We’ve added 139 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Jo Walters Trust – 2026 Aberdeenshire Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The Jo Walters Trust is offering grants of up to £2,000 for projects that provide educational opportunities in the outdoors. Projects must have a strong link to Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Applicants must show why the money is required, explain the outdoor educational aspect, be willing to fundraise up to half the amount themselves, show a full cost…
Organisation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: At the Foundation of St Matthias, we understand the power of collective effort in making a positive impact. As part of our commitment to fostering education and societal development, we offer Organisation Grants to institutions seeking funding for specific projects.
Philip Bates Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The Philip Bates Trust is dedicated to encouraging and supporting the creative ambitions of young people under the age of 25. We do this by awarding prizes for artistic excellence and providing financial support to individuals, groups, and organisations delivering creative opportunities for young people.
A Sinclair Henderson Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The Trust gives grants towards religion; medicine; education; youth; and historic building maintenance; and the alleviation of poverty. The Trust has a preference for the Dundee and Tayside areas of Scotland.
Supporting Voluntary Returns through Community Partnerships
Amount: Up to £3,250,000
Closing date: 1 Jun 2026
Overview: The Home Office will invest up to £3,250,000 in grant funding until 31st March 2027 to support a regional network of charities and eligible organisations that help reach, inform and support vulnerable and hard-to-reach migrants to access Voluntary Returns.
Family-Friendly and Inclusive Evenings Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 2 Jun 2026
Overview: Background This grant forms part of Camden’s Evening and Night-Time Strategy (2024-2029), which aims to make Camden a welcoming, safe, and inclusive place in the evening. The strategy, shaped by a Citizens’ Assembly and over 1,600 engaged residents and workers, specifically commits to promoting family-friendly and non-alcohol-led early evening…
The UK Youth Fund
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 3 Jun 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.
Literacy Small Grants Scheme
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 3 Jun 2026
Overview: The JJ Charitable Trust’s Literacy Small Grants Scheme seeks to improve the effectiveness of literacy teaching in primary and secondary education for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, with a particular focus on areas of social need and those who are at risk of non-inclusion in society and the world of work.
Cheshire West Crowd
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 3 Jun 2026
Overview: Cheshire West Crowd is a crowdfunding programme created by Cheshire West and Chester Council, in partnership with Spacehive, that empowers communities to raise money for projects that make a positive impact in their local area.
Expression of Interest: Community-Based Debt Advice (CBDA) Grant Scheme 2028-2033
Amount: Up to £0
Closing date: 5 Jun 2026
Overview: The CBDA grant scheme aims to ensure that people experiencing financial difficulty – particularly those most in need – can access trusted, free, and tailored community-based debt advice. The scheme is designed to reduce the impact of problem debt on individuals and communities, improve financial resilience and wellbeing, and strengthen local…
D-Prize
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 7 Jun 2026
Overview: D-Prize seeds new organizations that distribute proven poverty solutions to underserved populations at the last mile. The grant supports the launch of a pilot program with the goal of scaling impact to reach thousands or millions. D-Prize funds entrepreneurs who can design a new business or NGO that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale.
ESRC Connect Awards (pilot)
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 10 Jun 2026
Overview: Demand management Demand management is not being applied to this funding opportunity. Aim Meaningful advances in knowledge often grow out of early collaboration and the exchange of perspectives between researchers testing new and uncertain ideas.
Community Hub Project Grants
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is a programme for organisations throughout the United Kingdom led by The National Archives, in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Community Archives & Heritage Group.
Board Development Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 19 Jun 2026
Overview: The SGA Board Development Fund enables organisations operating in the sport and physical activity sector in the United Kingdom to access – free of charge – development training for their board members which can be customised, if required, and delivered in-house (either in-person or online).
Help the Homeless Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Jun 2026
Overview: Help the Homeless is a grant-giving trust that supports small, local charities helping homeless people off the streets and into healthy, independent lives. The trust funds a wide variety of organisations and favours small, grassroots charities working to help the most vulnerable people in their communities.
Group Applications
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: 24 Jun 2026
Overview: The Craven Trust gives grants (generally £100 – £1,500) to community projects and groups in our area. A few examples of what we can support are: Items such as equipment and capital purchases to improve the organisation’s services, administration or functions etc Training for volunteers or Trustees Premises costs (e.g.
Early Intervention Grants
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 25 Jun 2026
Overview: The Lewin Trust provides grant funding and support to UK-registered charities working within the UK or overseas in areas of need or deprivation. Their vision is to make a tangible difference to poverty and inequality through early intervention and to break cycles of dependence on relief.
