Deadline: 25th October 2024

Grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in Chesterfield for voluntary and community activity that improves the quality of life for local residents and increases community involvement, as part of the wider UK Shared Prosperity Fund programme. For the majority of the funding available this year (£95,000), for revenue and smaller capital projects the minimum grant is £500, and the maximum grant per application is £6,000.

• Projects must contribute to at least one of the fund's themes:
• Strengthen the sense of local pride and belonging.
• Build resilient, healthy and safe neighbourhoods.
• Reduce impact on the climate and wider environment, and promote green choices.
• Develop volunteering opportunities.
• Support work readiness and getting into work.
• Help organisations to expand their reach to different areas of the borough or new groups of people.

Grant funding can be used for both capital and revenue costs.

Capital funding can be used to purchase new assets, or the significant refurbishment of existing assets. Assets are expected to have a wider community benefit and to have an expected lifespan of at least five years.

Revenue funding can be used where there is no lasting asset. Revenue funding can be used to put on events, performances and run activities, pay for training sessions, provide practical advice and guidance etc.

Deadline: 12th November 2024 (EOI)

National Lottery Heritage Fund is offering grants of between £250,000 and £1 million for not-for-profit organisations and partnerships led by not-for-profit organisations across the UK to improve the quality of and access to historic parks and urban green spaces in towns and cities by providing them with the capacity and resources to put public green and blue and spaces at the heart of their thinking.

Through the Towns and Cities Strategic Initiative, a total of £15 million to achieve the following by 2028:

• Place access to nature recovery at the heart of local placemaking so that its benefits can be realised for health, prosperity, nature, heritage, and local pride.
• Co-create with communities and partners ambitious green space strategies and improvement plans.
• Create strong and diverse partnerships between local communities, businesses, and local authorities that focus on the role of urban green and blue space in delivering better outcomes for health, wellbeing, heritage, transport, planning, and nature.
• Develop implementation plans that will transform the way public green spaces are utilised, managed, and funded for the benefit of people and nature.

Deadline: 25th November 2024

The Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG), in partnership with Near Neighbours, is offering grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for local authorities, charities, and community groups across England to deliver projects and activities that engage with the Windrush story and Windrush communities in powerful, thoughtful, and enterprising ways.

For 2025, the focus is on bringing communities together across different ages and ethnic backgrounds to celebrate and educate their local area about the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.  

Proposals should focus on at least one of the following overarching aims of the scheme:

• To educate people about the Windrush story.
• To foster a greater sense of national pride and recognition of the historic and ongoing contributions made by the Windrush generation and their descendants to UK society.
• To develop the skills and entrepreneurial ambitions of young people.
• To celebrate and commemorate the continued contributions of the Windrush generation to the UK.

Proposed projects should achieve all of the following outcomes:

• Greater community cohesion.
• Have a lasting impact beyond the funding period.
• Increased acknowledgment of the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

Deadline: 15th December 2024

A small number of grants are available for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. A total of £60,000 is awarded annually between 20 charitable organisations.

Every three months, £15,000 will be shared between five shortlisted organisations.

Funding awarded will be based on the number of votes received by employees from John Good Group, in the following order:

• First place - £5,000
• Second place - £3,500
• Third place - £2,500
• Fourth place - £2,000
• Fifth place - £2,000

Unrestricted funds can be used for any of the organisation’s costs, including core running costs.

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 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.