Deadline: 30th April 2025

The Miller Homes Community Fund gives you the chance to apply for a grant towards improving your community. Grants from the fund can be used in a variety of ways to meet the needs and aspirations of people in the area where you live.

Groups can apply for a grant ranging between a minimum of £250 up to a maximum of £2,000 to help enhance the lives of individuals and the areas in which they live.

Their fund will focus on causes that:

• are linked to education
• promote wellbeing
• promote the environment
• encourage participation in sport

Please contact Miller Homes to check your eligibility.

Deadline: 10th May 2025

The trade retailers Screwfix established the Screwfix Foundation in 2013 to support local projects that improve, repair and maintain homes and community facilities used by those in need in the UK.

More than a decade later, the Foundation continues to offer grants with money raised through staff fundraising and customer donations.

Local registered charities and not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of up to £5,000 for projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need.

The funding is to be used for the following types of projects:

• Improved energy efficient lighting and heating.
• Installation of new kitchen, bathroom etc.
• Installation of a sensory room.
• General painting and decorating.
• Improving safety and security of a building.

Registered charities, Community Benefit Societies, Cooperative Societies and Community Interest Companies can apply as long as they have suitable governance to manage the fund and are supporting people in need whether by reason of financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage or distress.

Deadline: 16th May 2025

Leeds Building Society is offering £150,000 to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations to mark its 150th anniversary.

The programme is offering unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 for work that supports vulnerable people to find a place to belong through housing and their community. Organisations must be a constituted and have an annual income of £5 million or less.

Guidance notes and a link to the online application portal are available upon request by sending an email to Fund150@leedsbuildingsociety.co.uk

Deadline: 22nd May 2025

For a second year, the Triangle Trust 1949 Fund is focusing its funding solely on not-for-profit organisations working with vulnerable young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of entering it. Applicants must demonstrate significant expertise working with vulnerable and challenging young women and girls.

The Trust holds two funding rounds per year:

• The Spring round is for proposals focused on work with young people who already have a criminal conviction. Only organisations exclusively led by and for women and girls can apply to this round.
• The Autumn round is for proposals focused on targeted work with high-risk young people on the edge of the criminal justice system.

Grants of between £10,000 and £80,000 for a duration of 12 months to two years are available. A maximum of £40,000 per year can be requested.  The amount of funding must be proportional to the project being undertaken.

Registered charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies with an average annual income of less than £1.5 million over the past three years, that are working within the UK and have a UK office can apply.  

Opens: 15th April - 2nd June 2025

Blagrave Trust, in partnership with Co-op Foundation, the Energy Saving Trust Foundation, OVO Foundation, and Impatience Earth, is offering one-year grants of up to £20,000 for youth-led organisations across England that empower young people to take climate action in ways that are meaningful for them and their communities.

The Roots & Routes Fund will support projects that:

• Empower young people to challenge and change the oppressive systems, processes and practices that prevent or hinder them from making their voices heard and making meaningful change.
• Aspire to bring about long-lasting change.
• Are bold and seek to reimagine how systems work.

Funding can be used for a variety of activities, including advocacy, research, training and learning, or a specific project or activity and can be used for both new and preexisting projects.

Groups must be based and working within England with an annual revenue of between £10,000 and £500,000 and have a leadership of at least 55% people between the ages of 18 and 30 and who have characteristics of communities that are most impacted by climate injustice or underrepresented in the climate justice sector.

Grants and other resources are available for community groups, local sports clubs and grassroots organisations across England with ideas of how to tackle inequalities and help get more people active. There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as: 

• People living on low incomes.
• Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions.
• Older people.
• People from culturally diverse communities.
• Pregnant women and parents with very young children.
• Girls aged 5-16.
• LGBTQ+ people.
• People who are in foster care.People who provide care without pay.

Grants of between £300 and £15,000 are available.