We’ve added 96 new funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Independent Living Fund (for care leavers)
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 20 Feb 2026
Overview: The Fund can offer support to care leavers (aged 18-25) in Norfolk only. The Fund cannot offer support to children in care under the age of 18.
The Ramsgate Pride in Place Programme
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 23 Feb 2026
Overview: This funding stream supports small creative projects that help tell Ramsgate’s story and bring the town’s Pride in Place vision to life. Projects might include art, music, film, writing, digital content, performance, craft, heritage storytelling, or other creative expressions rooted in the five programme values: Belonging, Pride, Care, Action, Thrive.
Boosting Advice Fund: Round 3
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: 25 Feb 2026
Overview: We want to support local organisations that can provide advice to older people in financial hardship and ensure access to essential support and guidance. Building on the success of our first two Boosting Advice funds in 2024 and 2025, we are excited to offer further local grants in a new round for 2026.
Live Well Fund: Centres, Spaces and Offers Rochdale
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 25 Feb 2026
Overview: A community grant aimed at supporting local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations in the Rochdale borough to develop or strengthen community‑focused spaces, centres, or offers that help people Live Well . “Live Well” means ensuring everyday support is accessible across neighbourhoods, tackling inequality, reducing barriers, and improving health and wellbeing, connection, belonging,.
Croxley Green Community Grant Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: Thrive Homes, in partnership with Howarth Construction, has launched a new community grant fund to support local projects and community groups across the Three Rivers District area. The fund forms part of the Grove Court redevelopment project in Croxley Green and will provide grants of up to £500 to initiatives that help strengthen communities, improve wellbeing and create opportunities for local residents.
Sheringham Shoal Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: The Sheringham Shoal Community Fund will support projects proposed by groups inspired to do something new and positive in their community. Projects should focus on one or more of the following objectives: To contribute to reducing climate change.
Small Grants Programme – Wirral CVS
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: This fund is provided by Wirral Council Public Health and administered by Wirral CVS. This fund aims to support a variety of projects and activities across Wirral that: Improve physical and mental well-being.
Better World Books Literacy Grants 2026
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Each year, Better World Books is honored to support literacy-focused organizations through our annual Literacy Grants. As a company committed to the pursuit of knowledge, we celebrate the essential role that libraries of all types play in sparking curiosity, connection, and a lifelong passion for reading.
Magdalen Hospital Trust Grant
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Grants are intended to promote the welfare of vulnerable children and young adults (under 25), especially those facing social deprivation, abuse, inadequate housing, lack of education or training, unemployment, or family disruption. Projects can include those that provide: training for work and personal development, clubs and play schemes, safeguarding education, mental health support and counselling, emergency care.
Sea-Changers Coastal Fountain Fund 2026
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: The Coastal Fountain Fund supports the purchase and installation of water refill fountains in coastal areas across the UK to: Reduce environmental harm caused by single-use plastic water bottles. Provide free accessible drinking water in busy or sensitive coastal locations.
Blackridge Community Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 1 Mar 2026
Overview: The Blackridge Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in the Blackridge community council area. The fund is a vehicle through which several different funds are administered, including those provided by: Gresham House, the owners of Torrance Wind Farm.
Scholarship schemes
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 1 Mar 2026
Overview: The David Snowdon Trust scholarship support is offered to individuals (students) who require financial assistance during higher education studies. One example includes a recipient supported through an Ulverston Scholarship while completing a veterinary degree.
The David Snowdon Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 1 Mar 2026
Overview: The David Snowdon Trust was established by a Declaration of Trust dated 5 October 1999 whose objects are such general charitable purposes as the Trustees shall think fit. The charity was founded by Cumbrian businessman David Snowdon and incorporates a charity founded by the late Neville Talbot, a Lake District hotelier.
HPC Community Fund Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: Hinkley Point C (HPC) is one of the biggest developments that Somerset has ever seen. Building work started in 2017 and is expected to continue until at least 2027.
Hartlepool Community Asset Capital Improvement Grant
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: Hartlepool has been successful in securing up to £20 million over the next ten years through the Government’s Pride in Place programme. This long-term investment presents a significant opportunity for the community to address their local priorities and create lasting, positive change for residents.
