As this is our final funding round-up before Christmas, I wanted to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who’s followed, shared, and used Fundin this year.
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Here is the full list of updates this week:
🌟 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) – £50,000
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides grants to community‑based organisations for sustainable development projects
🎯 Theatre Breakthrough Fund (North)
The Theatre Breakthrough Fund (North) is a new fund of approximately £2,000,000 to support Black, Asian and ethnically diverse theatre makers in the North to make ambitious new work.
🚀 LHF Grants Programme (London) – £35,000
At LHF we use much of our annual income to fund projects and organisations based in London which work directly with people who are homeless.
🌍 Delivery partner – maternal and mental health services – £370,000
Impact on Urban Health and NHS South East London (SEL) have partnered to improve health outcomes and experiences for Black communities across maternal and mental health services in south east London.
💡 Evaluation partner – maternal and mental health services – £250,000
Impact on Urban Health and NHS South East London (NHS SEL) have partnered to improve health outcomes and experiences for Black communities across maternal and mental health services in south east London.
✨ Small Grants Programme – £7,500
Theatres Trust’s Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, funds small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences.
📚 Earth Raise – £100,000
The climate crisis demands urgent action.
🤝 The Homity Trust – Grant – £1,000
The Homity Trustees have no fixed agenda on awarding grants, just a commitment to provide financial support where a need is identified.
🏆 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.
🎨 Green Roots Fund – £500,000
The Green Roots programme aims to help nature thrive in the city by giving London communities active ways to transform their local spaces.
🌟 Anchor Fund – £85,000
The purpose of the Alliance is to shift power and money to young people, so they can organise together to create change.
🎯 Young People’s Vocational Development Charities Programme – £10,000
We fund programmes of work which help ‘NEET’ young people get ready for, and move into, employment.
🚀 Tesco Stronger Starts – £1,500
Tesco Stronger Starts supports local grassroots projects that help children, young people, families, and communities thrive — particularly where a food element or wellbeing benefit is part of the work.
🌍 Garfield Weston Foundation – Grant – £100,000
Garfield Weston Foundation is a family founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide range of charities across the UK.
💡 Boost Charitable Trust (Small & Large Awards) – £7,000
Boost provides funding and support to inspiring programmes which help improve the lives of the disadvantaged and disabled through the power of sport.
✨ Barchester’s Charitable Foundation Grant (Individuals and Group) – £2,600
Barchester’s Charitable Foundation provide important help for older people and adults living with a disability to connect or reconnect with others in their local community.
📚 HCF Emergency Relief Fund – £500
The HCF Emergency Relief Fund provides vital support to individuals and families affected by flooding or any other natural disasters.
🤝 Daiwa Foundation Small Grants – £9,000
Daiwa Foundation Small Grants can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, and other projects and events that fulfil this broad objective.
🏆 Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies 2026
The Daiwa Scholarship in Japanese Studies aims to support UK nationals who are pursuing or planning to pursue postgraduate degrees in Japanese Studies at universities in the UK or Japan.
🎨 SMART (Scotland) – £100,000
The SMART: SCOTLAND grant is one of our research and development (R&D) grants that aims to support high-risk, highly ambitious projects.
🌟 Wales Micro Loan Fund – £50,000
The Wales Micro Loan Fund is funded through The Development Bank of Wales to support small and medium sized enterprises.
🎯 Angels Invest Wales – £350,000
We help businesses find the financial investment required for growth.
🚀 Emeritus Fellowships – £24,000
The Leverhulme Trust Board, through its Research Awards Advisory Committee, is offering approximately 20 Emeritus Fellowships.
🌍 Criminal Justice Programme – £100,000
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charity using all its resources for social justice.
💡 Rufford Small Grants – £18,000
Projects can focus on particular species, threatened habitats or issues like human-wildlife conflict or community education.
✨ Philip Henman Trust – Grant – £25,000
The Philip Henman Trust offers grants to those concerned with long-term overseas development and requiring partnership funding for projects lasting between three and five years.
📚 Ibrahim Foundation – Grant Making Programmes – £10,000
The Ibrahim Foundation’s grant programme aims to fund projects that help transform communities and strengthen social infrastructure.
🤝 Vintners’ Foundation Grants – £5,000
The Vintners’ Foundation grants are small grant awards designed to support London-focused charitable activities that help disadvantaged people, address social issues (e.g., homelessness, alcohol misuse), and strengthen community wellbeing.
🏆 Turners Court Youth Trust Grants – £5,000
Grants support activities and projects that make a demonstrable positive difference to disadvantaged children and young people in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
🎨 The Joseph Rank Trust Grants
Grants support charitable activities aligned with advancing the Christian faith and practical service to communities — including mission outreach, education, care, and spiritual support.
🌟 Westhill Endowment Grants – £20,000
Westhill consider support for a wide range of projects and have particular interests in activities involving formal and informal religious education, projects utilising the creative and performing arts, and projects facilitating interfaith activity.
🎯 Quarterly Research Grant Funding Programme – £250,000
Curing Parkinson’s needs world-class collaborative science involving researchers, clinicians, the pharmaceutical industry and, most importantly, people who are living with Parkinson’s.
🚀 Colwinston Charitable Trust Grant – £20,000
AIMS: What does the Trust seek to achieve?
🌍 General Grant Programme
BWCF supports small-to-medium sized charities working directly for the benefit of disadvantaged children.
💡 World Traders Charitable Trust Grants – £5,000
Objectives of the Trust: To promote World Trade in all its aspects.
✨ Andy Fanshawe Memorial Trust Grants – £400
The AFMT awards grants to disadvantaged young people to develop an existing interest and experience in adventurous outdoor activities.
