We’ve rounded up 56 new open grants for charities, CICs, and nonprofits across the UK – from national funding programmes to local community grants.
🌟 EDF Power Solutions Burnhead Moss Wind Farm Community Fund (Avonbridge and Standburn) – £4,500 – The EDF Power Solutions Burnhead Moss Wind Farm Community Fund (Avonbridge and Standburn)
🎯 EDF Power Solutions Burnhead Moss Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Limerigg & Slamannan) – £4,500 – The EDF Power Solutions Burnhead Moss Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Limerigg & Slamannan) supports community projects benefiting residents of Limerigg and Slamannan.
🚀 Endowments Investing Challenge – £50,000,000 – The Endowments Investing Challenge 2026 is a public tender process aimed at selecting an investment service provider to manage investment funds totaling up to £50 million.
🌍 Halkirk District Benefit Fund – £25,000 – Halkirk District Benefit Fund provides community benefit to individuals residing in and to groups operating in the Benefit Fund area.
💡 Halsary Windfarm Community Benefit Fund – £10,000 – The Halsary Windfarm Community Benefit Fund is provided by ScottishPower Renewables, owners and operators of the Halsary Windfarm, offering approximately £30,000 annually for 25 years.
✨ Annandale & Nithsdale Community Benefit Company Fund – £20,000 – Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company (ANCBC) is funded by the ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund for Harestanes Windfarm in Dumfries and Galloway.
📚 Denny & District Community Fund – £10,000 – The Denny & District Community Fund supports community projects benefiting residents within the Denny & District Community Council area in Falkirk.
🎨 Brent Giving Grants – £10,000 – Brent Giving Grant programme focuses on tackling poverty in Brent, specifically in Harlesden, South Kilburn, Stonebridge, and St Raphael’s.
🤝 Daysix – Make It Happen: Creative and Digital Services – £10,000 – About this fund: Daysix – Make It Happen: Creative and Digital Services is a fund designed to support creative and digital projects that aim to make a significant impact.
🏆 Gloucestershire – Grassroots Neighbourhood Fund – £5,000 – The Grassroots Neighbourhood Fund aims to support community initiatives that improve health and wellbeing, create resilient communities, and tackle health inequalities in Gloucestershire.
🌟 Stoke-on-Trent – UK Shared Prosperity Fund: Small Community Event Grant – £1,000 – The Small Community Event Grants programme by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), offers grants from £500 to £1,000 for community events that bring people together and celebrate local pride.
🎯 Dormant Assets for All – £20,000 – This funding is for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in Northern Ireland.
🚀 Houses Foundation Grants – £250,000 – The Historic Houses Foundation provides grants for repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including gardens, grounds, outbuildings, and works of art in historic house collections open to the public.
🌍 EDF Power Solutions Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Small grants under £5,000) – £5,000 – The EDF Power Solutions Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports charitable activities benefiting residents in the areas served by Cabrach Community Association, Dufftown and District Community Association, Glenlivet & Inveravon Community Association, and Glenrinnes Community Centre, covering Dufftown, Auchindoun, Glenrinnes, Glenlivet, Inveravon, and Cabrach.
💡 EDF Power Solutions Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Grants over £5,000) – £30,000 – The EDF Power Solutions Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports charitable activities benefiting residents in the areas served by Cabrach Community Association, Dufftown and District Community Association, Glenlivet & Inveravon Community Association, and Glenrinnes Community Centre, covering Dufftown, Auchindoun, Glenrinnes, Glenlivet, Inveravon, and Cabrach.
✨ Hidden Voices Programme – £25,000 – The Hidden Voices Programme is an initiative that awards grants to support projects which amplify underrepresented voices in media and storytelling.
📚 Apart, not Alone: Support for Serving Families Facing Service-Related Separation Programme 2025-26 – £50,000 – Projects should meet outcomes such as managing loneliness/isolation, easing reintegration challenges, improving mental health and wellbeing, or enhancing understanding of support models.
🎨 Minnygap Community Fund (Small Grant) – £600 – The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living within the Johnstone, Templand, and Kirkpatrick Juxta community council areas.
