April 27, 2026

Welcome to Focus on Funding – your monthly resource to keep you abreast of current and new funding opportunities, and the latest funding news and events.

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Other resources on the Funding page on our website include:

• Funding Application Checklist: Enhance your application with expert advice.
• Funding Applications Letters: Guidance on writing persuasive letters for charitable trusts and foundations when no application form is provided.
• Funding Tips: Key tips to consider when creating your funding application.
• Are You Fit to be Funded? Ensure your organisation is prepared to receive funding by addressing key aspects of capability, health, and policy compliance.
• Details of our online self-service funding portal, which makes it easy to find funding for specific activities or services by category, geographic area and more.
• How to access unrestricted funding using easyfundraising.
• Information on applying to the Eric Wright Charitable Trust.

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Ørsted’s Community Benefit Funds – Spring 2026 Newsletter

You can view Ørsted’s Spring 2026 Community Benefit Funds newsletter here.

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Charity founder becomes first Brit to donate more than £1bn in a year

A charity founder has become the first British person to give away more than £1bn in a year, while donations by the UK’s 100 wealthiest have risen to nearly £5bn.

Chris Hohn, founder of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), reclaimed first place on the Sunday Times Giving List 2026, published today.

He donated around 16.8% (£1.44bn) of his estimated wealth in 2024, and in doing so, became the first British billionaire to give away more than a billion in a year.

Read more here

 

Major funder launches £3m project to develop charity-led AI tools

The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) has announced a £3m programme to track the impact of AI on local communities and fund civil society organisations to shape how the technology is used.

NLCF’s programme, launched in partnership with UK Community Foundations and the Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) was announced at its AI For Funders conference in London today.

The funding investment will support the development of a UK-wide “AI pulse network” pilot of 50 community organisations, alongside community-led development of alternative AI tools and models rooted in local needs and lived experience.

Read more here

 

The Men’s Health £6.3 Million Community Fund

The Department of Health and Social Care has annouced that Men will be given greater support to live longer, healthier lives through a new multi-million-pound partnership with Movember and People’s Health Trust.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will join forces with the charities to support community-led men’s health projects and tackle health inequalities in England.

Grants will back community projects that reach underserved men and boys aged 16 and over, particularly in areas experiencing the greatest disadvantage and at key moments in their lives. This could include:

• community projects for new fathers
• activities supporting men experiencing loneliness and social isolation
• young men’s social connections and engagement with the health system
• services that help men in work, out of work and moving to retirement

Applications are expected to open during Summer 2026.

Find out more here

 

Fund to help people into work

Charities and organisations in Barrow have been awarded £400,000 in funding aimed at helping people with health conditions into work.

The Barrow Rising: Work and Health Fund (Adult Support) will support seven projects across the town. Led by Westmorland and Furness Council and managed by Cumbria Community Foundation, the fund will help people who are disabled or have long-term health conditions, those with caring responsibilities, or others experiencing disadvantage.

Read more here

 

Community Wealth Fund update

The National Lottery Community Fund has issued an update on the Community Wealth Fund, which will be targeted at communities with limited resources and services, helping residents identify priorities and use funding to improve their neighbourhoods. The intended model will reflect local needs and be community led.

It will provide support to 60 areas that are doubly disadvantaged, with each community receiving grants of £1-2.5m over 10 years. The areas are currently being selected and will be published in the autumn.

Phase 1 will be open for applications later in the year, but only to Community Anchor Organisations, with all three phases operational by April 2028.

Read more here

 

Queen Elizabeth Trust launches with £40m government backing

A charity named after the late Queen Elizabeth II has been established on the centenary of her birth with a one-off initial £40m endowment provided by the government.

King Charles will be patron of the Queen Elizabeth Trust, which will work with local communities to provide funding and targeted support to “restore and sustain shared spaces at the heart of local life”.

Local projects it may support could include the development of underused buildings and green spaces as well as neighbourhood hubs in communities across the UK.

Read more here

 

DCMS seeks partner to deliver £2.5m Civil Society Resilience Infrastructure Fund

The government is looking for a sector partner to deliver a £2.5m package intended to strengthen civil society organisations’ emergency preparedness.

Its three-year Civil Society Resilience Infrastructure Fund aims to enhance the role civil society organisations in England play in emergency preparedness, response and recovery.

By March 2029, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) aims for the fund to help civil society improve the resilience of communities and individuals who are disproportionately impacted during emergencies.

Read more here

 

Tesco Community Pledge: £5,000 for organisations this May!

This May, Tesco and easyfundraising have come together again to give a little help to good causes. Five community organisations will receive an unrestricted £1,000.

During May, when your network of volunteers and supporters shop with Tesco or F&F Clothing via the easyfundraising website or app, your organisation will receive free donations AND has a chance to receive a £1,000 funding bonus!

Don’t miss out. To qualify, if you haven’t already then register your organisation with easyfundraising using the link below. Then ask everyone connected to your organisation to join as your supporters and try it out with a Tesco or F&F shop.

Register now: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/cumbria

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Great Big Green Week

Amount available: £300/£200

Deadline: Monday 4th May

Great Big Green Week (6th – 14th June) is a countrywide initiative coordinated by the Climate Coalition of national charities as a way of raising awareness of climate change and the biodiversity crisis.

The Westmorland and Furness locality boards are supporting with funding of up to £300 for not-for-profit groups planning a climate and nature themed celebratory event. The week also coincides with Open Farm Sunday on the 7th June and the Eden Project’s The Big Lunch initiative. Cumberland Food Partnership has allocated funding of up to £200 per organisation to host an event showcasing low carbon local food, which could involve celebrating local growers, encouraging people to grow their own fruit and veg, and strengthening connections with community gardens, allotments and farms.

Find out more about Great Big Green Week funding here

 

The UK Youth Fund (only Cumberland)

Amount available: Up to approximately 10% of your organisation’s annual turnover

Deadline: For expressions of interest: 6th May

UK Youth and Pears Foundation have launched a new £10 million fund to champion an approach that works: providing multi-year, unrestricted funding alongside targeted capacity-building support to small youth organisations.

The aim of the Fund is to strengthen the financial resilience and capacity of small youth and outdoor learning organisations across the UK.

We aim to achieve this through two key outcomes:

Outcome 1: Improved Financial Sustainability, supporting grantees to invest time and resource in strategic, organisational development through our multi-year unrestricted funding grant programme

Outcome 2: Increased Capability and Organisational Resilience through our capacity building programme

Organisations can apply for multi-year unrestricted funding. This approach ensures that funding is proportional to the size and capacity of your organisation to help ensure sustainability and resilience.

Find out more about The UK Youth Fund here

 

D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Amount available: £500 – £8,000

Deadline:

• Friday 8th May for first-stage applications for large charities (charities with an annual income of above £5 million). Successful first-stage applicants will be invited to submit a second-stage application by 1st June 2026.
• Monday 1st June for small charities (charities with an annual income of £5 million and under per annum).

Grants are available for UK registered charities working in the UK in the areas of participation in the performing arts, creative health interventions, and heritage crafts and skills.

Projects must fall within the following fields of interest:

Performing Arts

Supporting community music-making, performing arts engagement and early-stage career development.

The Trust funds:

• Amateur community music-making and singing.
• Performing arts engagement for underserved communities, particularly young people.
• Charities that provide early-stage career development to improve social mobility in the performing arts.

Creative Health

Funding non-clinical interventions that improve physical, emotional and mental health.

The Trust funds:

• Arts-based interventions accessed through referral.
• Short breaks for young carers.
• Animal-assisted therapy and horticulture.

Heritage Crafts

Protecting rare craft skills and linking traditional skills to training and employment.

The Trust funds:

• Protection of rare or endangered heritage craft skills.
• Projects linking heritage skills to employment and training, particularly for young people.

Applications are accepted from UK registered or regulated exempt charities working within the UK for the benefit of UK residents.

There is a separate application process for small charities (with an annual income of £5 million and under per annum) and large charities (with an annual income of above £5 million).

Work must begin at least two months after groups have been informed of the decision unless they have secured at least 75% of the funds they require.

Find out more about D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust here

 

Screwfix Foundation

Amount available: up to £5,000

Deadline: Sunday 10th May for the June Trustee meeting with a decision by Thursday 30th July.

The funding is intended for both national and local charities across the UK so that they can fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities specifically for those in need (by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage or distress) in the UK.

The funding is for projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need.

The funding is to be used for the following types of projects:

• Improved energy efficient lighting and heating
• Installation of new kitchen, bathroom etc.
• Installation of a sensory room.
• General painting and decorating.
• Improving safety and security of a building.

Due to the very high number of applications received each quarter, Screwfix will give priority to the following projects:

• Where Screwfix is funding the project in full.
• Where the project will directly benefit people in need and will have a lasting impact.

