We’ve rounded up 94 new grants now open to charities, CICs, and nonprofits across the UK
🌟 Our Voice, Our Community! – A Westminster Foundation Youth Panel Grants Programme – £10,000
This is a pilot grant programme designed with young people .
🎯 SWEF Enterprise Grants (Start-Up Grant) – £500
We are working in partnership with SWEF to provide business grants of up to £2,000 to young entrepreneurs in Cheshire and Warrington, aged between 18-30.
🚀 SWEF Enterprise Grants (Business Grant) – £2,000
We are working in partnership with SWEF to provide business grants of up to £2,000 to young entrepreneurs in Cheshire and Warrington, aged between 18-30.
🌍 Kynan Eldridge Fund – £500
The aim of the Kynan Eldridge Fund is to provide one-off monetary grants to young people (under the age of 30) who are using music, both modern and classical, to help them overcome personal challenges and achieve their full potential.
💡 The Bramley Fund – £100
The aim of the Bramley Fund is to support communities in Nottingham City and the Nottinghamshire County by making grants available to grow apple trees in gardens, allotments and green spaces.
✨ Dave Hartley Fund – £250
The aim of the Dave Hartley Fund is to encourage community and voluntary groups and individuals, to appreciate, learn and perform music to others.
📚 Brian Treffry and Joan Oliver Fund – £500
Supporting Talented Young Artists in Nottinghamshire.
🤝 RTC Fund – £500
The aim of the RTC Fund is to support people in Nottinghamshire’s rural areas, by making grants to community and voluntary groups serving senior citizens in their communities.
🏆 Art Fund – Student Opportunities – £10,000
The programme enables students to explore an interest in the arts alongside future career options, while providing organisations with extra capacity which is skilled and accountable.
🎨 Fidelio Charitable Trust – Grants in Support of the Arts – £5,000
Fidelio welcomes applications for grants in support of the Arts, particularly for Music, including Opera, Lieder and Composition, and Theatre.
🌟 Core Grants Programme – £150,000
The Core Grants Programme provides longer-term, flexible funding of up to three years for established organisations that are based in Southwark (or in Lambeth or Lewisham) and have a clear footprint in Southwark.
🎯 The William & Griselda Kerr Fund – £2,500
The Fund has been established to support groups that use the arts, such as music, dance and drama, to work with and help some of the most vulnerable in our society.
🚀 The Ashby Fund – £2,500
The fund will support a broad cross-section of projects and a wide variety of groups.
🌍 The Tom Carey Fund – £15,000
The fund will support a broad cross-section of projects and a wide variety of groups.
💡 British Gymnastics – Club Capital Loans – £750,000
Club Capital is a £10 million social impact investment fund that provides affordable, flexible loans to eligible gymnastics clubs with the purpose of: Moving into new dedicated gymnastics facilities, Expanding existing facilities, or Safeguarding current gymnastics facilities.
✨ Abbeyfield Carlisle Society Community First Fund – £1,000
Grants for charitable, not-for-profit groups whose projects benefit the communities within the former local authorities of Allerdale, Carlisle and Eden.
📚 Abbeyfield Carlisle Society Over 55 Community First Fund – £5,000
Grants for charitable activities that benefit people over the age of 55 in the local authorities of Allerdale, Carlisle and Eden.
🤝 Barrow Community Trust Fund – £2,000
Grants for groups with small projects which provide activities in Barrow.
🏆 Birmingham Inclusion Health Grants programme – £20,000
We are offering grants of up to £20,000, from a total fund of £100,000, to support community-led, trauma-informed interventions that improve health outcomes for some of Birmingham’s most underserved communities: sex workers veterans women from inclusion health groups men from inclusion health groups These population groups fall under a national NHS England definition of ‘inclusion health , an umbrella term used to describe people who are socially excluded, who typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors leading to poor health, such as: stigma discrimination poverty violence complex trauma
🎨 The Walbrook Fund – £2,500
The fund aims to focus on the following Groups working in geographical areas of HIGH disadvantage, where people are facing acute economic difficulties.
🌟 The John Weston Fund – £2,500
The Fund has 3 Key Strands Support to individual young people.
🎯 The Jefford Weller Fund – £2,500
The Fund was established by the Rev’d John Jefford-Weller and his wife Kathleen in 1988.
