We’ve rounded up 63 new funding opportunities this week for charities, CICs, and community organisations across the UK. From grassroots community funds to national charitable programmes, this week’s update is packed with grants designed to support impact across health, wellbeing, education, and community development.
🌟 Economic Inactivity Trailblazer Grants – £10,000 – This strand of the One Oldham Fund is designed to tackle the high levels of economic inactivity in Oldham by supporting voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) organisations to deliver holistic, community-led initiatives.
🎯 Worcestershire Public Health Community Wellbeing Grants – £3,000 – The Worcestershire Public Health Community Wellbeing Grant Programme supports local groups and small organisations with one-off grants up to £3,000 for sustainable community-based projects that improve wellbeing, build connections, or create safer spaces.
🚀 Cancer Awareness Small Grants Scheme – £10,000 – The Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Awareness and Screening Participation Small Grants Scheme supports community-based projects enhancing cancer awareness, screening uptake, and early diagnosis, focusing primarily on lung, bowel, and pancreatic cancers, but also considering other cancers.
🌍 Community Food Hubs Fund – £3,000 – Community Food Hubs Fund supports local food initiatives through grants of £3,000 to eligible community fridges in the Hubbub Community Fridge Network.
💡 Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund – £5,000 – The Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund supports charitable and community-based activities or projects that meet a local need and seek to improve the lives of local people who are most in need of support.
✨ Zurich Municipal Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2025 – £10,000 – About the grant / Description: The 2025 Diversity and Inclusion awards are set to reward small charities with incomes up to £100,000, to celebrate the big impact you have on our communities.
📚 Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation – Varies – The Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation was founded by Frenkel Topping in 2015 to support individuals and their families who have experienced life-changing injuries and were unable to secure financial support.
🎨 Mayor of London – Loved and Wanted Fund – £60,000 – The Loved and Wanted Fund supports civil society organisations to promote social cohesion in London by bringing Londoners together to participate fully in community and city life.
🤝 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Networking Grant Scheme – £1,000 – The Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Networking Grant Scheme by Create Growth N2 offers funding for small-scale events fostering collaboration and growth in the creative, digital and creative technology sector.
🏆 Camden Challenge Prize 2025 – £75,000 – The Camden Challenge Prize 2025 is an innovation competition focused on reducing and managing food waste in Camden’s Hospitality and Food Service (HaFS) Sector.
🌟 Camden Community Wealth Fund — Youth Fund – £500,000 – The Camden Community Wealth Fund’s Youth Fund provides low-interest repayable loans ranging from £20,000 to £500,000 to businesses and organizations that empower young people in Camden.
🎯 Community Micro Grants – £2,000 – We are piloting this new Community Micro Grants scheme, as we recognise that writing a grant application can be an unnerving experience for those who have little or no experience of doing so.
🚀 Wildlife Wise Project Fund – £5,000 – The Wildlife Wise Project Fund supports stakeholders, partnership organisations, and voluntary/community groups to deliver projects that reduce or prevent recreational disturbance and damage on internationally important wildlife sites designated as European sites.
🌍 Town and Village Partnerships – £1,000 – Epping Forest District Council has launched Town and Village Partnerships funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to help local communities unlock funding, drive regeneration, and shape the future of high streets and neighborhoods.
💡 Better-Connected Communities Fund – £2,000 – Helping to build happy, resilient and safe communities – bringing people together! To improve the places and spaces that matter most to your community; Raise aspirations and opportunities through volunteering, training and digital skills; Increase Tenant Voice – helping communities have their say in local decision making.
✨ Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) – £15,000 – The Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) is a rural top-up to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund supporting economic growth and opportunity barriers, focusing on capital projects for small businesses and community infrastructure in rural areas.
📚 Mayor’s Active Travel Fund – Varies – The Mayor’s Active Travel Fund is a £4 million fund approved by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority to encourage more active travel in the region.
🎨 Act to Change Fund – £150,000 – Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent UK charitable foundation focused on social justice.
🤝 National Archives – Seed Corn Grants (UK) – £5,000 – Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with history and heritage.
🏆 National Archives – Archives Revealed Cataloguing Grants (UK) – £50,000 – The Cataloguing Grants programme provides grants of up to £50,000 for the cataloguing of significant archive collections held in the UK.
🌟 Youth Group Seed Funding – £10,000 – A fund to help smaller youth groups in Middlesbrough grow, develop, and become sustainable over the long term.
🎯 Live Well Community Fund: Thriving Young People – £100,000 – A grant fund from GMCA’s Live Well Community Fund , delivered by Action Together in Rochdale, aiming to help young people (aged 14-25, up to 30 for those with neurodivergence or learning needs) to thrive and reach their potential.
