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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.
Metal For Good
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.
Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants Programme
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.
Shaping the Future: A Fund to Support Leadership in the Migration Sector
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.
Tackling Food Surplus at the Farm Gate Grant
Deadline: 13th March 2025
Grants are available for food redistribution charities and other not-for-profit organisations in England for projects that take surplus food off farms and into the redistribution system with the aim of helping to fight hunger in communities in England.
The funding aims to strengthen links between farms and charities to help solve the problem of food surplus on farms with the objective of helping organisations fight hunger in communities.
Proposals need to:
- Build stronger collaborations with farmers to access surplus food.
- Expand logistical capacity to transport and distribute rescued produce efficiently.
- Invest in critical infrastructure such as refrigeration, storage facilities, and transport vehicles to keep food fresh and safe for redistribution.
- Procure packaging and labelling equipment to streamline the handling of surplus goods.
McCarthy Stone Foundation - Dementia Grants Programme
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.
Grow Wild Youth Grants
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.
Energy Redress Scheme - Just Transition Fund
Deadline: 20th March 2025
Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme’s Just Transition Fund was first launched in October 2024. The fund, now running a second round in the same application window as the scheme's other programmes, is making a total of £2 million available to charities and community energy groups across England, Scotland and Wales to develop renewable energy projects that benefit those most in need.
The scheme aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.
Grants of between £20,000 and £250,000 are available for individual projects.
Applications are accepted from registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), Community Benefit Societies and Cooperative Societies in England, Scotland and Wales that are registered with the Energy Redress Scheme and have passed the due diligence process.
Organisations that have not yet registered with the scheme must do so 10 working days before the relevant fund closes to allow time for eligibility checks to take place.
Postcode Places Trust (East of England)
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.
Music for All - Community Project Funding
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.
Peter Harrison Foundation
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.
Veolia Environmental Trust
Deadline: 3rd April 2025
Constituted, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities, and environmental bodies enrolled with ENTRUST can apply for funding to support projects that make improvements to community facilities and the natural environment in communities located near qualifying Veolia sites across England.
The Veolia Environmental Trust is currently offering the following:
- Community Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for capital improvement/construction projects at a single site, such as community buildings and spaces, outdoor spaces, play and recreational spaces, or installing fixed items such as kitchen cupboards and work surfaces.
- Habitat and Biodiversity Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for projects resulting in structural improvements for a single habitat that will conserve, restore, and enhance threatened habitats and protect/increase biodiversity.
Limited funding is available each round and grants are awarded to the projects that most closely match the Trust’s funding priorities:
- Protect and enhance biodiversity and natural habitats.
- Inspire the creation of a sustainable carbon-neutral space.
- Promote community action and well-being.
- Are inclusive and accessible to everyone and anyone to use.
Youth Music Trailblazer Fund
Deadline: 11th April 2025
Funding is available to constituted UK based organisations to run projects in England for children and young people (aged 25 or under) to make music activity more inclusive and foster learning, creation and employment opportunities.
Youth Music's Trailblazer Fund aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through. The fund provides grants for organisations that want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three).
Two levels of grants are available:
- Grants of £2,000 to £15,000 are available to organisations of less than one year old.
- Grants of £2,000 to £30,000 are available to organisations of more than one year old.
Latest News
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’).
Foyle Foundation Small Grants Scheme
Earlier this year, the Foyle Foundation announced that it will complete its grant giving programme in 2025 and it will stop accepting new applications to the Small Grants Scheme at the end of January 2025.
The Foundation was established in 2000 with unrestricted charitable objectives and no request or need to maintain a permanent endowment. The Trustees decided to spend down its funds over 25 years, enabling more charitable causes to receive more support, more quickly, than would have been possible if the Foundation had maintained a permanent endowment.
The scheme is open to UK charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000. Priority is given to local charities still active in their communities that are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community. Applicants must show how any grant will make a significant difference to their current work and must be able to demonstrate ongoing financial viability over the next 12 months.
Grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 are available for 12 months. The funding can be used for core costs (including salaries), projects, essential equipment, or building projects as long as they can be completed before the end of 2025.
The Foundation has indicated that competition for the funding is ‘intense’ as they are receiving an unprecedented number of applications, many more than can be funded.
Leathersellers' Foundation
The foundation operates two grant programmes for UK registered charities:
- Small Grants Programme – one-off grants for small projects up to £5,000.
- Main Grants Programme – targeted funding rounds, with grants available towards core costs to support charities working within the focus area of the active round of between £20,000 and £25,000 unrestricted funding per year for a period of up to four years.
There are 8 application windows throughout the year for the Small Grants Programme. Submissions are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. As soon as 40 applications have been received, applications will close for the round. During the last round max. submissions were reached in 40 minutes.
Garfield Weston Foundation
Grants are available to charitable organisations in the UK who are working in the areas of arts, community, education, environment, faith, health, museums and heritage, welfare and youth.
The Foundation offers two levels of funding, which can be used towards capital, revenue or project costs:
- Regular Grants of up to £100,000.