🚀 The Freemasons of Derbyshire Fund – £2,500
Priority is currently given to activities and groups that are working to promote the advancement of health and well being prevent or relieve poverty support the most vulnerable in our communities such as children and young people, the elderly and isolated or individuals with mental health problems or disabilities enhance the quality of life for people living in our local communities
🌍 The Derbyshire Volunteer Fund – £2,500
The fund has three main strands Volunteer recruitment, training and retention Training for staff and committee members to enhance the community group/charities efficiency or quality of service Projects working to increase communication and networking opportunities Priorities Encouraging people to volunteer – this includes creating more volunteering opportunities and developing ways to keep your volunteers in place Offering training – especially if the training helps staff or volunteers in one of the following areas: Networking, income generation (fundraising or social enterprise) and organisation management (any course helping with running your group) Encouraging Networking and partnership working – both within the community and voluntary sector and between voluntary groups and the private and statutory sectors.
💡 The Derbyshire High Sheriff Fund – £2,500
The Fund has 3 Key Strands Improving people’s understanding of crime, alcohol, drug and solvent abuse.
✨ Norfolk Millennium Trust for Carers – £250
The Norfolk Millennium Trust for Carers aims to offer unpaid carers a better quality of life by giving grants towards short breaks, recreational items, hobbies or leisure activities.
📚 The Nelsonspirit Future Leaders Fund – £500
Nelsonspirit is a leadership mentoring social impact business which aims to improve the quality of leadership in Norfolk for the benefit of our community.
🤝 Maddock, Leicester & Burslem Fund – £2,000
The Maddock, Leicester & Burslem Fund awards small grants and bursaries, to promote the education of young people who reside or have a parent residing within the boundaries of the City of Stoke on Trent and the Borough of Newcastle under Lyme .
🏆 Breath of Life Grants for Individuals – £500
Since 1997 Breath of Life have funded research and provided equipment and facilities to help in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients in hospital, in clinics and at home, where statutory funding was not available.
🎨 KHL Big Local Community Chest Fund – £1,600
The KHL Big Local – Community Chest Fund will offer grants of £250 to £1,600 for projects that are all about improving the wellbeing of residents based in Kingswood and Hazel Leys in Corby .
🌟 Wryde Croft Wind Farm Community Fund – £10,000
The fund offers grants of up to £10,000 for community projects benefitting residents in eligible parishes within 6km of Wryde Croft Wind Farm, Peterborough.
🎯 Woolley Hill Wind Farm Community Fund – £5,000
The Woolley Hill Wind Farm Community Fund provides investment for charitable community projects that deliver a clear local benefit in the parishes surrounding the Woolley Hill Wind Farm.
🚀 Wadlow Wind Farm Community Fund – £10,000
The Wadlow Wind Farm Community Fund offers grants to support charitable and community-focused projects that deliver tangible local benefit for residents in the eligible parishes.
🌍 Olive and Jesse Palmer Fund (Cambridgeshire) – £5,000
This fund is intended to help organisations in Peterborough that deliver positive activities and opportunities specifically for young people with learning disabilities .
💡 October Fund – £10,000
The October Fund provides grants for local community projects in Waterbeach and Landbeach.
✨ Microsoft Research Limited Fund – £5,000
The fund offers grants to voluntary and community organisations in Cambridgeshire that deliver support for people facing disadvantage.
📚 Common Barn Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund – £18,000
The Common Barn Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund provides grants to not-for-profit organisations delivering projects with public benefit to residents of Southoe and Midloe, and Diddington , in Huntingdonshire.
🤝 Cambridge Street Aid – £750
Cambridge Street Aid offers individual grants to help people with a background of living on the city’s streets.
🏆 Burnthouse Wind Farm Community Fund – £6,000
The Burnthouse Wind Farm Community Fund provides grants to support charitable and community-focused projects that benefit residents living near the Burnthouse Wind Farm in Fenland.
🎨 Thalia WB Community Fund – £50,000
The Thalia WB (formerly Amey) Community Fund is part of the national Landfill Communities Fund scheme.
🌟 Volant Charitable Trust – £45,000
The programme funds projects addressing poverty and social deprivation , with a focus on vulnerable groups including women, children, and young people .
🎯 Teme Valley Youth Project (North Herefordshire & South Shropshire)
The Teme Valley Youth Project (North Herefordshire & South Shropshire) supports projects that engage 11 to 25 year olds in social action and skills development.
🚀 Joanies Fund (England & Wales) – £3,000
Joanies Fund supports a wide range of community projects working solely with young people aged 0 to 25 in England and Wales.