Find out more about Screwfix Foundation funding here

 

Triangle Trust 1949 Fund

Amount available: £50,000 and £100,000 for a duration of 18 months to three years. A maximum of £50,000 per year can be requested.

Deadline: The closing date for expression of interest forms for the Spring 2026 Application Window is Thursday 21st May (‘Young Woman & Girls Aged 11-18’). The Autumn 2026 Application Window for expression of interest forms opens Monday 7th September and closes Thursday 15th October (‘Young Women Aged 17-30’).

The Trust holds two grants rounds per year, Spring and Autumn. For the 2026 rounds, the funding priorities are:

• Spring round – helping young women and girls (aged 11-18): involved in county lines and gangs; those who are care experienced; and those who are either outside of education or at risk of school exclusion.
• Autumn round – supporting young women (aged 17-30): those already in contact with the criminal justice system who need holistic support to help them move away from offending; pre-release and through the gate support for young women to meet their immediate needs; and support for mothers prior to and after serving a custodial sentence.

The Trust is looking for proposals that target the most high risk young women and girls and applications will need to demonstrate that they are linked to schemes such as Out of Court Disposals and Point of Arrest Diversion initiatives as well as services working with those known to be at risk, such as girls who are looked after and those who are outside of education or on the edge of being excluded.

Applicant organisations will also need to show that they have strong links with Youth Offending Teams, probation, PRUs, schools and other relevant local partners who come into contact with this group of vulnerable young women and girls.

There is particular interest in projects working with young women and girls who are either care-experienced, come from Black or minoritized/racialised communities, are neurodiverse, excluded from school or vulnerable to being so, are involved with gangs and county lines, and work that is led by people with lived experience.

There is a two-stage application process.

• Stage one is to complete the online application form on the Triangle Trust website.
• Stage two will involve a visit from the Trust’s Director to the shortlisted applicants (usually between six and eight organisations).

Find out more about Triangle Trust 1949 Fund here

 

LandAid – Young Futures Fund

Amount available: up to £40,000

Deadline: Expressions of Interest (EOIs) can be submitted until Friday 22nd May (5pm)

The Young Futures Fund provides grant funding to organisations supporting young people (aged 16-25) who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. The fund focuses on projects that increase access to safe, secure, and affordable housing, alongside the support needed to sustain tenancies and progress towards independent living.

The fund particularly supports organisations delivering frontline services, with strong local connections and a clear understanding of the needs and experiences of young people in their communities.

Find out more about LandAid – Young Futures Fund here

 

Barclays Community Sport Fund 2025 to 2027

Amount available: Access Grants of £1,000. The grant can be split across football, tennis or cricket activities.

Female Coaches for Girls Grants. Football – £160 grant; Tennis – £200 grant; Cricket – £200 grant.

Deadline: Wednesday 27th May (17:00)

Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations operating in an area of high deprivation in the UK to make football, cricket, or tennis more accessible to women and girls.

The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and/or rural areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community.

Two funding streams are available:

• Access Grants to support the delivery of football, tennis or cricket activities for women and girls (as well as engage people from other underrepresented groups, such as people with disabilities, those from racially diverse communities and those from the LGBTQ+ community).
• Female Coaches for Girls Grant to cover the cost of a Level 1 or equivalent qualification for the sport. This is to upskill up to two female coaches at the club or group.

Find out more about Barclays Community Sport Fund 2025 to 2027 here

 

Material Focus – Electricals Recycling Fund

Amount available: £100,000 (per applicant) for projects to expand collection methods for small electricals. Organisations can apply up to £0.50 per household receiving the service.

Deadline: Sunday 31st May

The funding is intended to support projects that make it easier for the public to repair, reuse or recycle their consumer electricals.

The 2026-27 round is for the following proposed pilots:

• Bring banks
• Bring bank refurbishments
• Community drop off points
• Drop off events if part of a bigger, longer term pilot
• Reuse if part of a larger recycling pilot

Projects should take place for one year.

Material Focus will provide project management support and guidance throughout the pilot. This will include access to their resources, check in meetings, and opportunities to connect with other funded pilots.

Find out more about Material Focus – Electricals Recycling Fund here

 

Pink Ribbon Foundation

Amount available: up to £6,000. Groups are advised to apply for the level of funding the project or project specifics require, rather than the maximum level of funding available. Applications for just the sum of £6,000 will be considered as ‘poor’.

Deadline: Sunday 31st May

The Foundation offers financial support to charities whose objects are to:

• Relieve the needs of people who are suffering from, or have been affected by, breast cancer by providing, or assisting in the provision of, information, care, or emotional, practical, and financial support.
• Advance public education in the understanding of breast cancer, its early detection and treatment, but not exclusively by commissioning, or conducting, research into the causes, detection, and treatment of breast cancer and by disseminating the results of such research.

The Foundation will consider applications from general cancer charities if any grant made will be used to benefit at least 50% of patients that suffer from Breast Cancer or for research into, or the dissemination of information about, breast cancer.

For this grant period, and with requests for assistance growing, the Foundation will maintain the focus on organisations with limited financial resources to deliver their services.

Find out more about Pink Ribbon Foundation here

 

Caremark Community Care Fund

Amount available: £3,000

Deadline: Sunday 31st May

Caremark are looking for local projects across the UK that will create a meaningful, lasting impact.

This could be:

• Equipment for inclusive sports or activity groups
• Revamping a village hall or community centre
• Supplies for a community garden or green space
• Equipment for food banks, community larders or support services
• Brightening up a charity or community group’s space
• New equipment for a pre-school or playground

Their judges will shortlist 12 projects – one from every UK region – which will then go head-to-head in a public vote on social media.

The three projects with the most votes will win a £3,000 grant each.

Find out more about Caremark Community Care Fund here

 

The Environment Partnership

Amount available: Up to £1,000

Deadline: Sunday 31st May

The Environment Grant offers funding to any individual, group, professional, student, institution or charity across the whole of the UK. To be successful, applicants need to demonstrate a drive to make an impact on the environment, by furthering the environmental profession and/or raising awareness of environmental issues.

Find out more about The Environment Partnership grants here

 

The DPO Centre

Amount available: up to £10,000. Grants can be used to cover up to 80% of the total costs.

Deadline: Sunday 31st May

The DPO Centre is a Data Protection Officer resource centre delivering data protection and privacy advice and access to skilled and experienced resources to clients across a range of sectors, to help organisations identify how data protection legislation will affect them, how to ensure compliance, and how compliance builds trust, confidence, loyalty, and engagement.

This fund aims to provide charities and not-for-profit organisations with access to data protection consultancy advice and services that ensure they run efficiently, remain compliant with the law, and achieve the following outcomes:

• Provide immediate access to subject matter experts and a broadly experienced team of data protection professionals.
• Remove ‘unknowns’ experienced when conducting a similar process internally.
• Decrease the potential for compliance failure across an organisation.
• Provide a substantial reduction in regulatory and reputational risk.
• Lead to improved trust, increased engagement, reputation, and organisational value.

Funding can be used for projects and activities such as:

• Information asset registering and data mapping.
• Policy drafting and review.
• Impact assessments and gap analysis.
• Data protection training.
• Data sharing and international transfers.
• Privacy-by-design.
• Data protection readiness.

Find out more about The DPO Centre grants here

 

Pathway – dormant assets funding

Amount available: A share from a £12m pot of funding, taken from the government’s dormant assets scheme to unlock social investment into Black and ethnically minoritised communities in England.

Deadline: 11:59pm, 31st May

Funding for an intermediary organisation that deploys funding into asset-locked charities and social enterprises in England. Organisations must be led by Black or ethnically minoritised communities or be willing to partner with one that is.

Find out more about Pathway – dormant assets funding here

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Funding available for arts and culture sector in Eden and Furness

Amount available: between £2,000 and £10,000

Deadline: Monday 1st June 2026 at 10am

The arts, culture, heritage, festivals and events sector in Eden and Furness are invited to apply for new grant fund totalling at £94,000.

Available through Westmorland and Furness Council, grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 are available to projects that aim to support the delivery of high-quality arts activities and events, including performances, exhibitions, productions and festivals.

With funding for arts and culture already established in South Lakeland, the grant aims to create a more balanced approach across the area.

Applications are open to organisations who are not in receipt of regular grant funding from Westmorland and Furness Council and must be located within the area, with funded activity delivered in either Eden or Furness.

Find out more about funding available for arts and culture sector in Eden and Furness here

 

Heart Research UK – Healthy Heart Grants

Amount available: up to £15,000

Deadline: Wednesday 3rd June

Funding is for new projects that work with communities to prevent heart disease, particularly for vulnerable and isolated groups of individuals who are at an increased risk of developing heart problems in the future. Projects that are likely to have a big impact and have considered novel ways to encourage people to look after their hearts and promote positive lifestyle changes are also sought.

