Funds with deadlines:
The Toy Trust offers grants of up to £4,000 to small registered charities in the UK and Ireland that support disadvantaged children under 13. Charities must have an annual income below £500,000 and have been running for at least one year. Funding is available for equipment and services that help relieve hardship, but not for salaries, general running costs or research. Applicants must meet financial requirements, including keeping administration and overhead costs below 30% of income, and provide signed accounts for the last two years, a trustee report and a safeguarding policy.
The next deadline is in mid-November, for the December meeting. The Trust does not publish an exact date, so apply early.
Click here to find out more and apply.
Skin Like Mine’s Community Activate Fund, delivered by One Voice Network as part of the London HIV Prevention Programme, offers 10 grants of up to £3,000 to support Black-led and Black-community-rooted groups and grassroots organisations across London. The fund supports community-led activities that bring people together to talk about health, wellbeing and sexual health, while raising awareness of HIV prevention, encouraging testing and helping people access support and services. It particularly welcomes creative ideas from groups with strong links to Black communities, including those working in areas such as mental health, sport, culture, young people, families, faith and the arts. One Voice Network will provide guidance and support to help groups include HIV prevention in ways that are relevant to their communities.
Deadline: 27 November 2026 @6pm.
Click here to find out more and apply.
The Merchant Taylors’ Foundation is inviting applications from registered charities working in Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Lewisham and Southwark. Funding is available for charities supporting people experiencing disadvantage due to age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or similar challenges.
Organisations can apply for single or multi-year grants, with restricted or unrestricted funding available. For more information, email
ypick@merchant-taylors.co.uk.
Deadline: Monday 30 November @5pm.
Click here to find out more and apply.
Not necessarily music-related! Grants up to £5,000 are available for charities supporting vulnerable people facing hardship, distress, illness or poverty. The Wise Music Foundation provides flexible funding, with typical awards around £1,500, to support practical projects that improve quality of life.
Who can apply: Registered charities with an annual turnover of up to £500,000.
What is funded: Projects supporting vulnerable groups including children, homeless people, older people, disabled people and those experiencing hardship. The Foundation also supports education, arts and culture, health, food banks and wider charitable initiatives.
Deadline: Monday 30 November 2026.
Click here to find out more and apply.
Grants of up to £40,000 for feasibility studies, £100,000 for project development and £3 million for capital projects. Supports community-owned clean energy projects, including solar, wind and energy storage, across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Deadline: 12 November 2026.
Click here to find out more and apply.
Innovate now is a grant and capacity-building programme supporting UK-based, Black-led initiatives that help Black and Mixed Black heritage people pursue and progress in research careers. Funded by Wellcome and delivered by Do it Now Now, the programme offers grants of £13,000 – £48,000 over two to three years, alongside tailored support to strengthen governance, leadership, financial resilience and long-term sustainability. Eligible initiatives can be registered or unregistered and must have annual income of no more than £150,000. Funding can support activities including mentoring, peer networks, training, community engagement, research support and advocacy.
Application deadline: Round 2 is currently open and closes on 27 November 2026.
Click here to find out more and apply.
The Young People Climate fund is now open for applications, offering grants of £1,000 to £3,000 for youth-led climate projects across London, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. The fund will support up to 12 organisations working with children and young people on projects focused on either Youth Involvement in Local Systems Change or Building Climate-Resilient Communities. This year’s programme places a stronger emphasis on youth leadership, including the development of a Youth Climate Action Network and training opportunities for emerging young leaders.
Deadline: Monday 30 November @5pm.
Grants of up to £10,000 are available to UK charities and not-for-profits working in health, lifelong learning and social care. Priorities include supporting people affected by cancer in disadvantaged communities, helping young people into employment, and supporting young survivors of sexual abuse and trauma. Projects promoting diversity, equality and inclusion are also encouraged.
Deadlines:
Round 2: 30 November @5pm.
Round 3: 1 March 2027 @5pm.
Round 4: 1 June 2027 @5pm.
Click here to find out more and apply.
The Wolfson Foundation provides capital grants to charities and organisations working in mental health, with grants typically ranging from £40,000 to £75,000. Funding can support new buildings, refurbishment and equipment for projects focused on areas including training, employment and supported housing. Applications are accepted through a rolling, two-stage programme.
Round 1: Stage 1 Opens: 20 November / Deadline: 5 January.
Click here to find out more and apply.
Small UK registered charities with an income under £100,000 can apply for flexible grants of £1,000 to £5,000. The money can be spent on project costs, running costs or essential overheads, as long as the work directly benefits people or community groups in the UK. The funder supports work in three areas:
- Relief: helping people in crisis.
- Change: tackling the root causes of problems.
- Strength: building your organisation, for example your finances, people or systems.
Work that is only campaigning or lobbying is not funded. There are two rounds a year, closing at the end of February and the end of September. You can apply at any time, and late applications go into the next round. Decisions are made within about eight weeks of a round closing.
Deadline: End of February 2027 (spring round).
Click here to find out more and apply.
The Vinehill Trust makes grants to charitable, educational and ecclesiastical organisations across the United Kingdom
in three areas of special interest.
Grants typically between £10,000 and £100,000 for projects improving access to essential healthcare for vulnerable and underserved communities. Funding can support rehabilitation, health-related green spaces and dental health outreach.
Deadline: 30 June 2027.
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.
Click here to find out more and apply.
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.
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:
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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:
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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 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.
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 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 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’ 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 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.
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.
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Foyle Foundation awards funding in three main areas:
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Find out more and apply.
National Lottery Heritage Grants funds projects that connect people and communities to the national, regional and local heritage of the UK. Grants from £10,000 to £250,000 are available.
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.
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.
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.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation support arts and cultural organisations to work in partnership with schools and make arts-based learning a core part of education.
Amount: £30,000 to £300,000; up to £100,000 per year
Duration: 1 to 4 years
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