🌍 Gambling Harms Prevention: Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Grant Fund
The fund is for VCSE organisations working to help prevent gambling related harm.
💡 Community Nature Recovery Grant- Small Grant – £2,000
The Community Nature Recovery Grant is aimed at supporting our communities to help local wildlife to recover, through the creation and management of habitats and species.
✨ Community Nature Recovery Grant- Large Grant – £50,000
The Community Nature Recovery Grant is aimed at supporting our communities to help local wildlife to recover, through the creation and management of habitats and species.
📚 Artys Kemeneth (Open Smaller) Grants – £1,000
Small-scale creative and arts projects that are deeply embedded within a community in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.
🤝 Climate Action Fund – Food Systems – £2,500,000
We want to fund projects that strengthen our food system and reduce food insecurity for people and communities.
🏆 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.
🎨 NHS Engagement Grant – Tameside – £3,000
The programme aims to identify and fund local organisations in Tameside to gather feedback from the people they support about NHS services in the area.
🌟 Financial Futures Fund
The Financial Futures Fund works in partnership with organisations across the UK to improve financial resilience.
🎯 Community Health Stories Small Grants Programme – £5,000
There is strong evidence that the voices of both LGBTQ+ communities and young people aged 18-25 are often missing from health and care planning.
🚀 Yelvertoft Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund – £30,000
The Yelvertoft Wind farm Community Benefit Fund has been established to provide grants to projects which benefit residents in the parishes of Clay Coton, Crick, Lilbourne or Yelvertoft.
🌍 Transformational Partnership – Initiatives Fund – £1,000,000
The Trust aims to create transformative, impact-driven partnerships with charitable organisations to empower change and improve people’s futures – focussing on increasing financial capability, opening routes to fair work and championing a natural environment.
💡 Social Opportunities for Children and Young People with SEND grant – £15,000
Children and young people with SEND in Herefordshire have told us that they want to have better access to inclusive social opportunities outside of the school day.
✨ Pitch Together Fund: Facilities Loan Scheme – £300,000
The Pitch Together Fund offers a unique solution that goes beyond just money.
📚 Age Without Limits Day 2026: Microgrants for community groups – £500
Microgrants are designed to help local community groups and voluntary organisations within Age‑friendly Communities take part in Age Without Limits Day on Wednesday 10 June 2026 .
🤝 The Prince Philip Trust Fund grants – £5,000
The Prince Philip Trust Fund particularly focuses on supporting people and projects in the area covered by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead that are involved with disability, health, the elderly, families, children and young people, those in social need and the arts.
🏆 Luton Rising New Horizons Fund – £50,000
The Luton Rising New Horizons Fund is administered by the Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), on behalf of Luton Rising.
🎨 Luton Rising Youth Fund – £50,000
The Luton Rising Youth Fund is administered by Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), on behalf of Luton Rising.
🌟 Projects Grants – £300,000
Blood Cancer UK is the UK’s largest dedicated blood cancer research charity.
🎯 Local Covenant Partnerships Fund – £11,600,000
The Local Covenant Partnerships (LCP) fund is open for applications from potential grant recipient(s) to deliver this fund.
🚀 Lisa Jardine Grant 2026 Round 1 – £8,000
The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is named in memory of the eminent British historian Professor Lisa Jardine CBE FRS.
🌍 Young and Talented Cornwall All Talent Award – £2,000
The Young and Talented Fund supports exceptional young talent in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, aiding those in sports and arts hindered by hardship or disability.
💡 Oake Sunshine Fund – £2,000
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.
✨ Community Grants – £5,000
Our Community Grants programme supports people and communities in need in Wiltshire and Swindon.
📚 Making Local Life Better Fund – £3,000
The Making Local Life Better Fund is made up of money from individual and corporate donors and seeks to prioritise smaller grassroots community, voluntary and charitable groups improving the lives of local people, particularly those who are vulnerable, under-represented or disadvantaged.
🤝 Surrey Young People’s Fund – £350
The Surrey Young People’s Fund seeks to improve the life chances of young people in Surrey aged between 16 and 25 who may be experiencing disadvantage by providing targeted grants to enable qualifying individuals to access opportunities for work, education, training, and personal development.
🏆 Carers Support (Guildford) Fund – £250
The Carers Support (Guildford) Fund is a dedicated initiative under Guildford Philanthropy, designed to provide small grants to carers (aged 18 and over) living in the Borough of Guildford.
