We’ve added 96 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Natural Environment Improvement Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: The Natural Environment Improvement Fund (NEIF) is a grant scheme funded by Sizewell C, and delivered by the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape (SECHNL). The NEIF will provide nearly £10 million to be invested in the SECHNL and the Suffolk Heritage Coast within East Suffolk, and beyond.
QFUTURES Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: Quickline Broadband is a provider that brings fast and reliable broadband services to rural areas. They utilise the latest broadband technology to ensure high-speed internet access even in remote locations.
Montagu Neville Durnford and Saint Leo Cawthan Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: Forever Friends, based in Portsmouth. This charity supports isolated older people; 20% of its participants are retired from the Navy.
Oake Sunshine Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: The Oake Sunshine Fund has been set up as a result of the New Rendy Solar Farm development and will provide grants that benefit residents of the parish of Oake, including the hamlets of Heathfield, Hillcommon, Hillfarrance and Oake.
Portsmouth City Community Funds
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: Portsmouth City Community Fund The aim of this grant programme is to fund community projects within Portsmouth that work to tackle poverty and increase health and wellbeing. The priority of this fund is for projects supporting Portsmouth City residents.
Edward Harvist Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: The Edward Harvist Trust Fund grant is available to not for profit organisations registered on Companies House or the Charity Commission to bid for a grant of up to £5,000 to fund community led projects that draws and builds on the knowledge, skills and ability of local people and services to improve the quality of life for Brent residents. Funding is available for equipment or one-off activities, which contribute.
Small Sparks Plus Round 3
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: The Small Sparks Plus Grants Scheme aims to help charities, community organisations and community interest companies who work with local communities to improve their health and wellbeing. The organisations that are funded will currently be working at a local level to improve health or wellbeing in Newcastle.
Volunteer Celebration Fund 2026 – Action Together
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 21 Apr 2026
Overview: Aims/priorities: Volunteers’ Week (1–7 June 2026) is a time to say thank you for the fantastic contribution volunteers make. During another difficult year, people from all walks of life have taken the time to volunteer and made a huge difference to people and their communities.
Comic Relief and Sainsbury’s Holiday Activity and Food Programme
Amount: Up to £1,500,000
Closing date: 23 Apr 2026
Overview: The programme aims to tackle food poverty by helping people access the balanced, nutritional, and sustainable food they need, right now and in the future. The aim of the Fund is to provide school children (up to Year 11) with improved access to summer holiday activity and food schemes.
Final round – Southwark Council Grant for Southwark Voluntary Groups to Design and Deliver Training
Amount: Up to £14,000
Closing date: 23 Apr 2026
Overview: This pilot project aims to support the voluntary and community sector (VCS) to deliver training on local needs to council officers and council community researchers over the next two years. Training workshops will help to: build relationships develop skills share experiences Themes: LGBTQ+ Disability.
Southwark community energy fund
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: 24 Apr 2026
Overview: Overview This fund provides grants to local schools, faith groups and community groups for green energy projects. These projects must help reduce carbon emissions or save energy.
Inclusion and Diversity Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: Our Inclusion and Diversity Fund provides financial support for innovative products, activities and research projects that do just that. Previous recipients of our funding have included projects related to gender, disability, socio-economic background, language, race and ethnicity, the LGBT+ community and more.
SWEF Enterprise Fund Start-Up Grant
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: SWEF Enterprise Fund supports young people aged 18-30 from low-income households or facing financial challenges in Northern Ireland to develop their businesses. It provides start-up grants up to £500 for pre-revenue or low-turnover (<£500/month) businesses, with the possibility to reapply after 6 months for up to £1,500 more if the business has progressed.
Suicide Prevention Large Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: Leeds City Council Public Mental Health and Leeds Community Foundation are working in partnership to fund local third sector community initiatives aimed at people at risk of suicide. Suicide prevention is a key public mental health priority in Leeds within specific communities and groups, as highlighted in the Leeds Suicide Audit and the Leeds Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
Suicide Prevention Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 27 Apr 2026
Overview: Leeds City Council Public Mental Health and Leeds Community Foundation are working in partnership to fund local third sector community initiatives aimed at people at risk of suicide. Suicide prevention is a key public mental health priority in Leeds within specific communities and groups, as highlighted in the Leeds Suicide Audit and the Leeds Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
Local Community Spaces Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 28 Apr 2026
Overview: Local Community Spaces funding supports community groups across the UK that provide a safe space for people to meet and spend time together. Accessible community spaces can be a lifeline for local people, but many require funding to repair, renovate and develop so they can continue delivering vital activities and services.
