and registered local charities can apply for up to £3,000 from our Community Grants Programme.
The Rampion Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 19 May 2026
Overview: The Rampion Community Benefit Fund at Sussex Community Foundation was set up in 2017 and is worth £3.1m over a ten-year period. The Fund has now given out over £2.1m in grants to 237 projects.
Comic Relief Cwtch Communities
Amount: Up to £35,000
Closing date: 22 May 2026
Overview: Cwtch Communities: Supporting warm, safe, and caring communities Small grants for Welsh organisations, funded by Comic Relief and administered by WCVA. Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) is administering Comic Relief’s Cwtch Communities programme, which supports grassroots organisations across Wales to strengthen their work and deliver positive social change within their communities.
Seasons of Culture 2026
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 24 May 2026
Overview: Seasons of Culture provides grants for one-off projects that connect with nature, promote active travel, support nature recovery, and encourage creative work in green and blue spaces. The scheme is funded by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Council.
Community Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 6 Jun 2026
Overview: The Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund is a registered charity and was established to promote, enhance, improve and protect both the natural and built environment in our local community.
Community Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Community Trust Fund is administered by the Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), on behalf of LLAOL. BLCF currently operate a rolling application process, meaning that you can apply at any time.
Veterans’ Foundation – Standard & Salary Grants
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) has established a substantial grants programme to support charities and organisations that provide support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families. Trustees award grants based on this definition of need.
Whitbread Plc. Chairman’s Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: This fund has been created to support charities and community groups whose beneficiaries are resident in South Bedfordshire. The main objectives (summarised) for this fund are: Skills and inclusion.
Wellcome Career Development Awards
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 28 Jul 2026
Overview: The Wellcome Trust is a research charity that funds research to improve human and animal health. The Trust supports both biomedical research and research into the public understanding of science.
The Grocers’ Charity
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The Grocers’ Charity is the charitable arm of the Grocers’ Company. As a grant-awarding body, our mission is to invest in and support a broad range of small and medium-sized UK-registered charities that positively impact public benefit.
Association of Independent Museums (AIM) – Museum Fundamentals Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 25 Sep 2026
Overview: The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Museum Fundamentals Grant Programme offers grants up to £20,000 for eligible AIM members to support core museum activities focused on collections care and conservation. Funding is up to £10,000 from the Pilgrim Trust for conservation and collection care, and up to £10,000 complementary activities supported by the Julia Rausing Trust.
Outreach Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 Oct 2026
Overview: Supporting members, individuals and organisations to enable them to run chemistry-based engagement activities. We fund a broad range of projects that connect communities from all backgrounds with the chemical sciences.
Apprenticeships
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The7stars foundation is offering funding to charities, CICs, Schools, Nurseries and Children’s Homes to offer apprenticeship training for their staff, which will result in support and benefit to young people challenged by the issues we prioritise.
Climate Action Seed Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Climate Action Seed Fund has been developed to empower grassroots, community-led environmental initiatives by providing small, flexible grants that support immediate, local impact. The fund is designed to lower barriers to funding for groups and individuals driving creative, sustainable, and community-centred environmental solutions.
Get Support
Amount: Up to £60,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We are tackling some of society’s most important issues through grants to charities – both local and national – and partnerships with leading organisations in the sector. The MCF is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales.
Grants for Physical Activity Providers
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme offers funding in 2026 to support new physical activity projects that help people with Parkinson’s live well through movement. Grants of up to £3,000 are available to enable activity providers to create opportunities for those who are currently inactive to start and sustain physical activity.
Haggerston Estate Community Fund – Micro Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: L&Q Foundation aim to create positive, lasting change for their residents that help them live healthy, independent lives in thriving communities. To support this L&Q Foundation and the Haggerston and Kingsland Residents Collective have created a funding programme to support residents of the Haggerston Estate in Hackney, E8.
Manchester Active grants for children and young people’s cycling
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: For Stronger Communities in Oldham, Rochdale, and Tameside We connect people with what’s happening in their community, help develop community ideas into action, strengthen local organisations, and provide strategic influence for the charity and voluntary sector.
National Lottery Awards for All Wales
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We provide funding for projects that bring people together and improve communities across Wales. You can apply for a grant of between £300 and £20,000 for projects lasting up to 2 years.