🎨 David Tyson Memorial Fund – £500
The David Tyson Memorial Fund provides grants between £100 – £500 to encourage and support young people aged 14-25 from Surrey and surrounding counties to pursue careers in railway systems engineering, which may include computer design systems, civil engineering and rolling stock engineering.
🌟 Westdene Fund – £1,000
Grants support a specific activity or object for example: consultation lessons, a masterclass, participation in a National Youth Orchestra, a County music tour, or a contribution to the cost of a better grade instrument.
🎯 General grants
The General Grants programme provides charitable funding across a broad spectrum of community and social welfare activities that benefit local communities and disadvantaged groups .
🚀 Training & Careers in Construction 2026 – £50,000
The Shanly Foundation Training and Careers in Construction annual fund is open to charitable organisations that help people start their journey towards a career in construction.
🌍 Organisation Grant – £5,000
We welcome applications from local charitable, voluntary and community organisations working to help and support people living within our area of benefit.
💡 Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences – £25,000
The Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) program supports charities helping children, young people, and parents overcome trauma from ACEs through evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions.
✨ Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund – £3,000
Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund grants are awarded from the earnings of a number of endowment funds, which are created from contributions by individuals, companies and trusts and managed by Heart of England Community Foundation.
📚 Tipton Education Fund (Large Grants) – £10,000
The Tipton Education Fund was established to raise the educational attainment of Tipton.
🤝 Tipton Education Fund (Small Grants) – £3,000
The Tipton Education Fund was established to raise the educational attainment of Tipton.
🏆 Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire (CSW) Communities Fund – £3,000
The Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Communities Fund grants are awarded from the earnings of the Foundation’s own endowment fund.
🎨 Alan Higgs Community Grants – £1,000
The Alan Edward Higgs Charity has been making grants to charities across the West Midlands since 1979.
🌟 Coventry Building Society Small Grants – £2,000
The aim of the fund is to support projects addressing the local needs in Coventry which will enable the community to be better off through life.
🎯 Edgbaston & Northfield NNS Fund for Older Adults (50+) – £10,000
Neighbourhood Network Schemes are locality and constituency-based networks funded by Birmingham City Council which enable the engagement with and investment in community assets.
🚀 Pride in Place Impact Fund – Small Grants (Burnley) – £20,000
Burnley Council has opened two Pride in Place grant schemes to support local projects that improve neighbourhoods and community facilities.
🌍 Pride in Place Impact Fund – Community Capital Grants (Gateshead) – £30,000
There are three core objectives for the Pride in Place Impact Fund: community spaces: investing in community facilities gives local people greater control over the spaces that matter to them – refurbishing or taking ownership of underused but valued buildings enables communities to create welcoming places for connection, support, and shared activity.
💡 QFUTURES Community Fund (North Yorkshire) – £20,000
The QFUTURES Community Fund aims to make a real difference to people living and working in rural communities, recognising the importance of strong, integrated local communities.
✨ St Agatha’s Community Kickstart Fund – £1,000
We aim to help churches with their mission to support their community, including those serving vulnerable populations.
📚 Youth Support Grant (Diocese of Sheffield) – £2,500
The Hollowford Trust is a Christian Trust Fund managed by members of the Anglican Church in the Diocese of Sheffield (which covers most of the county of South Yorkshire, and small parts of East Riding, North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire).
🤝 An Suidhe Wind Farm Community Fund – £9,000
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.
🏆 Fermanagh Recreational Trust Grants
The Fermanagh Recreational Trust supports the organisation, development and funding of sporting / arts based activities and facilities in Co.
🎨 The Greg Turley Bursary Awards
Greg Turley was a special unique individual who contributed so much to the lives of others; so much so, that this Fund was established as a way of perpetuating his memory, and of continuing his work of helping others in a practical way.
🌟 The Fisher Foundation Voluntary Work Overseas (County Fermanagh)
The Fisher Foundation provides funding in two main areas: Voluntary Work Overseas Support for young people and local volunteers undertaking voluntary work overseas (e.g., with The Leprosy Mission, Trocaire, Church Missionary Society).
🎯 Help Our Health Heroes Fund (County Fermanagh)
Fund Objective The Fund is open to organisations and agencies who require support to improve the well-being of health and social care and home care personnel including volunteers.
🚀 The Greatham Foundation Grants Programme (2026 Round) – £3,000
The programme supports activities that: Empower communities to strengthen local resilience and self‑support.
🌍 Go! London x NFL Foundation UK Grant Fund – £55,000
Funds Flag Football projects that improve opportunities, wellbeing and participation for young people in London.
