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Rewilding Britain - Rewilding Innovation Fund

This fund aims to foster new and ambitious community rewilding projects, and to remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. Funding will be awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.

Grants of up to £15,000 are available. It is expected that most awards will be less than £10,000.

To apply for funding, projects must be:

Based in Britain
Part of the Rewilding Network (includes community, private and public landowners, and managers of rewilding areas on the land and at sea).
Rewilding at scale (more than 40 hectares) according to Rewilding Britain’s rewilding principles. This can be an individual landholding or a cluster of landholdings. It is recommended that applicants who are rewilding on a smaller scale form a group or network to apply.

Local groups and networks can also apply for any innovative projects that will help to upscale rewilding.

Previously unsuccessful applicants can reapply for funding in this round.

The deadline for applications is 29 August 2025.

There is a two-stage application process:

Applicants should first become a Rewilding Network member through the online portal on the Rewilding Britain website.
Applicants can then submit an online application form. Shortlisted projects will be invited to pitch their project to the steering group in a 10-minute online presentation.

Guidance notes are available from the Rewilding Britain website.

Lloyds Bank Foundation

Deaf and Disabled people's organisations fund

This programme is for small and local charities and CICs with an income between £25,000 to £500,000 that are led by and working with Deaf and Disabled people who are experiencing poverty. Organisations can apply for a three-year unrestricted grant of £75,000.

Deadline 4th September 2025

Funding to Support Social and Criminal Justice Projects in the UK

The Charles Hayward Foundation supports projects which help to prevent people entering the criminal justice system, and which support those in contact with the system to rebuild their lives.

UK registered charities with an annual income of between £350,000 and £4 million can apply for grants of between £15,000 and £25,000 per year over one to three years.

The funding is for projects that address the following:

Targeted early intervention programmes aimed at reaching the most troubled and vulnerable families in a community.
Tailored preventative and diversionary projects for young people at risk of offending, including interventions identifying and addressing the particular needs of girls and young women.
Programmes combining prison-based and community interventions dealing with the rehabilitation of offenders, accommodation and support on release, maintaining family relationships, mentoring, and creating pathways to employment.
Schemes offering viable alternatives to custody, in particular for women and young people.
Programmes of support that alleviate the consequences of domestic abuse.

The trustees look for projects which:

Address multiple and complex needs with a range of appropriate interventions.
Are tailored to individual needs and local situations involving families and communities; these can be designed and delivered in partnership.
Are of appropriate duration and intensity, have a clear rationale, and are properly monitored and evaluated.
Have a plan for the future, including an ‘exit strategy’.

The Foundation is also open to creative and specialist approaches and trialling new solutions. There is a two-stage application process. This year, there are three deadlines for Stage 1 applications. Applications are currently being accepted for the third round of 2025. The deadline for Stage 1 applications is 19 September 2025.

Heritage Revival Fund

Grants are available for charities and social enterprises in England seeking to take ownership of and/or adapt historic buildings in town centres for community uses. The funding is intended to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.

The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs.

The Heritage Revival Fund aims to:

Maximise the regeneration benefits of community ownership and control of heritage assets, assisting in making communities fit for the future.
Protect, enhance and safeguard historic buildings across England, offering viable new uses for disused and underutilised properties.
Build capacity within local community groups, social enterprise, and charities.
Pilot innovative, alternative uses, ownership structures and investment models to facilitate long term regeneration.
Maximise the positive social and economic impacts around restoring historic buildings.

Grants of between £5,000 and £350,000 are available.

Deadline: 29th September 2025

Memorial Grant Scheme

Grants are available to help with VAT on the construction, repair and maintenance of public memorial structures in the UK for work which took place on or after 16 March 2005.

The funding is intended to cover the costs of VAT already paid. The maximum grant available is the full rate of VAT (20% of project costs).

Applications will be accepted from registered charities and faith groups excepted from registering as a charity to help with the cost of works like repairing and cleaning public memorials or installing a new memorial.

The memorial can commemorate a person/people, an animal/s or event/s.

The funding can only be provided for works that have already taken place. It cannot be used for future works. Part-funding is available for ongoing work for parts of the work which have been completed.

