Funding
Our 2023 State of the Sector Report told us that 75% of organisations in Tower Hamlets see funding as the biggest challenge they face. At Tower Hamlets CVS we are trying to address that need by providing information and supporting voluntary and community groups with their funding search. Below is a list of current funding opportunities.
We also offer a free funding search – simply complete this simple form and we will get back to you with a short list of relevant funders. This should save you time, and one of our experienced team will then offer you more support with preparing and reviewing your bids. If you already have a bid that you would like support with please email us on info@thcvs.org.uk.
You can also check Tower Hamlets Council’s website for information about current funding opportunities.
Funds with deadlines:
Home Instead Charities
Home Instead Charities awards grants of up to £1,500 to small, local registered charities and up to £500 to grassroots organisations with projects that further the needs of our ageing adult population through well-being activities and programmes to prevent social isolation and loneliness.
Most of your group members must be over 55 years old or the project you are requesting funding for must benefit people aged over 55. Types of fundable projects include:
- 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 your group such as a local historian.
Applications from groups, associations and charities that do not service the over 50s directly but the project they require funding for does, i.e. a local school wishes to hold a special afternoon tea for its local care home residents will also be considered.
Deadline: Applications can be received four times per year in January, April, July and October.
NEW EDI FUND from SNG – ConnectED Communities
The ConnectED Communities Fund supports local groups in creating inclusive, diverse, and cohesive communities by offering grants of £300 – £2,000 to projects that promote equality, challenge inequality, and celebrate diversity. Priority is given to smaller grassroots groups (income under £250,000), those led by or involving lived experience, or those serving marginalized groups such as ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, and gender-specific groups.
Funding focuses on activities that strengthen community cohesion, support social inclusion, provide mental health and wellbeing initiatives, and raise awareness of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) through events, workshops, and cultural celebrations.
Deadline: Monday, 23 February 2026.
7Stars Foundation
The7stars foundation awards grants to charities supporting young people, aged 18 years and under, across the UK. Its grants aim to further the potential and opportunity of children and young people who are surviving abuse, at risk of or experiencing homelessness, caring for a loved one, and challenged by addiction (either personally or through a member of their family).
The Foundation’s current areas of focus are Addiction, Abuse, Homelessness, Child Carers.
Funding amount: Up to £2,500 for project funding. The Foundation also fully funds apprenticeships through its Apprenticeships grant funding stream.
Upcoming application windows are:
- 1 March and 30 April for June 2026 funding review
- 1 June to 31 August for October 2026 funding review.
Community Grant Programme – Canary Wharf Group
Wellbeing projects addressing loneliness and mental health and targeting communities most impacted, eg older people aged 65+ and adults with disabilities.
The Canary Wharf Group are working with The East End Community Foundation (EECF) to deliver the programme. EECF have been working in the East End for over 35 years, they are a trusted grant maker, supporting groups to make lasting impact, with simple and transparent processes. Working together with their donors to build stronger communities, tackle hardship and create opportunities where they are needed most.
The programme is centred around three key themes: Education, Skills and Employment, and Wellbeing and is open to all not-for-profit organisations operating in and benefitting the residents of Tower Hamlets.
Deadline: Round one closes at noon on Monday 2 March at 12 noon (midday).
Active Spaces Fund | London Marathon Foundation
Grants of £10K to £80K (incl. for capital projects) are available for not-for-profit groups, local authorities and statutory bodies for projects which for projects that will improve and activate spaces, places and facilities in London to help the least active children and young people and marginalised groups and communities to lead active and healthy lives.
Deadlines: 25 March 2026 / 16 July 2026
Our Space Award
The Our Space Award (OSA) helps Londoners improve and green their local spaces through community engagement, funding projects that plant trees, boost biodiversity, enhance water quality, promote climate education, and reduce social isolation. Supporting people of all ages and backgrounds across Greater London, OSA encourages volunteering, rewilding, habitat creation, and sustainable practices, fostering civic pride and giving communities a greater sense of ownership over their shared spaces.
Deadline: Midday on Monday 16 March 2026.
North London Forensic Collaborative (NLFC) small grants programme
North London Forensic Collaborative (NLFC) is offering a small grant programme to voluntary sector, faith, and grassroot organisations as part of its aspiration to build relationships and work together to tackle inequalities and improve quality outcomes for forensic service users.
