Funding News | Links CVS

This page will be updated regularly so please check in when you can. See Latest News section.

Links is here to help you. Should you need help finding funding or completing an application please fill in a funding questionnaire!

Upcoming Deadlines

Peter Harrison Foundation’s Active Lives

Opens: 1st November 2024

Funding for UK charities 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. The funding is for physical activity initiatives that:

Offer high-impact, life-enhancing opportunities for those who live in the top 10% of areas of deprivation.
Remove barriers to participation for disabled or disadvantaged people.
Focus on grassroots involvement rather than elite participation in physical activity.
Focus on skills development and confidence building for individuals.
Incorporate effective strategies for wider impact, perhaps through training, partnerships and/or dissemination activities.
Demonstrate a high degree of involvement across the organisation from beneficiaries and those with lived experience.
Have a well-developed plan for sustainability and seek to deliver a legacy.
Reflect the Foundation’s values of Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Integrity, Sustainability.

Two levels of funding are available and will cover capital, project or core costs:

Small grants – up to £5,000 (priority given to organisations with annual income under £500,000).
Major grants – £5,001 to £30,000 (priority given to organisations with annual income under £5 million).

Applications are accepted from UK organisations that:

Are either a registered charity or a registered CASC (Community Amateur Sports Club).
Have been registered with the charity regulator for two years or more (charity applicants).
Have been registered as a CASC for two years or more (CASC applicants).
Have produced independently examined or audited accounts for at least one full year of operation.

Community Interest Companies (CICs) and exempt charities may not apply.

Woodward Charitable Trust

Opens: 4th November 2024

The Woodward Charitable Trust, a grant-making trust, is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. Twice a year it awards grants to UK registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £200,000 who are making ‘a real difference in their communities and who stand out in the work that they do’.

The funding is for charitable organisations in the UK working in the following areas:

Children and young people (up to 25 years) who are isolated, at risk of exclusion or involved in antisocial behaviour. This covers gang violence and knife crime, education and mentoring, as well as projects that work to raise self-esteem and employment opportunities and encourage an active involvement in and contribution towards the local community.
Disadvantaged families. This covers parenting support and guidance, mental health, food poverty, refuges and domestic violence projects.
Prisoners and ex-offenders and specifically projects that maintain and develop contact with prisoners' families and help with the rehabilitation and resettlement of prisoners and/or ex-offenders after their release.

The majority of an applicant's beneficiaries (more than 50%) must be within at least one of these areas to be eligible.

Although grants of up to £3,000 are available, most grants are for £1,000 or less. The Trustees favour small-scale, locally based initiatives and most grants are only for one year.

The grants are for core costs rather than specific projects and will cover staff salaries, rent, utilities, general office costs, accountancy/audit costs, fundraising, governance and compliance, and costs supporting the core programmes of the organisation.

Rosa - Voices from the Frontline

Opens: 5th November 2024

The women’s charity, Rosa, has announced that their Voices from the Frontline Fund will run for a seventh year. The fund offers grants to women’s and girls’ organisations to support campaigning and influencing work that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change. This year, grants have increased from £7,000 to £10,000 and will cover an 18-month period.

Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit women's sector voluntary and community organisations in the UK that have been active for at least one year and can produce annual accounts for an entire year.

They must meet Rosa’s definition of a women’s and girls’ organisation as those which are run by, for and with women and girls:

Their organisation will be governed and led by women.
They will have a Board of Trustees (or similar) where the Chair is a woman, and the majority of members are women.
The majority of their organisation’s employee leadership team will be women.
Their organisation will have the principal objective of working with women and/or girls and the majority of their organisation’s beneficiaries are, and will always be, women and/or girls.

ARF Carer Community Fund

Deadline: 18th April 2025

The ARF Carer Community Fund have small grants available for voluntary, community and social enterprises to pilot innovative projects that support Carers within their local communities. New and current Carers will be connected to groups, hubs and activities in their local community that improves wellbeing, enhances knowledge and learning and connects Carers to local support services. The ARF Carer Community Fund will consider applications for new projects that:

Improve Carers health and wellbeing.
Connect Carers with support services within their communities.
Provide Carers with relevant resources and support.
Support a specific group of Carers or supports all Carers.
Covers a specific geographical area or larger area.

You can apply for up to £10,000 for up to one year.

Miller Homes Community Fund

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.

Armed Forces Day Events Grant

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.