Activities must have a primary focus on one or more of the following four risk factors for heart disease:

• Nutrition and Healthy Eating.
• Physical Activity.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol.

Projects should run for a minimum of three months and no longer than 12 months.

The funding can support salaries, overhead expenses/on costs and equipment that is necessary for the successful delivery of the project.

Find out more about Heart Research UK – Healthy Heart Grants here

 

[NEW] Webtrends Optimize – Conversion for Good grants

Amount available: One 12-month full-stack, all-inclusive CRO platform license.

Deadline: 11:59pm, Friday 5th June

The Conversion For Good grant scheme is open to all UK or international charities, including existing charity clients that Webtrends Optimize already works with. –

Find out more about Webtrends Optimize – Conversion for Good grants here

 

[NEW] Historic England – Heritage at Risk Capital Fund

Amount available: up to £1 million. The target is for project costs to be 20% match funded. However, 100% of project costs may be funded in particular cases.

Deadline: EOI Sunday 7th June

The Heritage at Risk Capital Fund’s objectives are to:

• Repair and safeguard heritage at risk across England
• Remove or significantly reduce risk and deterioration for priority heritage assets
• Bring historic buildings back into safe and productive use
• Target projects in England’s most disadvantaged communities

Projects must match one or more of Historic England’s priorities, which are to:

• Help more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from the historic environment
• Use heritage to improve civic pride, prosperity, and wellbeing
• Achieve a positive change and sustainable future for historic places, including buildings, landscapes, archaeological sites, and marine assets
• Ensure heritage plays an important role in the fight to limit and manage the effects of climate change

Both individuals and organisations can apply. To be eligible, applicants must have legal responsibility for the repair of the property, which includes those who:

• Own the property outright
• Hold a full repairing lease which has at least 21 years to run
• Demonstrate that they have an agreement to acquire the property in question either outright or by a full repairing lease of at least 21 years

Find out more about Historic England – Heritage at Risk Capital Fund here

 

DCMS – Better Futures Fund

Amount available: A delivery partner for a £500m pot of funding over the next 10 years.

Deadline: 11:59pm, Friday 12th June

Funding for a charitable, philanthropic or benevolent institution, either a single organisation or joint application. The successful applicant will deliver the fund to various organisations, including charities and social enterprises, to provide place-based solutions to complex social problems.

Find out more about DCMS – Better Futures Fund here

 

[NEW] Places of Worship Renewal Fund

Amount available: match funding is required.

• Small grants of £10,000 to £50,000.
• Medium grants of £50,001 to £350,000.
• Large grants of £350,001 to £1 million.

Deadline: EOI Sunday 14th June. Full application Sunday 26th July.

The Fund is designed to support the repair of England’s treasured places of worship and targeted at places of most need. It is open to listed places of worship of all faiths and denominations in England. Applications will be assessed against the requirements of the fund, not faith or denomination.

The funding is intended for capital works that keep buildings safe, open and in public use. Priority will be given to projects in areas of England with the greatest need for investment, and those that bring most community benefit.

The fund’s objectives are to:

• Repair and safeguard historic places of worship in places most in need by undertaking the repairs that keep them in use
• Help places of worship stay active as community spaces
• Strengthen long-term resilience of the building and reduce future repair costs
• Target support in the most deprived areas of England where need is highest

Projects need to match one or more of Historic England’s priorities, which are to:

• Help more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from the historic environment
• Use heritage to improve civic pride, prosperity, and wellbeing
• Achieve a positive change and sustainable future for historic places, including buildings, landscapes, archaeological sites, and marine assets
• Ensure heritage plays an important role in the fight to limit and manage the effects of climate change

Find out more about Places of Worship Renewal Fund here

 

[NEW] Charities Aid Foundation – Building Resilience Programme

Amount available: Between £40,000 and £70,000 over two years

Deadline: 12pm, Monday 15th June

Funding for small and medium-sized social purpose organisations working to protect and preserve the UK’s freshwater ecosystems.

The programme combines flexible funding with tailored support to strengthen the long-term resilience of the organisations protecting these environments.

Find out more about Charities Aid Foundation – Building Resilience Programme here

 

VALOUR Recognised Centres Development Fund

Amount available: £200,000 – £500,000

Deadline: There is a two-stage process for round two:

• The first stage is to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) by the deadline of Monday 15th June (12 noon).
•  Successful stage one applicants will be invited to submit a full application in July, with a deadline to submit a full application by Wednesday 26th August.

Grants are available to better support veterans across the UK through the provision of place-based Valour Recognised Centres (VRCs) which will provide a welcoming physical space to all veterans and have the ability to identify and address their needs as presented.

The programme aims to achieve equitable coverage across the UK with the VRCs which must be able to provide support to both veterans and the fuller Armed Forces serving community as soon as possible and no later than the end of the second year of three-year funded projects.

The funding is intended for existing organisations or consortiums (a group of organisations coming together to work cohesively to deliver the required programme outcomes) to provide a set of fixed services, including health, housing and employment guidance and support.

Projects need to deliver all of the following outcomes:

• Help reduce the postcode lottery by delivering more equity of access and a level of consistency in service quality.
• Enhance collaboration and coordination within your area between statutory and non-statutory organisations.
• Help improve understanding of need through sharing data and information on veterans and the wider armed forces community.

Applications will be accepted from:

• A registered charity and CIC that has been established more than three years.
• A local government body.

Find out more about VALOUR Recognised Centres Development Fund here

 

Rosa’s Stand With Us Fund

Amount available: One-year grants of up to £28,000

Deadline: 4pm on Monday 22nd June. Grants will be paid in January 2027 and will last for one year (from January 2027 to December 2027).

Grants are available for not-for-profit women’s and girls’ organisations delivering frontline services in the UK addressing male violence against women and girls.
The current round aims to achieve the following outcomes:

• Women and girls will be supported by organisations delivering frontline services to end male violence against women and girls, ensuring women and girls can be safe, healthy and equal.
• Women and girls organisations will be empowered and strengthened, meaning that they will be in a stronger position to survive, thrive and grow into the future.

The funding is intended to enable organisations to be in a stronger position to survive, thrive and grow by investing in organisational development work such as developing strategy, strengthening governance and leadership, a stronger voice in the women’s movement, creating stronger alliances and partnerships, increasing fundraising, volunteering and activism, demonstrating impact and more effective systems and processes

Find out more about Rosa’s Stand With Us Fund here

 

Pilgrim Trust – Young Women in Mind Programme

Amount available: £200,000 and £500,000, spread over a period of three years, are available

Deadline: Monday 22nd June

Young Women in Mind 2026-2028 supports UK registered charities delivering high quality services specifically designed to respond to the needs of young women (aged 14 to 25 years) experiencing mental health difficulties. It is anticipated that the support will enable the young woman to thrive and fulfil her potential.

Funding is available to:

• Scale or expand an existing, high-quality, targeted mental health service for young women and girls.
• Strengthen or adapt current provision to better meet young women’s mental health needs.

To be eligible, applicants must be either of the following UK-registered charities:

• Mental health charity with annual income of at least £750,000; have a clearly stated youth and mental health mission; and children and young people are a core beneficiary group (and ideally should be the charity’s main focus).
• Women and girls’ charity led by and for women and girls; have an annual income of at least £350,000; have a clearly stated mental health mission; and beneficiaries to include young women and girls under 18 years old.

The organisation must have been in operation for at least three years.

Find out more about Pilgrim Trust – Young Women in Mind Programme here

 

[NEW] Big Give Christmas Challenge 2026

Amount available: Sign-ups are open for the UK’s biggest collaborative fundraising campaign, championing a wide range of charitable organisations.

Deadline: 5pm, Friday 3rd July

The week-long initiative takes place in early December to coincide with Giving Tuesday, enables charities to secure match funding from Big Give’s network of Champion funders, including philanthropists, foundations and corporate partners.

Find out more about Big Give Christmas Challenge 2026 here

 

Wildlife Trusts – Green Community Grants Programme

Amount available: up to £25,000

Deadline: Applications open from Wednesday 24th June – Wednesday 15th July

Grants are available for charities and community groups working on environmental and nature-based projects across England, Scotland and Wales.

Funding is aimed at projects that:

• support nature recovery
• tackle climate change
• improve access to green spaces
• or encourage sustainable community activities.

Eligible organisations must:

• be not-for-profit
• have an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million
• and have been operating for at least 12 months

Funding can support activities such as:

• community gardening
• habitat improvement
• recycling projects
• litter picking
• beach cleans
• outdoor education
• and sustainable transport initiatives.

