Opens: 27th February 2025

The new £500,000 fund will provide grants of between £500 and £1,000 to grassroots community groups across the UK to help them deliver activities that improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 13 years to 21 years.

Not-for-profit groups and organisations with an income of less than £250,000 and who already have an existing service for young people within the 13-21 age group can apply.

Applicants need to meet at least one of the following objectives:

• Provide services that support, educate and empower.
• Connect young people to their peers.
• Support rehabilitation and recovery and provide shelter.
• Deliver activities / programmes that improve physical health and wellbeing.

The funding can be used for a number of different things. Examples of the kinds of items and services that could be funded include, but are not limited to:

• Intervention and prevention programmes to address social issues.
• Essential items for crisis support, such as clothes, food and hygiene items for a homeless shelter focusing on young people.
• Delivery of specialist support or services or speakers.
• Group drop-in and talking sessions.
• Workshops to upskill and deliver life skills (cooking, finance, employment, CV writing).
• Resources for recreational activities, eg, craft materials, board games
• Sports kit and/or equipment (cap £500).
• Volunteering costs (cap £100 per person).
• Peer support events, and activities that bring people together.

The grant must be used and projects completed by September 2025. Groups can check their eligibility before the fund opens.

The application window will be open for two weeks; however, it may close early if there is a high level of applications. In addition, if a geographic region is oversubscribed, individual areas may close before the deadline for the total grant programme.

Deadline: 3rd March 2025 (EOI)

Metal For Good is offering grants for community groups, charities, and other not-for-profit organisations across England and Wales to deliver projects and activities that music as a tool for change and help to create a more equal society.

Proposed projects should focus on one or more of the following themes:

Helping young people (aged between 0 and 24) to thrive.

Addressing inequalities.

Improving wellbeing.

The following levels of funding are available:

One grant of £3,000.

Two grants of £2,000.

Three grants of £1,000.

Groups must have an annual turnover of less than £500,000. Priority will be given to grassroots community groups and small-to-medium-sized voluntary organisations.

There is a two-stage application form. Groups must first submit an online expression of interest before being invited to complete a full application.

Opens: 10th March 2025

The Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme supports activity providers, national governing bodies, Parkinson’s groups and branches, and sports and healthcare professional who are based and operating within the UK.

For a fifth year, grants of up to £3,000 will be available to support physical activity projects for people with Parkinson's all over the UK. Full details about the 2025 grants programme have yet to be released.

Parkinson’s UK is hosting three free webinars to cover the grants criteria and priorities, what can be and cannot be funded, and what the decision-making panel will be looking for in an application.

The webinars will take place on:

• 26 February 2025 (14:00 - 15:00)
• 3 March 2025 (17:30 -18:30)
• 6 March 2025 (9:30 -10:30)

Registration is required and can be done via the funder's website.

Deadline: 12th March 2025

Grants are available for grassroots organisations and individuals with lived experience of migration to bolster leadership in the migration sector with a focus on lived experience leadership, wellbeing, and systems change within the UK.

The Fund has three main objectives:

• Supporting organisations and networks’ leadership development: Provide support to organisations and networks to develop their leadership capacity and capability.
• Supporting holistic leadership development: Support approaches to leadership development which centre anti-oppressive practice, wellbeing and sustainability, build on the strengths and assets of field practice and support leaders to develop their knowledge and skill set in relation to systems change.
• Creating impact beyond the initiative: Generate learning, insights, connections and shared action on leadership as well as the practice of participatory grant-making that ripple beyond the parameters of the initiative, informing wider funder and field practice.

Three funding pots are available:

• Individuals: Grants of up to £10,000 to support personal leadership development.
• Organisations: Grants of £10,000 and £60,000 to strengthen leadership within organisations.
• Collaborative partnerships: Grants of £60,000 and £100,000 to support collaborative initiatives that foster leadership across networks.

An information webinar will be held via Zoom on:

• 24 February 2025 (13:00). Registration required.

Organisations and groups working in the UK refugee and migration sector can apply. It is not a requirement to be a registered charity, however, all funding received must be spent on charitable purposes.

Deadline: 14th May 2025

Suez Communities Trust is offering grants of between £3,000 and £50,000 for constituted not-for-profit groups across England to deliver projects that make improvements to local facilities, historic buildings and structures, sport and recreation facilities communities in qualifying SUEZ Recycling and Recovery sites.

The Suez Communities Fund will support capital improvement works to public amenity projects for community use, such as

• Village hall improvements.
• Nature reserves and conservation.
• Village greens.
• Community centres.
• Public playgrounds.
• Cycle paths.
• Sports fields and facilities.
• Country parks.
• Historic buildings, structures, or sites.

Public amenities must be open to the public for a minimum of four evenings a week, two days a week, or 104 days a year.

There is a two-stage application process. Groups must first submit an online Expression of Interest before being invited to submit a full application.

Deadline: 5th June 2025

Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust makes around 15 to 20 awards each year, intending to award around £3 million annually to organisations across the UK. These include voluntary organisations, think tanks, campaigning groups, research bodies and universities. Most funded projects will benefit residents from across the UK.

There is no minimum or maximum size of grant. Grants typically range between £10,000 and £200,000, with most being between £50,000 and £120,000 in total. The funding may be spread over one, two or three years, and sometimes shorter periods, for example, six months.

The funding is intended for strategic work, including policy work, campaigning and research that has the potential to improve financial well-being for those on low to middle incomes and on a national scale. The Trust's general funding criteria apply to the programme, and projects must focus on net-zero and financial wellbeing within one of the existing programme areas: income, assets, and spending.

Funding can be used for project and ongoing costs, including staff salaries and overheads.