Rural Communities Challenge Fund 2026-27
Amount: Up to £49,999
Closing date: 28 Jun 2026
Overview: The Aberdeenshire Local Action Group’s Rural Communities Challenge Fund (RCCF) delivers funding from the Scottish Government’s Rural Community Led Local Development (RCLLD) programme. The fund supports projects that benefit rural communities across Aberdeenshire.
The Stafford Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Trust considers applications for grants from charities registered in the United Kingdom, with a preference for charitable organisations operating in Scotland. The Trust will consider applications for specific projects or funding requirements with clear, realistic and attainable aims.
The Grierson-Percy Documentary Grant
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Grierson-Percy Documentary Grant is a finishing fund for UK-based independent documentary filmmakers and production companies, made possible by a donation from Norma Percy. It supports documentary films and series on political or international crises that provide riveting storytelling and new and surprising insights.
Through the Gate
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust recognises that a significant proportion of the people in UK prisons will have had chaotic and complicated lives: growing up in local authority care, excluded from school, living with drug or alcohol problems or struggling with mental health issues.
Isle of Dogs Community Chest Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Community Chest Programme funds local groups and individuals to deliver activities for the benefit of our customers/residents on the Isle of Dogs. We are particularly keen to receive applications that support our key priorities on the Isle of Dogs.
The Len Thomson Charitable Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Jun 2026
Overview: The Len Thomson Charitable Trust was established in 1989 with the particular aim of supporting charitable causes based or working in the Midlothian region of Scotland. Causes supported typically include: Work with children and young people The advancement of education The advancement of health The advancement of sport, particularly amongst young…
Crowdfund Lancashire Culture and Sports Fund (with crowdfunding)
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 1 Jul 2026
Overview: Funding is available to not-for-profit organisations, town and parish councils, businesses and individuals who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to deliver culture and sport projects in Lancashire.
Ignite with Ebico 2
Amount: Up to £16,000
Closing date: 6 Jul 2026
Overview: Bringing innovative low-carbon home technologies to market can be challenging, as traditional investment channels often focus on established solutions or start-ups with already proven revenue. This leaves emerging, low-carbon sustainable innovations such as home heating, insulation, building materials, draught-proofing, air quality, heat recovery…
North Ayrshire Ventures Trust Fund
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 8 Jul 2026
Overview: The North Ayrshire Ventures Trust (NAVT) Fund is a grant programme designed to enable voluntary, community, and social enterprises in North Ayrshire to grow, improve their sustainability, and increase their impact.
Ponton House Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 10 Jul 2026
Overview: The Ponton House Trust welcomes applications from locally-based charities focused on delivering activities in the Edinburgh and Lothian area that help vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people, and where a grant from the Trust will make a significant difference.
Organisational Grants: Advice & Advocacy Fund and Wellbeing Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 13 Jul 2026
Overview: HWCT offers organisational grants to support charities and community organisations delivering work that improves outcomes for people living within our area of benefit. Applications are now open to the Advice & Advocacy Fund and the Wellbeing Fund , which share a single application form and updated criteria.
Child Poverty Funding
Amount: Up to £60,000
Closing date: 13 Jul 2026
Overview: Two-year grants of £60,000 (£30,000 per year) dedicated to supporting UK charities committed to ending child poverty. These long-term, unrestricted awards give organisations the freedom to act strategically – addressing the many interconnected factors which trap children in poverty, rather than being limited to a single project.
New Park Educational Trust Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 14 Jul 2026
Overview: The New Park Educational Trust operates by giving grants to organisations and, less frequently, to individuals. The charitable object is the advancement of education for the public benefit. The Trustees have interpreted that as enabling them to support other charities working to help the education and development of young people, other…
Supporting Change – Carers
Amount: Up to £2,000,000
Closing date: 15 Jul 2026
Overview: Supporting Change – Carers is a funding programme by The National Lottery Community Fund for projects that improve the health of unpaid carers in Scotland. The programme supports work that both leads to transformational change and reduces health inequalities.
The Great British School Trip Bursaries
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 16 Jul 2026
Overview: The Great British School Trip by Hyundai provides bursaries to help with school trips. If you are looking for financial help with your 2025/2026 school trips, we might be able to help with our new bursary clearing system. Bursaries are available to all UK schools to support pupils facing financial difficulty or access barriers to attending a trip.
Community Grants to Local Organisations
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 17 Jul 2026
Overview: East Ayrshire Council offers a wide range of grants to local voluntary organisations and Community Councils. The funding is intended for cultural, social, welfare, recreational, sporting facilities, or community-based projects that are in the interests of local areas or the environment.