Lead the Change – Forever Manchester – Expression of Interest
Amount: Up to £123,300
Closing date: 29 Apr 2026
Overview: Lead the Change is a new, three-year initiative launched by BBC Children in Need, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Smith Foundation, Joseph Levy Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Postcode Justice Trust, UK Community Foundations and The National Lottery Community Fund. The programme supports young people to play a leading role in strengthening relationships, fostering.
Sedel-Collings Support the Supporters
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 29 Apr 2026
Overview: The funder: The Sedel-Collings Foundation was set up in 2006 by Rae Sedel and John Collings with a mission to empower and sustain vital community services. Their legacy is now continued by four trustees who use their expertise to oversee careful management of the fund in line with the couple’s wishes and experiences.
Funding to Enhance STEM Teaching (UK)
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: We are celebrating curiosity in the classroom this March, helping to inspire the next generation of scientists to never stop asking questions!
Hollowford Trust
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: This fund aims to assist young people aged between 10 and 25 years who live in or near the Diocese of Sheffield, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capabilities, so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and so that their conditions of life may be improved. The Hollowford Trust invites applications for awards up to £2,500 for exciting, larger-scale youth projects,.
National Grid Electricity Transmission’s Community Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Community Grant Programme is run by the National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) business. We own and maintain the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales.
Partnership Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Royal Society’s Partnership Grants scheme funds schools and colleges up to £3,000 to support the development of students’ practical STEM skills and careers experience. This is achieved by developing and delivering a long-term investigative STEM project in the classroom.Each project must involve at least two partners: a member of staff from a UK school or college (the school partner), and a STEM professional from.
Schroder Charity Trust
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: The Schroder Charity Trust has a proud history of supporting the UK charity sector for over 70 years. Originally established as ‘The Bruno Schroder Charity Trust’ in 1946, the name was later changed to the ‘Schroder Charity Trust’ in 1953.
Q Futures Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: This fund supports projects creating employment, training, and skills opportunities to help local people thrive. Priority is given to projects in disadvantaged rural communities.
Youth Empowerment Scheme
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: The Community Foundation for Merseyside and the Community Foundation for Lancashire merged in 2014. They operate as part of a national network of 47 Community Foundations, providing a strategic and robust grant-making service that aims to achieve maximum impact in local communities.
Foundation Fund
Amount: Up to £55,000
Closing date: 5 May 2026
Overview: The Foundation Fund provides grants to community and grassroots organisations delivering sport and physical activity provision for underserved children and young people aged 4 to 24. The fund aims to increase activity levels among those at greater risk of poverty, social exclusion, or discrimination.
Nourishing Norfolk Food Supply
Amount: Up to £300,000
Closing date: 5 May 2026
Overview: Nourishing Norfolk is entering an important new phase for community-led food supply in the county. We are inviting expressions of interest from organisations with the vision to lead and develop the food sourcing, warehouse, and distribution function as a charitable enterprise.
The UK Youth Fund
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 6 May 2026
Overview: UK Youth and Pears Foundation have launched a new £10 million fund to champion an approach that works: providing multi-year, unrestricted funding alongside targeted capacity-building support to small youth organisations. The aim of the Fund is to strengthen the financial resilience and capacity of small youth and outdoor learning organisations across the UK through two key outcomes: Outcome 1: Improved Financial.
Community Action Fund
Amount: Up to £60,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: Provides core funding to not-for-profit organizations tackling local community challenges such as food poverty, social isolation, and financial hardship.
The Screwfix Foundation
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 May 2026
Overview: The Screwfix Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2013 in the UK and launched in the Republic of Ireland in 2025. We are passionate about making a difference to communities for the benefit of people in need.
Ukrainian Refugee Integration Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 10 May 2026
Overview: The voluntary and community sector has adapted to deliver essential services, including peer support groups, employment assistance, and visa advice. This funding is vital to enable these organisations to sustain their operations and meet ongoing overhead costs.
Angels’ Den
Amount: Up to £130,000
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Overview: The Clare Foundation is a charity that brings together key stakeholders, partners, businesses and charitable organisations to facilitate and create positive change across society in Buckinghamshire.
UK Shared Prosperity GRASSroots Grants Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 12 May 2026
Overview: The final round of this Grant provides a fantastic opportunity for organisations in East Lindsey and South Holland to deliver projects that bring people together whether by improving built infrastructure, delivering opportunities for people to take part in new activities, get involved in volunteering, support digital connectivity or long term sustainability & resilience of community organisations across these.