Newcastle Culture Investment Fund
Amount: Up to £12,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting Newcastle-based organisations to engage residents in culture Our vision is a North East where everyone can be part of thriving, generous, and inclusive communities. Our mission To build a thriving, generous, and inclusive North East today and for generations to come by inspiring philanthropy, investing in communities, and influencing change.
Reeds Grassroots Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Improving life chances in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland Reeds Grassroots Fund About Reeds Grassroots Fund Reeds Grassroots Fund supports projects in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland that aim to improve mental health and tackle disadvantage and inequalities that limit life chances, especially for children and disadvantaged communities.
SWEF Enterprise Fund Business Grant
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Community Foundation NI is working in partnership with SWEF Enterprise Fund, which helps young people from Northern Ireland develop their business ideas and gain support with business investment that they would otherwise not be able to afford. SWEF exists to support those who cannot afford to invest in their own business or raise money externally.
SWEF Enterprise and Business Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: BLCF is the leading local grantmaker in Bedfordshire and Luton. We are passionate about improving the lives of people in the county through investing support in local charities and forging deep relationships with grassroots groups in our area.
Social & Community Capital Funds
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Social & Community Capital is a charity funded by Royal Bank of Scotland to help social enterprises, charities and community businesses. We provide funding and support for organisations based in our key focus areas of Midlands, North West of England and Scotland who don’t qualify for mainstream finance.
Strengthening Organisations
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: 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.
The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: About the 1989 Willan Charitable Trust The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust Fund supports registered charities, exempted and excepted organisations whose activities benefit residents of Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, and Teesside. Priority is given to organisations that ease social deprivation and/or enrich the local community and improve the quality of life of individuals within that community.
The Brian Roycroft Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Helping care leavers aged 18–25 from or living in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to achieve their aspirations About the Brian Roycroft Fund Making the transition to adult life is a difficult time for most young people, but especially for young people leaving care who may not have experienced the stability of a settled family life or the support of their own family. Care leavers often have to cope with living.
The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting capital projects within Gateshead About the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Fund The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a charge made by local authorities on new building developments in their area, for example when new housing is constructed.
The Curtin PARP Fund-Passionate About Realising Potential
Amount: Up to £7,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Curtin PARP Fund supports a number of activities including: Individuals undertaking courses which develop skills and talents Activities for groups which develop skills and talents Help to overcome barriers to employment or education Passionate about realising potential.
The Curtin PARP Fund-Passionate about realising potential in environmental and green careers
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Passionate about realising potential in environmental and green careers The Curtin PARP Fund supports individuals in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland to realise their potential in environmental and green careers.
The Henderson Family Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supporting young people in hardship in Northumberland to enhance their educational opportunities.
The Irwell Valley Foundation
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Irwell Valley Foundation supports people to live well and get on in life. The foundation has a long history of supporting people, improving places, and bringing communities together in the neighbourhoods we serve across Greater Manchester.
The Platten Family Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding for STEM activities in the North East About The Platten Family Fund The Platten Family Fund was established in 2014 with several generous donations from a Blyth-based family. The fund supports education and training projects, particularly in engineering, for the benefit of people living in the North East of England.
The Randal Foundation Small Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Randal Foundation works to deliver the vision of founders, Dr Nik and Moni Kotecha – saving and significantly improving the lives of 1 million people, across the UK and globally. We work in partnership with inspirational organisations, bringing support and essential funding to both create opportunity and foster hope for those in greatest need.
The SWEF Enterprise Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Business development grants for young people and their businesses About The SWEF Enterprise Fund Individuals aged 18-30 living in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland can apply for a grant of up to £2,000 for their business, provided the business is turning over more than £500 per month and has been trading for less than two and a half years. Businesses must be registered in the UK.
The SWEF Enterprise Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Start-up grants for young people and their emerging businesses About The SWEF Enterprise Fund Individuals aged 18-30 living in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland can apply for a grant of up to £500 for their pre-revenue business or for a business turning over less than £500 per month that has been trading for less than two years. Businesses must be registered in the UK.
The Taylor Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Educational bursaries for individuals with connections to the Parish of Newbottle, Sunderland About The Taylor Fund The Taylor Fund was established in 2005 by the Estate of Mr. Francis William Taylor.
The Ted Weekes Fund
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our vision is a North East where everyone can be part of thriving, generous, and inclusive communities. Supporting children and young people in Seaton Sluice and New Hartley To build a thriving, generous, and inclusive North East today and for generations to come by inspiring philanthropy, investing in communities, and influencing change.