TELUS Greater London Community Board Grant
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: Grants are available for local, grassroots community-based health and education programmes in Greater London that help youth (up to 29 years) experiencing obstacles to reach their full potential. The TELUS Greater London Board is committed to donating £1M to regional grassroots projects and non-profits by 2027.
The Meikle Foundation
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: The Meikle Foundation is a Scottish Registered Charity that makes charitable donations biannually. The objectives of The Meikle Foundation are widely drawn and allow payments of income or capital to, or for the benefit of, such charitable institutions, societies or organisations as the Trustees of The Meikle Foundation in their absolute discretion…
The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation Funding
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: The Gordon & Ena Baxter Foundation supports a wide variety of capital projects in Scotland’s North-east and Highlands. The foundation looks for innovation and supports well-managed groups, especially those which work hard to help themselves.
The Netherton Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Jul 2026
Overview: The objectives of the Trust are widely drawn. The trustees will employ their discretion in order to determine which charitable initiatives they support. They tend to support projects under the following headings: Medical research and support Child welfare Adult welfare
The Robert McAlpine Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 7 Aug 2026
Overview: The Foundation was established by the family of Sir Robert McAlpine and gives grants to support small charities situated throughout the UK that fall within specific categories – namely children, youth, the elderly, social and medical research. Our funding is focused on bespoke applications.
Mulhollands Community Assistance Programme
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 9 Aug 2026
Overview: The Mulhollands Community Assistance Programme aims to provide funding support for community-based projects which improve the quality of life of people living in the local communities of Mulhollands Funeral Directors’ branches in Carrickfergus and Larne.
Foundation Scotland – Baillie Gifford International Fund – Expression of Interest
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 17 Aug 2026
Overview: This fund is aimed at supporting registered charities who are working in International Aid Development to deliver their work. Grants of up to £5,000 are available for projects addressing the climate emergency outside of the UK. Baillie Gifford will have £55,632 available for grant distribution in 2026.
Research and Innovation Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 23 Aug 2026
Overview: Through our Research & Innovation Grants, we fund research and new ideas that advance woodland recovery and deepen understanding of how native woodlands benefit people, nature and the climate. We are also open to projects that explore Continuous Cover Forestry and other low-impact silvicultural methods.
Free Trees for Schools and Communities
Amount: Up to £0
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Free Trees for Schools and Communities programme provides free native tree packs to eligible non-profit groups, schools, clubs, councils, and community organisations across the UK. Packs help plant trees in locations with public access or organised forestry/education projects, promoting environmental benefits such as cleaner air, biodiversity…
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 31 Aug 2026
Overview: The Postlethwaite Music Foundation is a grant making trust established in 2015. The Foundation’s aim is to enrich lives through the power of music, by promoting and advancing music. They have previously supported a range of activities, including: Student Bursaries Community Singing Workshops New Music Groups Music Therapy Sessions Commissioned…
Fallago Environment Fund
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Overview: The Fallago Environment Fund is a unique windfarm community fund. It helps initiatives across the Scottish Borders, providing benefits to communities through grants that enhance the area’s built, natural and cultural environment, helping to make the Borders an even better place to live, work and visit.
Metal for Good Fund – Expression of Interest
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 7 Sep 2026
Overview: Metal For Good funds incredible community groups and projects that use music and the values of the rock and metal community to help create an equal society. We focus on three goals aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs): GOOD HEALTH & WELL-BEING QUALITY EDUCATION REDUCED INEQUALITIES Through these goals, we support…
Queensberry House Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 15 Sep 2026
Overview: The Trust’s purposes are widely drawn but its focus is the support of older people and their carers; charities and charitable partnerships that are able to highlight identified or assessed needs in older people and their carers in and across different community settings, particularly in Edinburgh and the Lothians, and that seek to work together…
Christina Mary Hendrie Trust Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 15 Sep 2026
Overview: The Christina Mary Hendrie Trust provides grants to charitable bodies in Scotland and Canada. They are committed to supporting charities which provide predominantly for the young and the elderly, as well as veterans’ organisations and hospices. We accept applications from the education, health, social support, and arts sectors.
Lady Eda Jardine Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 15 Sep 2026
Overview: The Lady Eda Jardine Charitable Trust invites applications for grants. The trustees convene once a year in November to review applications. The priority category for the November 2026 meeting is Children and Youth.
