Here are 66 new grant opportunities for charities, CIC, schools and community groups across the UK
Grassroots Grants
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 30 Sep 2026
Overview: Grassroots Grants provides unrestricted funding to support the ongoing work of small, community-focused organisations making a positive impact at the local level. Activities supported include (but are not limited to): Improving access to food or basic essentials Enhancing local green spaces and environment Supporting cultural and wellbeing activities Running volunteering and community support programmes Covering.
Sasha Foundation
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 1 Apr 2026
Overview: The Sasha Foundation (TSF) was set up to support charities that work with mental health issues in memory of Sasha Love. Sasha Love suffered from Bipolar disorder.
Innovate Now with Wellcome
Amount: Up to £48,000
Closing date: 27 Nov 2026
Overview: Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that wants everyone to benefit from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. The funding for initiatives is provided to Do it Now Now by Wellcome.
Innovation Grants
Amount: Up to £200,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: OWGP Innovation Grants are aimed at delivering new products, services, and technologies into the offshore wind market through thematic funding competitions supported by Offshore Wind Developers. We are now seeking applications from companies for projects focused on: Industrialised Foundations and Substructures Substations and Electrical Design Grants will be available to UK companies which are already active in the.
TechLocal AI Professional Degree and Traineeship Accelerator
Amount: Up to £300,000
Closing date: 18 Mar 2026
Overview: Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to invest up to £7.8 million in innovative projects. This is subject to a sufficient number of high quality applications being received.
Local School Nature Grants Scheme
Amount: Up to £500
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: The Local School Nature Grants Scheme helps schools and eligible early years settings across England, Scotland, and Wales to enhance outdoor learning spaces and connect children with nature . Successful applicants receive a combination of equipment and resources designed to support environmental learning, biodiversity activities, and curriculum-linked outdoor sessions.
Creative Industries Clusters: round two: outline stage
Amount: Up to £6,750,000
Closing date: 3 Mar 2026
Overview: Apply for funding to deliver a new Creative Industries Cluster in the second round of commissioning for this successful Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) portfolio. Each cluster must: address a clear challenge in a specific geographical region, sub-sector or both focus on creating new products, services, or experiences with commercial potential AHRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC).
Annual Grant Rounds (2026)- £5,000 Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Grant rounds 1 and 2: People experiencing or at risk of homelessness Focussing on projects that provide life skills, including food education, healthy living and budgeting. Priority will be given to people leaving the armed forces, leaving prison or care.
Annual Grant Rounds (2026)- £1,000 Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Grant rounds 1 and 2: People experiencing or at risk of homelessness Focussing on projects that provide life skills, including food education, healthy living and budgeting. Priority will be given to people leaving the armed forces, leaving prison or care.
UMUK Sound Foundation School Awards
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: Provides small grants to schools to improve access to music education by funding instrument purchases and equipment required for delivery of music classes and programmes. Targets schools teaching the national curriculum, including primary, secondary, junior, SEN, and FE colleges (in some rounds).
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.
The Reach Fund
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: A grant support programme to help eligible organisations become ready to attract social investment. Grants cover costs related to strengthening business planning, governance, financial systems, and investor readiness.
Livv and Flourish Fund
Amount: Up to £150,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: A blend of finance designed to help grow social impact organisations that deliver benefits for people and communities across the Liverpool City Region. Organisations use the finance to grow services, create jobs, scale programmes, or build infrastructure for long-term sustainability.
Research & Development for Individuals
Amount: Up to £30,000
Closing date: 26 Feb 2026
Overview: We have ring-fenced £7.5 million to invest in projects that allow creative and cultural practitioners to develop their practice. Research and Development (R&D) projects are typically where a person develops a new idea or explores a new way of working.
Pathways to Independence: Care Leavers Fund
Amount: Up to £8,000
Closing date: 16 Mar 2026
Overview: • The Pathways to Independence: Care Leavers Fund is a place-based grant aimed at supporting activities that help care leavers become independent and supported in their transition to adulthood . • The fund brings together local initiatives and resources that benefit young people leaving care — potentially including education, mentoring, life-skills support, wellbeing support, employability, community engagement, or.
Physical Health Funding
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 24 Apr 2026
Overview: Supports UK-based charities that provide therapeutic interventions, condition-specific information, or direct healthcare services to people with physical conditions, disabilities, or life-changing injuries. Priority is given to evidence-based therapies (e.g., physiotherapy, hydrotherapy), specialist single-condition charities, and direct healthcare to marginalised communities.