Priority is given to:

• smaller organisations
• groups in disadvantaged communities
• and organisations supporting marginalised people.

Find out more about Wildlife Trusts – Green Community Grants Programme here

 

Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund

Amount available: £2,500 to £10,000

Deadline: Sunday 19th July (midnight)

Grants are available for community groups, charities, community interest companies, schools, and other organisations to support tree-planting projects that are well-planned, sustainable, and will directly benefit people and communities.

Find out more about Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund here

 

Tree Council – Branching Out Fund

Amount available: £250 to £2,500

Deadline: Sunday 19th July 2026 (midnight). Applications for less than £500 are likely to be processed more quickly.

Grants are available to assist schools and community groups in undertaking tree planting projects across the UK.

The funding is for tree and hedge planting projects taking place during the 2026/27 winter planting season.

Find out more about Tree Council – Branching Out Fund here

 

Radcliffe Trust – Heritage and Craft

Amount available: Heritage and Crafts Grants are generally in the region of £2,500 to £7,500.

Music Grants are generally in the region of £2,500 to £5,000.

Deadline: Friday 31st July 2026 (for consideration in December 2026)

Funding is available for UK charities, not-for-profit and Exempt organisations working in the areas of music, especially chamber music, composition and music education, or in heritage and crafts.

Find out more about Radcliffe Trust – Heritage and Craft here

 

Dan Maskell Tennis Trust

Amount available: up to £1,600 for a group, club or project are available. Up to £600 is available for individuals.

Deadline: Monday 3rd August

The funding is intended to support people with disabilities in the UK to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.

Disability groups and programmes, clubs, schools and associations in the UK are eligible to apply. Individuals are also eligible to apply.

Find out more about Dan Maskell Tennis Trust here

 

[NEW] WCIT Charity

Amount available: up to £15,000

Deadline: Friday 14th August

This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas:

• Education.
• Inclusion.
• Tech for charities.
• Public understanding of Technology.

Find out more about WCIT Charity here

 

Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme

Amount available: £400

Deadline: Monday 17th August

The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation.

The aim of these small community grants is to support projects, activities and organisations that will be of real direct benefit to families and have a direct and tangible social impact on people’s lives.

Funding is available for projects that are working towards one of Warburtons’ outcome areas:

• Health – supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives:
  • Improving physical health
  • Improving wellbeing
• Place – supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive:
  • Making spaces safe and inclusive
  • Connecting communities with the environment
• Skills – supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work:
  • Developing useful life skills
  • Developing useful skills for employment.

Grants can be used to cover specific costs that will benefit the cause (e.g. purchasing equipment to support an employability project).

Find out more about Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme here

 

Henry Smith Foundation – Holiday Grants for Children

Amount available: £500 – £3,500

Deadline: Applications for trips between:

• Friday 1st May and Wednesday 30th September 2026 are open to Wednesday 19th August 2026
• Thursday 1st October and Thursday 31st December 2026 are open from Thursday 20th August to Thursday 19th November 2026.

The funding helps to provide opportunities for children aged 13 years or younger who face financial hardship, systemic inequity or disability to go on a short recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. Priority is given to fun and new experiences, such as camping, adventure activities, or visits to the seaside.

Youth groups and UK based non-profits with an organisational income below £2 million and schools in the UK are eligible to apply.

Priority will be given to projects that will benefit disadvantaged and disabled children in the most deprived areas in the UK. This means areas that fall within the bottom 20% according to the National Indices of Deprivation. For groups of children with disabilities, more flexibility will be given regarding the level of deprivation.

Grants are made on a first come, first served basis until the available funding for that round has been fully allocated. All applications should be received at least six weeks before the date of the trip to allow for administrative processing and decision making.

Find out more about Henry Smith Foundation – Holiday Grants for Children here

 

The Grocers’ Charity

Amount available: One-off grants of up to £5,000

Deadline: Tuesday 1st September

Funding for charities with incomes under £500,000 (except medical charities, where the limit is £15m) can apply for funding in the following areas:

• relief of hardship
• children and young people (0-25)
• elderly
• disability and inclusion
• health
• military
• the arts
• heritage and environment
• conservation

Find out more about The Grocers’ Charity grants here

 

Theatre Improvement Scheme

Amount available: £20,000

Deadline: Friday 11th September 2026 (12 noon)

The scheme supports charitable theatre operators in the UK to carry out capital projects to improve their theatre buildings. Projects must fall within a specific theme each year.

The current theme for the fund is Improving Environmental Sustainability as this is an urgent priority for the sector.

Find out more about Theatre Improvement Scheme here

 

Fat Beehive Foundation

Amount available: up to £2,500

Deadline: Wednesday 30th September 2026 for the October 2026 meeting.

The funding is intended to support the creation of websites or digital products that enable small charities to carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.

As only a limited number of projects can be supported based on the funding available for distribution, each year the Foundation determines priority areas for support and invites applications accordingly.

UK registered charities with an annual average income of less than £1 million may apply.

Successful applicants must agree to commence work on their project within three months of being awarded a grant.

Find out more about Fat Beehive Foundation here

 

[NEW] Heritage Revival Fund

Amount available:

• Project Viability Grants up to £20,000 to support early-stage work for up to one year. Match-funding is preferred, but not essential.
• Project Development Grants up to £100,000 to support development work for up to one year. At least 10% match funding is required.
• Capital Works Grants up to £500,000 to support repair, restoration and conservation work for up to 18 months. At least 20% match funding is required.

Deadline: various deadlines

The funding is intended to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.

The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs.

The Heritage Revival Fund aims to:

• Maximise the regeneration benefits of community ownership and control of heritage assets, assisting in making communities fit for the future.
• Protect, enhance and safeguard historic buildings across England, offering viable new uses for disused and underutilised properties.
• Build capacity within local community groups, social enterprise, and charities.
• Maximise the positive social and economic impacts around restoring historic buildings.

Priority will be given to:

• Historic building projects that can help regenerate town centres and deliver clear economic and social impacts for communities.
• Historic buildings in deprived areas, including in the top 30% most deprived areas according to the Indices of Deprivation.
• Projects that will bring historic buildings into community ownership.
• Projects that aim to restore and re-use vacant or at-risk buildings.

Find out more about Heritage Revival Fund here

 

[NEW] Cellnex Community Fund

Amount available: up to £5,000

Deadline: can be submitted at any time

Grants are available for charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs), and other not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver projects and activities that help to strengthen communities, build digital confidence, improve the environment, and help people access skills for the future.

Funding is for projects and activities that fall within one or more of the following themes:

• Digital Inclusion and Skills – Helping people to get online, build digital skills, or use technology with confidence.
• Circular Economy – Reducing waste, encouraging repair and reuse, or supporting sustainable use of materials.
• Biodiversity and Conservation – Improving local nature, protecting wildlife habitats, or supporting community environmental action.
• AI and Education – Building awareness of artificial intelligence, responsible use of technology, and STEM learning.

Find out more about Cellnex Community Fund here

 

Social Investment Business – Reach Fund

Amount available: Flexible grants from £5,000-£15,000 for charities, social enterprises and organisations to unlock the last requirements for investment.

Deadline: Not specified

Funding for charities and social enterprises in England that are close to raising social investment and need support to provide the final information an investor needs. To apply, organisations must work with an Access Point – a social investor approved by the Reach Fund who can refer organisations to apply for funding.

Find out more about Social Investment Business – Reach Fund here

 

Cash For Kids – Holiday Hunger Grants

Amount available: usually between £1,000 to £3,000.

Deadline: No deadline, but the fund may close early if funds are depleted.

The aim of the Holiday Hunger Grants is to support organisations and service providers to give disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) access to food and activities during the school holidays. Projects must encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.

Applications are accepted from the following organisations:

• Registered charity (with an annual turnover less than £1 million).
• School.
• Community group, voluntary group, youth group or sports group with a formal governance document (e.g. constitution, articles of association, club rules and regulations).

Projects must focus on outcomes that encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.

Find out more about Cash For Kids – Holiday Hunger Grants here

 

Cash For Kids – Impact Grant

Amount available: usually between £1,000 to £3,000.

Deadline: No deadline, but the fund may close early if funds are depleted.

Grants to support disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) in the UK who are affected by poverty, illness, neglect or have additional support needs.

The Impact Grant (formerly General Grant) addresses the following themes:

• Poverty.
• Mental health and well-being.
• Sport and physical well-being.
• Disability or life-limiting illness.
• Education and essential skills.
• Diversity and inclusion.

Impact Grants for individuals are also available.

