Deadline: 20th December 2024

Derbyshire Community Hubs Network funding grant is now live. This grant aims to support projects that enhance existing community hubs or create new ones, fostering community engagement and support. You can apply for up to £5,000. The project should demonstrate clear benefits to individuals using the community hub, and to the local community.

Deadline: 27th November 2024

The Chesterfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership has just released some funding for Warm spaces for this Winter.

Funding is available to voluntary and community organisations that are formally constituted and based in Chesterfield.

Grants will be made available to Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations and community-led groups in Chesterfield for the creation or improvement of Warm and Welcoming Spaces for local communities. These grants will be a maximum of £1000 and this could be spent on a variety of project costs including:

• Additional energy costs
• Furniture and improvement to facilities
• Additional staffing costs to cover extended hours
• Additional cleaning costs to ensure compliance with health protection guidance
• Activities and refreshments
• Additional activity costs.

Deadline: 1st December 2024

Charities, community groups, community interest companies (CICs), and other organisations across the UK have until 1 December 2024 to apply for funding to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 planting season.

Through the Branching Out Fund, grants of between £250 and £2,500 are available for the following:

• Bare root, UK-sourced and grown, native trees of an appropriate size (priority will be given to younger trees that will establish better).
• UK-sourced and grown, bare-root whips (saplings) and cell-grown (root trainer) stock for hedging projects (between 40-120cm height).
• Hedgerow trees.
• Orchards, such as fruit trees on semi-vigorous, vigorous, and very vigorous rootstocks.
• Cardboard/bioplastic tree/hedge guards.
• Non-plastic ties.
• Stakes (coppiced material such as chestnut or hazel is preferred, although machined softwood will also be considered).
• Mulch.
• Non-peat-based soil improvers if needed.

Applicants with strong community engagement embedded from the beginning of the planting project will be prioritised.

Deadline: 25th November 2024

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is offering £500,000 in total funding, with grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,000 for projects across England.

Groups have until 25 November to apply for funding for projects which commemorate, celebrate, or educate others about the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

Projects should be developed by, or with, the Windrush generation and their descendants, and organisations should carefully consider how the project will create a positive social impact in their local area and help to galvanise communities to work together to embrace positive aspects of their shared identity.

Proposed projects must include a lead event or activity on National Windrush Day (22 June 2025). All further events and activities must take place before 30 September 2025.

Charities, exempt charities, community interest companies, community interest organisations, social enterprises, community benefit societies or local authorities across England can apply.

Deadline Extended: 12th December 2024

Cash4Clubs is a grant programme funded by Flutter UK & Ireland, part of Flutter Entertainment, the global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider. For this reason, groups must be delivering activities to adults (18+) with priority given to applications focused on 18 to 25 year olds.

Not-for-profit organisations, including charities, community groups and traditional sports clubs from across the UK and Ireland now have an extra month to apply for unrestricted grants of £2,000. The funding should be spent within a six-month period.

Applicants must demonstrate that they are using sport for a wider social purpose with a goal to increase participation of adults from underrepresented groups. 

Priority will be given to applications that:

• Increase participation in sport and/or physical activity for one or more underrepresented groups, including women and girls over 18, people with disabilities, those from racially diverse communities, from the LGBTQ+ community or from lower socio-economic groups.
• Encourage people who would not usually engage in sport to take part, such as providing activities that support physical and mental wellbeing or tackle issues such as loneliness.
• Address broader social issues for the local community, eg, reducing crime and anti-social behaviour, homelessness, or connecting communities.
• Are based in areas of high deprivation (Indices of Multiple Deprivation 1-3).

Unrestricted grants of £2,000 can be used for anything that will support the organisation to continue and/or grow their activities in their local community.

Community groups and other not for profit organisations within a two mile radius of a One Stop shop can apply for grants of up to £1,000 through the One Stop Community Partnership programme.  The programme, administered by the environmental charity Groundwork, is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and which are;

• Tackling food poverty
• Supporting the vulnerable
• Supporting the elderly
• Supporting low-income families
• Supporting local sports teams
• Improving the local environment
• Reducing Waste in the community.