Healthy Young Minds Fund
Amount: Up to £6,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: The Healthy Young Minds Fund is open only to members of the Healthy Young Minds Coalition (previously known as the Sir Norman Lamb Mental Health and Wellbeing Coalition) The programme is focused on strengthening and enhancing community youth provision to support the mental wellbeing and resilience of children and young people in Norfolk. This year the priority for the fund has been determined by the Flourish 2024.
Mendip Hills Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: The aim of this Fund is to offer grants so that your group can provide targeted services to: • conserve and enhance the landscape • promote public understanding and enjoyment of the Mendip Hills • support the social and economic wellbeing of the Mendip Hills. If you can do that, then you can use this grant for the following: • maintenance and management of natural or historic features • small capital costs, like.
Victims Code Innovation Fund: Know Your Rights West Midlands 2026-2027
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: This fund supports creative, innovative, grassroots projects and Community Interest Groups that help victims of crime understand and exercise their rights under the Victims’ Code. We are looking for organisations with fresh ideas that make rights practical, visible, and accessible in everyday community settings.
Wandsworth – MMRV Outreach in the Community Fund
Amount: Up to £800
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: We are offering small grants to local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations to host community-led activities that explore views, experiences and questions around the MMRV (Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella) vaccine. We recognise that VCS organisations are trusted spaces within their communities and are best placed to create safe, informal environments where honest conversations can take place.
Charitable Giving
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 4 Mar 2026
Overview: In addition to venture commitment to supporting education, care for older people, and social enterprise, SMV has a tradition of supporting a broad range of local causes that benefit Greater Bristol. The venture also manage numerous trusts and funds on behalf of other charitable organisations.
Genting Good Causes Fund 2025/26
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 8 Mar 2026
Overview: The Genting Good Causes Fund grants programme is available to all not-for-profit organisations, including voluntary, community, and faith-based groups operating in Newham, that support the development of safe, prosperous, and healthy communities. The Good Causes Funds are designed to facilitate a wide range of initiatives, encompassing education, conservation, environmental projects, as well as music, sport, and.
Building Skills for Better Futures Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: Grants of up to £10,000 are available for activities that help young people up to the age of 25 to build skills to improve their employability prospects and enable them to thrive. Funders are especially interested in projects supporting young people facing additional barriers to education and employment.
HPC Community Fund Open Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: Hinkley Point C (HPC) is one of the biggest developments that Somerset has ever seen. Building work started in 2017 and is expected to continue until at least 2027.
People Positive Community Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: The People Positive Community Fund, which is managed by The London Community Foundation, is a new fund created by Grosvenor in 2026. The aim of the fund is to support charities and community groups addressing priority local issues and benefitting people most in need.
The EDF Energy Renewables Barmoor Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: The EDF Energy Renewables Barmoor Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund at the Community Foundation makes grants to voluntary and community organisations based within a ten-kilometre radius of the Barmoor Wind Farm, with priority given to those within a five-kilometre radius. The Fund will also consider applications from organisations based outside of the 10km radius, if they clearly demonstrate direct benefit to.
The Edwin Easydorchik Travelling Scholarship
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: This scholarship provides a travel bursary for exceptional young visual artists to travel outside the UK in order to enhance their artistic practice and creative development. Recipients have used the award to undertake international travel for research, cultural learning, artistic inspiration, and creative exploration as part of their visual art practice .
The Pride of Enfield fund
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: Enfield Council has been awarded £1.5m from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) through the Pride in Place Impact fund. This funding offers a significant opportunity to make real improvements and allow investment in the areas that matter most to residents and businesses.
Together to Thrive Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 11 Mar 2026
Overview: The Together to Thrive Fund is designed to upskill a new generation of fundraisers within small to medium Norfolk voluntary and community organisations (VCSEs). It provides training and mentoring on fundraising strategies, including grant, individual and business fundraising, delivered through partner organisations (Felton Fundraising & Appeals; Creativity Unbound).
Breckland Council Inspiring Communities 2025/26
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 12 Mar 2026
Overview: Breckland Council Inspiring Communities is a match funding scheme providing grants of up to £5,000 for groups working in Breckland District. Applicants can apply for a maximum of 50% of the total project cost therefore match funding is required.
Blackford Community Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: The Blackford Community Fund is a charitable fund to benefit residents of the Blackford Community Council area in Perth & Kinross local authority. The Fund has been created with a donation by Ochil Developments (the developer of the G West development near Blackford) to Blackford Community Council, and community benefit funds provided by EDF Power Solutions, owner of the Burnfoot Hill, Burnfoot North and Rhodders.