Mental Health Support – Adverse Childhood Experiences
Amount: Up to £25,000
Closing date: 24 Apr 2026
Overview: 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. ACEs include sexual abuse, physical/emotional abuse or neglect, domestic violence exposure, parental substance abuse or mental illness, bereavement, and parental imprisonment.
Scholarship
Amount: Up to £18,000
Closing date: 18 Feb 2026
Overview: Purpose: • The Scholarship supports mid-career to established craftspeople to refine their craft skills, deepen a chosen specialism, innovate and progress their career . • Grants fund training and education that elevate technical expertise and help recipients sustain and broaden their practice.
Enterprise Grant (Our Business GM)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 15 Feb 2026
Overview: To celebrate the social economy, we have launched a grant competition to support inclusive businesses in Greater Manchester, by providing funding that can help them sell products and services.
Apprenticeship
Amount: Up to £12,000
Closing date: 18 Feb 2026
Overview: • The Apprenticeship grant supports hands-on training models where a skilled craft master mentors a developing craftsperson (the apprentice) in real-world learning. • Focus: practical workplace learning and the transfer of traditional and contemporary craft skills.
Emerging Maker Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 18 Feb 2026
Overview: For early-stage craftspeople, typically practicing for 4 years or less . These grants aim to support the next generation of craft professionals to develop core skills and techniques through essential training .
Medical Research Travel Grants
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 13 Feb 2026
Overview: These grants exist to help individual researchers travel to another laboratory or research institution (national or international) to gain new techniques, build collaborations, or enhance their ongoing research programme and career development. They are targeted at research advancement rather than conference or symposium attendance .
Personal Awards
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 13 Feb 2026
Overview: Purpose: Personal Awards are designed to support individuals (not organisations) who have an idea or project that can act as a catalyst for beneficial change in one of the Wingate Foundation’s core thematic areas: music, performing arts and Jewish / interfaith work. Scope: • Must relate to one of the existing subject areas supported by the Foundation.
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation – Grant
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 13 Feb 2026
Overview: Wingate Foundation give grants to registered charities operating in our key areas of interest: Performing Arts (excluding music) Music Jewish Life and Learning Medical Research Travel Grants Personal Awards In addition to these areas, for the time being we will continue to accept applications which seek to: Defuse tension and promote peaceful coexistence between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel Simultaneously.
Holiday activity schemes for children and young people with autism
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: 13 Feb 2026
Overview: The 2026 round will only fund autistic-specific holiday schemes. The programme will be for autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK, including sessions for siblings.
Small Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 11 Feb 2026
Overview: Our small grants programme is dedicated to supporting UK-registered nonprofit organisations that make a meaningful difference in key areas such as social inclusion, health and wellbeing, education, environment, countryside, and heritage and conservation. You can learn more about our funding themes here .
Luton Rising Youth Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: The Luton Rising Youth Fund is administered by Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), on behalf of Luton Rising. The fund will provide a £250,000 investment (per year for 2 years) into improving outcomes for young people across Luton.
Luton Rising New Horizons Fund
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 9 Mar 2026
Overview: The Luton Rising New Horizons Fund is administered by the Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation (BLCF), on behalf of Luton Rising. Luton Rising’s community funding is focused on delivering social impact in line with the Luton 2040 vision, to make Luton a healthy, fair and sustainable town where everyone can thrive and no one has to live in poverty by the year 2040.
Community Support Fund (For The Tford)
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 2 Mar 2026
Overview: The Community Support Fund… forThetford has been made possible by the national Pride in Place programme, a government initiative designed to boost local economies, empower communities and raise living standards across the country. Find out more about the programme on the forThetford website here.
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.
The Bright Path Fund
Amount: Up to £620,000
Closing date: 20 Feb 2026
Overview: The Bright Path Fund is supported by Homewards NI and Community Foundation for Northern Ireland. The Bright Path Fund is focused on utilising the Private Rented Sector (PRS) to unlock homes for young people leaving care, alongside the provision of tenancy and mental health & wellbeing support.
Cregganconroe Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 12 Feb 2026
Overview: This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe – a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. GCN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.
The Brian Conlon Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £3,500
Closing date: 12 Feb 2026
Overview: The Brian Conlon Foundation is an independent charitable trust that supports causes that were important to Brian Conlon, a successful entrepreneur. The foundation provides funding for organizations and charities based in Newry City that are working to advance education, amateur sport, provide opportunities for young people, and assist community groups in the local area.
