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Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

Opens: 1st July 2024

The Trust supports registered UK charities that work with communities in the UK. The funding is intended to support those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are the most limited.

The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interest being funded each year. There are normally four application rounds per year with applications accepted for one month only, usually in February, April, July and September. Charities can only apply for one round per calendar year.

Round 3 will accept applications during the month of July for projects that focus on the theme of Food Poverty. Priority will be given to projects that focus on enabling resilience and independence, in particular food education and cooking skills.

UK registered charities or organisations that are exempt from registration in the UK with an operating income of between £100,000 and £1 million can apply for grants of £1,000.

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.

Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2025

Deadline: 25th November 2024

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is offering £500,000 in total funding, with grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,000 for projects across England.

Groups have until 25 November to apply for funding for projects which commemorate, celebrate, or educate others about the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

Projects should be developed by, or with, the Windrush generation and their descendants, and organisations should carefully consider how the project will create a positive social impact in their local area and help to galvanise communities to work together to embrace positive aspects of their shared identity.

Proposed projects must include a lead event or activity on National Windrush Day (22 June 2025). All further events and activities must take place before 30 September 2025.

Charities, exempt charities, community interest companies, community interest organisations, social enterprises, community benefit societies or local authorities across England can apply.

Warm Spaces Funding - Winter 24/25

Deadline: 27th November 2024

The Chesterfield Health and Wellbeing Partnership has just released some funding for Warm spaces for this Winter.

Funding is available to voluntary and community organisations that are formally constituted and based in Chesterfield.

Grants will be made available to Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations and community-led groups in Chesterfield for the creation or improvement of Warm and Welcoming Spaces for local communities. These grants will be a maximum of £1000 and this could be spent on a variety of project costs including:

Additional energy costs
Furniture and improvement to facilities
Additional staffing costs to cover extended hours
Additional cleaning costs to ensure compliance with health protection guidance
Activities and refreshments
Additional activity costs.

Derbyshire Voluntary Action - Health & Wellbeing Grants

Deadline: 29th November 2024

The purpose of the Health and Wellbeing Grant is to support new and existing not-for-profit voluntary and community groups/organisations in Bolsover, Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire whose work strengthens the local community and improves the health and wellbeing of their beneficiaries. Grants for one-off costs beyond regular running expenses for projects or activities the group would like to run are available. Groups can apply for up to £1,000 per area.

Hubbub - Nature Hubs Fund

Deadline: 29th November 2024

Hubbub is offering grants of between £3,000 and £6,000 for community groups, registered charities, community interest companies, and companies across England, Scotland, and Wales, to create or enhance green spaces within a 5-kilometre radius of a Starbucks store.

Proposed projects should align with the following criteria:

Involving the community - Projects that bring people and communities together around nature and green spaces.
Commitment to reaching new audiences - Projects that are committed to reaching audiences beyond those who typically access green space.
Need for green space - Projects that demonstrate a community need for a green space project, particularly in dense urban areas.
Creating or enhancing green spaces - Projects that can demonstrate how they either create new green spaces, or improve, add to, or preserve existing green spaces.

Eligible costs include:

Materials relating to the nature hub activity.
Utilities relating to the delivery of the project activity.
Display materials, signage, and information.
Services from external suppliers.
Staffing costs to cover the time spent planning and delivering any activity.
Volunteer expenses.
Training, such as safeguarding.

Branching Out Fund

Deadline: 1st December 2024

Charities, community groups, community interest companies (CICs), and other organisations across the UK have until 1 December 2024 to apply for funding to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 planting season.

Through the Branching Out Fund, grants of between £250 and £2,500 are available for the following:

Bare root, UK-sourced and grown, native trees of an appropriate size (priority will be given to younger trees that will establish better).
UK-sourced and grown, bare-root whips (saplings) and cell-grown (root trainer) stock for hedging projects (between 40-120cm height).
Hedgerow trees.
Orchards, such as fruit trees on semi-vigorous, vigorous, and very vigorous rootstocks.
Cardboard/bioplastic tree/hedge guards.
Non-plastic ties.
Stakes (coppiced material such as chestnut or hazel is preferred, although machined softwood will also be considered).
Mulch.
Non-peat-based soil improvers if needed.

Applicants with strong community engagement embedded from the beginning of the planting project will be prioritised.

Allen Lane Foundation

Deadline: Early December

The Foundation provides grants to small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations based and working within the UK. The funding is for work that focuses on specific groups within the UK that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination.