Leathersellers' Foundation's Main Grants Programme

Deadline: 30th April 2025 (EOI)

This is the fourth year of the Leathersellers’ Foundation's strategic giving to help prevent and tackle the consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

The ACEs Main Grants Programme provides unrestricted grants (core costs) of between £20,000 and £25,000 for up to four years. It is expected that 15 to 20 multi-year grants will be awarded this year.

Charities and CIOs operating in an area of deprivation in the UK with an income of between £200,000 and £2 million can apply.

Charities should be working to prevent the occurrence of and/or support recovery from adverse childhood experiences by providing services to children and young people and/or adult survivors in recovery. The term ACEs is used to recognise traumatic events that occur during childhood that can have a significant impact on a person's physical, emotional and mental health throughout their life. Examples include:

Abuse – physical, sexual or psychological/emotional.
Neglect – physical or psychological/emotional.
Domestic abuse.
Substance misuse by a close family member.
Mental illness of a close family member.
Having a close family member serve time in prison.
Parental or caregiver separation or divorce on account of relationship breakdown.

Charities should use a trauma-informed approach and evidence-based interventions. The foundation recognises that some communities suffer from a greater likelihood of ACEs due to systemic barriers. It welcomes applications from charities who support under-represented groups.

Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme

Deadline: 5th May 2025

Through its Community Grants programme, the family run bakery business Warburtons provides a limited number of grants of up to £400 four times a year. Applications are currently being accepted for projects starting this summer.

Not-for-profit organisations with charitable purposes that are based and working in England, Scotland or Wales can apply as long as their projects are addressing one of Warburtons' priority areas:

Health - supporting families to care for each other and lead healthier lives.
Place - supporting families to flourish in communities that are safer, greener and more inclusive.
Skills - supporting families to gain useful skills for life and work.

Screwfix Foundation

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.

Suez Communities Fund

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.

Leeds Building Society - Fund 150

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

Triangle Trust 1949 Fund

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.

Biffa Award 2025 Partnership Grants Scheme

Deadline: 30th May 2025

Biffa Awards is offering grants of between £250,000 and £1 million to support capital projects that address either of the following themes (the project must not cross over the two themes):

Built Environment projects should restore, modernise and improve facilities such as cultural, heritage or visitor centres. Applicants should be able to demonstrate regional or national significance and how the facility will be inclusive and how it will inspire creativity and participation amongst tourists and day visitors. The facilities must be open to the general public for a published period of at least 104 days each year.

Natural Environment projects should support a variety of living things including all species of plants and animals, along with the habitats and natural processes that support them. Projects should support the delivering of commitments within their country’s Environmental Improvement Plan, legally-binding targets from the Environment Act 2021 or priorities identified within Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

Projects must:

Be located within 15 miles of a significant Biffa Operation or active Biffa Landfill site.
Be located within 10 miles of any licensed landfill site (not necessarily owned by Biffa Group Limited) in England and Northern Ireland.
Start in February 2026 and be completed by February 2027.

Applications can be made for 100% of the project costs; however, only 90% of the grant can be paid by Biffa Award using Landfill Tax Credits. The remaining 10% needs to be provided by another source.

Latest News

Sport England – Movement Fund

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.

Home Instead Charities

Founded by Home Instead, the UK’s leading provider of home care, Home Instead Charities’ mission is to end loneliness for ageing adults. The organisation exists to bring happiness and joy into the lives of Britain’s ageing population so that ageing adults are thriving, not just surviving.

To this end, they offer funding to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.

There are two levels of funding:

Grants of up to £500 for small grass roots organisations.
Grants of up to £1,500 for small local registered charities. Larger grants can be considered for exceptional projects.

The funder will only fully fund a grant request where the applicant holds no more than three months operating costs in reserve. For organisations that have more than this, up to 50% of the project costs will be funded.

The grants can be used for:

Regular weekly or monthly events and activities such as weekly cinema club, weekly knit and natter or Thursday lunch club.
One off activities such as a day trip or a Christmas lunch.
Activities such as yoga or a guest speaker for the group such as a local historian.

Heritage Revival Fund

Grants are available for charities and social enterprises in England seeking to take ownership of and/or adapt historic buildings in town centres for community uses. The funding is intended to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.

The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs.

