Parkinson’s UK supports activity providers, national governing bodies, Parkinson’s groups and branches, and sports and healthcare professionals who are based and operating within the UK.

For a fifth year, grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available to support physical activity projects for people with Parkinson's within the UK.

The funding is for projects that can demonstrate the following desired impact:

• People with Parkinson's become and stay active, and/or significantly increase their levels of activity if they are already active.
• More physical activity provision for everyone with Parkinson’s across the UK.
• Improved social wellbeing in people with Parkinson’s as a result of attending the project.

Priority will be given to innovative and new projects that will help people with Parkinson's:

• Become and stay active, or
• Who are already active to significantly increase their levels of physical activity.

Groups who are planning to apply to the BBC Children in Need Core or Project grants programme will need to act quickly as the funder has announced it will be unable to accept Expressions of Interest over a four-month period, during which time it will be moving to a new grantmaking system.

Expressions of Interest will close on 15th April 2025 and are expected to reopen in mid to late September 2025.

Over the next five weeks, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations who work with disadvantaged children and young people of 18 years and under living in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands can apply for either core costs or project costs.

The maximum grant is £120,000 (or £40,000 over three years), though most grants made are for much less than this.

Deadline: 20th March 2025

Grants are available for charities, charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs), and community interest companies (CICs) across the UK to deliver projects and activities that benefit local communities across the themes of environment, sustainability, creativity, and local issues.  Grants of up to £1,000 are available and projects must not run for longer than six months. 

Deadline: 27th March 2025

Funding is intended to support not-for-profit organisations to help vulnerable households to benefit from low-carbon technologies and smart energy products and services. Funded groups will enable every customer to participate and benefit in a net zero energy system by offering the right advice at the right moment in each customer’s journey to ensure no one is left behind in the energy transition.

Funding will support activities that meet one or more of the following objectives:

• Provide in-depth one-to-one advice and support to help vulnerable households take up and benefit from low-carbon technologies and smart energy products and services (Required).
• Provide in-depth one-to-one fuel poverty advice and support by helping vulnerable households lower and manage their bills, make their homes more energy efficient, reduce their energy demand, and maximise their income.
• Provide support and advice to increase the resilience of vulnerable households to severe winter weather and what to do in a power cut – including identifying new registrants for the Priority Services Register (PSR) and offering support to households already registered.
• Target home energy advice and support to households that are in areas of higher deprivation, at greater risk, not connected to the gas network, or who have difficulty accessing support.Connect with healthcare providers, other support organisations, and community partners to widen
• networks, raise awareness of the links between cold, damp homes and poor physical and mental health, improve collaboration to register PSR-eligible patients, and increase access to support.

Grants of between £30,000 and £40,000 are available. 

Deadline: 30th April 2025

Since 2009, Armed Forces Day has been marked annually throughout the UK with events large and small. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) provides funding each year to support groups and individuals to commemorate the occasion.

Local councils, voluntary and community organisations, schools, ex-service organisations and individuals can apply for grants of up to £10,000 for activities taking place across the UK. The amount of the grant depends on the size and format of the event.

The grant is match-funded. This means, a grant could cover up to half of the overall cost of the event. If the overall event cost is £7,000, the MoD could cover up to £3,500.The 2025 event should be held within two weeks of the Armed Forces Day. This year it falls on 28th June 2025.

The funding can be used to pay for:

• Road closures required to hold an event, including to allow for parades and marches.
• Decorations, flags and banners.
• Local or national newspaper and radio advertisements to promote the event.
• Marshalling, security and first aid arrangements for the event.
• Insurance.
• PA and communications systems for events organisers.

Deadline: 14th July 2025

Cycling UK is offering voluntary groups and not-for-profit organisations across England grants to deliver cycling projects aimed at adults who are either not currently cycling or cycling less frequently.

Through the Big Bike Revival Programme, grants of up to £3,500 are available for groups to deliver events that use the ‘fix-learn-ride’ model to achieve the following objectives:

• Inspire and encourage the large proportion of the adult population who do not cycle, to start cycling.
• Increase the number of adults that cycle by addressing the fact that a high proportion of adults in England own cycles (42%) but are not using them.
• Increase the number of trips made by cycles by addressing the fact that adults in Britain appear to be aware of cycling and its potential for shorter journeys but have safety concerns about using it as a form of travel.
• To improve the perception of cycling safety by providing opportunities for adults to access supported cycling activities, training on how to cycle safely, and how to keep cycles in safe working order.

Events should be aimed at people returning to cycling, starting as complete beginners, and other people who do not cycle regularly. This includes reaching new people, including groups who are underrepresented in cycling or face challenges and perceived barriers to cycling.