Applications are accepted from registered charities (with an annual turnover less than £1 million), schools, community organisations and other grassroots groups

Find out more about Cash For Kids – Impact Grant here

 

True Colours Trust – UK Small Grants

Amount available: up to £10,000 are available, although many grants are smaller than this.

Deadline: Applications can be made at any time. The Trust aims to respond to applications with a final decision within 12 weeks.

Small grants are available to UK registered charities and community interest companies that are working to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.

Applications are accepted from UK registered charitable organisations and community interest companies that:

• Have an annual income of less than £350,000
• Are delivering projects in the UK.
• Are working with children and young people aged from 0-25 years.
• Are open to children and families of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures.

The Trust is particularly keen to receive applications from organisations which operate in areas of high deprivation.

Find out more about True Colours Trust – UK Small Grants here

 

Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants

Amount available: Customers in Tesco stores throughout the UK vote on which of three local projects they wish to support.

The customer vote determines the amount of money a project receives:

• Grants of up to £1,500 for the project with the most votes.
• Grants of up to £1,000 for the second most votes.
• Grants of up to £500 for the third most votes.

Projects will be shortlisted every four months.

Deadline: There are no deadlines. This is a rolling programme, and applications can be made at any time.

Please note it can take between 12 to 18 months for groups to hear whether their project has been shortlisted to go to the public vote.

Applications are open to all local good causes that support children and young people, with a particular focus on projects that incorporate provision of healthy food including fruit and veg, such as breakfast clubs, providing holiday club lunches or healthy snacks.

The focus of the fund is getting schools who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people’s mental and physical wellbeing.

Priority is given to projects working in schools and organisations nominated by Tesco staff.

Find out more about Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants here

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The Big Bike Revival

Amount available: Up to £3,500

Deadline: Monday 1st June

The Big Bike Revival is an intervention for adults aimed at encouraging an uptake in cycling. By providing solutions to perceived barriers, adults are enabled to learn to how to cycle and to increase their cycling levels for short, everyday journeys. Events focus on presenting cycling as a practical, normal and habitual way to get around locally.

The Big Bike Revival is delivered across England by a wide range of community-embedded partners who understand the local need. An extensive programme of FREE events offering services that fix bikes, teach skills and lead rides, motivate adults to either start or return to cycling. Social and inclusive activities help adults of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to discover the joys of cycling and help make cycling become a normal travel option.

Delivery partners are typically volunteer-led groups, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are rooted in local communities and working to address a range of local needs.

Find out more about The Big Bike Revival grants here

 

Leeds Building Society Foundation

Amount available: up to £2,500

Deadline:

• Monday 1st June 2026 for consideration at the Wednesday 24th June 2026 meeting
• Monday 7th September 2026 for consideration at the Wednesday 7th October 2026 meeting
• Wednesday 11th November 2026 for consideration at the Wednesday 2nd December 2026 meeting.

The funding is intended to support projects to improve the health, wellbeing and financial literacy of people who are experiencing homelessness.

Small Grants – are flexible and can be used for core, project and/or capital costs. This is UK wide for organisations with a turnover of less than £500,000.

Projects must meet the Foundation’s purpose through one or more of its criteria themes. Examples of eligible projects include:

• Financial stress – projects that help with bills or debt stress
• Security and refuge – projects that support emergency accommodation
• Quality and suitability of housing
• Health and wellbeing support for those experiencing homelessness if it is part of wraparound support and the application also meets at least one of the other themes

Applications are welcome from those who take a Housing First and/or relationship-based approach. Applications should show evidence of:

• Strength-based practice
• Trauma-informed care
• Psychologically-informed environments

Find out more about Leeds Building Society Foundation grants here

 

National Archives – Project Grants

Amount available: up to £30,000.

Deadline: Friday 12th June. There will be a second 2026 funding round opening on 1st September with a deadline on 13th November.

Grants are available to support substantial, collaborative initiatives between at least one GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) or heritage organisation and one community group within the UK.

This initiative aims to respond to a long-standing challenge in the UK’s GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) and heritage sectors: how to make innovation and learning from community-facing projects more sustainable, transferable, and accessible across the sector. Through a supportive funding structure, it aims to help communities and organisations share their work more widely and contribute to a growing body of knowledge that others can learn from and build upon.

The grants are intended to support in-depth research, skills development, and the creation of lasting resources that reflect diverse voices and experiences.

Projects should be co-designed and community-led, with a focus on inclusion, sustainability, and impact. Whether building upon a Seed Corn project or starting fresh, Project Grants are intended to create meaningful change and long-term value for both communities and institutions.

Projects should be inclusive, sustainable, and impactful, with a strong emphasis on shared ownership and mutual benefit. The funding is intended to support practical, creative, and developmental work that strengthens relationships between GLAM organisations and the communities they serve.

Applicants must not have received a Community Hub Project Grant before.

Find out more about National Archives – Project Grants here

 

Help the Homeless – main grants

Amount available: Up to £5,000

Deadline: Saturday 20th June at 5.00pm.

Funding for UK charities with an annual turnover of less than £500,000.

These organisations must work with people experiencing homelessness. They should also be capital projects and it must be two years since any previous grant from the trust.

Find out more about Help the Homeless – main grants here

 

 

Green Community Grants Programme – The Wildlife Trusts

Amount available: up to £25,000.

Deadline: Applications for 2026 will be accepted in the following windows:

Round Two: Wednesday 24th June 2026 to Wednesday 15th July 2026.
Round Three: Wednesday 30th September 2026 to Thursday 1st October 2026.

The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund’s themes:

• Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency.
• Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them.

The grants can be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport.

To be eligible, applicants must have an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million in the most recent financial year.

As funding is generally oversubscribed, priority will be given to organisations:

• With an income of £250,000 or below.
• That work in communities located in the top 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation.
• Whose main activities are focused on supporting marginalised groups. This could include, but is not limited to, disabled people, communities experiencing racial inequity, and LGBT+ people.
• Organisations whose objects or purpose within its governing document relate to habitat or species restoration/protection.

Groups can apply for no more than 25% of their annual income listed on their most recent set of signed accounts.

Find out more about Green Community Grants Programme – The Wildlife Trusts here

 

Theatres Trust – small grants

Amount available: Up to £7,500, supported by the Linbury Trust

Deadline: Midday on Friday 26th June

Funding for Not-for-profit theatres in the UK doing small capital works to improve sustainability, diversity and digital readiness, among other areas.

Applicants must own or manage a theatre with a lease or title of more than five years with a minimum of 30 annual performances.

Find out more about Theatres Trust – small grants here

 

Sir Halley Stewart Trust – main grants

Amount available: £5,000 to £60,000 for projects in religious, medical and social fields.

Deadline: Monday 29th June

Funding for UK charities and educational establishments which deliver innovative research or pioneer development projects in the trust’s priority areas.

Find out more about Sir Halley Stewart Trust – main grants here

 

Weaver’s Company Benevolent Fund

Amount available: Small grants of up to £5,000. Main Grants have no maximum amount.

Deadline: midday on:

• Thursday 2nd July 2026 to be considered in October 2026.
• Thursday 12th November 2026 to be considered in February 2027.

Grants are available for UK registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending, either within a local area or nationally.

The funding is intended for registered charities working in the current priority areas:

• Supporting offenders and ex-offenders into work, specifically for those looking to build skills and capability to get into sustainable work.
• Helping specific groups within the criminal justice sector that are less popular with funders than others.

The secondary funding area is focused on projects that work specifically with young people (aged 16 to 25 years) involved with the Criminal Justice System to ensure they are given every possible chance to realise their full potential and to participate fully in society, rather than general youth development projects.

Find out more here

 

National Churches Trust – Large Grants Programme

Amount available: £10,000 and £50,000 are available. The current average is about £15,000.

Deadline: Tuesday 7th July

The Large Grants programme (formerly Cornerstone Grants) supports structural repairs and maintenance issues costing more than £100,000 or the installation of kitchen and toilets costing over £30,000.

Priority for funding is for urgent structural repairs (costed at more than £80,000 including VAT), but the Trust will consider projects for the installation of kitchens and accessible toilets (costed at more than £30,000 including VAT).

Find out more about National Churches Trust – Large Grants Programme here

 

Hospital Saturday Fund

Amount available: There are two levels of awards:

• Standard Grants of £2,000
• Larger Grants of up to £10,000

Deadline: The 2026 deadlines for:

• Standard grant applications are 14th July, 8th October 2026, and 5th January 2027
• Large grant applications are 16th June, 10th September, and 2nd December 2026.

Provides grant funding to registered health charities such as hospitals, hospices and medical organisations for medical projects, care, research or support of medical training taking place in the United Kingdom.

Funding can assist with medical projects, capital projects, medical care or research, hospice/respite care, medical training and running costs.