Grants range from £500 to £4,999. For projects supporting employment pathways – including work-based placements or training leading to jobs – larger grants of up to £9,999 are available.
Grants can be used for any project that will improve health and wellbeing, promote recovery and inclusion, and enhance quality of life for people who use inpatient and community mental health forensic services.
Deadline: on a rolling basis until March 2026, or until all funds are spent.
Veolia Environmental Trust
Veolia Environmental Trust awards grants towards projects that improve community facilities and the natural environment. It looks to fund work that:
- Promotes community action and wellbeing
- Is inclusive and accessible to everyone and anyone to use
- Inspires the creation of a sustainable carbon neutral community space
- Protects and enhances biodiversity and natural habitats.
The Community Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations. Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available to create or improve buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
The Habitat and Biodiversity Grant Scheme is available to constituted not-for-profit organisations. Minimum grants of £10,000 are available for improvements to or the creation of natural habitats, creating a healthy environment where native species can thrive.
The upcoming closing dates are:
- 2 April 2026 at 12.00pm
- 25 June 2026 at 12.00pm.
AB Charitable Trust (ABCT) – Migrants and Refugees
AB Charitable Trust fund organisations working in their priority areas. They support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people.
AB Charitable Trust fund small to medium sized organisations who work in these priority areas:
- The Human Rights framework.
- Access to justice.
- The criminal legal system and justice reform.
- Migrants and refugees
The Grants Committee meets four times a year to decide upon grant applications. The application deadlines for meetings in 2025/26 are as follows:
Next Deadline:
- 24 April 2026 for decisions in July 2026.
- 31st July 2026 for decisions in October 2026.
Free Support for Tower Hamlets VCS organisations: Apply Now
The Social Value Grant offers free, practical support to small VCS organisations in Tower Hamlets – helping you stretch your budget and deliver more for your community.
Support is donated by contractors working with the council and can include things like laptops, venue hire, help with events, mentoring, or paying for accreditations. To apply, your organisation must:
- Be based in Tower Hamlets.
- Have had an income of less than £100,000 in the previous financial year.
- Meet other eligibility criteria (listed on the website)
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so you can apply at any time.
If you’re unsure whether your organisation qualifies or want to talk through an idea, contact vcs@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Allen Lane Foundation – Asylum Seekers and Refugees Grant
The Allen Lane Foundation award funding for charitable purposes across the UK. Their focus is on funding specific groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination. They aim to fund work within each of their funding programmes which:
- Will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems.
- Is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination.
- Encourages or enables groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination to share in the life of the whole community.
Their programmes include:
- Female asylum seekers & refugees
- Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities
- Offenders & ex-offenders
- Older people
- People affected by violence or abuse
- People with mental health issues
- Young People
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
ASDA Empowering Local Communities Grant
As an independent charitable foundation funded by Asda, The Asda Foundation supports the small, grassroots groups at the heart of their communities. They work closely with In-store Asda Community Champions to understand the needs of the people living and working locally in the communities surrounding Asda stores and fund vital community projects. The grant categories are as follows:
- The empowering local communities grant.
- Under 18 better starts grant.
- Cost of living grant.
- Investing in spaces and places grant.
- Foodbank fundamentals grant.
- Colleague Match Funding for Local Causes.
- Colleague Hardship Programme.
- Local community emergency donations.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Barchester’s Charitable Foundation
Grants of up to £2600 are available for small local groups and small local charities to improve the quality of life and combat loneliness in older people as well as adults with a physical or mental disability in England, Scotland, and Wales.
It takes us up to 10 weeks to process an application.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Barclays Community Football Fund
In partnership with Sported, the Barclays Community Football Fund is providing grants, training, and exclusive ticketing offers to make football more accessible in communities across the UK.The Barclays Community Football Fund is helping to reduce inequalities in football by supporting community sports groups who need it most. The programme focuses on groups operating in areas of high deprivation and supporting young people from the following underrepresented groups: women and girls, racially diverse communities, young people with disabilities, from the LGBTQ+ community, and from lower socio economic areas.
Community sports groups can apply to receive:
- £1000 Access Grants to spend on increasing underrepresented young people’s access to play.
- Up to £5000 Deep Impact grants available for existing fund recipients.
- Coaching grants to get more women qualified to coach girls’ football at a grassroots level.