🚀 Access: Funding for Additional Needs & Alternative Provision – £4,500 – This programme enables state-funded Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) schools, Alternative Provision (AP) settings, or Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) in England to become licensed to deliver the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Award.
🌍 Wee Grants for Wee Groups Programme – £5,000 – Wee Grants provide revenue and capital funding up to £5,000 for one year only to constituted community groups and small charities with an annual income under £30,000.
💡 Assura Community Fund – £5,000 – Twenty £5,000 grants are available to medium-sized VCSE organisations to deliver health and wellbeing projects for unpaid carers from global majority communities in Greater Manchester between January and December 2026.
✨ Big Energy Saving Loans – £200,000 – Big Energy Saving Loans is a lending programme by Big Issue Invest offering loan finance between £20,000 to £200,000 to social enterprises and charities in England for energy efficiency and renewable energy installation.
📚 Community Wellbeing Grants – £3,000 – The Public Health Community Grant Programme offers Community Wellbeing Grants up to £3,000 to support local groups and small organisations that improve wellbeing, build connections, or create safer spaces.
🎨 SWAG Cancer Alliance – Early Diagnosis and Health Inequalities Small Grants Scheme – £15,000 – SWAG Cancer Alliance runs an Early Diagnosis and Health Inequalities Small Grants Scheme offering up to £15,000 for projects focused on improving early diagnosis and reducing health inequalities in Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon, and Gloucestershire.
🤝 Borough of Sanctuary Grant Scheme – £10,000 – The Borough of Sanctuary Grant Scheme provides grants up to £10,000 for activities lasting six to twelve months, with larger or longer grants possible in exceptional cases.
🏆 Realising a New Economy – New Economy Infrastructure – £120,000 – The New Economy Infrastructure strand, currently open for applications until September 2027, supports organisations central to economic systems change aiming for a stronger sector capable of challenging entrenched economic norms.
🌟 Realising a New Economy – Transforming Financial Systems – £120,000 – The ‘Transforming financial systems’ funding strand is open until September 2027.
🎯 Revive Community Fund – £10,000 – SUEZ and Surrey County Council jointly operate five Revive re-use shops across Surrey, selling pre-owned items and diverting over 1,000 tonnes per year from disposal.
🚀 Greenwich Neighbourhood Growth Fund – £35,000 – The Greenwich Neighbourhood Growth Fund (GNGF) is a fund using money from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to support local community projects addressing the impact of development in the area.
🌍 Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm Fund – £7,500 – The Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm Fund supports charities and community groups within a six mile radius of the wind farm near Lydd on Romney Marsh.
💡 Rother District Council Community Grants Scheme – £20,000 – The Rother District Council Community Grants Scheme supports grassroots projects that strengthen communities in Rother, promote a thriving local economy, improve wellbeing, and protect the environment.
✨ David Riddell Memorial CIO – £25,000 – The trustees will make discretionary grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 where they believe that their contribution will make a real difference to suicide awareness or prevention.
📚 Point North – Public Health Thriving Together Fund: Small Grants – £5,000 – The Thriving Together Fund (small grants) provides funding to charities and community organisations in County Durham to deliver new or sustain existing health & wellbeing projects.
🎨 Salford – Women’s Mental Health Fund – £3,500 – The Women’s Mental Health Fund is a new fund for 2025/26 established by the Women’s Mental Health Working Group, a subset of the Suicide Prevention Partnership.
🤝 Rochdale Communities Fund – Health Inequalities Fund – £5,000 – Thanks to funding from NHS GM, we are offering grants of up to £10,000 for the VCFSE sector to engage with communities experiencing racial inequality around the Covid-19 vaccine.
🏆 Powering Change – Energy Efficiency Grants for Community Organisations – £15,000 – The UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Energy Efficiency Grants for Community Organisations in North Northamptonshire offers up to £15,000 for projects that reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
🌟 Samworth Brothers Community Opportunity Fund – Varies – The Samworth Brothers Community Opportunity Fund, established in 2013, supports community and sports projects close to Samworth Brothers’ locations, focusing mainly on young people under 18, especially disadvantaged groups.
🎯 Grassroots Innovation Fund – £5,000 – The Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner has launched a new £200,000 Grassroots Innovation Fund aimed at supporting innovative projects to make Bedfordshire safer and fairer.
🚀 The Newcastle Building Society Community Fund – £5,000 – The Newcastle Building Society Community Fund supports the work of charitable organisations based in and around places it has branches across Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, Teesside, and North Yorkshire which focus on one or more of the following themes: – -Food Poverty: Helping our communities achieve food security.