Community Grants & Small Community Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 15 Mar 2026
Overview: This grant scheme supports other UK charities that deliver services, programmes, or research focussed on helping children who have communication challenges, speech or language delays, hearing impairments, or complex communication needs. Typical activities funded may include: Providing speech and language therapy support in community or preschool settings Funding specialist support workers for children with.
Bishop Fox’s Educational Foundation
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: This Fund is to help young people in and around Taunton achieve their goals. We’re interested in supporting you to pay for things like: books on your college or university reading list specialist equipment needed for your area of study, such as a laptop tools and clothing to help you undertake an apprenticeship fees and other costs when studying certain accredited courses that are not eligible for a student loan.
Holiday activity schemes for autistic children and young people
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: The 2026 round will only fund autistic-specific holiday schemes. It will not fund playschemes that include some autistic children along with other Disabled or neurodivergent children.
Alice’s WonderDance Foundation
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: Alice’s WonderDance exists to carry forward the vibrant, joyful legacy of Alice Aguiar; a fearless, expressive, and generous dancer who moved through life with rhythm, light, and compassion. Dance is more than movement; it’s freedom, creativity, connection, and joy.
Call for Capital Projects – Newark Pride in Place Programme
Amount: Up to £3,646,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Newark Town Board, with support from Newark and Sherwood District Council (NSDC) as the Accountable Body for the programme is launching a ‘Call for Capital Projects’. This call aims to identify potential projects for PiPP investment to deliver on the local vision set out within the Regeneration Plan.
Pride in Place (PiPP) Community Grant Scheme
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Newark PiPP Community Grant Scheme will help strengthen the capacity of the community and voluntary sector by providing funding to improve community spaces, as well as helping access opportunities for social, cultural or recreational activities and combatting social isolation. The project delivers on Newark’s PiPP Regeneration Plan priority theme of ‘cohesion’ with a focus on the selected interventions of.
Pride in Place (PiPP) Events Programme Funding
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Events Programme Funding scheme supports local organisations to deliver a range of events as part of the following Seasonal Town Centre Events Programme between April 2026 and March 2027. Funded events must contribute to one or more of the following objectives: Increase pride in the town centre and its public spaces.
Core Grants
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: Core Costs support essential organisational and administrative spending. These are the key expenses required to keep your organisation running.
Gosling Foundation Grant – General Application
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: The Gosling Foundation funds organisations that provide positive opportunities and support for disadvantaged and marginalised young people, enabling them to make use of their talents, build self-sufficiency and confidence, as well as providing tangible, long-term outcomes. For example, we have funded: • Structured programmes that help young people move on to education, training and employment.
Open Grants Programme
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: Open Grants Programme awarded towards capital projects, which we define as: Buildings: purchase, construction, renovation or refurbishment. Fittings, Fixtures, and Equipment: this includes but is not limited to office equipment/furniture, sports/gym equipment, digital/audio visual equipment, software and websites, garden equipment, specialist therapeutic (excluding medical) equipment.
Project Grants
Amount: Up to £120,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: Project Costs support the aims and delivery of a specific piece of work. This work will usually be time-limited, and based on a defined set of activities.
True Colours Trust UK Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with: disabled children and young people; children and young people with life-limiting conditions; and their families.
Beyond Literature Borders
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: 27 Mar 2026
Overview: Beyond Literature Borders is a grants programme supporting UK-based arts organisations that are diverse-led, or working with underrepresented voices, to develop new international projects. Launched in 2024 in partnership with Speaking Volumes, the programme awards five grants of £7,000 to small literature organisations to develop and deliver a project in collaboration with an international partner.
Lower Thames Crossing Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 30 Mar 2026
Overview: National Highways has launched the £1.9 million Lower Thames Crossing Community Fund to support local charities and community groups in Essex, Havering, and Thurrock. Grants of up to £10,000 are available to organisations working to improve the lives of people in communities near the Lower Thames Crossing, a major new road linking Essex and Kent via a tunnel beneath the River Thames.