- Access to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training and resources.
- Exclusive opportunities to apply for Premier League and Barclays FA Women’s Super League tickets, mascot opportunities and exclusive promotional experiences.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
BBC Children in Need – Emergency Essentials Programme
BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing. All applications must be made by a registered referrer.
Who can they help?
- Children and young people up to and including the age of 17 who are experiencing a crisis or emergency and live in the UK
- They can only accept one application per household within a 12 month period
They can deliver or fund critical items such as:
- Cookers
- Furniture
- Kitchen equipment and small appliances
- Children’s beds and bedding (including cots)
- Washing machines and tumble dryers
- Fridges, freezers and fridge-freezers
- Baby equipment
- Clothing for an emergency/crisis
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Bernard Sunley Foundation – Capital Projects Funding
Grants are available to charities, specialist schools, Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIOs), and other not-for-profit organisations including scout and guide groups, and housing associations, that are working to raise the quality of life for people in England and Wales.
The Bernard Sunley Foundation aims to provide greater opportunities for the young, elderly, disabled, and disadvantaged
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
BlueSpark foundation
BlueSpark Foundation supports the education and development of children and young people by providing grants for educational, cultural, sporting and other projects.
Financial pressures on school and community budgets mean that many worthwhile projects which would help the education and development of children and young people may not get off the ground simply because of the absence of funding.
BlueSpark fund projects which might not happen at all or would only happen on a lesser scale without their support. Most projects are likely to be initiated or undertaken by schools, colleges or community groups. However, individuals may also apply for a grant.
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis at 8 week intervals.
The CLA Charitable Trust
The CLA Charitable Trust support charitable organisations that access the benefits of the countryside to pursue the health and wellbeing of people and to provide opportunities for education about the countryside in England and Wales.
Priority areas: Children and young people, disadvantaged financially, physically, mentally, or from areas of deprivation.
Who can apply: Small and medium sized charities and not for profit organisations such as CIC’s with clear social purpose based in England and Wales, who have not been in receipt of a grant from CLACT in the previous three years and have a current safeguarding policy.
What they fund: Applications for running costs, project works and capital works. Evidence of need should be demonstrated.
The CLA Charitable Trust make one-off grants and applicants can reapply after three-years. Occasionally, multi-year funding may be awarded at the discretion of the trustees.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
The Clothworkers’ Foundation
The Clothworkers’ Foundations Open Grants Programme accepts applications from UK registered charities or not-for-profits and who meet their eligibility criteria, for funding towards capital projects. The work of the organisation must fit within one or more of our specified programme areas:
- Communities experiencing racial inequalities.
- Disabilities (including mental health and visual impairment.
- Domestic and sexual abuse.
- Economic disadvantage.
- Homelessness.
- LGBT+ communities.
- Older people facing disadvantage.
- Young people facing disadvantage.
- Prison and rehabilitation.
- Substance misuse and addiction.
They award grants to UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools). Grants are awarded towards capital projects, which we define as:
- Buildings: purchase, construction, renovation or refurbishment.
- Fittings, Fixtures, and Equipment: this includes but is not limited to office equipment/furniture, sports/gym equipment, digital/audio visual equipment, software and websites (more guidance on digital infrastructure can be found here), garden equipment, specialist therapeutic (excluding medical) equipment. It does not include equipment for one-off use, or which will be given to service users for personal use on a permanent basis.
- Vehicles: This includes (but is not exclusive to) minibuses, cars, caravans, people carriers, 4×4 and boats. They are unlikely to fund the total cost of a new vehicle or award funding to an organisation that already owns a large number of vehicles. They do not provide grants towards vehicle leasing or award funding to organisations whose core activity is community transport.
The Clothworkers’ Foundation fund both large and small projects. The size of grant awarded will depend on a number of factors including the size of your organisation and the cost and scale of your capital project.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Communities for Children
Communities for Children is a new, £15 million funding programme dedicated to tackling rising child poverty in the UK. The initiative is being co-funded by BBC Children in Need, The National Lottery Community Fund, City Bridge Foundation, Pears Foundation and The Hunter Foundation.
This is the first major funder collaboration in the UK focused on finding and funding scalable solutions to support the impact of poverty on children.