- Major Grants of £100,000 and above. (When awarding major grants, the Foundation typically expects the project and organisation's overall annual income to be in excess of £1 million.)
Applications will be accepted from:
- UK registered charities.
- Charitable Incorporated Organisations.
- Exempt and excepted under Charity Commission guidance.
To be eligible, applicants must have at least one year’s worth of annual accounts and submit one of the following:
- Their annual accounts, independently audited or examined.
- A copy of their Charity Commission annual return.
The DWF Foundation
The DWF Foundation supports registered charities with an impact in one or more of the following areas:
- Homelessness
- Health and wellbeing
- Employability
- Education
- Environment and Sustainability
The Foundation has been set up to help with initiatives that develop and improve local communities by:
- Tackling a specific community issue.
- Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
- Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded.
- Enabling young people to develop skills for the benefit of the community.
Funding is usually at the discretion of the Foundation but the majority of grants are under £5,000.
COSARAF – Hardship Grants
COSARAF is offering grants of up to £2,000 to organisations that support families and individuals from across the UK who are in financial need and struggling with everyday costs such as basic expenses, utilities, or rent arrears.
Through the Hardship Grants Programme, recognised third-party social organisations, such as charities, housing associations, schools, and social services which are acting on behalf of a family or individual in need, can apply for funding to support vulnerable individuals with costs such as:
- Household items, such as white goods, and occasionally furniture such as sofas or wardrobes.
- Basic living expenses, such as utilities and food.
- Work or education-related expenses.
- Rent or Council tax arrears where there is a clear risk of homelessness.
- Immigration-related costs, where a person’s current immigration status is causing financial hardship.
Priority will be given to:
- The most financially excluded people.
- Families over individuals.
- Those with caring responsibilities.
- Items that will make the most difference to the individual/family’s long-term future.
Most grants are typically around £500. Applications are assessed every six weeks and groups can expect to receive a response within eight weeks of their application.
npower Business Solutions Foundation
Grants are available for not-for-profit and educational institutions within 50 miles of nBS’ offices in Solihull and Leeds to support projects that have a positive impact on local communities, improve places and spaces, and provide opportunities for individuals to reach their potential.
Three levels of funding are available depending on the size and turnover of the applicant organisation:
- Level 1 grants of up to £19,999.
- Level 2 grants of up to £39,999.
- Level 3 grants of up to £100,000.
Woodland Trust - Free Trees for Schools and Communities
Hundreds of thousands of trees are being given away to help the UK reach its 2050 carbon net-zero target. Schools, nurseries, colleges, universities, outdoor learning centres, and other groups such as resident associations, sports clubs, parish councils, scouts and guides from across the UK are among the organisations eligible to apply for up to 420 saplings to improve their local environment. Tree packs include hedging, copse, wild harvest, year-round colour, working wood, wild wood, wildlife, and urban trees. Applications are expected to close in January 2025 or sooner depending on stock availability.
The Toy Trust
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to registered charities to fund equipment and services to support disabled and disadvantaged children under 13 across the UK. The Toy Trust fund helps disadvantaged children and their families to:
- alleviate suffering;
- support children through awful experiences;
- encourage achievement through adversity;
- purchase vital equipment;
- provide care;
- bolster existing initiatives;
- initiate brand new projects;
- satisfy basic needs.
Groups that have carried out some form of effective fundraising by themselves are particularly encouraged to apply. The next deadline to apply is mid-November 2024 for the December meeting of Trustees.
CDS Action Charitable Trust
A community dental service with its head office in Beds, delivering services across the East of England and the Midlands, including in prisons. Donations from the CDS Action Charitable Trust to community organisations who operate in the same communities as CDS to promote health and well-being. So far over £475k has been shared with local organisations supporting causes as varied as canoes for scouts to sign language groups.
Applications are invited from charities, social enterprises and community groups in Norfolk and Waveney (Suffolk), Leicestershire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire with grants ranging in scale from £500 to £5,000. Applications are reviewed every three months by a group of trustees made up of CDS employees.
Severn Trent Community Fund - The NeighbourGOOD Scheme
Severn Trent Community Fund are to launch the NeighbourGOOD Scheme initiative to give communities a helping hand on existing or new schemes/projects, through funding and hands-on volunteering. They are looking to work with local projects that aim to improve the quality of life in our communities. They would love to help with any community-driven project be that enhancing a public space or supporting a local event, from coaching for vulnerable young people to a garden refurb in a care home.
They want to ask customers across the region to apply for up to £2.5k funding and 20-30 Severn Trent volunteers across 2 days to support with the delivery of their projects. The money can be used towards materials for the project and our staff will come to deliver the work.
The idea is that they will be able to deliver 10 projects in total, one in each county of their region. To decide which projects they will deliver we are going to be setting up a panel of judges from each county to shortlist the projects to 3 per county, which will then go to public vote.
They are looking to open applications in the first week of September for a 4–6-week window with the shortlisted projects for each county being announced mid-end October. The public vote will open mid-November with winners being announced before Christmas and all works completed before end March 2025.