Funding Futures Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The effects of the cost-of-living crisis are hitting marginalised and minoritised communities the hardest, with many people struggling to get by – considered too high risk to have access to beneficial financial services, like bank accounts or credit, that others take for granted.
Be Active Wales Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 4 Jun 2026
Overview: Up to £50,000 of National Lottery funding is available for equipment and coaching courses for not-for-profit sports clubs or community groups in Wales.
Community Action Microgrants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 4 Jun 2026
Overview: The Community Action Microgrants, in memory of Louie Ward Herbert, aim to continue his passion and legacy in community building and organising. Grants will support citizen-led projects and community development activity aimed at promoting equality, inclusion, and community cohesion.
Cinderella Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 5 Jun 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: 5 Jun 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.
Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 29 Jun 2026
Overview: The Angus Irvine Playing Fields Fund (AIPFF) exists to increase opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas to play sport and enjoy its many benefits. Applications can be made for grants towards some or all the following types of projects with the intention of growing capacity to reach more young people: The development and improvement of playing fields and other facilities The development and training of.
Grant Round Funding Programme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 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.
Veterans’ Foundation – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) established a Small Grants funding programme in 2024. The grants are to support charities and groups that provide assistance to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.
Apply for a grant
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 1 Jul 2026
Overview: Funds are focused on charities and good causes in Scotland. This Trust awards funds to organisations in Scotland that meet one of four funding themes.
CCL Secure Fund (Allerdale and Copeland)
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 3 Jul 2026
Overview: Grants for small voluntary and community groups and organisations providing activities that benefit people and communities in the former districts of Allerdale and Copeland. Priority will be given to projects that: improve the lives of disadvantaged children and families improve life skills, education, employability and enterprise for disadvantaged people support vulnerable older people improve the health and.
Organisation Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 Jul 2026
Overview: We welcome applications from local charitable, voluntary and community organisations working to help and support people living within our area of benefit. For 2026 to 2028 the trustees’ particular areas of interest include: working with local community initiatives especially through local community and resource centres; community transport; musical activities, especially community and child-focused work; performance.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Large Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Standard grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
The Homity Trust – Grant
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 22 Jul 2026
Overview: The Homity Trustees have no fixed agenda on awarding grants, just a commitment to provide financial support where a need is identified. We will only donate funds after careful consideration and due diligence by our Grants Committee, to formally registered community groups where a small amount will make a big difference.
Young and Talented – Creative Writing Awards
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: Launched in 2005 as The Lord Lieutenant’s Fund for Youth by Lady Mary Holborow and Michael Galsworthy, the fund supports exceptional young talent in Cornwall. Now called Young and Talented Cornwall, it is led by Colonel Edward Bolitho KCVO OBE, the current Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
Trailblazer Fund
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 28 Aug 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.
Cancer Community Partnership Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: This fund is supported by the Suffolk & North East Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB) and aims to increase early-stage cancer diagnosis and enhance the wellbeing of individuals across the region. The NHS Long Term Plan aims to save thousands more lives each year by dramatically improving how cancer is diagnosed and treated – its ambition is that by 2028, an extra 55,000 people each year will survive for five.
General Programme – Main Grants (General Grants ≥ £9,000)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund is a registered charity which was established primarily to aid the research into learning disability and to aid the care and relief of those affected by learning disability by making grants to voluntary organisations working in this field. Learning Disabilities Learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities), with or without autism are our priorities for funding.
Sustainable Communities Food Fund (formerly Food Security Fund)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: Babergh District Council and Mid Suffolk supports community food projects with capital funding through the Food Security Fund, enabling and encouraging residents to access healthy food, leading to improved physical and mental wellbeing for all in the area. The aims of the programme are to: Create or support sustainable, community-led initiatives.
Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 3 Sep 2026
Overview: Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company (ANCBC) is funded by the ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund for Harestanes Windfarm in Dumfries and Galloway. The fund primarily supports community projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of 42 community council areas in Annandale and Nithsdale as detailed below.
Colwinston Charitable Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: AIMS: What does the Trust seek to achieve? Through its grant making, the Trust seeks to sustain and support high quality artistic activities that add to the cultural life and experiences available in the UK and especially in Wales where over 80% of its grants are directed.
Customer Donation Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: This scheme aim to encourages community groups to continue the valuable work they do in their local communities. While Co-operative Bank will support a variety of projects throughout the UK, funding will only be given to projects that reflect The Co-operative Bank’s Ethical Policy and where The Co-operative Bank’s contribution will make a significant impact to the planet, to people and to our communities.
Daiwa Foundation Small Grants
Amount: Up to £9,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective. New initiatives are especially encouraged.