Unlike traditional funding programmes, Communities for Children will not be open for general applications. Instead, Communities for Children will work with local communities to identify lead organisations and partners. The programme aims to challenge stigma, inspire change and share learnings across the broader sector, creating conditions in which children and young people can thrive – now and in the future.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Grants
The Esmée Fairbairn foundation make unrestricted, core, project, and delegated grants for charitable work in the UK. Grants from £30,000 to £1,000,000 are available.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation funds charities and social enterprises, and supports work that focuses on The Arts, Children and Young People, Environment, Food and Social Change. Funding is targeted at larger organisations, with a turnover of over £100,000. This fund supports core costs.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Family Fund – Helping disabled children
Funded by the Department for Education and managed by Family Fund, the Support for Families with Disabled Children (SFDC) programme provides a wide range of grant items to families in England raising a disabled or seriously ill child or young person, and living on a low-income.Grants are provided for a wide range of items, such as washing machines, sensory toys, family breaks, bedding, tablets, furniture, outdoor play equipment, clothing and computers.
The Foyle Foundation – Small Grants Scheme
The Foyle Foundation awards funding in three main areas:
- Arts and learning charities predominantly via the Main Grants Scheme.
- Small charities of all descriptions (with a turnover of less than £150K per annum) via the Small Grants Scheme (grants between £2K and £10K)
- State funded schools predominantly via the Foyle School Library Scheme (grants between £2K and £10K)
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Good Things Foundation: National Databank
The National Databank provides free mobile data, texts and calls to people in need via Good Things Foundation’s network of local community partners. Think of it like a ‘food bank’ but for internet connectivity data. Community organisations can apply to access the databank, enabling them to provide data to people in their communities who need it.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Grand Plan: Cultural & Creative Grants for people of colour
Grants of £1,000 are available to support people of colour in the UK to develop and deliver a wide range of creative and cultural projects. The funding is made available by the Grand Plan, which awards ten grants every two months to support projects for which £1,000 would make a huge difference, ranging from poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, and photographs to workshops or events. It can cover the cost of equipment, courses, your time, materials, travel, whatever your project needs.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Hargreaves Foundation: Transforming young lives through sport and education
The Hargreaves Foundation is a grant-making charitable foundation with funding available for projects that give under-18s, those living with a mental health condition, disability, or growing up in poverty, the opportunity to fulfil their potential, improving wellbeing, self-esteem and independence.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Hodge Foundation supports charities:
- Working with people who may be vulnerable or disadvantaged and who need assistance to improve their lives. This includes a variety of causes and groups including the elderly, homeless, disabled, special needs and those with mental health issues.
- In education and learning, both within formal school settings and practical approaches to learning which support young people to fulfil their potential and thrive including those with special needs. The Foundation continues to support arts projects for education that encourage and inspire audiences across the UK and bring a range of benefits to people of all ages and backgrounds.
- Medical related charities specialising in the treatment and support for specific illnesses and research. The main focus has been on local hospices, children’s care and university-based research in the fields of cancer and mental health.
- Providing funds towards projects such as facilities in church buildings and inclusive activities for the wider community.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
John Ellerman Foundation
The John Ellerman Foundation gives money to UK charities that make between £100,000 and £10m. Funding is available to charities that focus on the arts, environment, and social action. The grants it gives are usually between £10,000 and £50,000 each year, for up to three years.
The foundation’s goal is to make people, society, and the natural world better by giving money.
Eligibility: UK Registered Charities.
Funding amount: Between £10,000 and £50,000 per year, for up to three years.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
King Charles III Charitable Fund
The Fund is primarily a grant making organisation, running both ‘large’ and ‘small’ grants programmes. The Trustees oversee all grant making, awarding grants across six funding themes.
The Fund has invested more than £100 million in charitable causes in the UK and overseas. Grants are awarded to a wide range of good causes across our funding themes: Environment, Countryside, Social Inclusion, Health and Wellbeing, Heritage and Conservation and Education.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Masonic Charitable Foundation
The Masonic Charitable Foundation is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales. Our Charity Grants programme is open to registered charities in England and Wales working with any of their four main priority groups:
Early Years.
Domestic Abuse.
.Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
Dementia (paused and closed to new applications).
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Mercers Company – Older people and Housing
Grants of up to £120K are available to not-for-profit organisations for projects that support older people to lead a healthy and connected life in London.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Morrisons Grant Funding
The Morrisons Foundation supports registered charities making a positive difference in local communities across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Grants are available for up to £10,000 for capital spend or direct project delivery.