📚 The Dickie Bird Foundation Grant – £500
The vision of the Foundation is to assist young people under 16 years of age to participate, to the best of their ability, in the sport of their choice irrespective of their social circumstances, culture or ethnicity and to ensure that, in doing so, they improve their chances both inside and outside sport.
🤝 Concertina – Music Grants for Older People (England & Wales) – £250
The charity is particularly keen to support smaller organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding.
🏆 War Memorials Trust – £20,000
War Memorials Trust has been giving grants since 1998.
🎨 General Charitable Grants – £2,000
Grants support charitable causes aligned with the Trust’s objectives: aiding disadvantaged individuals (especially the young) , supporting local conservation work , and expedition projects .
🌟 Ready For The Future Grants – £10,000
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund is looking to provide financial support to people to undertake a course of further study to develop or acquire skills currently in short supply or under developed in transport sector.
🎯 Achlachan Wind Farm Community Fund (Highland) – £10,000
This fund is provided by Whirlwind Renewables, developers of the Achlachan Wind Farm.
🚀 Help the Homeless Grant Scheme – £5,000
Help the Homeless is a grant-giving trust, founded in 1975, to help homeless people off the streets and enable them to live healthy, independent lives.
🌍 Grants for Good Fund – £5,000
Grants for Good is funded by the John Good Group and is designed to direct funding only to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment.
💡 Community Grants – £500
We could help fund your local group or project with a non-repayable grant to help out.
✨ Support for Travel Training Schemes – £1,000,000
Support for Travel Training Schemes funding by Motability Foundation aims to increase disabled people’s confidence in travelling by supporting organisations delivering and growing impactful travel support programmes.
📚 Better Access to Active Travel Experiences and Equipment – £1,000,000
The Better Access to Active Travel Experiences and Equipment fund aims to improve active travel options for disabled people, defined as travel using personal effort such as walking, cycling, and mobility aids.
🤝 Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids (Large Grants) – £2,000,000
This funding round aims to make an impact by awarding grants to improve and expand access to good quality, affordable wheelchairs and mobility equipment for disabled people.
🏆 Better Access to Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids (Small Grants) – £249,999
This funding round aims to make an impact by awarding grants to improve and expand access to good quality, affordable wheelchairs and mobility equipment for disabled people.
🎨 Halsary Windfarm Community Benefit Fund – £10,000
The fund is provided by ScottishPower Renewables, the company that owns and operates the Halsary Windfarm.
🌟 Chrysalis Trust – £10,000
The Chrysalis Trust was established in 2009 and makes grants to UK registered charities and other organisations that carry out charitable activities providing public benefit.
🎯 The Clare Milne Trust – £14,999
All projects must benefit children, young people or adults with a disability who live in Devon or Cornwall.
🚀 Expression Of Interest – Gambling harms prevention levy funding for the Voluntary Sector – £2,000,000
This is an expression of interest.
🌍 Barrow Rising: Work and Health Fund (Adult Support)- Single – £50,000
Grants for charitable organisations to support adults experiencing health-related challenges to employment, helping them connect with community services and create clear pathways towards gaining or sustaining meaningful employment.
💡 Barrow Rising: Work and Health Fund (Adult Support)- Partnership – £100,000
Grants for charitable organisations to support adults experiencing health-related challenges to employment, helping them connect with community services and create clear pathways towards gaining or sustaining meaningful employment.
✨ Sanctuary Sustainable Communities Programme – £3,000
Each year our Sustainable Communities Programme invests £1.4 million in initiatives which build resilience and connection for our customers and their communities.
📚 Enterprise Programme – Support for Starting a Business
Aged 18 to 30 and have a business idea you’re passionate about?
🤝 Wolfson Fabric Repair Grants (Large) – £10,000
The Wolfson Foundation grants can be allocated to fabric repairs at church buildings of all Christian denominations.
🏆 Partnership Visit Fund – £1,000
The Partnership Visit Fund supports staff planning visits to set up new or foster on-going partnerships between schools and youth groups in the UK and Germany.
🎨 Disabled Children’s Holiday Grant (Group)
The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.
🌟 Disabled Children’s Holiday Grant (Individual)
The Adamson Trust is a long established Perthshire charity based in Crieff.
🎯 Theatre Tax Relief Cashflow Loans – £500,000
The Arts & Culture Impact Fund (ACIF) is now providing loans to not-for-profit theatre organisations to cashflow Theatre Tax Relief (TTR) claims.
🚀 Greaves & Withey Foundation Grants
Greaves & Withey Foundation Registered Charity Number 1177028, (previously known as the Robin Greaves Foundation).
🌍 Medlock Charitable Trust Grants – £50,000
The Medlock Charitable Trust is a grant-making organisation focused on supporting all sectors of the community and alleviating deprivation in the UK.
💡 Eastern Counties Educational Trust Grants
The objects of the charity are the education, welfare and care of those with special educational needs, particularly those under 25 who have emotional and behavioural difficulties.
✨ Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Trust Grants – £5,000
Quaker values of simplicity, equality, justice, peace and care of the environment underpin the grant making policy.
📚 The Elmgrant Trust Grants – £3,000
The Elmgrant Trust is a charity which makes grants for charitable purposes to individuals living in the south west of England and to organisations and groups with projects in the south west.
🤝 Free Trees for Schools and Communities
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.
🏆 The Galloway Association of Glasgow – £3,000
The funding supports a wide range of non-commercial initiatives that benefit the Galloway region’s people and communities.
That’s it for this year’s funding updates.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a well-deserved break. 🎄✨