An Suidhe Wind Farm Community Fund
Amount: Up to £9,000
Closing date: 16 Sep 2026
Overview: An Suidhe Wind Farm Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the areas covered by the Community Councils of: Glenorchy and Innishail (Eredine only); Inveraray; Furnace, and by Dalavich Improvement Group. The fund is provided by RWE Renewables and Green Gecco , the owners of An Suidhe Wind Farm near Loch Awe.
The Thomas Farr Charity
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Sep 2026
Overview: The Thomas Farr Charity was established in 1989, following the sale of the Home Brewery in Nottingham with the aim of supporting registered charities, constituted voluntary and community groups in those areas where the Home Brewery had a presence.
The Joyce Fletcher Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: The main charitable activities of the trust reflect the interests of the trustees in the support of music and the arts in a social and therapeutic context, in the South West, the Environment and also Children and Sports in the North of England. New recipients are included each year but a good proportion are recurring.
The CPF Trust
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: We are a grant-making charity. We give grants to other registered UK charities. We mainly support charities operating in the following areas: the arts, education, support for carers and older people, early intervention projects for disadvantaged children and young people, animal welfare and health and disability.
Equine Research Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 1 Oct 2026
Overview: Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation funds equine research to let horses of all breeds live healthier lives. The foundation disperses nearly $1 million annually in grants. Traditionally the nation’s leading source of private funding for equine medical research that benefits all breeds of horses.
NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 5 Oct 2026
Overview: The vision of the charity is to help people in Tayside live better for longer and this will be done through a new funding programme distributing funds to NHS Tayside Services and the third sector. There are two main funding streams: Innovation: Groups can apply for funding up to £25,000 over a maximum of 2 years to establish innovative projects to…
Castle Studies Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 1 Dec 2026
Overview: The Castle Studies Trust is able to fund types of work that enhance the understanding and knowledge of castles. Grants will initially focus on new work on castles such as architectural and geophysical surveys or scientific tests such as radio-carbon dating as well as projects to enhance the general public’s understanding of castles such as…
Member Budget Award Scheme
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 Dec 2026
Overview: Every year, each local councillor has £5,000 available to support meaningful projects that make a real difference in their community. These Member Budgets exist to help councillors – your elected representatives, champion local ideas, strengthen neighbourhoods, and improve the wellbeing of the people who live and work here.
South Downs National Park Outdoor Learning Grant and Subsidised Travel
Amount: Up to £750
Closing date: 31 Mar 2027
Overview: Schools visiting the South Downs National Park may be able to benefit from our Outdoor Learning Grant. This can help with the costs of a trip by contributing towards the transport and learning providers fees.
Karbon Homes Community Investment Fund
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Investment Fund grants aim to support projects that make a real difference to people’s lives and wellbeing within the communities in which Karbon Homes works. Key themes include: Cost of living Bringing people together to create strong relationships in communities Health and wellbeing Improving places The funding supports essential…
Dance and Drama Awards (DaDA)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: You could get a Dance and Drama Award (DaDA) to help with fees and living costs at one of 15 private dance and drama schools. Qualifications: You must be studying for one of these Trinity College London Diplomas: Level 6 Diploma in Professional Acting (3 years) Level 5 Diploma in Professional Acting (1 year) Level 5 Diploma in Professional Dance…
Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust provides grants to UK registered charities. They primarily fund cultural and heritage preservation projects in the UK (especially in East Anglia), the education of the public in the appreciation of the arts and music, specialist skills development, conservation, and crafts training (via bursaries to recognised…
Cairngorms National Park Travel Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £300
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Travel Grant Scheme helps to overcome high travel costs by offering schools and voluntary/community groups from across Scotland up to 75% of transport costs, up to £300, to visit the Cairngorms National Park.
The Cosy Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Cosy Foundation provides funding and support for voluntary, non-public, and non-private sector organisations dealing with children. The foundation acts as supplementary supporters, working through partnerships and project-based collaborations rather than a traditional formal grant-giving process.
Brelms Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £18,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Brelms Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), originally set up as a Charitable Trust in 2007, offering grants to a wide variety of charities operating in the community. Funding is given exclusively to charities based in Yorkshire and directly benefitting only Yorkshire communities.
Youth Mental Health Grants
Amount: Up to £300,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Prudence Trust seeks to increase the availability of early support for young people and raise the standard of evidence and support its implementation into practice. More widely, we want to support the field of youth mental health to be effective and influential.
The Beyond Grant
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Beyond is committed to making a difference to the mental health of young people up and down the UK. Beyond aims to award The Beyond Grant to not-for-profit organisations and registered charities that deliver specialist mental health services targeted at young people, their families and educators.
