Deadline: 25th October 2024

Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in Chesterfield for voluntary and community activity that improves the quality of life for local residents and increases community involvement, as part of the wider UK Shared Prosperity Fund programme. For the majority of the funding available this year (£95,000), for revenue and smaller capital projects the minimum grant is £500, and the maximum grant per application is £6,000.

Projects must contribute to at least one of the fund's themes:

• Strengthen the sense of local pride and belonging.
• Build resilient, healthy and safe neighbourhoods.
• Reduce impact on the climate and wider environment, and promote green choices.
• Develop volunteering opportunities.
• Support work readiness and getting into work.
• Help organisations to expand their reach to different areas of the borough or new groups of people.

Grant funding can be used for both capital and revenue costs.

Capital funding can be used to purchase new assets, or the significant refurbishment of existing assets. Assets are expected to have a wider community benefit and to have an expected lifespan of at least five years.

Revenue funding can be used where there is no lasting asset. Revenue funding can be used to put on events, performances and run activities, pay for training sessions, provide practical advice and guidance etc.

Deadline: 1st November 2024

National Grid’s electricity distribution business and Localgiving are working together to provide grants to charitable organisations to help with the increase in fuel costs and the cost of living over the winter months.

The funding aims to support economically disadvantaged areas and to target grassroots organisations that serve historically underrepresented and marginalised groups.

Applications will be accepted from registered charities, charitable companies, unregistered community organisations, and statutory bodies based in the Midlands, South West England and South Wales who are supporting households experiencing fuel poverty.

The funding is for projects that meet one of the following themes:

• Distributing warm packs or energy efficiency measures (i.e. warm blankets, radiator keys, insulated curtains, draught excluders) for home usage
• Visiting isolated households to help people make their homes warmer and more energy efficient
• Running a warm space in a community building
• Improving the energy efficiency of a community building used as a warm space
• Providing tariff switching, energy saving, winter fuel discount, or other fuel poverty advice

There are two funding levels:

• Grants of up to £5,000 for registered charities or non-profit companies limited by guarantee.
• Grants of up to £2,000 for constituted charitable organisations with no charity number.

Grants can help support project costs for projects starting in December and completed by 31 March 2025.

Deadline: 8th November 2024

Comic Relief has launched its new funding strategy and is inviting grassroots voluntary and community sector organisations in England to apply for flexible grants of up to £5,000 to help support the delivery of services and activities that benefit their local communities. 

The funding is intended for small organisations for work that delivers against one of the areas, which link with Comic Relief’s new funding strategy:

• Tackling immediate impacts of hardship - organisations that directly address the immediate impacts of poverty, including providing food, warmth, shelter and financial advice such as foodbanks, community hubs, homeless shelters or welfare advice agencies.
• Building resilience to poverty and hardship - organisations that deliver activities to empower people to take positive steps out of poverty in the longer term. Examples include skills training, job search, volunteering, mental resilience and financial confidence skills.
• Working to support equity and inclusion - organisations that champion social justice, diversity and inclusion. This could involve service or projects to tackle inequalities which can lead to poverty and exclusion including gender, sexuality, age, race, language or ability.
• Working to support climate justice - supporting activities that improve energy efficiency, environmental education and resilience-building within communities most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, such communities at risk of flooding or urban heat islands and those more vulnerable to extreme weather events, such as older people, isolated communities or people with disabilities.

It is anticipated that around 140 grants of up to £5,000 will be awarded. They can be used on core organisation costs, direct project related costs or a combination of both.

Deadline: 11th November 2024

UK registered charities from anywhere in the UK can apply now for small grants of between £250 and £1,000 for projects that support those in need of a safe and secure home.

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

Grants are only for capital expenditure (that is, to purchase items used to directly help those in need).

Applications will be accepted from registered charities in the UK that have a turnover of less than £1 million.

Deadline: 29th November 2024

Hubbub is offering grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for community groups, registered charities, community interest companies, and companies across England, Scotland, and Wales, to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of a Starbucks store.

Proposed projects should align with the following criteria:

• Involving the community - Projects that bring people and communities together around nature and green spaces.
• Commitment to reaching new audiences - Projects that are committed to reaching audiences beyond those who typically access green space.
• Need for green space - Projects that demonstrate a community need for a green space project, particularly in dense urban areas.
• Creating or enhancing green spaces - Projects that can demonstrate how they either create new green spaces, or improve, add to, or preserve existing green spaces. 

Eligible costs include:

• Materials relating to the nature hub activity.
• Utilities relating to the delivery of the project activity.
• Display materials, signage, and information.
• Services from external suppliers.
• Staffing costs to cover the time spent planning and delivering any activity.
• Volunteer expenses.
• Training, such as safeguarding.

Deadline: 6th January 2025

Grants of up to £5,000 are available for UK registered charities for specific projects that improve communication skills for disadvantaged adults and supports NEET people into employment.

This funder views communication skills as critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

Applications will be accepted from UK charities, registered with the Charity Commission for least three years, with an annual turnover of between £25,000 and £500,000 that are working to develop communication skills for people from disadvantaged groups who want to improve their employment prospects. Beneficiaries must gain at least one accredited vocational qualification during delivery.

Proposals are particularly welcome which target people experiencing multiple deprivation or other groups demonstrably facing major hurdles to employment, especially women, people with physical, mental, or learning disabilities, and refugees.