Deadline: 14th August 2024 (12 noon)

Up to £5,000 per year to approximately 100 community based organisations each year. Open to UK registered non-profit organisations with income of less than £1 million. Grants up to £5,000 per year for up to 3 years. Each round will have 2 themes, which might include the environment, countryside, education, social inclusion, heritage and conservation, and health and well being. 

Deadline: 16th August 2024

To support the incredible work that so many charities do to support the climate and environment, the Benefact Group have announced the fourth special draw of the year which will award £5,000 to 10 charities working in this area.  This special draw is open to charities whose core charitable purpose is to protect and conserve the natural environment and/or combat climate factors such as preventing global temperature increase.  Ten winning charities will be drawn to win £5,000 each during the week beginning August 19th and announced on August 23rd. The nomination window opens next week for five days only – Monday 12th to Friday 16th Aug.

Deadline: 23rd August 2024

The McCarthy Stone Foundation offers grants to community organisations for projects to improve the health and wellbeing of older people over the age of 65 years in Great Britain, particularly in areas of deprivation.

Community organisations, registered charities and other groups (including CICs limited by guarantee) working in England, Scotland or Wales with an annual income of less than £250,000, a governing document and a registered bank account may apply now to the Autumn 2024 round.

Organisations must be working with adults over 65 years of age and providing direct person-centred interventions (eg, befriending) or group-based social activity to address loneliness and isolation in deprived areas.

Applications from all areas that can demonstrate a local level of need will be considered. However, priority will be given to applications from specified locations with a key focus on areas where income deprivation and loneliness affecting older people is most acute. 

Grants of £7,500 are available for either core costs or projects. Projects must provide either direct person-centred interventions to alleviate loneliness or group-based activity to address social isolation.

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.

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.

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.