The Thomas Devlin Fund
Amount: Up to £1,750
Closing date: 5 Mar 2026
Overview: The Thomas Devlin Fund provides annual bursaries to gifted young individuals aged 15–19 in Northern Ireland who aspire to study or pursue careers in creative arts, performing arts, or music . It was established in memory of Thomas Devlin to support artistic talent by helping young people expand their skills, gain new opportunities, and progress to the next stage of their artistic journey.
Inishative Community Benefit Fund
Amount: Up to £2,000
Closing date: 12 Feb 2026
Overview: This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe – a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. CGN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.
The Randal Foundation Small Grant
Amount: Up to £3,000
Closing date: 9 Feb 2026
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.
Indielab Content Futures 2026 Accelerator
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: Indielab Content Futures 2026 is a cohort-based strategic accelerator for independent production companies operating in a structurally changed market. It is designed for founder-led and leadership teams with an existing track record repositioning their business in response to new commissioning realities, evolving audience demand and diversified revenue opportunities.
VFX Management Essentials for Unscripted, HETV & Docs with Theatrical Release
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 18 Feb 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.
Animation Production Management 2026
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 17 Feb 2026
Overview: This 8-week course provides a practical introduction to animation production management. Participants will explore scheduling, budgeting, software tools, finance processes, sustainability, inclusivity, and leadership within animation production.
HR for Creatives
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 16 Feb 2026
Overview: SCVO is excited to once again be providing free HR support and development to 35 arts, screen and creative industries employers for 12 months, supported by Creative Scotland. We know that organisations want to create working environments where people can thrive in the creative industries.
Screen Scotland Summer School 2026
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 31 Mar 2026
Overview: The Summer School programme is an intensive learning opportunity to equip teachers with the subject knowledge required to deliver the film and screen curriculum. In addition to this there will be support for teachers to develop delivery models, appropriate to their own settings, as part of their learning.
FSB Small Business Growth Awards / Celebrating Small Business Awards
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 9 Feb 2026
Overview: The FSB Awards recognise excellence and achievement in UK small businesses and the self-employed across various categories (e.g., Innovation, Start-up, Community Impact, Growth, Diversity & Inclusion). Winners and finalists gain national recognition, promotion, networking events, and mentoring .
Community Grants & Small Community Grants
Amount: Up to £100,000
Closing date: 15 Feb 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.
The Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation Grants
Amount: Up to £15,000
Closing date: Rolling
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.
Home Starter Kits
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: 20 Feb 2026
Overview: The B&Q Foundation ( bqfoundation.co.uk ) supports UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by funding projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable. We provide grants for essential home improvements and home starter kits—helping individuals and families facing homelessness, domestic abuse, disabilities, illness, or financial hardship to feel more settled and supported in their living.
Jobs Guarantee
Amount: Varies
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: The Jobs Guarantee grant aims to fund delivery organisations to administer and implement the Jobs Guarantee programme in targeted priority areas across Great Britain. In Phase One, successful applicants will work with the Department for Work and Pensions to: Provide fully subsidised six‑month paid employment for eligible young people (18–21 who have been on Universal Credit and actively looking for work for 18.
Brighter Futures
Amount: Up to £75,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust believes that too many people are struggling at the sharp end of socio-economic problems; facing chronic poverty or simply isolated and overwhelmed by desperate circumstances. Too many young people face poverty of opportunity, disadvantaged by circumstances beyond their control with huge barriers to employment.
Through the Gate
Amount: Up to £50,000
Closing date: 28 Feb 2026
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust recognises that a significant proportion of the people in UK prisons will have had chaotic and complicated lives: growing up in local authority care, excluded from school, living with drug or alcohol problems or struggling with mental health issues. After serving their sentences, many face the additional consequences of living with their criminal record.
Community Choice Grant
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 27 Feb 2026
Overview: Community Choice gives passionate people working with small charities and CICs all over Britain the chance to secure a grant of £1,000 for their organisation. Thousands of amazing people roll up their sleeves each week and get stuck in with a local charity or CIC that’s making a huge difference to people in their village, town or city.
Community Fund
Amount: Up to £10,000
Closing date: Rolling
Overview: Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust believes that small, locally focused organisations are often best placed to deliver flexible, responsive, direct support to the most vulnerable people in society. It also recognises that, at a time of rising demand for services, smaller organisations have been particularly hard hit by funding cuts and the move to contacts and tender-based funding.