Deadline 30th September 2025

Peak District National Park Foundation: Community Nature Fund

Our Community Nature Fund supports community projects that are focused on creating, increasing or improving spaces for nature. Projects could include wildflower meadows, hedgerows, trees, ponds, community orchards or other nature projects.

What does the grant cover?

Grants between £500 and £5000 are available towards capital expenditure.
You can apply for landscape features (such as trees and ponds), built items (e.g. fencing) and equipment and tools to deliver the outcomes in your application. If your project involves planting trees or other plants, we expect these to be appropriate native species unless there is a clear reason for doing something different.
You must be able to show how the costs you are applying for will contribute to supporting biodiversity and/or improving access to nature for people in your community.
Grants cannot be used to pay for your organisation’s general running costs, work already undertaken, recoverable VAT or costs associated with fulfilling a statutory obligation or planning consent.

Derbyshire Environmental Trust

The Derbyshire Environmental Trust (DET) is once again inviting applications to its funding scheme in 2025/26. This year the Trust has a minimum of £40,000 available for distribution to projects. The maximum award is £20,000 and the minimum £2,500.

As in the last few years consideration will be given to environmental impact / carbon reduction and energy efficiency; with a preference not to support projects reliant on fossil fuels where alternatives are an option, and to take note of the level of deprivation in the area of the project.

In addition, the Trust wishes to focus on community led projects which will improve environmental sustainability and the Trust is particularly seeking community led projects including schemes that address environmental sustainability, biodiversity, and green energy generation.

Other examples of the type of project that would be eligible include the provisions of the fund include the maintenance and repair of: children’s play areas, skate parks, Multi Use Games Areas, sports fields and other recreational facilities, nature reserves, footpaths/bridleways, community outdoor spaces and centres/village halls.

The closing date for applications is 6 October 2025.

For further information: Contact Sarah Walton at the Derbyshire Environmental Trust for an application pack: Tel. 01629 539182 or email: sarah.walton@derbyshire.gov.uk

7stars Foundation

The foundation makes grants to projects which support young people (18 years and under) who are challenged by abuse or addiction, who are young carers, or who are homeless/without a safe place to call home.

Project grants of up to £2,500 are available.

Social Impact grants of up to £1,500 are available.

Applications will be considered from organisations that require funding in the areas of:

Abuse
Addiction
Child carers
Homelessness

Organisations must have a turnover of under £1.5 million and be supporting young people aged 18 years and under.

The funding rounds are as follows:

1 December to 5 February for a March funding review.
1 March to 30 April for a June funding review.
1 July to 31 August for an October funding review.

Guidance notes and an online application form are available from the 7stars foundation website.

Contact the 7stars foundation for more information.

Biffa Award Main Grants Scheme – Community Buildings

The Biffa Award Community Buildings theme aims to improve buildings at the heart of their communities, such as village halls, community centres and church halls, which are within five miles of a significant Biffa Operation or within 10 miles if an active Biffa Landfill site with the aim of encouraging and enhancing community involvement.

Grants of between £10,000 and £75,000 are available.

Total project costs or its phases must not exceed £200,000 including VAT.

Standalone elements of a wider project costing less than £200,000 are also excluded

Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations in England and Northern Ireland.

To be eligible, organisations must:

Be fully constituted, charitable or not-for-profit with no share capital.
Be applying for a project site located within five miles of a significant Biffa operation or 10 miles of an active Biffa Landfill site.
Be applying for a project site located within 10 miles of a licensed landfill site.
Have a project site open for a minimum of 104 days of full public access to the project per year.
Own the project site or have signed a lease agreement with the landowner of more than 10 years.
Be eligible for enrolment and registration with the scheme's regulator ENTRUST.

Applications for projects in places of worship must show that they serve the wider community, similar to a village hall or community centre attracting significant wider weekly group use. Priority is given to projects that demonstrate a wider community benefit and need. It is expected that buildings will be used by many groups regularly each week, benefiting people of different ages and demographics.

Applications for projects in a sporting clubhouse should apply under the Recreation theme.

Applicants should check their project location's eligibility using Biffa Awards Postcode Checker, which can be found on the Awards website.

There is a two stage application process.

