Updates and news from funding campaigns we run and others we’d like to share with our community.
About the fund Area: UK. Suitable for: Charities, CIC, community groups, local authority, health authority, social housing, or other not for profit organisations. Funding size: Between £1,000 and £10,000. Application deadline: 9th May, 18th July, or 26th September 2021. The Boost [...]
About the fund Area: UK. Suitable for: Any registered charity, CIC, CIO or Community Benefit Society with turnover of under £500,000 in the last financial year. Funding size: Up to £30,000, which can be spread over up to 3 years. Application [...]
About the fund Area: London. Suitable for: This programme is targeted to children’s groups and organisations such as play groups or sports classes however, they are open to applications from other projects as long as it’s primary focus is supporting or providing services [...]
The Ford Britain Trust is providing grants to help communities across the UK, with a focus on projects working in education, environment, disabilities, and children and young people. They are keen to fund projects that provide clear benefits to the local [...]
About The Opportunity Small contributions to our communities can make a big difference. So we’ve partnered up with Soda Folk, a company who - like us - believe that passionate people doing good deeds have the power to change the world. [...]
About the fund Area: The UK. Suitable for: Community-led partnerships that are made up of a mix of organisations from different sectors. At this stage, the funder is looking for the organisation who is best placed to speak on behalf of the [...]
About the fund Area: England, Scotland or Wales Suitable for: community projects, charitable organisations (you must have an annual income under £250,000 or be in your first year of operation) Funding size: Up to £500 Application deadline: 31st October 2021 Local Giving and Postcode Community Trust are offering [...]
About the Fund Area: The UK. Suitable for: Not-for-profit organisations doing work that is legally charitable. Funding size: Main grants - up to £50,000. Small grants - up to £1,500. Application deadline: Main grants - March, July and November. Small grants [...]
About the Fund Area: England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. Suitable for: Charities and community interest organisations. Funding size: Between £500 and £5,000. Application deadline: There's no time limit on your application. Since 2011 the Pexel Fund has distributed over £700,000 [...]
About the Fund Area: The UK. Suitable for: Individuals, small groups or organisations. Funding size: Between £250 and £5,000. Application deadline: There is no fixed date. "Once the fund’s allocation has been used, it will be closed for applications until the [...]
About the Fund Area: The UK. Suitable for: Not-for-profit organisations run predominantly by, for and with women. You do not have to be a registered charity, but your activities must be charitable, legal and for the benefit of women. Funding size: [...]
About The Fund Area: Oldham, Hull, North West Northern Ireland, or the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Suitable for: Social enterprise, charity, arts organisation, or University. Funding size: Up to £90,000. Application deadline: 14th May 2021. The Ideas Fund seeks to enable [...]
About The Fund Area: UK. Suitable for: Not-for-profit organisations. "Additionally, we do not accept proposals from NHS trusts, hospitals, schools/colleges, statutory bodies including local authorities, and non-registered organisations without constitutions". Applicants must have an income of between £75,000 and £10 million. Funding [...]
About The Fund Area: England. Suitable for: Community and national youth organisations (a registered charity, an incorporated not-for-profit organisation, or an incorporated Community Interest Company). Funding size: Up to £2 million. Application deadline: 12th February 2021. The Youth Covid-19 Support Fund is open to [...]
The Local Connections Fund is a new £4 million fund to help charities and community groups in England that are working to reduce loneliness by helping them build connections across their communities. This will be used to fund hundreds of ‘microgrants’ [...]
Dove's CROWN UK Fund is offering grants of up to £20,000 to organisations who are working to eliminate barriers to progress for women and girls in the Black community and seeking to empower the next generation. Funding is available to: UK-based [...]
The Soil Association are offering small grants to support community led food growing, cooking and sharing activity and Get Togethers. They are looking for projects that bring people of different backgrounds and/or ages together to strengthen and connect communities through one [...]
Grants of up to £1,000 are available to support community initiatives and charitable events near to NFU Mutual's business operations across the UK. The fund is "most likely to approve funding requests which meet one or more of our four areas [...]
The Mayor of London wants to make the captial a zero carbon city by 2030. For this to happen, London will need to be supplied by a range of efficient and clean energy sources. The London Community Energy Fund is part [...]
The Woodward Charitable Trust is offering grants of up to £3,000 to UK charities, CICs and CIOs that help children, families or prisoners/ex-offenders. The Trust looks to fund projects that help families and young people and that are aiming to improve [...]
Grants of up to £100,000 are aviable to UK based small to medium sized local organisations with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts. If you are [...]
The £3m Violence Against Women and Girls Grassroots Fund is open for applications. The aim of the Fund is to support the resilience of London organisations focussed on ending violence against women and girls by providing two-year grants of up to £100,000, capacity [...]
Funding of up to £100,000 is available to homelessness, faith, community and voluntary sector organisations to provide single room and COVID-19 secure accommodation for people experiencing homelessness this winter. "The Fund aims to ensure that faith and community groups who provide [...]