Large Grants are awarded for specific projects, research or equipment rather than running costs.

Find out more about Hospital Saturday Fund here

 

BFBS Big Salute – British Forces Broadcasting Service

Amount available: up to £10,000

Deadline: Friday 31st July

A small number of grants are available once a year for registered charities supporting members of the armed forces community, including regulars, reservists, veterans, and their families.

The funding is for purpose-driven projects that address the unique challenges faced by the military community in the UK and overseas.

The following are not eligible for funding:

• Staff salaries
• Training costs
• Running costs

Projects should start from January 2027 and demonstrate a tangible, measurable benefit within a year of receiving the grant.

Find out more about BFBS Big Salute – British Forces Broadcasting Service here

 

Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust

Amount available: £5,000

Deadline: Saturday 15th August

The objectives of the Trust are:

• To promote horticulture.
• To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity.
• To promote the creation, development, preservation and maintenance of gardens accessible to the public.
• The advancement of horticultural education.

Funding is available for:

• The advancement of research in any branch of horticulture and the publication of the results of such research.
• Assisting in the creation, development, preservation and maintenance of gardens accessible to the public.
• Promotion of the cultivation of plants which have horticultural value and new plants.
• Assisting in the publication of books or other works related to the science of horticulture.

Find out more about Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust here

 

7stars Foundation

Amount available:

• Project Grants: One-off grants of up to £5,000.
• Shine Bright Long Term Grants: Two-year grants of up to £30,000 per year.
• Child Poverty Grants: Two-year grants of up to £30,000 per year.
• Social Impact Grants: Two-year grants of £5,000 per year.
• Individual Grants: One-off grants of up to £500.

Deadline: Monday 31st August

The foundation makes grants to projects which support young people (18 years and under) who are challenged by abuse or addiction, who are young carers, or who are homeless/without a safe place to call home.

Find out more here

 

Grocers’ Charity Grant

Amount available: usually up to £5,000

Deadline: Tuesday 1st September. There is a two-stage application process.

The Charity provides one-off grants for UK registered charities to support the following areas:

• Relief of hardship.
• Children and young people (from birth to 25 years old).
• The elderly.
• Disability and inclusion.
• Health.
• Military.
• Heritage.
• The arts.
• Environment and conservation.

Registered charities in the UK with a turnover below £500,000 (or medical charities with an income below £15 million) are eligible to apply.

Find out more about Grocers’ Charity Grant here

 

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – Peace and Security Programme

Amount available: No fixed limit

Deadline: 2nd September

Funding for organisations performing national-level work in the UK – work that is legally charitable and focuses on systemic change.

JCRT will not fund large, established national charities or statutory bodies, nor will it fund business development projects.

Find out more here

 

Groundwork – Grassroots Grants

Amount available: £500 to £2,000

Deadline: Applications will close in September 2026

Grants are available for small, grassroots charities, community interest communities (CICs), and voluntary and community groups across England to deliver vital services that benefit their local communities.

Small, local, constituted voluntary and community organisations, including registered charities, with an annual income of less than £25,000 in the last financial year can apply.

Community interest companies (CICs) can apply if they have been in operating for two years with an asset lock (schedule one and two only).

Priority will be given to organisations that meet the following criteria:

• Funding is for work in communities that rank as being within the top 15% on the English Indices of Deprivation.
• Organisations that work with and support communities that are classed as marginalised or vulnerable.

Find out more about Groundwork – Grassroots Grants here

 

Postcode Lottery – Dream Fund

Amount available: One £5m award for a collaborative project

Deadline: Applications are open but no fixed closing date has been announced

Funding for charities and not-for-profits in Britain with collaborative proposals. These initiatives should tackle major social and environmental challenges in British communities and demonstrate long-term impact. Project partners can also be universities, companies, councils or research institutes.

Find out more about Postcode Lottery – Dream Fund here

 

The Great Get Together – Jo Cox Foundation

Amount available: £100

Deadline: Not specified

The Great Get Together is the UK’s annual celebration of everything that connects our communities, inspired by Jo Cox’s belief that we have more in common than that which divides us.

This year’s Great Get Together will take place on 19th-21st June and will mark 10 years since Jo was killed. The Jo Cox Foundation are able to offer £5,000 worth of mini-grants to organisers for this year’s Great Get Together. Organisers are able apply for up to £100 to cover things like venue hire, refreshments and decorations.

You can find out more about this funding, and the campaign, here

 

VocTech Together Programme

Amount available: in 2027, the VocTech Together Grant Fund will offer grants of between £20,000 and £40,000.

Deadline: details not provided. Applicants should complete the short form on the Ufi VocTech Trust website to receive further information and opportunities to get involved in the programme.

This programme aims to address systemic barriers in adult education and skills development through digital technology, focusing on challenges faced by underserved learners and supporting scalable solutions through collaboration and funding. Its objectives are to improve access to skills and employment pathways, strengthen workforce development, drive sustainable change in the UK skills system, and support collaboration to test and scale innovative VocTech solutions.

Rather than offering a single pathway or solution, VocTech Together engages organisations at different stages of adopting vocational technology, from early exploration to large-scale implementation across places, sectors or learner communities. The programme includes:

• A support programme to help smaller organisations adopt VocTech and improve learning outcomes.
• A grant fund to support embedding technology into practice and workforce development.
• Impact Partnerships to scale VocTech across places or sectors.
• A programme of evidence and impact to inform practice and policy.

Find out more about VocTech Together Programme here

 

The Morrisons Foundation

Amount available: up to £10,000

Deadline: Rolling

The Morrisons Foundation awards grants to registered charities to fully fund projects which make a positive difference in local communities in England, Scotland and Wales.

Applications should deliver on (at least) one of three objectives to be considered for support, these are:

1. Tackling poverty and social deprivation
2. Enhancing community spaces, facilities and services
3. Improving health and wellbeing

Find out more about The Morrisons Foundation here

 

Benefact Trust – Community Impact Grants

Amount available: Funding is awarded at the discretion of the trustees. Multi-year grants of up to three years are available. Groups are expected to have secured at least 30% of their total project costs before applying.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time

Grants are available for churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, Christian charities, schools, and theological institutions across the UK to deliver projects and activities that have a positive impact on communities.

This fund aims to support Christian organisations to deliver projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities and contribute to the following objectives:

• Growing congregations and Christian communities.
• Addressing social challenges facing communities.
• Enabling wider community use of church buildings.
• Empowering Christian education.

Find out more about Benefact Trust – Community Impact Grants here

 

Homeless Link – Energy Resilience Fund

Amount available: A share from a pot totalling £15m. The fund offers a package of energy audit support and blended funding (60% loan and 40% grant). Eligible organisations can apply for blended funding of between £25,000 and £250,000.

Deadline: Not specified

Funding for charities working with people who are homeless, who need funding for a range of energy saving or generation projects.

These can include: energy efficient or saving lighting systems, glazing upgrades, solar PV panels, battery storage, heat pumps, insulation, electric vehicles or energy efficient equipment.

Find out more about Homeless Link – Energy Resilience Fund here

 

Quilter Foundation – New Financial Futures Fund

Amount available: The grants will be worth up to £1m over five years

Deadline: Not specified

The grants will support financial education programmes in partnership with specialist charities.

The grants will back large-scale UK programmes that deliver financial education to various priority groups at key life moments, from entering the workforce, to periods of financial hardship and retirement planning.

Find out more about Quilter Foundation – New Financial Futures Fund here

 

Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme

Amount available: £500 and £3,000

Deadline: It is a rolling programme and applications will be accepted until all of the funding has been allocated.

The funding supports physical activity projects for people living with Parkinson’s across the UK, with a particular focus on encouraging those who are currently inactive to get involved and connect with local opportunities that help them move more creatively.

The priorities for this year’s grants programme are:

• Supporting people with Parkinson’s to participate in movement based activities that build confidence and foster a lasting interest in being physically active.
• Engaging people with Parkinson’s who are currently inactive to begin physical activity and maintain ongoing participation.

This year, in recognition that some people face additional barriers to engaging in physical activity, the programme has broadened its scope to include ‘Gateway Activities. These activities help people with Parkinson’s build confidence and develop an interest in movement-based activity. Examples include arts-based activities such as theatre, musical and circus skills, singing and movement, playing large instruments that require significant movement (such as samba drumming), and gardening or horticulture projects.

Find out more about Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme here

 

Aviva Foundation – Financial Futures Fund and Communities Fund

Amount available: 1) Financial Futures Fund: multi-year grant funding for large organisations with incomes of more than £1m. 2) Communities Fund: Match-funding through a crowdfunding platform for small charities and not-for-profits with incomes of less than £1m.

Deadline: Unspecified

Funding for UK-based organisations which help people build financial resilience and support community-led climate action.