The first stage is to submit an Expression of Interest which are accepted on a rolling basis. There are no deadlines for Expressions of Interest. Notification of decisions are usually within five days.
The second stage is to submit a full application. This is by invitation only to those organisations with a successful Expression of Interest. This must be completed within six weeks of the invitation being made. Full applications are considered for times a year (in February, May, July and November). Applications will go to the next available meeting so there are no restrictions on when to apply. Groups may wait for up to six months to hear the outcome of their application.

Guidance notes, FAQs and the online form are available from the Biffa Award website.

Biffa Award will only accept a maximum of two full applications per financial year from any one organisation and only one application per organisation will be considered at any Board meeting.

Contact Biffa Award Team for further information.

NLCF’s Climate Action Fund’s Our Shared Future – Now Open Until ‘Late 2025’

The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) £30 million ‘Climate Action Fund – Our Shared Values’ was due to close at the end of May 2025. NLCF has announced that it will now accept applications until ‘late 2025’ and will ‘share the final deadline ‘soon’.

The funding is for formal partnership working across sectors, led by community and voluntary organisations or public sector organisations for projects that reach more people by either:

Linking climate action to the everyday lives and interests of local communities and inspiring them to take action.
Influencing communities at a regional or national level, for example by linking up groups across locations, or a campaign that inspires change across one country, or the whole UK.

The funding is intended to reach people who are new to climate action by funding other types of organisations and by using other using people's everyday activities and interests as a starting point for climate action.

For example, a project might:

Involve people who have not had a say. This could be because they are new to climate action, or because they come from communities that experience poverty, disadvantage and discrimination.
Introduce a climate perspective to a group who came together around another interest or activity.
Test the best ways to engage different audiences in climate action.
Spread an exciting local approach to climate action by sharing it nationally.

There is particular interest in projects that involve people, places and communities experiencing poverty, discrimination and disadvantage.

A total of up to 25 projects is expected to be funded. The minimum grant is £500,000. It is expected that most grants will be between £1 million and £1.5 million over three to five years.

Leek Building Society Charitable Foundation

Leek United Building Society Charitable supports local schemes and good causes across Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire. The Foundation’s primary purpose is to provide grants and donations that will have a positive impact on the lives of disadvantaged or vulnerable people in our communities.

The Foundation will consider your application if:

Your charity/community organisation is based in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire.
You are applying for a grant no more than £5,000.
You don’t need to be a member of the Society to apply for funding.

The Foundation welcome applications from organisations who are working towards:

The prevention or relief of poverty
The provision of welfare advice
The advancement of community facilities including the development of green spaces
The provision of healthy food to vulnerable and disadvantaged people
The development of digital inclusion
The support of local people attempting to return to employment

Mansfield Building Society Community Support Scheme

Our Community Support Scheme was launched in early 2008 and is designed to help a wide range of groups that do their bit to help local people.

The Community Support Scheme exists to benefit people in our Heartland (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) by providing funding to charitable and community groups, whose aim is to provide activities and projects in the following categories:

Promoting and supporting health and wellbeing
Promoting and encouraging participation in the arts
Promoting and supporting youth activities
Benefiting the environment

Applications for funding are considered by a panel that includes two independent members, usually three times a year.

Henry Smith Charity Announces New 5-Year Strategy

The Henry Smith Charity, now known as the Henry Smith Foundation, has published its new strategy, Elevate Your Impact (2025-2030) which ‘reaffirms its commitment to the people and organisations driving change across the UK’.

Over the next five years, the Foundation will focus on supporting people facing some of life’s toughest transitions.

It will offer flexible, long-term funding through its new funding programmes:

Together We Begin – Getting Started – will fund in-home, face-to-face support for families with young children. The funding is for organisations that strengthen parenting, build parental confidence, and improve early child development; helping families feel connected, supported, and better able to navigate local services and opportunities.
Shout! - Building independence - Helping young people move into adulthood with confidence, skills and hope. The funding will support advocacy services helping care-experienced, LGBT+, neurodivergent or learning-disabled young people speak up, make informed choices, and secure their rights.
Domestic Abuse Fund - Safer futures - Supporting people to rebuild their lives after abuse, displacement or prison. The funding is for ‘led by and for’ organisations providing specialist domestic abuse services. The Foundation will fund deep, consistent, person-centred services designed around the needs of people from marginalised communities who have experienced domestic abuse.