The Heritage Revival Fund aims to:

Maximise the regeneration benefits of community ownership and control of heritage assets, assisting in making communities fit for the future.
Protect, enhance and safeguard historic buildings across England, offering viable new uses for disused and underutilised properties.
Build capacity within local community groups, social enterprise, and charities.
Pilot innovative, alternative uses, ownership structures and investment models to facilitate long term regeneration.
Maximise the positive social and economic impacts around restoring historic buildings.

Grants of between £5,000 and £350,000 are available.

National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities

The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) announced that from 1 April 2025, the Reaching Communities programme has new priorities which will help the funder to deliver its missions and create fairer, stronger, more resilient futures for communities across England. Projects must achieve one of the NLCF missions, which are to support communities to:

Come together, by

Providing inclusive places, spaces and activities (either physical or virtual). Especially for communities where people are least able to come together.

Help children and young people thrive, by

Developing positive social and emotional skills.
Providing safe spaces and relationships they can trust.
Involving them, and their families, in the decisions that affect their lives.
Helping prevent issues before they happen.

Be healthier, by

Supporting people most affected by health inequalities.
Supporting people who've experienced health inequalities to influence the health system.
Helping prevent issues before they happen.

Be environmentally sustainable by:

Empowering people to engage with climate issues and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. Or,
Taking part in activities to make a positive environmental impact. Like reducing carbon emissions or creating space for wildlife. Or,
Helping communities to have access to nature. By increasing the amount and quality of natural space for wildlife. Meaning that people can experience nature around them, and that more varieties of wildlife can thrive.

Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation

This charitable foundation offers a limited number of grants to registered charities in England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Republic of Ireland as well as to eligible Roman Catholic Dioceses and Roman Catholic charities in these countries.

The funding is for charitable projects that are based in and for the benefit of people living in England, Wales, the Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland.

To be eligible, projects need to address one or more of the current funding priorities:

Victims of modern slavery.
Victims of domestic abuse.
Ex-offenders and their families.
Homelessness.
Medical research.
Support for people with terminal illnesses / life limiting. conditions and their carers.
Drug and substance misuse.
Support for people with intellectual disability.
Care leavers: to give them a chance to succeed on a par with other young people.
Worship and associated community outreach.
Amateur sport.
Care for the elderly.

Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees. Previous grants have ranged from £5,000 to £2.25 million.

True Colours Trust - UK Small Grants

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for registered charitable organisations with an annual income of less than £350,000 across the United Kingdom to deliver projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.

The True Colours Trust Small Grants Programme will support projects such as:

Activities for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
Activities which support siblings of disabled children or siblings of children with life-limiting conditions.
Bereavement support for children and young people and families bereaved of a child.
Family and parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children.
Respite which supports the whole family.

Priority will be given to organisations that operate in areas of high deprivation.

Eligible costs include renovation work, upgrading, and additional equipment for hydrotherapy pools and multi-sensory rooms, minibuses, and specialised play equipment or access to play for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Barchester Healthcare Foundation is offering grants of up to £2,500 for small community groups and local charities across England, Scotland, and Wales for projects that help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities, and generally improve mobility and quality of life for older people and adults with physical, learning, or mental disabilities.

Funding is intended to help small community groups and local charities with the following:

Activities.
Equipment and materials for use by members.
Member transport.
Day trips, outings, and group holidays in the UK.

Priority will be given to innovative projects that help older people and those with a disability to get active, meet people, and reduce isolation.

Funding is for small and local groups, and groups with financial reserves of over £150,000 are unlikely to receive support.

Football Foundation - Facilities Grants

The Football Foundation is a partnership charity, formed by the Premier League, the Football Association, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Sport England. On 21 March 2025, DCMS announced further funding of £82.3 million for grassroots football facilities in England for 2025/26.

The charity's aim is 'to transform lives and strengthen communities through the power of football'.

The funding is intended for smaller capital projects and the maintenance/improvement of facilities.

The following can be funded:

Goalposts.
Storage containers.
Portable floodlights.
Minor works to changing rooms and club house refurbishment.
3G pitch maintenance machinery and equipment.
Improvements to grass pitch playing surfaces.
Fencing.
Small-sided facility improvement.

The grant size available depends on the type of investment that the club is applying for. Football Foundation support is generally of up to a maximum of £25,000.

Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants

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.

BBC Children in Need to Pause Grant Applications for Four Months from 15 April

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.

