Updates and news from funding campaigns we run and others we’d like to share with our community.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Local Giving and Postcode Community Trust are offering grants of up to £500 to projects that support and inspire people to participate in sports or exercise with the primary aim of improving the physical health of participants. The fund will be [...]
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, [...]
The clothworkers foundation funds both large and small projects. The size of grant awarded will depend on a number of factors including the size of your organisation and the cost and scale of your capital project. You must be able to [...]
The Semble team has been blown away by the community action taking place in response to COVID-19. We have heard countless stories of communities organising and working to help keep each other safe and look after vulnerable people being most affected. [...]
We are very excited to announce the eight outstanding recipients of the Regent’s Place Community Fund 19/20 grants. We received a total of 39 fantastic applications from a wide variety of local community organisations, all of which focused upon at least [...]
The Bright Ideas Fund supports new community business ideas through the start-up and planning stages with tailored business support, to the implementation stage with grants of up to £15,000. The Bright Ideas Fund is funded by Power to Change, the independent [...]
The Community Investment Fund was launched in February 2014 by Social and Sustainable Capital. The Fund invests between £250,000 and £2 million in community based, locally led organisations which are providing essential support and services to improve the well-being of local [...]
The Comic Relief Community Fund (England), funded by Comic Relief will support and invest in grassroots community-led local organisations in England to drive change in their local communities. Project delivery grants of up to £4000 will support grassroots organisations to deliver [...]
Trusthouse is an independent grantmaking foundation which makes approximately 100-150 grants totalling around £2.5 million a year to a variety of charitable organisations based in areas of extreme deprivation. Trusthouse gives grants for running costs or one-off capital costs to charities [...]
What would you do if you had an extra £250 to spend on your project? We are very excited to announce that the first #Greggs4Good photo competition of 2020 is now open! Greggs Foundation will award the handsome sum of £250 to [...]
The Climate Action Fund will support communities across the UK in taking action to mitigate and create resilience agains climate change. These communities will demonstrate what is possible when people take the lead in tackling climate change. This is a fund [...]
The Allen Lane Foundation’s Social Cohesion Programme The Foundation is seeking applications from community-led grassroots groups and organisations which have a focus of work being at a very local/community level, which could be a housing estate or distinct community. The aim [...]
The Fore is the only open-access funder in the UK offering development funding and strategic support to early-stage charities and social enterprises. This foundation does not require restrictive criteria and they are offering grants up to £30,000, which can be distributed [...]
The Rural Community Energy Fund is a £10 million programme awarding grants to rural communities in England to develop renewable energy projects with a broader social and economical impact in their community. This fund is being run by 5 regional Local Energy [...]