Main Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
Small Grants – Digital Funding for Small Charities
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: We support UK-based charities with an annual turnover of under £1 million, offering funding for a wide range of digital projects. Whether that’s building a new website, developing online resources, or improving digital accessibility, our aim is to help you reach more people, raise more funds and deliver more impact.
Small Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers is particularly interested in grassroots projects that galvanise community action and projects that increase the number of people taking action for marine conservation. We will consider partial funding of projects where other funds are also being sought or are already in place, but you will need to demonstrate exactly which elements of the project the Sea-Changers grant will be used to fund, as well.
VFX Management Essentials for Unscripted, HETV & Docs with Theatrical Release
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 1 Apr 2026
Overview: If you work in Unscripted HETV (specialist factual and documentaries that are eligible for the HETV tax credit), are in a management position, and want to know how to work more effectively with VFX, when and how to incorporate it, how to liaise with vendors and how to budget for it, then this course is for you. This two-day, interactive online course, led by VFX Consultant/Production Executive Sophie Jackson, offers.
Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 2 Apr 2026
Overview: Annandale and Nithsdale Community Benefit Company (ANCBC) is funded by the ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund for Harestanes Windfarm in Dumfries and Galloway. The fund primarily supports community projects located within or directly benefiting one or more of 42 community council areas in Annandale and Nithsdale as detailed below.
Diversity Fund (2026)
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: 6 Apr 2026
Overview: The Diversity Fund is part of the Camden Community Wealth Fund pilot phase (2025-26) aiming to invest £2 million in businesses and organisations led by people from diverse backgrounds that deliver positive impact in Camden. This fund is designed to: Support businesses that are run by diverse founders or that contribute to increased diversity in local economic life.
Haventus Ardersier Port Community Benefit Fund (Highland)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 9 Apr 2026
Overview: 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. The fund is provided by Haventus, the owners of the Ardersier Energy Transition Facility (Ardersier Port).
Ballantrae Community Fund – Large Grants
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Small grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
Ballantrae Community Fund – Standard grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 10 Apr 2026
Overview: Ballantrae Community Fund is funded by ScottishPower Renewables community benefit fund, from its Glen App Windfarm in South Ayrshire. The fund supports projects located within or directly benefiting Ballantrae, South Ayrshire.
John Horniman Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: In his retirement John Horniman, a Quaker tea merchant, devoted his energies and accumulated fortune to philanthropic work. Around 1890 he built a convalescent home in Worthing for disadvantaged children from the East End of London and from Birmingham.
Sea-Changers Innovation Fund 2026
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 30 Apr 2026
Overview: Sea-Changers first set-up the Innovation Fund in 2021 because the seas remain in crisis. Climate change, pollution, over-fishing and the decline of key marine species are all affecting the UK’s coast and seas.
Main Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 1 May 2026
Overview: Main Grants fund organisations delivering impactful programmes that support children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances (e.g., social exclusion, lack of opportunities). Priority is given to projects that contribute to wider local services, avoid duplication, show evidence‑based approaches, and develop social and emotional skills.
Wingates Wind Farm Community Grants Scheme
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Overview: The Wingates Wind Farm Community Fund has been set up by the operator Infinis, to provide grants for the benefit of communities in the area immediately surrounding the wind farm. The fund is expected to offer £30,000 worth of grants per annum (£2000 per megawatt of installed capacity).
SUEZ Communities Fund – Scotland
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 13 May 2026
Overview: The Fund supports community-based projects in Scotland that deliver capital improvements at a defined site for public benefit. Examples include refurbishment of a community hall, improvement of a nature reserve, upgrading a sports field, restoring a historic building or enhancing biodiversity.
FCC Community Action Fund – England
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: The Fund supports physical improvement, refurbishment, conservation or enhancement of public amenities in eligible locations. Projects may include work such as: Improvement of village halls, community centres, sports pavilions, pavilions with public access.
IT4Good Grant Programme
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: The IT4Good Grant Programme supports technology-focused projects that create a social impact. It funds initiatives that use information technology (IT) innovatively across areas like: Digital inclusion Education IT for charities Public understanding of IT Examples include software, apps, training platforms, AI tools, hardware accessibility solutions, digital services, analytics, robotics, etc.
Wellbeing Through Nature Funding
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 15 Jun 2026
Overview: At the heart of this programme is the ambition to support activities that strengthen the wellbeing of adults in Letchworth through access and interaction with nature. This grant programme aims to fund initiatives that enable : The Letchworth community having access to information on greenspaces and nature-based activities and how they can improve wellbeing.
