Deadline: 28th February 2025

The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust is offering grants for UK-registered charities working with communities across the UK to help those most in need.

The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interest being funded each year. There are normally four application rounds per year with applications accepted for one month only, usually in February, April, July, and September. Charities can apply for one round per calendar year.

In 2025, Rounds 1 and 2 will accept applications for projects that focus on improving access to the Arts, specifically projects that will improve audience access and participation. Applications will not be considered from non-performing arts projects or projects focussing on performers.

In this round, grants of £1,000 are available for UK-registered charities or organisations that are exempted from registration with an operating income of between £100,000 and £1 million. Applications will not be accepted from CICs or other not-for-profit organisations.

Deadline: 14th March 2025

The Foundation is offering around 20 grants of up to £7,500 each to help with the project costs of running dementia clubs and memory cafes in areas of high deprivation affecting older people over the age of 65 years in Great Britain.

Although applications will be accepted from all areas of England, Scotland and Wales, priority will be given to those applications working in more deprived areas. Please see the specified areas in the guidance notes on the Foundation’s website. Locations have been selected based on data from the ONS, Age UK, and the Centre for Ageing Better, with a key focus on areas where income deprivation and loneliness affecting older people is most acute.

While they will consider applications from all areas in England, Wales and Scotland, evidencing a high level of local need is important as part of your application. When all else is equal, priority will be given to those applications working in more deprived areas.

Community organisations, registered charities, exempt charities and other groups (including CICs limited by guarantee) with an annual income of less than £250,000, a governing document and a bank account in the group’s name may apply.

Deadline: 19th March 2025

Grow Wild is once again offering grants of £500 to young people (aged 16 to 25 years) across the UK to deliver a creative project that celebrates why UK native plants and/or fungi are so special.

The project should be original and exciting and focus on UK native plants and/or fungi. Projects need to engage at least 100 other people (either in person or online). The grant be used to pay for anything to support the project, such as equipment, materials, training, resources, or expert help. Projects can start in May but must be completed by the end of October 2025.

Applications will be accepted from young people aged 16 to 25 years old who live in the UK and who can find a supporting organisation, such as a school, university, youth club or a local community group, to help them deliver the project.

A free webinar will be held on 26 February 2025 (12:00 to 12:45pm). Registration is required.

Deadline: 27th March 2025

Music for All, the charity of the UK musical instrument industry, is currently accepting applications for its first funding round of 2025.

Groups, schools, any form of educational establishment, community projects, charities, and organisations that are bringing music to their communities in the UK can apply.

Priority will be given to applicants who are most in need of help.

In the current round, grants of up to £2,000 are available in the following areas:

• Working with primary school-aged children –  community-based groups providing music-making opportunities to young-people aged between 4–11 can apply, including groups operating in caring as well as more formal educational settings. Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture underprivileged young talent through their work.
• Learning and cognitive challenges –  community-based groups providing opportunities to make music to those with learning and cognitive challenges, including but not limited to autism, aphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, attention deficit and memory loss, can apply. Groups operating in caring and educational settings are welcome to apply.
• Working with diverse communities from the Global Majority, in collaboration with Black Lives in Music – community-based groups providing music-making opportunities working with diverse communities from the global majority can apply.

Decisions are usually conveyed within three months of the application deadline.

Open: 24th March - 31st March 2025

Back for another year, the Postcode Places Trust is supporting organisations across the East of England with unrestricted funding in 2025.

The funding is for projects in the region that have a clear alignment with one of the Trust's 2025 themes:

• Enabling participation in physical activity
• Enabling participation in the arts
• Improving biodiversity and responding to the climate emergency
• Improving green spaces and increasing access to the outdoors
• Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
• Providing support to improve mental health
• Supporting marginalised groups and tackling inequality

Depending on their not-for-profit legal structure, organisations can apply either for a grant of between £500 and £2,500 or between £500 and £25,000.

The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible. It can be used however it is most needed.

There will be three funding rounds in 2025:

• Round 1 opens 24 March and closes 31 March 2025.
• Round 2 opens 24 June and closes 1 July 2025.
• Round 3:  dates to be confirmed later in 2025

Applications open at 9am and close at 12 noon.

Deadline: 1st April 2025

The Peter Harrison Foundation has announced that it will close to new funding applications until further notice from 2 April 2025 due to ‘an unprecedented surge in demand for funding’. 

The Foundation supports projects working with children, young people and adults who are disadvantaged or with disabilities and offers small and major grants to charities and community amateur sports clubs in the UK and South East of England.

The Active Lives Grant Programme offers grants of £5,001 to £30,000 to UK charities (priority given to those with an annual turnover of less than £5 million) to support grassroots sports projects which provide opportunities for self-development for people living in the most disadvantaged areas in the UK who encounter physical, mental, social, or economic barriers.  

For both programmes, priority will be given to applications that meet all of the following:

• Work with children and young people living in the top 10% of areas of deprivation (Indices of Multiple Deprivation decile 1) AND
• Are from organisations with a track record of working with this population AND
• Have a robust plan for wider impact of the project through dissemination, training etc.