New funding opportunities for charities, CICs and nonprofits across the UK.
Wolverhampton – Community Cohesion and Resilience Fund
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 26 Feb 2026
Overview: The Community Cohesion and Resilience Fund is provided and administered by the City of Wolverhampton Council from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Common Ground Resilience Fund (CGRF).
KFC Youth Foundation Community Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £6,000
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: The KFC Youth Foundation is committed to backing grassroots organisations that are helping young people to thrive. Our grants programme supports youth‑focused organisations across the UK working with young people aged 11-25 in areas of high deprivation.
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.
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.
Slough – Pride in Place Impact Fund: Community Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: The Pride in Place Impact Fund – Community Grants scheme is administered and funded by Slough Borough Council. Slough Borough Council is inviting registered community groups and charities to bid for a share of £250,000 for projects which improve the town’s physical environment.
National Adventure Playground Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: A new national funding programme has launched to protect, restore and grow staffed adventure playgrounds across England. Adventure playgrounds provide free, open-access play in communities where children may otherwise have limited opportunities for independence and exploration.
Quilter Foundation – Financial Futures Fund
Amount: Up to £1,000,000
Closing date: 23 Mar 2026
Overview: The Quilter Foundation invites your organisation to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the Financial Futures Fund strategic grants programme. These selective, multi‑year grants back large‑scale UK programmes that deliver financial education at key life moments (e.g.
Children’s Alliance Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 24 Mar 2026
Overview: Through our community work, we aim to give children and young people a better start in life through the medium of water. The heart of our work, though, is done within our communities where we will deliver activities that directly impact children’s health and wellbeing.
Veterans’ Foundation – Standard & Salary Grants
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 30 Mar 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) has established a substantial grants programme to support charities and organisations that provide support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families. Trustees award grants based on this definition of need.
Community Mental Health Prevention and Wellbeing Grant – Larger Grants
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Council encourages proposals for community-based projects or services aimed at improving the mental well-being of local residents. Joint bids are particularly welcomed, with a focus on collaborative efforts to address mental health inequalities in our area.
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.
easyfundraising Impact Fund
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 5 Apr 2026
Overview: The easyfundraising Impact Fund is a grant programme that provides small awards to help good causes with practical costs and projects, alongside the ongoing free donations supporters raise through easyfundraising. We want the funding to be accessible, fair, and spread across as many causes as possible – especially smaller, community organisations where a few hundred pounds can make a real difference quickly.
Foyle Foundation Fund – Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 14 Apr 2026
Overview: The Heart of England Community Foundation has been selected as one of twelve community foundations across the UK to receive a £200,000 legacy donation from the Foyle Foundation as part of its final round of charitable giving. Grants will be awarded over a period of two years.
Post-16 and Construction Skills Capacity Funding: 2026 to 2030 in Non-devolved Areas
Amount: Up to £5,000,000
Closing date: 17 Apr 2026
Overview: The Department for Education (DfE) is providing funding through the latest round of Post‑16 Capacity Funding, complemented by additional Construction Skills Capacity Funding to increase the number of construction training places. To simplify processes and reduce administrative burdens, the DfE is running a single, unified exercise for both funds.
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.
Veterans’ Foundation – Major Grants
Amount: Up to £500,000
Closing date: 20 Apr 2026
Overview: The Veterans’ Foundation, a registered charity, raises most of its funding for its grants programmes through the Veterans’ Lottery, which it launched in 2016. In its 10th anniversary year, the Foundation has launched a new Major Grants Programme to generate sector-wide learning and build strategic partnerships addressing key issues affecting the Armed Forces community.
Drapers’ Charitable Fund
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 28 Apr 2026
Overview: Grants from the Drapers’ Charitable Fund improve the quality of life and aspirations of people and communities, particularly those who are socially excluded or disadvantaged. We give most of our grants to charities in Greater London, where we have our historical roots, for projects in education and social welfare.
Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize UK
Amount: Up to £400,000
Closing date: 8 May 2026
Overview: There is a wealth of data about mental health available that could be used to gain new insights but is not currently being accessed by researchers – this Prize is a solution to that problem. The Mental Health Data Prize UK is an open challenge for teams with a bold idea for a new digital tool or application that uses existing mental health data in innovative ways.
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.
Financial Assistance Grants
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 20 May 2026
Overview: The Royal Medical Foundation is a charity founded by Dr John Propert in 1855 and administered by Act of Parliament. Its original objects were to provide an asylum for qualified medical practitioners and their spouses and to found a school for their sons.
Business Start-up Grant
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 21 May 2026
Overview: The Forest of Dean District Council recognises the enterprising spirit that exists within this unique part of the world and is keen to continue direct support to businesses following the Covid-19 pandemic and to help them deal with fluctuating energy costs. The Council wishes to encourage a vibrant, low-carbon economy within the towns, business parks, industrial and farm estates, and surrounding villages in the.
Pathways Grants – Main Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 24 Jul 2026
Overview: Housing Pathways is an Ealing based, not for profit organisation working to help communities and individuals through the provision of affordable housing for older people and grant funding. Our grants programme funds organisations working with people of all ages at a local level in Ealing and Brentford.
Woodsmith Foundation – Small Grants for Everyday Essentials and Activities
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 5 Nov 2026
Overview: The Woodsmith Foundation, an independent charity, was launched in 2013 to leave a positive legacy from the Woodsmith Mine to the boroughs of Scarborough, Redcar and the North York Moors National Park. This new programme is for organisations who require funding towards everyday essential items and everyday activities.
Jerwood Foundation
Amount: Up to £180,000
Closing date: 3 Dec 2026
Overview: Grants are available for arts organisations across the UK to support a variety of projects and activities that make the arts available for public benefit. Funding is for projects and activities that support the promotion of the arts for public benefit.
Community Mental Health Prevention and Wellbeing Grant – Smaller Grants
Amount: Up to £7,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The scheme aims to support charitable organisations with community preventative mental health support programmes that meet the identified needs and assist West Northamptonshire Council in achieving one or more of its corporate plan, strategic aims, objectives or priorities with the aim of creating an equitable, accessible and sustainable solution for local communities.
Fevara Group Fund
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Grants for charitable groups to invest in the well-being and future of Cumbria’s communities and social action at a local level. Priority will be given to projects that: promote life skills and the raising of aspirations support people in fulfilling their potential provide support for rural and farming communities help people improve their knowledge of countryside matters tackle disadvantage in rural communities.
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.
The Seafarers’ Charity – Merchant Navy Fund
Amount: Up to £20,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: The Seafarers’ Charity (formerly Seafarers UK) provides funding to charities that support people who work at sea in the UK and internationally. In a typical year, it awards more than £2 million in grants to support many maritime welfare charities.