The Foundation has sharpened the focus of beneficiaries, particularly in the first three categories and the last (children/young people).

The following focus on adults only:

Asylum seekers and refugees – The focus has been changed to women only. Offenders and ex-offenders – The focus now is solely on organisations supporting female offenders, and those in prison for violence against women.
Older People – funding is focused on projects that benefit isolated elderly people (generally aged 70+) including those with dementia.
People affected by violence or abuse – work that supports both men and women who are, or have in the past been, affected by violence or abuse.
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities – support groups within these communities and organisations that work to benefit them.
People with mental health issues – support for mental health charities and projects that benefit people with moderate or severe mental health issues.

In addition, there is funding for work with:

Young people – aged 12-21 who are vulnerable, socially excluded or marginalised with a focus on those who are persistently absent from school; school leavers with no qualifications; and young people in/leaving care.

The maximum grant is £15,000. This can be a single grant, or over two to three years. The average grant is £5,000 to £6,000

Tree Council - Branching Out Fund

Deadline: 1st December 2024

The Tree Council is offering grants of between £250 and £2,500 for schools, constituted community groups and charities, community interest companies, Tree Warden networks, and other organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025).

Through the Branching Out Fund, groups can purchase:

Bare root, UK-sourced and grown, native trees of an appropriate size (priority will be given to younger trees that will establish better).
UK-sourced and grown, bare-root whips (saplings) and cell-grown (root trainer) stock for hedging projects (between 40-120cm height).
Hedgerow trees.
Orchards, such as fruit trees on semi-vigorous, vigorous, and very vigorous rootstocks.
Cardboard/bioplastic tree/hedge guards.
Non-plastic ties.
Stakes (coppiced material such as chestnut or hazel is preferred, although machined softwood will also be considered).
Mulch.
Non-peat-based soil improvers if needed.

Priority will be given to applicants that have strong community engagement embedded from the beginning of the planting project.

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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.

Chesterfield Rotary Community Fund

The Chesterfield Rotary Community Awards Fund is open to applications from small community organisations, groups or projects based within, and supporting residents of, the Chesterfield Borough area. It is intended to provide funds which will support projects or activities which would not be possible without this award and which will benefit local people.

The maximum sum which can be awarded for a project or activity is £500.

In the past they have supported:

A group looking to make improvements to a play area in their local park
A para ice-hockey player needing support to participate in an international event
A young man with cerebral palsy needing equipment to participate in wheelchair football
Some scouts wanting to take part in an international jamboree

Priority will be given to:

Projects supporting people clearly in need of that support
Smaller organisations for whom the grant would be of more significance
Applications for sums smaller than the maximum allowable

Henry Smith Charity - Holiday Grants for Children

The Henry Smith Charity’s Holiday Grants programme supports recreational trips or holidays for groups of children aged 13 or younger who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. There is particular interest in contributing to trips that would not take place without the Charity’s funding.

Applications are currently being accepted for holidays taken between 1 September and 31 December 2024.

Schools, youth groups, not for profit organisations and charities in the UK can apply for a one-off grant of between £500 and £2,750 to support a day trip or a longer residential of up to a week for groups of children aged 13 years or younger. The trip could be to a countryside or city location but must be outside of the children’s immediate locality. Day trips should not involve a disproportionate amount of time spent travelling. Consideration will be given to trips which are more local but these should have an emphasis on providing a new experience for the children and broadening their horizons.

Priority will be given to projects level that will benefit disadvantaged and disabled children in the most deprived areas in the UK.

Grants are made on a first come, first served basis until the available funding for that round has been fully allocated. All applications should be received at least six weeks before the date of the trip to allow for administrative processing and decision making.

Stobart Sustainability Fund

Funding is available to UK non-profit organisations, community groups and educational institutions for projects that address climate change, reduce carbon emissions or protect the environment.

Rugby-based Stobart, part of the Culina Group, has launched its new Stobart Sustainability Fund to support not-for-profit organisations, community groups, schools and colleges involved in sustainability initiatives.

Funding will be provided to projects which tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions, or protect and enhance the environment.

Organisations are invited to set out their level of funding requirement in their application.

Protective Security for Mosques Funding Scheme

The scheme is part of the Government's Hate Crime Action Plan. The scheme is intended to reduce the risk and impact of hate crime at places of worship and associated faith community centres. Funding is available for protective security measures to places of worship that have been subject to, or are vulnerable to a hate crime attack. Applicants should apply if they:

Have experienced hate crime at their place of worship, or
Feel their place of worship is vulnerable to hate crime; for example, if hate crime has happened at other places of worship or sites in their community, or if people attending their place of worship have experienced hate crime in the local area.