Geraint Thomas Cycling – Grant for Group
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: The Geraint Thomas Cycling Trust exists to make cycling accessible to young people from under-represented groups, or from less privileged circumstances (financial, geographical or otherwise). We will offer support so that these young people can have the opportunity to enjoy the spirit of cycling to participate and enjoy the many benefits that cycling can bring and to ride at the highest level of which they are.
Geraint Thomas Cycling – Grant for Individual
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: The Geraint Thomas Cycling Trust exists to make cycling accessible to young people from under-represented groups, or from less privileged circumstances (financial, geographical or otherwise). We will offer support so that these young people can have the opportunity to enjoy the spirit of cycling to participate and enjoy the many benefits that cycling can bring and to ride at the highest level of which they are.
Main Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: As set out in the Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life strategy, we are ensuring that families across the country can access affordable, high-quality early education and childcare, along with family support services that help them thrive. This strategy underpins our Plan for Change commitment to ensure a record number of children start school ready to learn, laying strong foundations for lifelong achievement.
Small Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
Bicker Wind Farm Trust
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The Object of the Trust is to promote renewable and efficient energy and not-for-profit projects that conserve or improve the environment within a ten mile radius of Bicker Fen in the Borough of Boston, although priority may be given to projects within five miles. Examples of Fundable Projects: Education: Attending environmental courses, workshops and events.
Community Grant
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: Veolia Environmental Trust funds improvements to community buildings and outside spaces, and the trust vision is for a healthy environment where communities can thrive. When considering the application, Trustees will want to see that your project: Promotes community action and wellbeing Grantee needs to have consulted everyone who uses the project site (current and potential) who will benefit from this project.
Laceby Solar Farm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The Object of the Fund is to support volunteer led not-for-profit projects that improve the lives of people living in Laceby, Irby, Riby, Barnoldby le Beck, Bradley, Aylesby and Beelsby, North East Lincolnshire. Grants are available for practical projects that contribute to community cohesion, support young/older people, develop energy efficiency or environmental improvements or improve local community facilities.
NMCT Conservation Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The NMCT is the only UK grant-giver that focuses solely on the care and conservation of manuscripts in the UK. We give grants to: record offices, archive services, libraries, museums and specialist collecting institutions in the UK; owners of manuscripts and archives resident in the UK where the collections are conditionally exempt from capital taxation or which are owned by a charitable trust.
Sasha Foundation
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: The Sasha Foundation (TSF) was set up to support charities that work with mental health issues in memory of Sasha Love. Sasha Love suffered from Bipolar disorder.
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.
PRS Music Foundation Composers’ Fund (UK)
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 7 Oct 2026
Overview: Managed by PRS Foundation, The Composers’ Fund supports up to 15 composers per year which provides an opportunity for composers with a strong track record, giving direct access to funding at pivotal stages in their career. A contribution of up to £8,000 – £15,000 is available to composers who are already making a significant cultural contribution in the UK and have the potential for greater impact in the UK and.
Police Property Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 18 Dec 2026
Overview: The Commissioner makes additional funding to support local projects undertaken by charitable organisations that solely benefit communities in the county. The Police Property Fund has been created as a separate fund where monies are paid into the fund from the proceeds of all sales of property and/or confiscated goods or by order of the court that have been recovered by the police and which cannot be returned to.
SWEF
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 31 Dec 2026
Overview: SWEF welcome applications from young entrepreneurs for starter funding of up to £2,000. The South West Enterprise Fund aims to support a variety of young Cornish people aged between 18 and 30 years old who do not have the initial starter funds to get their business ideas off the ground.
Electric vehicle chargepoint grant for renters and flat owners
Amount: Up to £350
Closing date: 31 Mar 2027
Overview: The grant provides electric vehicle (EV) drivers who are renters or own a flat with support towards the costs of the purchase and installation of EV charge points. The aim of the scheme is to accelerate the uptake of electric chargepoints for people living in flats and rental accommodation.
Workplace Charging Scheme for state-funded education institutions
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2027
Overview: This grant is for state-funded schools and education institutions to install electric vehicle chargepoint sockets at their site(s). You can get 75% off the cost to buy and install chargepoints up to a maximum of: £2500 per socket 40 sockets across all sites (this includes any applications made previously through the Workplace Charging Scheme ) Successful applicants will receive a voucher that is valid for 180 days.
Community Action
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Action programme funds community‑led projects in Scotland that bring people together, build inclusive relationships, and are led by the community itself. Projects must help people connect (online or in person), reach those affected by poverty, disadvantage or discrimination, build on community strengths and fill a gap in existing services.