Medworth Community Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 1 Aug 2026
Overview: The fund supports organisations which promote, enhance, improve, protect and conserve both the natural environment, as well as health and wellbeing. We welcome applications from organisations working across Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, but projects must benefit those living within a 5km radius of the Medworth Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power Facility (see map below).
Somerset Social Investment Programme
Amount: Up to £40,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: The Somerset Social Investment Programme (SSIP) offers blended finance. This means you get funding which is a combined loan and grant.
Cobalt Community Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Supports local community groups and organisations to deliver a project or event that benefits residents in Cobalt’s neighbourhoods (specifically Croxteth, Fazakerley, Sparrow Hall, and Norris Green). Projects should align with one or more of six priority themes such as community cohesion, wellbeing, skills, safety, inclusivity, and environmental improvements.
Dharma Endowment Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Dharma Fund seeks to support bold, visionary initiatives that bridge Dharmic wisdom with wider societal impact. Projects should align with one or more of the specified focus areas, such as wellbeing, education, environmental stewardship, cultural preservation, and outreach rooted in Dharmic principles.
Education Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation supports learning experiences and life skills for children and young people, particularly for the disadvantaged, those with disabilities or special needs. Trustees are keen to encourage young people to experience the outdoors and to try new pursuits.
Garfield Weston Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Garfield Weston Foundation is a family founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide range of charities across the UK. In total we donate around £100 million each year.
Grants for Individuals
Amount: Up to £1,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Our individual grants programme aims to support motivated adults living in the UK to undertake education and training that will increase their chances of employment. We offer grants up to £1,500 to undertake accredited vocational training up to level 3 ( Qualification levels explained) and towards other costs associated with studying.
Hargreaves Foundation (UK)
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Hargreaves Foundation is a grant-making charitable foundation set up in 2020 by Peter Hargreaves and his family. Applications are open for organisations seeking funding to support those under the age of 18, and living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education.
Heart of Bucks – Skills for Good Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Skills for Good offers funding to help charity staff and volunteers access training and formal qualifications that strengthen the services they deliver. The fund is designed for local charities and community groups that want to improve an existing service or develop a new one, but don’t have the resources to invest in professional development.
Joseph Harley Bequest Fund – Individuals
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Joseph Harley Bequest Fund supports young people to undertake projects or activities, where assistance from public bodies is not usually available. Applications for funding assistance will be considered for advancement of education and training of individuals, under the age of 25 who are residents of Formby.
Major Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Major Grants programme supports eligible charitable organisations delivering family support services in deprived communities across the UK, with a strong preference for front-line organisations working directly with families in need. Grants are used for core costs, salaries, running costs or project costs, enabling sustainable service delivery rather than one-off events or purely capacity building.
Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The focus of our support is the conservation and maintenance for the benefit of the public of the natural environment and its indigenous woodland flora and fauna with particular reference to the conservation and maintenance of the character and amenity of rural areas.
Movement Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Movement Fund supports new and existing projects that help people become more physically active while also improving environmental sustainability. From June 2025, Sport England is particularly interested in projects that address climate justice by supporting people and communities most affected by climate change to access sport and physical activity opportunities.
National Lottery Awards for All (England)
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. National Lottery Awards for All supports community-led projects that bring people together and improve communities across England.
PBC RBKC Business Support Programme
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The PBC RBKC Business Support Programme is a comprehensive free business advisory and support service for residents and entrepreneurs in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. It provides: Fully funded personalised 1-to-1 business advice (worth up to £2,000).
Partnership Fund – Small Grants
Amount: Up to £2,500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Partnership Fund is available to support community and voluntary sector led initiatives that help to achieve National Park purposes. The fund is open to applications from constituted community groups, charities, and other organisations.
Quixwood Moor Wind Farm Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Quixwood Moor Wind Farm Fund supports local community-led or community-benefit projects that aim to improve quality of life and wellbeing, support local regeneration, provide community services, or enhance environmental and landscape outcomes in the eligible ward areas. Example project areas include: Improvements to local community facilities Education and training initiatives Local environmental conservation.