The Morrisons Foundation prioritises applications from small charities, those with an income of less than £1m, but applications from larger charities are welcome.
National Lottery Awards for All
Social connections and community activities are at the heart of creating healthier, happier lives and a flourishing society. That’s why National Lottery Awards for All England support amazing community-led projects. They offer funding from £300 to £20,000. And can support your project for up to two years. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.
National Lottery Awards for All can fund projects that’ll do at least one of these things:
- Bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities
- Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage - Support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.
Application deadline: Ongoing. Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
National Lottery Community Fund – the UK Fund
The UK Fund offers larger amounts of funding to help you develop work that’s already making a difference. To get funding you’ll need to show what’s working, how you know it’s having a proven impact, and why it’s ready to scale. We do not fund brand-new projects or services. Your work should also benefit communities across the UK, by working in different places or sharing learning between countries.
Your project should go beyond delivering a service. It should help change how systems work, leading to lasting benefits for communities.
Your project must clearly meet one of the following aims:
- Improve relationships between people with different life experiences.
- Help people and communities meaningfully connect online when it’s hard to meet in person.
- Support people from all backgrounds to influence the future of their communities.
- Help children and young people facing specific challenges to change the systems that affect them.
- Help more organisations to involve and listen to children and young people.
The National Lottery Community Fund particularly welcome projects that are led by and for disabled people.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Decisions made in 36 weeks.
National Lottery Grants for Heritage
Is this the right programme for you?
- Is your organisation looking to care for and sustain heritage in the UK?
- Will your heritage project run for no more than five years?
- Do you require a grant of between £10,000 and £250,000?
- Are you a not-for-profit organisation, a private owner of a heritage asset or a partnership?
- Does your project take into account our four investment principles?
If you answered yes to these questions, then National Lottery Heritage Grants could be for you.
Four investment principles guide all grant decision making under National Lottery Heritage Grants 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033:
- saving heritage
- protecting the environment
- inclusion, access and participation
- organisational sustainability
You must take all four principles into account in your application. The strength of focus, and emphasis on each principle, is for you to decide and demonstrate.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Newby Trust – Education Grants
The Newby Trust funds local, regional or national charities registered and operating in the UK within the broad categories of education, health and social welfare. Through the Education programme, the Trust provides grants to enable people to benefit from educational opportunities and to support excellence.
Eligibility: The Trust is more likely to fund smaller or medium-sized charities with an annual income of less than £1,000,000.
Funding amount: Grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 are available
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
One Housing Community Fund
Do you run a community group or any small organisation that supports One Housing or Riverside residents? One Housing Community fund has made £275,000 available in 2023/24 through their new Community Fund (small and large grant programmes) to help fund projects that promote opportunities and wellbeing and tackle poverty in our communities.
If you’ve got an idea that could make a difference, they want to hear from you.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts-based Learning Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Migration Fund
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation are a small charity making a big difference in your local community to the lives of older people and other adults with a disability or mental health conditions. We help individuals, small community groups and small local charities.
The Migration Funds focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation supports applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged.
They help individuals, but please note that all applications for named individuals must be completed by a third party who knows the individual in a professional or community-based capacity.
We help individuals with:
- Manual and powered wheelchairs
- Mobility scooters
- Specialised trikes / ebikes / bikes
- Car adaptations
Grants for individuals range from £100 up to £1,000.
They also help small community groups and small local charities.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation help groups with:
- Activity projects
- Equipment and materials for use by members
- Member transport
- Day trips, outings and group holidays in the UK
Grants for groups range from £100 up to £2,500.
It takes us up to 10 weeks to process an application.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Percy Bilton Charity
Assistance is given to organisations and individuals in need throughout the U.K.
Charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items).
Social Workers, Community Psychiatric Nurses and Occupational Therapists within Local Authorities or NHS Trusts may apply on behalf of individuals in financial need who have a disability or severe mental health problem, or who are over 65 on low income, for basic household items including white goods, single beds, flooring and clothing vouchers.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Portal Trust
As an independent grant making trust, the Portal Trust funding enables charities and education providers to help young Londoners fulfil their potential. Beneficiaries of your project must:
– Be under the age of 25
– Come from low income or disadvantaged backgrounds and
– Permanently live in one of our named inner London boroughs.*
Your project must also address at least one of our six stated grant making priorities.