Community Facilities Programme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Facilities Programme is a capital grant scheme operated by the Welsh Government. Grants are available at two levels: Small grants of under £25,000 Grants can be used to improve community facilities that are useful to, and well used by, people in the community.
Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF): Heating Oil Support Scheme
Amount: Up to £300
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Crisis & Resilience Fund (CRF) is a UK Government initiative delivered locally by Lincolnshire County Council to support low-income and vulnerable households with the rising cost of domestic heating oil. Working in partnership with Lincolnshire Community Foundation, the Council has established a responsive fund that will deliver targeted support to those most in need.
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.
Major Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Major Grants programme supports eligible charitable organisations delivering family support services in deprived communities across the UK, with a strong preference for front-line organisations working directly with families in need. Grants are used for core costs, salaries, running costs or project costs, enabling sustainable service delivery rather than one-off events or purely capacity building.
North Pickenham Windfarm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The North Pickenham Windfarm Community Fund is aimed at small community led organisations that are working in communities within a 5 kilometre radius of North Pickenham Windfarm.
Peter Kershaw Memorial Bursary
Amount: Up to £65,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This 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.
RWE Hameldon Hill Wind Farm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: About the fund Following the extension of the Innogy Renewables UK Wind Farm on Hameldon Hill, a community investment fund has been established to benefit local communities throughout the lifetime of the wind farm (up to 25 years). The fund aims to encourage local people to take pride in their local area and help create a strong sense of community spirit.
Regional Capacity Building Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We offer funding under this programme for activities and projects which are local or regional in coverage and which promote the understanding, management and conservation of the historic environment. Our support for building and maintaining sector capacity is focused on the sustainable management and development of the historic environment.
Research Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: These grants support other charities and organisations to develop and expand on existing research for existing transport accessibility solutions. The additional research should produce data that can be accessed by all, which can help more disabled people in the short term.
SWEF Business Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: SWEF offers business grants of up to £2,000 for young entrepreneurs aged 18–30 and living in Norfolk, to set up or grow their business. SWEF offers two types of grants: Start-Up Grant Grants of up to £500 for Norfolk-based young entrepreneurs to launch their business.
Science Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £800
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Edina Trust offers primary school science grants and nursery science grants. It’s quick and easy to access your Edina funding as it is non-competitive, meaning grants are guaranteed if your school is located within one of our current eligible local authority areas.
Sheffield Legacy Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grassroots community organisations within a three-mile radius of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park are invited to apply for grants of up to £1,000 to fund activities addressing physical and mental health and wellbeing. The priority for this fund is to fully or mostly fund the event or activity so that the grant can have a real and meaningful impact.
Sheringham Shoal Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
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.
St Agatha’s Community Kickstart Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We aim to help churches with their mission to support their community, including those serving vulnerable populations. We are able to help projects linked to other faith groups, or those with none.
Stronger Starts
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: At Tesco, community is key to our purpose. The ambition at the heart of our community work is to help children access healthy and nutritious food as part of their daily routine.
The Community Fund
Amount: Up to £250,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Fund supports local community initiatives that serve the needs of residents in the Epping Forest district. The fund is designed to deliver real, measurable socio-economic benefit and focuses on: local employment and training opportunities skills development and education innovation and new approaches to community need direct investment in the local community Projects must respond to evidenced local.
The Deakin and Withers Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This Fund, administered by South Yorkshire’s Community Foundation, allows women nationwide to apply for a grant of up to £2,000.00 to ease financial difficulty and hardship.
The JP Blanch Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants are available to support projects that provide opportunities for individuals entering or returning to the automotive and engineering sectors.
The Subs for Clubs Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Subs for Clubs aims to help young people most affected by cost-of-living rises to continue to participate in out-of-school activities such as sport, art, and uniformed activities. We know how important these opportunities are in building self-esteem and resilience, and how they can help build friendships and develop skills for life.
User Research Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Through this innovation project, we aim to support charities to carry out research centred on disabled people’s voices, which we know has not had much funding or support in the past. We recommend you contact our Innovation Team, if: you want to carry out user research specifically, you want to explore a less clear evidence space in accessible transport, you want a partner for guidance and collaboration, or you don’t.
Villages Windfarm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Villages Community Fund aims to support projects that will benefit the residents of the parishes of Holton, Sotherton, and Westhall in Suffolk.
Weston Windfarm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Fund is designed to support projects which benefit the residents the parishes of Weston Longville, Morton on the Hill, Attlebridge and Hockering.