Grants of at least £10,000 are available to smaller community-led groups that support people at the margins of society. "We want to support smaller groups, embedded in their communities, which work directly with people who are on the edges of mainstream [...]
The Near Neighbours programme offers small grants between £250 and £3,000, as seed funding for local groups and organisations who are working to bring together neighbours. The programme has two key objectives: Social interaction - to develop positive relationships in multi-faith and [...]
The Women’s Sector Resilience Fund has been created with the support of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to safeguard the vital frontline jobs and support services of women’s organisations that have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in England. [...]
The PwC Foundation was set up in October 2011 to promote social inclusion and sustainable development in the UK."As part of the PwC's commitment to continue to build an inclusive culture and tackle racial inequality, we have recently appointed a committee which [...]
The funding landscape is is changing fast. Here to keep you up to date and give expert advice is Corinna Hartwig - otherwise known as the Funding Dr. In the latest in our series of funding workshops, Corinna takes us through building [...]
Funding is available from the Community Shares Booster programme, managed by Power to Change, to help community businesses that are either planning to make or have recently launched community shares offers. Match funding of up to £100,000 in equity investment is [...]
The Local Schools Nature Grants Scheme, managed by Learning Through Landscapes, allows Infant, Primary and Secondary schools in England, Scotland & Wales to apply for £500 worth of outdoor resources, and a two hour training session thanks to Postcode Local Trust. [...]
The National Emergencies Trust Fund is offering grants of up to £15,000 to support the diverse organisations that make up the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans + (LGBT+) Sector. The funding is available to address the additional needs of LGBT+ people [...]
The Mayor of London's Back to Business Fund offers up to £5,000 in match funding to small and independent businesses through the Pay It Forward London crowdfunding platform. If your organisation receives at least 5o% of your income from trading, you [...]
As we ease out of lockdown and into a recession, the funding landscape is changing fast. Here to keep you up to date and give expert advice is Corinna Hartwig - otherwise known as the Funding Dr. In the latest in our [...]
Groundwork are looking for projects across the capital that will make the city greener and give Londoners the chance to get involved, as well as helping us adapt to climate change. The Grow Back Greener Grants will support a wide range [...]
Funders don’t fund for the fun of it. They have an agenda that’s often tied to national and even international strategies. Get to know how your project relates to those wider strategies and you’ll find success in your funding applications. But [...]
The Fat Beehive Foundation provides small grants to small UK registered charities towards the costs of websites and digital products. "Our aim is to help these organisations carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive [...]
Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 are on offer to community projects working to improve local people's health and wellbeing, within 15 miles of an Assura healthcare building. "We would welcome applications from UK charitable organisations, supporting vulnerable people who may [...]
The Garfield Weston Foundation provides grants to a wide range of organisations across the UK. They aim to be responsive to where need is greatest and therefore supports a wide range of charitable activity in the following categories: Arts, Education, Youth, [...]
Grants of up to £15,000 are available to small organisations whose work: will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems; is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and; encourages or enables [...]
Funding is available to UK organisations working to support young people living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education. "The Foundation’s objectives are underpinned by the desire to give [...]
The Youth Futures Foundation provides grants to organisations working with young people aged 14-24 to help overcome barriers to finding meaningful work. They are looking for approaches that can be tested, evaluated and, where proven to be effective, expanded to more [...]
The world of sustainable funding for community projects can be difficult to navigate. Now more than ever there is more competition for fewer opportunities, constant change in the political and economic climate and everything has suddenly gone digital. That’s why Corinna [...]
The Resourcing Racial Justice fund is offering emergency and long term funding to UK organisations working to take forward racial justice. "The purpose of the Resourcing Racial Justice fund is to provide financial support to individuals and organisations that are working [...]
The Edward Gostling Foundation makes grants to ensure that people living with a mental and/or physical disability or a long-term illness have the same choices, quality of life opportunities and aspirations as others. The foundation has updated their work in order [...]
The Veterans’ Foundation provides grants to organisations that support the armed forces community (veterans, those serving and immediate dependants), including Merchant Navy veterans who have served on operations. The work they will fund "covers every aspect of social care including: homelessness, employability, [...]
Persimmon Homes is delighted to have joined forces with Team GB - the British Olympic Association - to give away over £1 million to help projects for young people aged under 18 across England, Wales and Scotland. The competition has three [...]
Persimmon Community Champions makes grants to fund good causes across the UK. Each of their 31 businesses and head office gives away up to £2,000 every month to fund local community initiatives. From 1st April for the foreseeable future, the scheme will [...]
The National Lottery Awards For All provides funding between £300 and £10,000 for voluntary or community organisations in the UK. They are especially looking for projects that help: Bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities Improve the places [...]
The CCIP delivers grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to help them deliver projects in the top 30% most deprived coalfield areas. The programme cannot fund capital costs but is able to fund core costs up to 50% of [...]
Projects under the Rebuilding Biodiversity theme support a variety of living things, including all species of plants and animals and the natural systems/habitats that support them. Work can include habitat improvement works, tree surgery, scrub removal, and the purchase of plants, [...]