In addition, there is also the new Opportunity Fund to support early-stage ideas, test bold approaches, strengthen leadership and boost inclusion across the sector. The Foundation is starting with a proactive invitation-led approach, backing organisations to take strategic risks and share learning that can drive wider change.

The Foundation will provide further details during the following webinars:

Registration is required.

The full strategy is available to read on the Henry Smith Foundation's website. The specific details of the new funding programmes will be published as soon as they become available.

John Ellerman Foundation Publishes New 5-Year Strategy

The Foundation has published its new strategy, A Time for Bold Transitions (2025-2030), which aims ‘to respond to this age of significant disruption and interconnected global threats’ and it has ‘re-committed’ to its aim to advance wellbeing for people, society and the natural world.

The Foundation has dispensed with funding categories and will now focus on funding charitable organisations that at their core are committed to ensuring the rights of people, society and the natural world for current and future generations.

In order to be considered for funding, organisations will need to demonstrate ‘that intrinsic to their approach’ they are:

• Changemaking organisations that understand their role within existing and/or new systems and have a clear strategy for how and why they intend to make change.

• Committed to advancing justice through the active involvement of individuals and communities with personal or direct experience of the issues.

And they will need to share how their work relates to at least one of the following:

• Tackling the triple planetary crisis by mitigating and adapting to climate impacts, reducing pollution, and protecting and restoring nature.

• Building greater trust and connection, reducing polarisation within society and increasing the levels of participation and influence in the political process.

• Promoting the development and adoption of economic models and systems that support people and planet, and reduce wealth inequalities.

• Advancing equity and justice for marginalised communities impacted by these issues.

Grants of up to a maximum of £60,000 per year are available with a maximum of £180,000 up to five years and will support core costs, including (but not limited to):

• Staff salaries, training and expenses.

• Day-to-day running costs and operations.

• Monitoring and evaluation, including research.

• Communications and digital innovation.

Applications will be considered from registered, excepted or exempt charities who are doing work that has a national footprint or a wide reach, such as working in more than one country, region or county.

Eligible organisations will be UK based registered charities with an annual income of between £100,000 and £10 million. Consideration may be given to a company limited by guarantee, including CICs, with an asset lock or as a fiscally hosted organisation.

The Foundation will be running weekly Q&A sessions from 25 June to 12 August. Details can be found on the Foundation's website 'apply for funding' page

There is a two stage application process. The first step is to submit a proposal describing what the organisation is seeking funding for. Applications can be submitted at any time.

Funding to Repair, Reuse and Recycle Consumer Electricals in the UK

Material Focus, an independent not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to stop electricals from being hoarded and thrown away, is offering grants to support projects that make it easier for the public to repair, reuse or recycle their consumer electricals.

Projects should either:

Expand existing collection methods for small electricals.
Trial new approaches to repairing, reusing and/or recycling electricals.

A total of £750,000 is available for 2025/26 with grants of up to:

£100,000 (per applicant) for projects to expand collection methods for small electricals. Organisations can apply up to £0.50 per household receiving the service.
£50,000 per project to trial new approaches to repairing, reusing and/or recycling electricals. Applications above £50,000 may be considered if the project demonstrates significant impact (in terms of households covered and/or projected tonnes/items collected) and longevity.

Projects should be at least a year long.

A range of registered organisations can apply, including charities, local authorities, waste partnerships, private waste contractors, other private companies, and compliance schemes.

Material Focus will provide successful applicants with project management support.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

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Fat Beehive Foundation

What we fund

The Fat Beehive Foundation awards small grants of up to £2,500 to help charities improve their digital presence.

We support UK-based charities with an annual turnover of under £1 million, offering funding for a wide range of digital projects. Whether that’s building a new website, developing online resources, or improving digital accessibility, our aim is to help you reach more people, raise more funds and deliver more impact.

Elise Pilkington Charitable Trust

The objectives of the Trust are:

To prevent cruelty to equine animals, to relieve suffering and distress amongst such equine animals, to care for and protect such equine animals including live horses being transported country to country for butchery if such animals are in need of care and protection by reason of sickness, maltreatment, poor circumstances or similar causes

To provide social services for help for the relief of the aged and infirm.

Jerwood Foundation

Jerwood Foundation supports excellence and emerging talent in the arts in the UK and welcomes funding applications from organisations.