The Portal Trust don’t have a minimum or maximum grant amount that can be applied for. Sometimes they fund projects in their entirety, while other times they support a proportion of a project’s costs and look for match funding. It is recommended that applicants look through their list of recent grants to better understand the types of projects they support.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Rayne Foundation – Children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing
The Rayne Foundation focus on projects that offer mental health and wellbeing support to children and young people and their families/carers in challenging circumstances and where there is a lack of help.
They fund work that:
- Supports early childhood (0-5 years including the perinatal period) with family/carer interventions that aim to reduce the impact of early childhood trauma.
- Supports children and young people who are care experienced* , on the edge of care**, or leaving care, with interventions that prioritise improved mental health and well-being.
Applications for creative and artistic approaches to achieving progress in this priority area are also strongly encouraged.
Deadline: Ongoing.
A typical grant application takes 4-6 months to complete.
Screwfix Foundation- Grants
The Screwfix Foundation is passionate about making a difference to communities across the UK. Screwfix Foundation aims to support projects that improve, repair and maintain homes and community facilities used by those in need throughout the UK. Screwfix Foundation is offering grants of up to the region of £5,000. Registered charity or not for profit organisations can apply. The types of projects Screwfix supports include: to improve energy efficient lighting and heating, installation of new kitchen, bathroom, etc, installation of a sensory room, general painting and decorating, and improving safety and security of a building,
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Applications are reviewed on a quarterly basis – the review dates are in March, June, September and December.
The Solidarity Fund
This funding is for organisations in England that are taking action on the root causes of inequality, such as poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.
The National Lottery Community Fund want to support and strengthen work that aims to create lasting change, led or shaped by people with lived experience. They’re looking for work that can grow and continue over the long term.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The 7Stars Foundation – Shine Bright Funding
Grants are targeted to further the potential and opportunity of children and young people who are surviving abuse, at risk of or experiencing homelessness, caring for a loved one, and challenged by addiction (either personally or through a member of their family).
All of the programmes look to support young people experiencing challenges related to these funding priorities. The 7Stars Foundation will always look to promote happiness and a feeling of safety amongst the children the charities look after – reminding them that they are cared for and not alone.
The trustees meet four times a year to review grant applications and to make grant awards.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Skipton Charitable Foundation
Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation aims to improve the wellbeing, welfare and education of children and adults in communities throughout the UK by making donations of up to £6,000 to registered charities whose purpose is to:
- Benefit children and adults particularly those living in socially deprived areas, through education to develop core skills and support wellbeing and mental health.
- Benefit the wellbeing and welfare of children and adults by preventing or reducing poverty and homelessness in the community.
- Support the elderly and improve their wellbeing by reducing isolation, helping reduce the effects of Dementia and Alzheimer’s and support later life/palliative care.
The trustees meet quarterly: at the beginning of March, June, September and December. Submission deadlines for each meeting can be found here.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Sport England – Movement Fund
Sport England fund projects and organisations, small and large, that help people get more people active. Every penny they spend ties into their vision that everyone in England should feel able to take part in sport and physical activity.
The Movement Fund provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and support to help projects that get more people active. If you’re eligible and your project aligns with their goals, you could receive up to £15,000 to cover a wide range of costs and items that will help deliver positive change in your community.
If you have an idea to tackle inequalities and help get more people active, they want to hear from you.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Victoria Wood Foundation
Established in memory of the celebrated comedian Victoria Wood, the Victoria Wood Foundation fosters Arts initiatives throughout the United Kingdom. Their funding prioritises arts projects in London and the North of England.
Eligibility: Arts organisations and groups are invited to submit funding applications for consideration by the Foundation’s trustees, who convene twice annually in July and December. To ensure timely review, applications should be received at least two weeks before the relevant meeting date.
Funding amount: Grants of up to £5,000.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Westfield East Bank – Creative Futures Fund
This five-year programme aims to invest £10 million into the local communities of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. This project will provide new jobs, learning, training and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative place making.
The programme aims to transform and catalyse the lives and careers of people in East London by putting funding, resources and support straight into local people’s hands. Capital Grant Scheme has a pot of £100,000. Proposals will be accepted from £3,000 upwards.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.