Chesterfield Rotary Club - Community Fund

Are you a small community organisation, group or project, based in Chesterfield, which would dearly like to do something special for local people but don’t have the money to support it?

Then take a look at Chesterfield Rotary's Community Awards Fund. This makes small donations of up to £500 where it would make a difference to a project being able to happen. Contact Paul Davies: 07753 605272, prdsmail@gmail.com or visit their website.

https://chesterfieldrotary.org.uk/community-fund/

Peak District National Park - Connect Fund Grant

Grants are available for schools, community groups and associations to help pay for the cost of a trip to visit the Peak District National Park. The grant can help with the cost of a trip to the Peak District National Park. This could include:

Transport costs
Learning provider fees
Any equipment needed for the activity
The cost of providing food to participants if this is a major barrier to their involvement.

Organisations/groups looking to deliver an event or project that is entirely focused on under-represented groups can apply. Priorities for the Connect Fund are ethnically diverse groups, groups from low-income areas, and those with disabilities.

Health Lottery Foundation

The Health Lottery Foundation recently announced it will launch a grants programme later this year that focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of people across Britain.

Non-profit-making voluntary sector organisations who are working to improve the health and wellbeing of people in their community will be able to apply for a grant to support work that addresses one of the following six themes:

Chronic disease
Disability inequity
Healthcare IT
Health disparity
Preventative care
Young people

The funding can be used for diverse initiatives such as emotional support services, fitness programmes for disabled people, rural healthcare access, AI health solutions, nutrition programmes and youth mentoring services. Projects addressing health inequalities and improving access to care in underserved communities will be considered.

Groups who are interested in applying can sign up to the Foundation's mailing list. Applications are expected to open later this year.

Naturesave Trust

Naturesave Trust is currently accepting applications to its Spring 2025 round.

This small, registered charity is the charitable arm of Naturesave Insurance, an ethical insurance provider, and provides funding three times a year to support specific UK-based environmental, conservation and community renewable energy projects.

The Trust offers funding for a different theme each year.

This year, grants of up to £5,000 are for projects that actively promote sustainable and eco-friendly approaches to travel and transport.

NatureSave is looking to support the following types of projects:

Vehicles – clean fuel, batteries or both. This can include electric vehicles, hybrid power systems and fuel cells.
Infrastructure – such as public transportation systems.
Energy source – using renewable energy sources instead of fossil fuels like coal.
Activity – walking, cycling or using a scooter instead of driving.

Applications are accepted from a range of UK based organisations, including charities, social enterprises, voluntary organisations, small grassroots community groups and businesses.

To be eligible, the organisation and/or project must be entirely based in the UK and have a website or social media presence.

Tesco Stronger Starts Programme

Schools and other not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of up to £1,500 for projects and activities that help children across the UK have a stronger start in life. Priority is given to initiatives that provide food and support to young people.

These grants assist schools and organisations in offering nutritious food, healthy activities that promote physical and mental wellbeing—such as breakfast clubs or snacks—and equipment for healthy pursuits.

Every three months, three local good causes or projects are selected for the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK, with grants awarded based on the number of votes each project receives. The funding is being made available through the Tesco Stronger Starts Programme, which is managed by Groundwork across the UK.

The Fore

The Fore offers unrestricted funding to small charities across the UK that are making a big impact and who want to significantly grow, strengthen, become more efficient or resilient. The national funding programme is open to any sector and region within the UK with particular interest in grassroots organisations working with underserved communities.

Unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 spread over one to three years are available. In addition, non-financial support such as access to a network of skilled, pro-bono volunteers, online training workshops and seminars are available to successful charities for life.

The unrestricted funding can be used for any purpose, including core costs and capital funding as long as the grants will help strengthen the organisation internally and help it to take the next step forwards in its growth or sustainability.

Applications will be considered from registered charities (including those constituted as charitable trusts, charitable unincorporated associations, charitable incorporated organisations and charitable companies limited by guarantee), Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, or Community Benefit Societies and social enterprises that are charitable companies limited by guarantee or CICs limited by guarantee.

To apply for funding, organisations must first register some basic contact details at the start of the funding round. Once their place on the funding round has been confirmed by email, they have three to four weeks to submit an application. Only organisations that have registered with the Fore and are allocated a place may submit an application for the specific funding round.

The Spring 2025 round will open at 12pm (midday) on 4 December 2024 and close at 12pm (midday) on 11 December 2024.