Y-NOTTS Grants for Young People in Notts
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: At Y-NOTTS, we are dedicated to providing pathways to fresh beginnings and enhanced employability prospects. Our mission centres on helping young individuals aged 16 to 30 in Nottinghamshire who face financial hurdles in accessing education or training.
Football Foundation – Lionesses HERe to Play Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Fund is designed to support upgrading and improving grassroots football facilities to make them more welcoming, accessible and inclusive for women and girls. The grant can only be used for a defined list of eligible items, which are detailed here.
Revitalise Respite Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Revitalise provides respite grants to disabled adults and their family carers. Following the closure of their specialist respite centres in 2024, they now offer grant funding to ensure disabled people and carers can still access respite breaks, holidays, and life experiences.
CRH Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The funding is for charitable activities that seek to support children, young people and adults with mental illness and mental disability in north west England. Applicants should be able to demonstrate how the work will be financed after the Trust’s grant has ended. Priority is given to local organisations.
Masonic SEN & Disabilities Fund
Amount: Up to £60,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) priority aims to reduce the inequalities faced by children and young people, and their families. We are looking to fund charities working to reduce barriers through early intervention, accessible social, leisure and education opportunities; as well as specialist information and advice for…
The Noel Sweeney Foundation Grant
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Noel Sweeney Foundation is the Charitable Trust of Tara Group, set up to support local communities in the Midlands. Following in the footsteps of founder Noel Sweeney, the Foundation’s passion is supporting grassroots projects and charities with young and/or disadvantaged people at their heart.
Your Opportunity Grants Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Your Opportunity is a dedicated grant programme which aims to enhance the life of disabled or seriously ill young adults, aged 18 to 24 years old, living at home. Young people cannot apply on their own but applications should come from parents or carers.
Free Sports Club Sponsorship
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Up to £500 sponsorship for sports clubs, teams, societies, venues, individuals, events and other sports professionals. Gladiator Sports sponsors one team, club, individual, society, event or organisation every month.
Everybody Foundation Funding Grants
Amount: Up to £200
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation’s grant giving theme is ‘Levelling the Playing Field’. Small grants of up to £200 are available to help support young people staying in sport. Grants must be used to subsidise club subscriptions, pay for equipment, or kit that could not be paid for otherwise, or used towards travel costs to and from sports training and tournaments.
Sports Group Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Each year BLAGSS sets aside money from the BLAGSS budget to support Sports Groups. Sports Groups are invited to apply for financial support to aid the development of their sport and make them more sustainable.
Coach Education Subsidy Funding (UKCC Subsidy)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The cost of and access to a course can often be a barrier to people participating in coach education. The Coach Education Subsidy funding therefore aims to support Scottish Governing Bodies of sport (SGBs) grow and develop their workforce through financial subsidies for individuals to attain coaching qualifications.
Project Swish – Nationwide
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Project Swish is Basketball England’s outdoor court initiative that began in 2019. It aims to improve outdoor basketball courts across the country. Since its inception, #ProjectSwish has distributed more than 10,000 free nets, identified thousands of places to play, and supported dozens of court upgrades.
The Greaves & Withey Foundation Grant
Amount: Up to £0
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Greaves & Withey Foundation (Registered Charity Number 1177028, previously known as the Robin Greaves Foundation) was established in memory of the Late Robin Greaves to provide financial grants to charitable organisations working to promote sports and recreation to those living in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire.
Richmond Heavies Rugby Defibrillator Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our Defibrillator Fund has been set up to provide defibrillators to community rugby clubs who cannot afford this life-saving device. With over 1,000 community rugby clubs in England, we believe no club should be without a defibrillator due to lack of funds.
Industry Impact Fund
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Industry Impact Fund is designed for construction employers who want to tackle the biggest challenges facing the workforce across the UK. If you have a new and innovative idea to improve skills and training in the industry, this fund can help make it a reality. Launched in April 2023, this is CITB’s first fund of its kind.
Lunch Club Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Lunch Club Fund provides small grants for lunch clubs across Sheffield to help reduce loneliness and isolation among older people. Lunch clubs enable older people across the city to make long-lasting friendships, share good food and enjoy activities together. They’re friendly and supportive groups.
Digital Neighbourhood Network Scheme (DNNS)
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Digital Neighbourhood Network Scheme (DNNS) is a digital inclusion project run by Northfield Community Partnership. It was commissioned by Birmingham City Council’s Prevention & Communities team in the Adult Social Care Directorate.
Funding for Organisations
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding for charities and community organisations in Kent and Medway. We help local charities, voluntary groups, and social enterprises access the funding they need to make a lasting difference. Whether you’re supporting care leavers, tackling poverty, improving mental health, or creating opportunities for young people, we want to hear from you.