🌍 The Gateshead VCSE Fund – £30,000 – Gateshead Council wants to support voluntary and community organisations to deliver services or develop and build capacity to help it deliver it’s vision for Gateshead to be a great borough, with vibrant communities, where businesses can grow, residents feel supported and live fulfilled lives and environmental impact is minimised.
💡 Superior STEM Bursary Fund – £1,500 – The overall aim is to transform the lives of the most disadvantaged young people in Dorset helping them to fulfill their potential in STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.
✨ DCF Bursary Scheme – £1,000 – Round 2 – Applications received by the 10th of October will receive a decision by late November.
📚 Nuclear Waste Services LLWR Grassroots Fund (Copeland) – £10,000 – Nuclear Waste Services LLWR Grassroots Fund provides grants for small voluntary, community groups and grassroots organisations in Copeland to continue or expand advocacy, community voice, and service provision for local people, prioritizing groups that support children and young people.
🎨 Education Fund (Cumbria) – £1,000 – Education Fund (Cumbria) provides grants to support various educational activities for disadvantaged people of any age in Cumbria.
🤝 myLakeland Community Fund (South Cumbria) – £15,000 – myLakeland Community Fund grants are for charitable organisations that improve the health and wellbeing of local people and projects that protect the environment, with priority for those located in South Cumbria.
🏆 Cumbria Tourism 50th Anniversary Fund (Cumbria) – £500 – Cumbria Tourism 50th Anniversary Fund provides grants for people aged 16 and over to help raise educational attainment and career aspirations in the Cumbrian tourism and hospitality sectors by enabling access to study, vocational training, and employment.
🌟 Age Friendly Activities Fund (Cumbria) – £5,000 – The Age Friendly Activities Fund provides small grants to remove barriers that prevent older people (50+) in South Lakeland from participating in community life.
🎯 Tyne & Wear and Northumberland – £30,000 – The Foundation provides grants primarily for organisations based in or benefiting Tyne & Wear (Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland) and Northumberland.
🚀 BCP Food & Energy Support Fund – £6,500 – The BCP Food and Energy Support Fund is funded by the UK government’s Household Support Fund and managed by Dorset Community Foundation in partnership with BCP Council.
🌍 Allied Vehicles Charitable Trust – £5,000 – Launched in January 2022, the Allied Vehicles Charitable Trust supports charity and community organisations across the UK, focusing on local initiatives in North Glasgow.
💡 Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids (Large Grants) – £1,000,000 – The Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids (Large Grants) scheme awards grants from 34,250,000 to 31 million over 1 to 3 years to improve and expand access to good quality, affordable wheelchairs and mobility equipment for disabled people in the UK.
✨ Community and Shared Transport (Large Grants) – £1,000,000 – The Community and Shared Transport (Large Grants) funding round aims to develop, expand, and improve community transport options for disabled people with grants ranging from 30,000 to 1,000,000 over 1 to 3 years.
📚 Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids (Small Grants) – £249,999 – Funding is available from £50,000 to £249,999 over 1 to 3 years to improve and expand access to good quality, affordable wheelchairs and mobility equipment for disabled people.
🎨 Community and Shared Transport (Small Grants) – £149,999 – The Community and Shared Transport (Small Grants) funding round offers grants from £50,000 to £149,999 over 1 to 3 years to develop, expand, and improve community transport options for disabled people.
🤝 Building a Resilient Community and Shared Transport Sector – £1,000,000 – This funding round supports organisations aiming to deliver innovative shared community transport projects with potential for replication or development of tools beneficial to other providers.
🏆 Public Health Thriving Together Fund: Large Grants – £25,000 – The Thriving Together Fund (large grants) provides charities and organisations in County Durham with funding to deliver new or sustain existing (beyond the life of their original funding) projects, activities, and initiatives that enable individuals to thrive, support good health and wellbeing, and addresses key public health issues.
🌟 MAG Airports Community Funds – £200 – The East Midlands Airport Community Sponsorship Fund offers small grants up to £200 to support local charities and community groups with projects and events benefiting the local community that might otherwise not take place.
🎯 Barchester Charitable Foundation – £2,500 – Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a registered charity helping older people and adults with a disability across England, Scotland, Wales, and Jersey.
🚀 Expanding Access to Driving Tuition for Disabled People – £1,000,000 – This fund aims to increase disabled people’s access to driving by funding organisations that provide driving lessons and car adaptations tailored to various disabilities.
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