Royal Countryside Fund - Supporting Rural Communities

The new Supporting Rural Communities grant programme will open to applications from across the UK on 10 January 2025.

The Royal Countryside Fund has announced that this ‘new differentiated funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives across the UK, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities’. The aim is to support innovative solutions that will ‘power up, not prop up’ communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy.

Not-for-profit community organisations with an income of less than £500,000 a year can apply for grants of up to £25,000 over a period of 24 months to deliver activities along the themes of:

Keeping young people in the countryside
Powering up rural communities
Increasing environmental sustainability
Building emergency resilience in rural areas.

Support will be focused on isolated rural areas where the activity is required due to a lack of alternative services. Projects must be community led and show that they actively listen to, understand and respond to the needs of their local community.

The funding is for communities to create tangible change. This could be a project that generates a new income stream for the local community, or the delivery of training to develop skills opportunities for young people. It could also be activities to increase community awareness and engagement in the local environment, or an initiative to bring the community together to plan for the impacts of climate change.

A webinar for prospective applicants will be held on 17 December 2024 (18:00). Registration is required and can be done on Zoom.

Memorial Grant Scheme

Grants are available to help with VAT on the construction, repair and maintenance of public memorial structures in the UK for work which took place on or after 16 March 2005.

The funding is intended to cover the costs of VAT already paid. The maximum grant available is the full rate of VAT (20% of project costs).

Applications will be accepted from registered charities and faith groups excepted from registering as a charity to help with the cost of works like repairing and cleaning public memorials or installing a new memorial.

The memorial can commemorate a person/people, an animal/s or event/s.

The funding can only be provided for works that have already taken place. It cannot be used for future works. Part-funding is available for ongoing work for parts of the work which have been completed.

Energy Resilience Fund

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.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts Fund

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.

One Stop Community Partnership Programme

Community groups and other not for profit organisations within a two mile radius of a One Stop shop can apply for grants of up to £1,000 through the One Stop Community Partnership programme. The programme, administered by the environmental charity Groundwork, is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and which are;

Tackling food poverty
Supporting the vulnerable
Supporting the elderly
Supporting low-income families
Supporting local sports teams
Improving the local environment
Reducing Waste in the community.

Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund

The Department of Health and Social Care is currently running a £1 million match funded Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund, aimed at increasing the number of AEDs in public places where they are most needed and to help save lives.

All types of organisations may apply.

To be eligible, applicants must:

Be based in England.
Not be an organisation that is eligible for the Department of Education scheme, eg, a school or an academy.
Locate the secure defibrillator on an external wall in an area that is accessible to members of the public 24 hours per day. (The equipment must be installed and registered on The Circuit within 4 weeks).
Be able to provide an electrical power source to ensure the defibrillator cabinet light and heater operate to keep the device at the right temperature
Provide match funding for their application (c. £750).

The funding is based on a 'first come first served basis'.

Applications will be accepted until all the funding has been allocated.

There are about 400 units left, and it is expected that the scheme will close to applications within four to six weeks from 1 November 2024 (by the end of November or mid December 2024) though it could be sooner.

B&Q Foundation

B&Q Foundation offers grants to charities who are using the funds to provide, maintain, repair or improve housing or community space. A wide range of UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply for one-off grants of up to £5,000 for garden projects or up to £10,000 for building or indoor projects.

The funding is for registered charities working with people most in need because of homelessness, financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage.

Charities can use the grants to decorate, renovate or create spaces (indoors and outdoors) with the aim of making people feel at home and having a sense of belonging. Projects could include creating community gardens, redecorating properties, installing new boilers, and creating new buildings or rooms. The funding will cover the full cost for the completion of the project, including staff time required.

Please note CICs and unregistered community groups are not eligible for this funding.

Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) invites proposals from delivery organisations across England and/or Wales that work to reduce young people’s involvement in violence and are ready for rigorous evaluation.

The aim of this open call is to fund and evaluate projects that will help YEF build strong evidence for practices and approaches in areas where clear gaps exist.

The funding is for projects which are ready for an impact evaluation with an experimental design (ie, randomised control trial) or a quasi-experimental design.

The funding can be for both the delivery of the intervention and the evaluation itself.

Projects need to primarily support children and young people (aged 10 to 18 years) who are either:

At risk of crime or violence (‘secondary prevention’), or
Already affected by violence, offending or exploitation (‘tertiary prevention’).