Find out more about Aviva Foundation – Financial Futures Fund and Communities Fund here

 

Greggs Foundation – Community Action Fund

Amount available: £20,000 per year for up to three years of core funding

Deadline: Currently no fixed deadline – there are four funding rounds per year

Funding for not-for-profits with annual incomes between £25,000 and £1m. Those that have at least one full year of delivered services and a set of annual accounts, a board of at least three unrelated trustees or directors and a strong presence in one of Greggs’ areas of focus, ie near an outlet or in areas of social deprivation.

Find out more about Greggs Foundation – Community Action Fund here

 

St Martin in the Fields – Homelessness Support

Amount available: Up to £500

Deadline: None

VRF awards fast emergency grants of up to £500 to help people who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless. These crisis grants can be used to remove immediate barriers such as rent in advance, deposits, ID, and removal costs.

You can register for a VRF account today using your direct work email address and once approved, you can start an application via our Application Portal.

Fid out more about the fund and process here

If you would like more information, please register to join one our Teams webinar where we can discuss our grant offer and answer any questions you might have. Once registered, you’ll be emailed a link to join the webinar at the scheduled time:

Tuesday 10th February 14:00 – 15:15. Please register for the event using your work email address via this link

 

BlueSpark Foundation

Amount available: up to £5,000

Deadline: Rolling

Grants are available for schools, community groups, clubs, societies or other organisations in England to improve the education and development of children and young people through educational, cultural, sporting and other activities.

The funding is for relatively small-scale projects, which might not happen at all or would only happen on a lesser scale without the support of BlueSpark.

The Foundation aims to help children and young people reach their full potential by supporting projects that have the following objectives:

• Encouraging independence.
• Developing team working skills.
• Developing self-confidence.
• Promoting creativity and individuality.
• Encouraging aspiration.
• Enhancing educational achievement.
• Widening educational horizons.

Find out more here

 

Yusen Logistics and Baltic Apprenticeships – apprenticeships levy transfer

Amount available: £210,000 in total levy funding.

Deadline: On a rolling basis over the next six months.

For charities, not-for-profits and NHS bodies. Eligible organisations will be able to claim funding for apprenticeship programmes in areas such as IT support, data analysis and digital marketing, all at no cost.

Find out more here

 

Village Halls Small Grants Fund

Amount available: Grant awards of between £2,000 to £5,000 are available where match funding of 80% is in place.

Deadline: There is no deadline but the fund will be closed when all funds are allocated.

Managed by Action with Rural Communities in England (ACRE), the fund provides support for the modernisation and improvement of village halls in England.

It helps organisations to undertake smaller projects such as disability access, boiler replacement, toilet upgrades and new kitchens. Project expenditure must take place before 31 March 2026.

Find out more about the Village Halls Small Grants Fund here

 

Wooden Spoon – Pass the Plate Appeal

Amount available: A minimum of £2,000.

Deadline: Applications taken on a rolling basis.

For organisations with pre-existing initiatives in tackling child hunger. Project beneficiaries must be a group.

They must be UK-based and support the lives of children and young people disadvantaged physically, mentally and socially.

Find out more here

 

Joyce Wilkinson Charitable Trust Fund

Amount available: There is no minimum or maximum grant award

Deadline: n/a

Grants for voluntary and community groups operating or providing charitable activities in or close to the parishes of Rosley and Westward, Wigton, and Aspatria.

Find out more here

 

The Leathersellers – small grants programme

Amount available: One-off grants of up to £5,000.

Deadline: Rolling

Charities and CIOs must meet the following criteria:

• Deliver activities to meet an identified need for vulnerable members of the community
• Provide evidence of effective impact/ difference made e.g. testimonials gathered from feedback and questionnaires
• Have a planned expenditure of under £200,000 during the financial year in which you are applying for funding.
• Demonstrate financial need. Due to overwhelming demand from charities with high financial need, we are unlikely to be able to prioritise applications from organisations holding more than 6 months’ free/unrestricted reserves.
• Have a publicly accessible website clearly showing who you are and what you do.
• Have a minimum of one year’s published accounts available via the Charity Commission. We do not accept management accounts.

Find out more here

 

Travel Actively Fund

Amount available: No limit

Deadline: n/a

The Travel Actively Fund (TAF) is open for applications from organisations in Barrow or Carlisle.

If your organisation has an activity or idea that will encourage and enable people from the fund’s targeted audiences to be more active by cycling, walking and wheeling (using scooters, wheelchairs) for everyday journeys you may be eligible to apply.

Find out more

 

David Riddell Memorial CIO

Amount available: Between £5,000 and £25,000

Deadline: Applications taken on a rolling basis

Funding for charities running suicide awareness and prevention programmes for charitable purposes.

Find out more here

 

National Deaf Children’s Society – Community Grants

Amount available: £1,000 – £10,000

Deadline: Any time

The aim of the grants programme is to build communities that unite families of deaf children. For parents with a deaf child, having a strong community is vital, particularly during those first few years when families are still finding out what their child needs.

The early years are a crucial time for all children. For deaf children, this is even more true. Without adjustments, accommodations and the right support, young deaf children can find it more difficult to develop their language, communication and social skills.

This funding cycle is focused on projects that support deaf children in the early years (aged 0-5). This can be directly or indirectly, and projects can also involve older deaf children, deaf young people, families and professionals.

Find out more here

 

Wolfson Foundation

Amount available: To be agreed

Deadline: Two funding rounds per year

Applications are currently considered under four strands: the needs of older people; mental health needs; independent living for people with disabilities; palliative care and hospices.

The Foundation is also committed to funding projects that build, strengthen and sustain an organisation’s infrastructure for the longer term. Our grants will be for new build, refurbishment and equipment projects.

Find out more here

 

The Masonic Charitable Foundation

Amount available: Small grants range from £1,000 – £5,000, Large grants usually range from £10,000 to £60,000.

Deadline: n/a

The Masonic Charitable Foundation is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales.

Priority areas:

• Children with special educational needs and disabilities.
• Children affected by domestic abuse.
• Early years (ages 0-5) with a focus on poverty and neglect.

Find out more here

 

COSARAF – Hardship Grants

Amount available: £2,000

Deadline: at any time

Grants are available for third party social organisations to support individuals and families across the UK who are in financial need and have exhausted all other sources of funding.

Applications will only be accepted from recognised third party social organisation, such as charities, housing associations, schools and social services who are acting on behalf of a family or individual in need.

Priority will be given to:

• The most financially excluded people.
• Families over individuals.
• Those with caring responsibilities.
• Items that will make the most difference to the individual/family’s long-term future.

Organisations can only apply once in a single year.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are taking advantage of all support offered by local services, including the referring social organisation.

Find out more here

 

Football Foundation – Lionesses HERe to Play Fund

Deadline: Any time

Amount available: up to £25,000 for up to 75% of total project costs.

The fund aims to elevate the experience of women and girls in football by creating inclusive, welcoming, and high-quality environments that support female participation at every level.

Projects include:

• Signage.
• External lighting/CCTV.
• Toilets.
• Shower improvements.
• Baby change and breastfeeding facilities.
• Female officials’ and player privacy changing spaces.
• Changing room improvements.
• Clubhouse improvements.
• External covered spaces.

The Football Foundation requires a minimum of five years security of tenure for all applications, to be evidenced in the application.

Affiliated clubs need to have completed, signed up for or be on the waiting list for The FA’s Equal Game workshop.

Find out more here

 

Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation

Amount available: Previous grants have ranged from £5,000 to £2.25 million.

Deadline: The first step in the application process is to complete the online ‘eligibility test’ on the Foundation’s website. If the proposed project is eligible for funding, applicants will be sent a link to the Salesforce digital application form and given a deadline for submission for the next Grants Meeting.

The funding is for charitable work that meets one or more of the Foundation’s current priorities:

• • Victims of modern slavery: to provide facilities for and support to victims on their journey back to independent living, better mental health and employment.
  • Victims of domestic abuse: to provide emergency safety and to support victims through associated poverty and mental health issues.
  • Ex-offenders and their families: to support the ex-offenders back to work and contributing positively to society and to support their families whose lives can be severely impacted.
  • Homelessness: to provide facilities for and support people, especially young people, on their journey back to independent living, better mental health and employment.
  • Medical research: to support research that could lead to preventing or slowing the onset of a condition or to lessen the symptoms.
  • Support for people with terminal illnesses / life limiting conditions and their carers: to provide hospice care to support individuals and give respite to their carers to assist them with their mental health and other ambitions.
  • Drug and substance misuse: to support rehabilitation and the journey back to independent living and work.
  • Support for people with intellectual disability: to provide support with personal care, job skills and supported living.
  • Care leavers: to give them a chance to succeed on a par with other young people.
  • Worship and associated community outreach: to ensure places of worship are energy efficient and watertight with an emphasis on wider community use of church halls or Church buildings where those buildings are redundant or too large and where the parish has a focus on non-conditional outward facing work.
  • Amateur sport: to improve physical and mental health with a focus on sport provision for people with disabilities.
  • Care for the elderly: to allow quality care for those who cannot afford private care or continue living at home.