Brighter Borough fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Brighter Borough initiative provides a fund for councillors to propose and support schemes that improve the environment and benefit the community within their Wards. Any proposal which aims to achieve Council objectives by improving the environment, enhancing community facilities or helping to develop the community spirit of an area could be…
CITB Qualification Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The CITB Grants Scheme provides funding for a range of day-to-day training and qualifications for the construction sector. The Qualification Grants cover: – Short qualification grants less than 1 year: For the achievement of approved short qualifications.
Community Reach Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Community Reach Fund supports community-based learning initiatives. It provides funding for organisations delivering adult education and skills development programmes in local communities. Funding is available to help new and developing groups get started and respond quickly to local issues.
Facilities Improvement Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of the Facilities Improvement Grant Fund is to develop and improve village halls, community centres, sport and leisure centres, play facilities and public open spaces, protecting and enhancing the quality of life for residents within East Cambridgeshire. The grant scheme is open all year round.
Djanogly Foundation
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Djanogly Foundation offers grants to registered charities working in the UK and/or Israel. The Trustees policy is to support developments in medicine, education, social welfare and the arts. Grants are also made to fund projects to relieve distress and to promote the welfare of the aged and the young.
Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Funding is provided by The Worshipful Company of Actuaries Charity, which is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation established in 2022. Previously these were held by the Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust Fund.
Fitton Trust
Amount: Up to £350
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Fitton Trust is a small charity that has a limited amount of income that it provides as small grants to support general charitable purposes. The aim of the charity is to benefit by way of grants such legally charitable institutions as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit.
General Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trustees aim to distribute funds across a broad spectrum of need, focusing resources where it is felt that even a small award will make a difference. The trustees have complete discretion as to the type of charitable work supported. At present, donations totalling some £160,000 are made to about 100 charities each year.
Paper Conservation Fund
Amount: Up to £6,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust’s Paper Conservation Fund aims to help accredited museums in Scotland, in particular small and medium-sized independent ones, to work with conservators to undertake projects that conserve their collections of works on paper. Projects can be treatment, surveys, training courses and skills development workshops.
The Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £5,625
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust’s objectives are to pay or apply the income of the Trust for each charitable objective or purpose as the Trustee thinks fit. The charity awards grants to charitable institutions.
Apprenticeship Talent Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Virgin Media O2 is unlocking up to £1 million in funding to help small businesses, charities, social enterprises, and local authorities recruit and train the next wave of apprentices — creating real career opportunities that power long-term growth.
James Ahern Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The James Ahern Foundation is a charitable trust founded in memory of James Ahern. Its aim is to help young people at some kind of disadvantage to achieve their goals by “enabling the pursuit of passion”. The Foundation awards small grants to young people to help them pursue their passion in life.
Ian Askew Charitable Trust
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Ian Askew Charitable Trust supports a wide range of charitable organisations across the UK. The trust donates funds to other charitable organisations in support of their aims. The trustees strongly favour South East-based charities but consider applications from organisations throughout the UK.
The Bothwell Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Bothwell Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England whose principal activities are to provide donations to other charities. Grants are available for registered charities in Great Britain, with a focus on the South East of England. Funding is intended to support charitable work in a number of areas.
Video games and gambling-related harms (Grant)
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Apply for funding to explore the relationship between gambling and video games and produce evidence-based insights to: – inform strategies and interventions to prevent, treat or reduce gambling-related harms – shape policy, regulation and best practice – promote safe and responsible video gamesThis opportunity is part of the UKRI Research…
CfI: Boosting fathers’ engagement to improve child outcomes
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will invest up to £2 million from the UKRI Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity Mission in this Contracts for Innovation competition. The aim is to support organisations to develop, adapt, or further validate innovative approaches that strengthen fathers’ engagement in their children’s development across all…
Screen Share UK Device Provision
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Screen Share UK provides devices and digital inclusion support to refugees and people with experience of forced migration in the UK. The support includes: Device Provision: Supplying laptops to individuals. Most devices are distributed via partner organisations, but individuals not supported by a partner can also self-refer/apply.
Computers For The Disabled Equipment Provision
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Computers For The Disabled is a registered charity (number 1069626) with a mission to help disabled people and the elderly communicate and participate in their day-to-day activities by providing them with used laptops, iPads and iPhones. Since they began, they have supplied over 4000 computers and parts to both individuals and organisations.
