Deadline: 15th September 2024

Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations operating in an area of high deprivation to support delivery of their football activities to engage with young people from underrepresented groups.

This is an access grant which aims to help improve access to football for all. The funding is for groups that are running football activities for one or more of the following underrepresented groups: women and girls, young people with disabilities, young people from racially diverse communities, young people from the LGBTQ+ community and young people from lower socio-economic groups.

Typical examples of costs might include a contribution towards:

• Venue hire including floodlights and heating.
• Coaching costs
• Volunteer expenses
• Equipment
• Kit
• Marketing and communications
• Training and qualifications
• Insurances and affiliation

Please note it is anticipated that the fund will be 'extremely popular' and thus applications may close earlier than the deadline. Groups should apply early to avoid disappointment.

Deadline: 1st October 2024

Grants are available to 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.  

Two levels of funding are available:

• Major grants – £5,001 to £30,000.
• Small grants – up to £5,000.

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.

Deadline: 3rd October 2024

Veolia Environmental Trust is offering grants to constituted, not-for-profit organisations, local authorities, and environmental bodies enrolled with ENTRUST to support projects that make improvements to community facilities and the natural environment in communities located near qualifying Veolia sites across England.

The Trust is looking for projects that:

• Protect and enhance biodiversity and natural habitats.
• Inspire the creation of a sustainable carbon-neutral space.
• Promote community action and well-being.
• Are inclusive and accessible to everyone and anyone to use.

The following grants are available:

• Community Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for capital improvement/construction projects at a single site, such as community buildings and spaces, outdoor spaces, play and recreational spaces, or installing fixed items such as kitchen cupboards and work surfaces.
• Habitat and Biodiversity Grants between £10,000 and £75,000 for projects resulting in structural improvements for a single habitat that will conserve, restore, and enhance threatened habitats and protect/increase biodiversity.
• Environmental Improvement Grants start at £75,000 for ambitious and imaginative projects that will make a local, regional, national, and global impact on the environment by protecting and expanding threatened habitats and increasing biodiversity.

Deadline: 8th October 2024

The Motability Foundation is a national charity that has been supporting the travel needs of disabled people across the UK since 1977.

It currently does this through its grant programme which supports disabled people through other charities and organisations who provide transport, help to access it, or research how to make transport accessible. 

The Foundation is providing £50 million in funding this year through its six grants programmes:

• Active Travel grants of £400,000 to £4 million for projects which expand access to quality and affordable travel equipment and journeys, and ensure disabled people have the same opportunities to make decisions about how they travel in the UK.
• Community Transport grants of £100,000 to £4 million for projects which develop, expand and improve community transport options for disabled people in the UK.
• Reducing Barriers to Driving grants of £100,000 to £2 million for projects which improve and expand private transport options for disabled people and their families in the UK.
• Research grants of £50,000 to £1 million to undertake research to help better understand the problems that disabled people face in the transport system and to how they can be solved.
• Travel with Confidence grants of £100,000 to £1.5 million for projects which develop, expand and improve confidence in making journeys and active travel for disabled people.
• Wheelchair Sector Grant Programme grants of £100,000 to £4 million for projects which make immediate impact for disabled people, by improving and expanding their access to good quality wheelchairs in the UK.

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 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.