Please note: this list is subject to quarterly review and may change.

Applications to the Foundation’s General Fund will be considered from registered charities with an annual expenditure of less than £10 million who are working to support communities in need.

Find out more here

 

Arnold Clark Community Fund – Community Support

Deadline: It is recommended that groups apply as early as they can as applications could be paused due to high demand

Amount available: up to £1,000

Funding to projects embedded in the communities in which Arnold Clark operates and is available to organisations who provide services widely accessible to those within Arnold Clark local communities, addressing the needs of those living within them. Organisations must be based/operate solely in the UK and located within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark branch.

Particularly welcome applications from smaller voluntary and community organisations who are working within Arnold Clark local communities.

Find out more and apply here

 

Historic Houses Foundation

Deadline: Any time

Amount available: £1,000 to £250,000. Most grants are for less than £50,000.

This fund aims to support the repair and conservation of rural historic buildings and structures in England and Wales, including their gardens, grounds and outbuildings. Grants for the restoration and conservation of works of art in historic house collections open to the public will also be considered.

Funding is intended to support projects which are ready to proceed (i.e. can be started within 1-2 years) but which either do not qualify for funding from any of the mainstream sources or have been awarded only partial funding and require significant further funds to complete the resource package.

Find out more here

 

National Deaf Children’s Society Community Grants Programme

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: Between £1,000 and £10,000

Funding is available for  projects that support deaf children in the early years (aged 0-5). This can be directly or indirectly, and projects can also involve older deaf children, deaf young people, families and professionals.

Find out more here

 

B&Q Foundation

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: £5,000/£10,000

The B&Q Foundation provides grants for a wide range of community organisations who are seeking funding to improve or develop spaces that benefit their community. Typically, the foundation provides up to £10,000 for building and indoor projects or £5,000 for garden projects. Using Neighbourly, the B&Q Foundation asks charities to complete a simple three step application process. Currently, its focus is on charities supporting people who are at risk of homelessness.

Find out more and apply here

 

The Movement Fund

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: between £300 and £15,000

Sport England has reserved up to £16 million from its £160 million Movement Fund to help the sector respond to the impact of climate change. Sports clubs and physical activity groups are being encouraged to apply for grants which can be used to fund projects that will improve sustainability by addressing at least one of six Every Move priorities:

• Just transition: inequalities, inclusion and participation
• Energy and resources: carbon emissions, travel and facilities
• Energy and resources: circular economy – supply chains, products and waste
• Nature: blue-green environment quality and use
• Nature: biodiversity
• Resilience: adapting to climate change and extreme weather events.

To be eligible, projects should also demonstrably improve physical activity in the community and have a clear, feasible and reasonable delivery plan. Projects in an area of high need will be prioritised.

Priority will also be given to work that benefits: people living on low incomes, disabled people or those with long-term health conditions, older people, people from culturally diverse communities, pregnant women and parents with very young children, girls aged 5-16, LGBTQ+ people and people in foster care.

Find out more and apply here

 

The Anchor Foundation

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: £500 – £12,000

Grants are on offer for Christian charities working to tackle social exclusion. The foundation has a particularly interest in charities working within “healing and the arts.”

Grants are only offered to registered charities. Applications for building work are rarely supported and charities are asked to apply for funds towards a specific project.

Find out more and apply here

 

Walney Extension Community Fund

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: Discretionary

Due to the extension of Walney Wind Farm, areas of Cumbria are eligible for funding from Orsted. The renewable energy giant has two funds available to charitable initiatives: The Walney Extension Community Fund and the Walney Extension Skills Fund.

Orsted’s Community Fund has two funding rounds each year, with its next deadline in January and is open to organisations in parts of Copeland, Barrow-in-Furness, the Walney islands and South Lakeland.

Find out more and apply here

 

Calisen Impact Charitable Trust

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: Discretionary

Grants are available for charitable initiatives in the UK that “champion sustainable energy solutions and foster inclusive, safe and diverse educational and work environments within the UK.” The funding is administered by Calisen, a British energy firm.

UK registered charities can apply for the funding to cover project costs. The fund’s objectives include achieving net zero and promoting inclusive workplaces.

Find out more and apply here

 

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

Deadline: Rolling

Amount available: £1,000 – £10,000

Animal welfare charities in the UK can apply for funding to cover projects that benefit and protect animals; relieve the suffering of animals, address the conservation of wildlife and encourage a greater understanding of animals.

The funding is available from the Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust and can be used for: general running costs associated with the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of animals, donations towards capital purchases and assistance with vets fees.

Find out more and apply here

 

Motability Foundation: organisation grants

Amount available: £50,000 to £150,000 for small grants; £150,000 to £1m for large grants.

Deadline: Not specified.

Charities and organisations can apply for grants to enhance existing services or launch new initiatives that improve transport access for disabled people. Funding can be used for staffing, vehicles, operational costs, and infrastructure. The foundation is welcoming applications from organisations that have been active for least three years and have a turnover of £50,000 or more.

Find out more and apply here

 

Worshipful Company of Innholders: charity grants

Amount available: One-off awards of between £500 and £5,000

Deadline: Rolling basis

Who is the funding for? Smaller charities in England and Wales, with a preference for London, for work with the young, the elderly, and the hospitality industry. The funding committee meets in March, June and December of each year.

Find out more here

 

CiFR Community Flood Resilience Fund

Deadline: n/a

Amount available: up to £12,500

Grants for groups across Cumbria supporting communities to build resilience to future flooding.

The purpose of the fund is to (1) provide support, resources, and equipment to specified communities at risk of flooding; (2) to enable those communities to test and trial ways to become better prepared for flooding; and (3) be better able to respond to and recover from flooding, by building assets within their community.

Find out more here

 

Funds managed by Cumbria Community Foundation

Our funds have been created by our donors and each have their own criteria or area of interest. Most support locally based community and voluntary groups and some also support individuals.

To apply for a grant, you will need to complete an application form and send it to us with the supporting documents indicated. We encourage you to read the guidance of our funds before applying, but if you’re unsure about the eligibility of your application, give our grants team a call on 01900 825760.

Find out more about the funds available here

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West Cumbria Funding Fair

Tuesday 2nd June, Whitehaven. This event provides a fantastic opportunity for local groups in West Cumbria to directly engage in person with local and national funders and support groups regarding projects/funding requirements as well as networking with other organisations.

Tickets are free, and attendees can choose to book a morning (10am – noon) or afternoon (1pm – 3pm) slot.

Find out which funders are attending and book your place here

 

Writing a Successful Funding Application

Wednesday 17th June, online. This 3 hour course provides a beginner’s guide to how to write a successful funding application, using the National Lottery Community Fund’s Awards For All online application form as an example.

More information here

 

Funding Training Session 1: Getting started with funding and how to write a bid

Thursday 18th June, online. The training will give you a better understanding of:

• What you need to have in place before writing a bid
• The key principles of how to write a case for support
• The tools available to you to find funding and how to write a funding bid
• Being able to reflect on your role as a funding lead and the steps you will take to start or refresh your approach

Book your place here

 

Funding Training Session 2: Understanding how to write a budget

Thursday, 9th July, online. Completing this training will support you to:

• Understand what a budget is and why you need one
• Gain Knowledge of a tool to use to create and manage a budget
• Understand how to manage cash flow
• Reflect on your role as a funding lead and the steps you will take to start or refresh your approach

Book your place here

 

Winning Grants From Trusts & Foundations

Tuesday 30th June and Wednesday 1st July, online. You will be guided through a five-stage process to winning more grants: clarifying and prioritising your funding needs, building a strong pipeline of funders, shaping a compelling central case for support, writing bids that stand out, and managing reporting and relationships well.

The session will also explore what funders are thinking and prioritising as the sector continues to rebuild after a pandemic and through a cost-of-living crisis, and how to tailor your applications accordingly.

More information here

 

Get Grants FREE Virtual Conference

Tuesday 6th & Wednesday 7th October, online. Join Get Grants for two days of expert fundraising advice, top tips, Q&As, networking, peer-support, and lots of chat!

The Conference is a celebration of fundraisers, with a programme designed around the topics you want to talk about.

Bringing together thousands of fundraisers from across the UK every year, this fun and heart-warming event with lots of practical advice is not your typical fundraising conference!

Find out more and book here