Backstage Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Backstage Trust makes grants to registered charities and CICs with a focus on the performing arts, particularly theatre and music.Areas for which the Trust has provided support include: Encouraging the involvement of young people in the performing arts Assisting live arts projects (not all in the UK) which encourage community participation,…
The Casey Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Casey Trust supports projects exclusively for children (up to age 18) throughout the world, with a focus on start-ups or bold new initiatives. The Trust works exclusively with UK registered charities (or UK affiliates).
The Rotary Club of Whittlesey Community Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Rotary members contribute their skills, expertise, and resources to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems. From providing clean water to promoting peace worldwide, Rotary Foundation grants bring service project ideas to life.
Changing Views Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants of up to £500 are provided to help to improve the public view of derelict, vacant or forgotten patches of land, buildings or other sites in Fenland.Over the years, with the permission of site owners, ‘Changing Views’ grants have supported the costs of developing murals, banners and posters to cheer up the hoardings and windows of vacant…
Rescue Centre Grants
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: We provide funding to organisations whose main activity is the rescue and rehoming of UK pets. What do we fund? Vet bills Boarding fees Trap and neuter schemes Food Animal care equipment Vehicles Building work Utility bills
Healthy Fenland Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our Healthy Fenland Team offers advice, support and some funding for community groups in Fenland that delivers a activity to help local people improve their health and well-being. We can help anyone who has an idea for a group to develop this by giving practical support and advice on the procedures associated with running a successful group.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Oxfordshire Community Foundation improve lives and tackle inequality by investing in Oxfordshire’s dynamic charitable sector through grant-making. We give around £2million every year, funding around 200 grassroots charitable organisations each year.
The Coln Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants typically up to £3,000 are available to UK registered charities working in the UK to support either children and young people, the arts, medical services, treatment and research and disaster relief.
Weald & Downland Living Museum Travel Bursary
Amount: Up to £400
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Weald & Downland Living Museum has launched a travel bursary scheme to support schools in providing affordable opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom. The museum, located in the South Downs National Park, offers a fantastic destination for school trips with its historic buildings and cross-curricular workshops.
M7 Education Free School Trips
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: M7 Education provides fully funded aspirational school trips. Research shows that experiences outside of the classroom are the most likely to have a positive impact. One educational experience can change a child’s entire perspective.
PGL Breakthrough Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The PGL Breakthrough Fund provides at least 50% funding for school trips to schools with high pupil premiums, allowing their young people to experience the transformative power of outdoor education and a PGL residential.
Generation Wild School Visits
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Generation Wild project offers a free school visit for your class designed for Years 1-6 to one of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) wetland centres, including free transport. During the free school visit, children meet Ava in life-size puppet form at her giant nest.
The RDC Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The RDC Foundation was set up in 2019 in the memory of Richard D Crabtree who passed away after an illness in 2015. The RDC foundation awards grants to support young people under the age of 21 in recreational and leisure activities so as to develop their mental, physical and moral capabilities so that they grow to full maturity as individuals and…
School Journey Association Financial Assistance
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: As a registered charity, The School Journey Association strongly believes in inclusion, and doesn’t want any child to miss out. One of the prime purposes of The School Journey Association is to support children from disadvantaged families or with special needs who might not otherwise be able to participate in school trips.
Firstport Funding for Social Enterprises
Amount: Up to £40,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Firstport offers various funding opportunities for individuals and organisations to start and grow social enterprises, regardless of their starting point. Start It: Up to £5,000 for individuals looking to start a social enterprise. Build It: Grants of up to £40,000 for early-stage social enterprises seeking funding for salary costs.
The Brathay Bursary
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Brathay Bursary breaks down financial barriers to help young people experience and benefit from an outdoor residential at our dedicated Lake District centre. It is a discretionary fund that allows Brathay to support young people with the costs of attending a residential when their schools or families can’t.
School Visits Fund
Amount: Up to £325
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Established in 2015, the School Visits Fund aims to support educational enrichment for pupils in London by providing grants to pay for school trips to the City Corporation’s cultural venues. You can take your students to any venue in our portfolio of 29 inspiring cultural destinations.
Royal Collection Trust Schools Access and Travel Subsidy Schemes
Amount: Up to £200
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Royal Collection Trust provides Travel Subsidy Schemes to support schools with the travel costs associated with visiting official royal residences such as Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The scheme is designed to help schools who would otherwise be unable to bring pupils to visit the residences.
Elevate Great / Cattanach Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Elevate Great (formerly Cattanach Charitable Trust) is an equity catalyst and not-for-profit accelerator for social good. They build and scale evidence-based solutions with a focus on early relationships and early childhood. Experiences during very early childhood have a critical impact on health and wellbeing across the lifespan.
