Urgent deadline: 24th November 2024

Open to local UK charities and food banks. The charitable organisation must be a registered charity in England and Wales at the Charity Commission in order to receive the donation. To nominate a charity, shoppers can submit their entry via email to aldiwinterfund@citypress.co.uk. The email should include the name and location of the organisation, as well as a short summary on why they deserve to win. The 10 winning charities chosen will each receive £1,000. 

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: 29th November 2024

Community groups, registered charities, community interest companies, and companies, have until 29 November 2024 to apply for funding to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of a Starbucks store across England, Scotland, and Wales.

Hubbub is offered grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for projects that 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. 

Existing Nature Hubs that received funding in the last round (March/April 2024) can apply for a Top-Up Grant of up to £3,000. Proposed projects should demonstrate:

• Successful delivery of their year one Nature Hubs project so far by showing that the green space was created/enhanced, and people were able to benefit from it.
• How they will use additional funding to either encourage more community members to get involved or to further support the longevity of the site.
• An openness to continue working with their local Starbucks store and be willing for Hubbub to share information about their projects with Starbucks.

Charities and social enterprises that are looking to install energy-saving measures or generation technology to buildings/land (including new builds), and/or to purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment can apply now for a blended funding package of loan and grant to improve their energy resilience.

They may need this support for many different reasons, for example, reduced carbon emissions, energy cost savings, upgrading energy efficiency ratings to meet future regulations, increased use or comfort of buildings, replacing older vehicles and equipment with modern energy efficient versions. 

Funding of £25,000 to £250,000 is available via a blend of grants (40%) and loans (60%). The loan repayment term is one to ten years. Loans have a 2.5% arrangement fee and an interest rate of 8.5% fixed per annum. Loans will generally be provided unsecured. 

Deadline: 15th January 2024

Following a review of their strategic policy in August 2024 and the decision to temporarily suspend new applications, Steel Charitable Trust has announced a new funding strategy which is expected to be in effect for the next five years.

The Trust will support charities working with or on behalf of children and young people under 26, with an emphasis on creating educational and/or access opportunities for those in circumstances, groups, or locations that face economic challenges, social marginalisation or poor outcomes in later life.

Through the UK Under 26 Fund, project-restricted grants starting from £10,000 are available for not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of at least £50,000 in the previous financial year.

Applications for the UK Under 26 are taken and reviewed on a rolling basis. The trustees meet quarterly to consider applications.

Grants are available to support the core costs of not-for-profit cultural organisations working at the intersection of art and social change within the UK. The Fund provides long-term, core funding to organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission.

The Arts Fund supports organisations to do the following:

• Build capacity and resources for culture within historically underfunded communities
• Explore the role that artists can play in addressing issues of social justice
• Create the infrastructure for a more equitable cultural sector.

The support is for not-for-profit cultural organisations who:

• Use their creative practice to help us engage with the complexity of the world around us.
• Centre the lived experience of those affected by injustice in their programmes, leadership and governance.
• Are exploring how values of care, equity and justice can be embedded in their own organisational culture.
• Have a clear sense of their own role in supporting change as part of a wider ecosystem.
• Are generous with their learning and working with other organisations towards mutual aims.
• Use their creative practice to challenge traditional cultural hierarchies of genre and art form.

The Arts Fund supports the long-term development and transformation of these organisations as a route towards social justice and sustainability. Grants of between £90,000 and £300,000 for activity lasting up to three years.