🤝 Essex Community Initiative Fund – Micro Grants – £1,000 – The Essex CIF Micro Grant Fund awards micro-grants up to £1,000 to parish & town councils, community groups, clubs, societies and voluntary organisations to improve local communities.
🏆 RWE Bad á Cheò Wind Farm Community Fund (Latheron, Lybster and Clyth) – £5,000 – The RWE Bad á Cheò Wind Farm Community Fund supports charitable activities benefiting the Latheron, Lybster, and Clyth Community Council area in Caithness.
🌟 Hadyard Hill Community Fund (Dailly) (Large Grant) – £25,000 – Hadyard Hill Community Fund (Dailly), is funded by SSE community benefit funding from the Hadyard Hill wind farm in South Ayrshire.
🎯 Lee Valley Regional Park Authority – Active Communities Grant Scheme – £5,000 – The Active Communities Grant Scheme by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority provides financial assistance to long-term projects promoting physical activity across the park’s sports and leisure venues and green spaces.
🚀 Carrick Futures (South Ayrshire)- Large Grants – Varies – The fund primarily support projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of the six community council areas of Ballantrae, Colmonell & Lendalfoot, Barr, Barrhill, Dailly, Pinmore & Pinwherry and Girvan & District.
🌍 Carrick Futures (South Ayrshire)- Standard Grants – £50,000 – The fund primarily support projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of the six community council areas of Ballantrae, Colmonell & Lendalfoot, Barr, Barrhill, Dailly, Pinmore & Pinwherry and Girvan & District.
💡 Lee Valley Regional Park Authority Community Access Fund – £1,000 – The Community Access Fund offers free access or free travel to Lee Valley Regional Park venues and services for not-for-profit organisations, registered charities, voluntary/community organisations, or companies based in London, Essex, or Hertfordshire, excluding traditional sports clubs.
✨ Microgrants Fund – £500 – For community groups of every size are carrying out amazing work across Norfolk.
📚 Freebridge Community Housing Fund – £5,000 – Freebridge Community Housing is committed to developing homes and creating opportunities in West and North Norfolk.
🎨 Norfolk Offshore Wind Farms Community Fund – £10,000 – The Norfolk Offshore Wind Farms Community Fund provides grants up to £10,000 from a £90,000 pot for projects in Zone 1 parishes closest to the wind farm infrastructure.
🤝 You Can Learning Innovation Fund – £20,000 – The You Can Learning Innovation Fund offers up to £20,000 for two bold and innovative learning projects in Doncaster.
🏆 Suffolk Community Foundation – Surviving Winter – £5,000 – Surviving Winter is Suffolk Community Foundation’s annual appeal to support vulnerable people through the coldest months of the year.
🌟 Strategic Partnerships Grant – £15,000 – The Strategic Partnerships Grant by Milton Keynes Community Foundation starts at £15,000 and is delivered by organisations central to Milton Keynes’ community infrastructure.
🎯 Sapling Grants – £5,000 – Sapling Grants are designed to develop and strengthen community projects and emerging organizations with clear local benefits in Milton Keynes.
🚀 Seed Grants – £750 – Seed Grants support early-stage ideas that test new ways of working, promote community voice, and strengthen grassroots action.
🌍 Thriving Communities Fund – £7,500 – The Thriving Communities fund supports not-for-profit groups to create cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities through two grants: Strengthening Place grant (focused on health, wellbeing, social inclusion, community safety, environment, and sustainability) and Skills and Learning grant (focused on community digital support, financial skills and resilience, family learning, and food education).
💡 Strengthening Place Grant – £7,500 – The Strengthening Place grant by Sovereign Network Group (SNG) is part of the Thriving Communities Fund aimed at improving customer wellbeing and developing thriving, resilient communities through place-based grants.
✨ The Household Support Fund (HSF 2025 Tranche 7 Round Three) – £10,000 – This funding has been provided by Kirklees Council and will be administered and distributed by One Community Foundation.