Bradford Cinderella Club Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Bradford Cinderella Club provides funding to assist underprivileged children within the Bradford Metropolitan District. The club supports activities that improve life for local children whose access to opportunities is limited by factors such as lack of parental income, neglect, or physical and mental handicap.
Herds & Bulls Grass Grants
Amount: Up to £0
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This ancient charity was founded in 1717 to provide sustenance for the villagers of Eastrea, formerly an island in the flooded Cambridgeshire fens. The charity provides for the financial relief of persons resident in Eastrea in conditions of need, hardship or distress, by making grants of money, services or facilities calculated to reduce the…
Nobles Charity Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Nobles Charity provides funding and support for the poor, needy widows, and families. The charity also provides support for public facilities used by these individuals within Coates Village (Coates in Whittlesey).
Hugh & Mary Miller Bequest
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Hugh and Mary Miller Bequest offers financial support to charitable organisations for the disabled, young people and the disadvantaged in Scotland. They tend to support the same charities every year.
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park – Education Travel Grant
Amount: Up to £250
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: To help schools and groups overcome the barriers that transport costs to the National Park can create, we offer an Education Travel Grant. The grant covers up to 75% of total transport costs, with a maximum award of £250, based on the number of funding criteria met.
Lindsays Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Provides funding for groups and individuals for conservation, the environment, wildlife projects, the arts and medical research. Normally supports smaller less known charities working in specialised fields.
The Whittlesey Charity Grants
Amount: Up to £0
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Whittlesey Charity provides grants across key areas, established in their Charitable Order: Education We support learning journeys at every stage of life. Our education grants help individuals from preschool to university and those retraining for new vocations.
The John Kemp Charitable Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trust supports a wide array of charitable initiatives. Previous awards have been under the following categories: Adult and Child Welfare Animals Children Medical Research and Support Many of their donations go to hospices, cancer support/research charities and other health-related causes.
Cellnex Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Cellnex UK, Europe’s leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure, has launched the Cellnex Community Fund. The fund commits £180,000 in its first year to support projects that empower people, enhance local environments, and promote digital and technological inclusion.
HDH Wills – Large Grants (Martin Wills Fund)
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Martin Wills Fund (Large Grants) provides grants of £5,000–£20,000 to small and medium-sized charities working in the UK and Ireland for projects that protect and restore wildlife and habitats.
George Mclean Trust
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The fund gives small grants to organisations including those supporting people with disabilities or health problems. It mostly funds in Dundee and the North East.
Pump House Trust
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Trustees can fund a wide range of charitable activity, but are particularly interested in supporting smaller, community charities based in Scotland and connected with community development, environmental, women’s and youth issues with a view to encouraging social inclusion at all levels.
King George V Wind Turbine Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The fund covers several communities including Crathes, Durris, Drumoak, Banchory, Finzean, Strachan, Torphins, Lumphanan and Inchmarlo. Priorities include: supporting participation in sport and arts promoting the provision of educational activities for people with physical and learning disabilities encouraging social inclusion, integration and…
Boost Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Boost Fund is for small community-led organisations across Scotland supporting local people affected by poverty or disadvantage. Groups can apply if their activities will support their communities and the people who live there. Grants are flexible and groups can apply for many different costs.
The Edinburgh Bakers Trust
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Edinburgh Bakers’ Trust has up to £4000 available annually to award small grants to successful applicants. When applying to the Fund, please select from the following themes: Building skills. Supporting baking in the arts, science and/or culture.
Edinburgh Airport Community Fund
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Edinburgh Airport Community Fund was established to ensure local communities share in the success of Scotland’s busiest airport. It provides financial support to community groups and charities committed to improving opportunities, facilities, and services available to local people.The fund will consider applications that support and reflect…
Archibald & Isabella Barr Memorial
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Archibald & Isabella Barr Memorial is administered by the Mugdock Children’s Trust. They provide grants, typically of £500 – £1000, to registered charities whose object is the support and benefit of children in need in Scotland, particularly in the West of Scotland area.
St Nicholas Care Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The St. Nicholas Care Fund was set up by Cardinal Winning in 1992. The Care Fund offers small grants to schools, charities, churches and other community-based organisations operating in the Archdiocese of Glasgow with the aim of supporting people and communities facing poverty and hardship. The Fund supports people of all faiths and none…
RYA Foundation Funding
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The RYA Foundation is the official charity of the Royal Yachting Association (RYA). Its grants aim to break down barriers to participation caused by disability, social circumstances, and other disadvantages.