Applicants do not need to choose what they would like to apply for in advance. If successful, a survey will be carried out at the place of worship. During this survey, the most appropriate measures for the site will be discussed.

Community Ownership Fund

The Community Ownership Fund is now open for those who have submitted an expression of interest. The Community Ownership Fund helps community groups buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community.

Voluntary and community organisations from across the UK can apply as long as they are an incorporated organisation set up to deliver charitable purpose, social purpose or public benefit and have a viable plan for taking ownership of a community asset at risk and running it sustainably for community benefit.

Suez Communities Fund

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 capital improvements to public amenities.

Approximately £1.6 million is available per year for projects in communities surrounding a qualifying SUEZ Recycling and Recovery site that are open to the public as a minimum of either 4 evenings a week, 2 days a week, or 104 days a year. Examples include:

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.

Improvements to places of religious worship will only be considered if they are Grade I designated. Projects to improve other historic buildings, structures or sites must be Grade I, II or II*, or have another significant heritage designation such as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Heritage in Need: Places of Worship

Grants of between £10,000 and £10 million are available for not-for-profit organisations to support places of worship across the UK to address heritage issues, such as the repair needs of listed buildings, workforce and volunteer capabilities, and supporting heritage in places of worship that are inaccessible, at risk, or under-used.

National Lottery Heritage Fund is making at least £15 million available over the next three years for strategic projects at a regional or national level that will proactively tackle long-standing issues, enable co-ordinated cross-territory approaches, address gaps, and accelerate new ideas and interventions, including but not limited to:

Projects at scale that develop the processes, systems, and infrastructure needed through a change in use, management, or ownership.
Projects that establish the cultural and heritage significance of places of worship where that may be at risk of loss.
Capacity-building projects that can provide broader support, advice, and guidance for owners and managers of historic religious buildings and sites.
Initiatives that bring together many organisations, faith groups, and funders to collaborate and find solutions to issues facing places of worship and heritage.
Exploring feasibility for more sustainable options for existing or new uses for places of worship.
Projects that trial different approaches to managing places of worship at an area scale.
Projects that explore the heritage of places of worship to support and contribute to the local and visitor economy at a national or regional level.

Applications for up to £250,000 can be submitted at any time and decisions are made monthly. For grants over £250,000, decisions are made on a quarterly basis by the Committee of the applicant’s nation or area or by the board of trustees (the next deadline for applications over £250,000 is 15 August 2024).

England and Wales Cricket Board - Grass Pitch Improvement Fund

The Grass Pitch Improvement Fund (GPIF) is administered by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The funding is intended to support investment into three main areas:

Improving the quality of squares and outfields (for grass pitches rated 'unsuitable' or 'basic' to improve to at least 'good').
Creating sustainable management of sites (through irrigation and machinery improvements).
Installing hybrid pitches to increase playing capacity.

The amount of grant will be determined by the ECB on a case-by-case basis.

Applications will be accepted from cricket clubs and other organisations affiliated to the ECB via their local CCB or CF, or that affiliate to the ECB nationally via the African Caribbean Cricket Association (ACCA) or National Asian Cricket Council (NACC).

In addition, the ECB, CCBs or CFs may solicit applications from state funded Schools and Further Education establishments, Local Authorities, or targeted Community Groups in support of local strategies.

Priority will be given to applications which support cricket for the following groups:

Women's and girls' cricket.
Cricket in diverse communities.
Disability cricket.
Low socio-economic groups (LSEG).

Barratt Foundation Grants Programme

Grants are available for registered and exempt charities who are working in England, Scotland or Wales to help communities thrive by focusing on children, young people and those most disadvantaged. The current funding is intended to support the following:

Promoting social inclusion, with a specific focus on young people and the most disadvantaged and excluded in society.
Promoting physical and mental health.
Education and opportunity.

Grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 are available.

Charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or Office of Scottish Charity Regulator can apply. This includes Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and exempt charities (as defined by the Charity Commission).

There are currently two application rounds per year. The second application round for 2024 is not expected to open before September 2024.

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.

To be eligible, the memorial must:

Be a public memorial
Be a structure or involve construction
Have a commemorative purpose
Be single purpose.
Be accessible to the public allowing people to visit, reflect, and pay their respects. The public must have access for at least 30 hours per week.