Grace Muriel Legacy Fund (Small Grants Programme)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: The Grace Muriel Legacy Fund (GMLF) is a designated fund established with a gift from Abbeyfield St Albans Society Limited, which previously owned and operated Grace Muriel House, a residential care home in St Albans. The Fund honours the care home’s legacy and provides grants to local projects that benefit older people living in the St Albans district who are in need, hardship or distress.
Construction Bursaries – Northern Ireland
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in building crafts in Northern Irleand who are experiencing financial hardship. It is supported by the Construction Industry Training Board Northern Ireland as part of the All Ireland Heritage Skills Programme , a partnership project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and delivered by The King’s Foundation, The.
Stained Glass Training Bursary
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in stained glass window making and conservation who are experiencing financial hardship. It is supported by the British Society of Master Glass Painters and is part of a suite of grants, awards and bursaries offered by Heritage Crafts to support and celebrate heritage craftspeople.
Training Bursary for Shoemaking
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in shoe and boot making who are experiencing financial hardship. It is supported by the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and is part of a suite of grants, awards and bursaries offered by Heritage Crafts to support and celebrate heritage craftspeople.
Training Bursary for Saddlery
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in saddlery (including saddle making, side saddle making, bridle making, harness making and collar making), who are experiencing financial hardship. It is supported by the Worshipful Company of Saddlers and is part of a suite of grants, awards and bursaries offered by Heritage Crafts to support and celebrate heritage craftspeople.
Training bursary for calligraphy and/or illumination
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 7 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in calligraphy and/or illumination who are experiencing financial hardship. It is sponsored by the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and is part of a suite of grants, awards and bursaries offered by Heritage Crafts to support and celebrate heritage craftspeople.
Training Bursary for Maritime Rope and Twine Crafts
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This training bursary is targeted at new entrants and early-career craftspeople working in maritime rope and twine crafts who are experiencing financial hardship. It is supported by the International Guild of Knot Tyers and is part of a suite of grants, awards and bursaries offered by Heritage Crafts to support and celebrate heritage craftspeople.
Pride in Place Impact Fund – Transforming Places Capital Grants Programme
Amount: Up to £200,000
Closing date: 22 Feb 2026
Overview: Mansfield District Council has launched a major new funding opportunity, inviting applications to the Pride in Place Impact Fund – Transforming Places Capital Grants Programme – a £1 million investment aimed at delivering visible, lasting improvements across the district by March 2027. The fund forms part of the Government’s £5 billion Pride in Place Programme , to help restore pride in the places people call home.
Pride In Place Runcorn Small Grants 2026 – 2027 (Grow Grant)
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: Pride in Place is a 10-year government programme giving communities the power and funding to improve local spaces, support culture, and boost pride in where they live. Runcorn is one of 250 areas that will have £20 million investment over 10 years.
Pride In Place Runcorn Small Grants 2026 – 2027 (Micro Grant)
Amount: Up to £250
Closing date: 13 Mar 2026
Overview: Pride in Place is a 10-year government programme giving communities the power and funding to improve local spaces, support culture, and boost pride in where they live. Runcorn is one of 250 areas that will have £20 million investment over 10 years.
DCF Bursary Scheme
Amount: Up to £1,000
Closing date: 15 Sep 2026
Overview: This fund is now OPEN for Round 4 – Applications received by the 4th of January will receive a decision by late February. We can support applicants with costs incurred from the start of the Spring term to the end of their course The Bursary Scheme supports young people (age 16–25) residing in Dorset/BCP who are enrolled in vocational courses, further‑education, traineeships, access courses, or supported internships.
Training Bursaries for Leatherworking
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: This bursary aims to support new entrants and early-career craftspeople who are experiencing financial hardship and want to start or further develop practical skills in leatherworking crafts . The focus is on tangible, hands-on skill building that enables professional capability and preserves traditional craft knowledge.
Training Bursaries for Fashion Textiles and Costume Making
Amount: Up to £4,000
Closing date: 20 Mar 2026
Overview: Fashion textile crafts can include, but are not limited to, dressmaking, tailoring, pattern cutting, hat making, millinery, glovemaking, fabric pleating, corsetry, and so on. Costume making can include garments and accessories made for theatre, film, television, musical performance, historical re-production, role play and so on.
ROSCA Trust Grants
Amount: Up to £5,000
Closing date: 31 May 2026
Overview: The ROSCA Trust was set up by the late William Thorby, a well known Thorpe Bay builder, in 1966. The Trust will only consider applications for charitable purposes within the geographical area covered by Southend on Sea, Rochford and Castle Point local authorities.