📚 Enfield Heritage Grant – £15,000 – A grants programme (budget of £118,000 ) for community and voluntary organisations in Enfield to run heritage projects that record, share, and celebrate the borough’s diverse heritage.
🎨 Better Youth Spaces – £100,000 – Better Youth Spaces.
🤝 Community Grants Programme – £400 – Through its Community Grants programme, the family run bakery business Warburtons provides a limited number of grants of up to £400, four times a year.
🏆 Beyond The Bin Fund – £45,000 – The Beyond the Bin Fund is offering financial support for projects that aim to increase the recycling or reuse of on-the-go paper cups in the UK.
🌟 The Road Safety Trust- Small Grant – £50,000 – – The main aim of the Small Grants Programme is to improve road safety at a local level.
🎯 Congregational & General Charitable Trust Grant – £25,000 – – We give grants for all sorts of building projects.
🚀 Digital Divide – The Access Foundation Grant – £50,000 – The Access Foundation awards grants to charities and not-for-profit organisations to mitigate the digital divide by supporting projects that make IT facilities, support, and learning accessible to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
🌍 Carrick Futures (South Ayrshire)- Small Grants – £5,000 – The fund primarily support projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of the six community council areas of Ballantrae, Colmonell & Lendalfoot, Barr, Barrhill, Dailly, Pinmore & Pinwherry and Girvan & District.
💡 Haventus Ardersier Port Community Benefit Fund (Highland) – £10,000 – Ardersier Port Community Benefit Fund supports community projects benefitting those living in the areas covered by the Community Councils of: Petty and Ardersier, Cawdor and West Nairnshire, Croy and Culloden Moor and Nairn West and Suburban.
✨ Subs for Clubs Fund – £1,000 – Subs for Clubs aims to help young people most affected by the cost-of-living rises to continue to participate in out-of-school activities like sport, art, and uniformed activities.
📚 Laudes Foundation Partnership Programme (Above 100,000) – £500,000 – The funding is intended to support the Foundation’s ‘focus on driving a just transition in four key industries with outsized impact on climate change, nature loss and inequality: built environment, finance and capital markets, fashion and food’.
🎨 Serving Families: On the Move programme 2025-26 – £120,000 – Under the Serving Families: On the Move programme, the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust aimed at improving the quality of life for newly relocated service families impacted by relocation due to service life.
🤝 David and Averil Macdonald Fund (Argyll and Bute, Moray, West Lothian) – Varies – The David and Averil Macdonald fund was set up to support charitable activity supporting communities in Islay, Tain, Elgin and Livingston.
🏆 Weston Windfarm Community Fund – £5,000 – The Fund is designed to support projects which benefit the residents the parishes of Weston Longville, Morton on the Hill, Attlebridge and Hockering.
🌟 Villages Windfarm Community Fund (Holton, Sotherton and Westhall) – £5,000 – The Villages Community Fund aims to support projects which will benefit the residents of the parishes of Holton, Sotherton and Westhall.
🎯 Achlachan Wind Farm Community Fund (Highland) – £10,000 – Foundation Scotland exists to benefit disadvantaged communities by making grants to support relevant charitable or voluntary organisations, which make a difference to their local communities.
🚀 Hadyard Hill Community Fund (Dailly) (Standard Grant) – £15,000 – Hadyard Hill Community Fund (Dailly), is funded by SSE community benefit funding from the Hadyard Hill wind farm in South Ayrshire.
🌍 Minnygap Community Fund (Standard Grant) – £12,000 – The Minnygap Community Fund supports community projects benefitting those living within the Johnstone, Templand, and Kirkpatrick Juxta community council areas.
💡 Stroupster Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund (Highlands) – £25,000 – This fund supports a wide range of charitable activity and development that principally benefit the residents of the Dunnet & Canisbay Community Council area in Caithness.
✨ Tannach and District Wind Farm Trust (Highlands) – £25,000 – The Tannach and District Wind Farm Trust, formed in partnership between Tannach and District Community Council and Foundation Scotland, offers grants of up to £25,000 to benefit the Tannach and District community in the Highland area of Scotland.