Reaching Communities England
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Reaching Communities England is a funding programme by The National Lottery Community Fund aimed at strengthening communities and improving lives across England, prioritizing places, people, and communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage, or discrimination. It supports communities defined by shared location, interests, or life experiences.
SWEF Enterprise Fund – Start-Up Grant
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise Fund – Start-Up Grants are for things that can help take your start-up business to the next level. It can help with: essential equipment or materials website building product development training.
SWEF Enterprise Fund – Established Business Grant
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The SWEF Enterprise Fund – Established Business Grants are for individuals whose business is already been trading and is less than 2 years old. You can apply for up to £2,000 to support growth and development.
Saracen’s Norfolk Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Fund aims to maintain and strengthen projects that are working within deprived communities and supporting vulnerable people. Some examples of funded projects include, but are not limited to: Community projects or therapeutic services addressing physical or mental health needs Support for vulnerable young families Activity groups for adults or children with physical and/or learning disabilities Youth groups in.
Sea-Changers Scottish Learning Fund
Amount: Up to £750
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of the new Scottish Learning Fund is to enable early-stage and / or small community-based groups in Scotland who are involved in marine conservation activities to learn, share knowledge, network and develop skills with other groups. There are many examples of marine conservation good practice in Scotland.
Sefton Education & Learning Fund – Individuals
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Sefton Education and Learning Fund is available to advance the education of young people aged 25 or under, living in Sefton, and to benefit those groups or charities who provide an educational service or facility in the area.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Forte Charitable Foundation is an independent foundation which makes grants of around £2.5 million a year to charitable organisations based in, or working in, areas of extreme deprivation in the UK. Projects must have a focus on Community Support: Community Services: information, advice and guidance services; community transport schemes; employability training; volunteering; healthy eating and living; foodbanks.
Small Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Small Grants are aimed at supporting small, registered charities which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. Please complete our eligibility checker to see if you qualify.
Small Grants – General Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants to small general charities or modest projects where the funding will create a meaningful benefit. Also supports environmental or wildlife-focused charities for their conservation activities.
Social Welfare
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Foundation pledges grants to assist the most vulnerable in society such as those seeking help with addiction, homelessness, ex-offenders and victims of domestic and sexual abuse. Our social welfare funding areas: Addiction and Rehabilitation Almshouses Animal Welfare Armed Forces and Veterans Domestic and Sexual Abuse Elderly Ex-Offenders Homeless Poverty Relief Overseas Social Enterprises.
Somerset Stronger Communities Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The aim of this Fund is to strengthen communities. This can be communities of: place (like a village) interest (like an LGBTQ+ group) action (like a conservation group) circumstance (like a carers’ support group).
The Johnson Foundation Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Johnson Foundation was started by Wirral businessman and philanthropist Peter Johnson in 1987. One of Merseyside’s best-known businessmen, he founded Park Group Plc, the Christmas hamper and financial product firm in 1966 and was the owner of both Everton and Tranmere Rovers football clubs.
The Randal Foundation Small Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Randal Foundation works to deliver the vision of Founders, Dr Nik and Moni Kotecha – saving and significantly improving the lives of 1 million people, across the UK and globally. We work in partnership with inspirational organisations, bringing support and essential funding to both create opportunity and foster hope, for those in greatest need.
The Social Economy Growth Programme – for early stage organisations
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Social Economy Growth Programme is a peer‑learning initiative designed to strengthen early‑stage organisations across the social impact economy. It supports not‑for‑profit trading organisations including social enterprises, community businesses, cooperatives, and charities — that are working to grow their trading activity and deepen their impact in the West Midlands.
Training And Employment Support Grants
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: This grant can be used to pay for the cost of a course, to buy a laptop, tools or clothing, and pay for transport costs. These costs must be linked to a recognised educational or training course (excluding higher education) or apprenticeship that you’re currently in or want to start in the next couple of months.
Transport Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Transport Grants support registered charities to cover transport-related costs that help them deliver services and reduce barriers faced by people experiencing poverty and trauma in Scotland. This includes costs for vehicles, equipment and innovative transport means that directly support the charity’s work to improve access and participation.
Wee Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Wee Grants provide small, flexible funding to support constituted community groups and registered charities with an annual income under £30,000 that deliver services addressing the impacts of poverty and trauma within Scottish communities. Funding can cover revenue or capital costs to enable participation, community connection, essential services, or targeted activity that helps address hardship.