The King’s Fund

GSK IMPACT Awards

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2026 GSK IMPACT Awards and GSK Community Health programme, funded by GSK and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund.

For charities with income between £150,000 and £3 million

The GSK IMPACT Awards provide funding, training and development for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing.  Now in their 29th year, they are open to registered charities that are at least three years’ old, working in a health-related field in the UK.

The GSK IMPACT Awards are judged by a prestigious panel of judges and provide national recognition for the winning charities. Up to 15 awards will be made, ranging from £4,000 to £50,000. In addition, the training and development is valued at a further £13,500. Organisations will also receive help with press and publicity, be given a set of promotional materials and receive pro bono offers from GSK.

Covenant Fund

Family Focus Programme 2025/26

Family Focus programme offers grants of between £50,000 and £100,000 to fund projects that explore and pilot solutions for family members-collectively and as individuals of wounded, injured and sick serving personnel or veterans.

King Charles III Charitable Fund - Small Grants

The scheme provides small grants to support independent UK registered non-for-profit organisations for grassroots, community-based projects that fall within its core funding themes:

Heritage and conservation.
Education
Health and wellbeing.
Social inclusion.
Environment
Countryside

Grants of up to £3,000 are available per year for three years. The total cost of the project should not exceed £50,000. Approximately 100 community-based organisations are awarded grants each year.

The Different Foundation - AI for All

The funding is intended to promote access and opportunity for members of underrepresented and diverse communities in AI innovation. It supports organisations committed to diversity in technology.

The current focus is addressing digital bias, elevating diverse voices, and developing AI that works for everyone.

The programme offers:

One-off grants of up to £2,500.

Four hours of specialised mentorship with respected leaders in AI. This mentorship provides practical guidance to enhance impact, improve programme delivery, and strengthen organisational capabilities.

Woodroffe Benton Foundation - Small Grants Programme

The Foundation aims to support charitable projects in the UK that provide care for the sick and elderly, conserve and improve the environment, promote education, and help those in need as a result of disaster or as a consequence of social and economic circumstances.

The focus of the August 2025 round is on projects that improve the quality of life and social engagement for people with severe physical and/or learning disabilities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

One-off grants of between £500 and £2,500 are available.

The National Lottery Community Fund

The National Lottery Community Fund has a range of funding programmes.

Have a look and see if one suits your needs.

Severn Trent Community Fund!

We’re celebrating 5 amazing years of Severn Trent Community Fund!

Severn Trent Community Fund Flyer

And what a journey it’s been! We’re so excited to share our 5th Severn Trent Community Fund annual review, packed with highlights from another incredible year of supporting our local communities. Last year, we awarded £2.02 million to 113 fantastic projects and charities in the Severn Trent region, benefiting almost 600,000 Severn Trent customers between them.

This review is a celebration of the people, the passion, and the positive impact that has been achieved.

Looking ahead

The great news is we’re here to stay! For the next five years, we’ll focus equally on core and new project funding to meet our customers’ needs. As always, we’ll be focusing on reaching the communities most in need of our support, so any help you can give in getting the word out is hugely appreciated.

We have our review and Facebook video, celebrating the awardees, that you can use to easily share the opportunity with your networks. Together, we can keep making a real difference where it matters most. Thank you for being part of this journey—here’s to many more years of making a difference!

For more information on our Community Fund please visit stwater.co.uk/communityfund or reach out to the team at communityfund@severntrent.co.uk. 

The Anchor Foundation

Supporting Christian Charities concerned with social inclusion, particularly through ministries of healing and the arts.

The Radcliffe Trust

The Radcliffe Trust is one of Britain’s oldest charities, founded in 1714 by the will of Dr John Radcliffe.

Today, The Radcliffe Trust continues his charitable bequest through the support of Music and Heritage & Crafts.

Charles Hayward Foundation

Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable trust that funds UK registered charities.

Grants

We fund projects in four categories: Social & Criminal Justice, Overseas, Heritage & Conservation, and Older People.

The True Colours Trust

This programme is designed to support excellent local organisations and projects that work with:

disabled children and young people;
children and young people with life-limiting conditions;
and their families.

It provides grants of up to £10,000, although many grants are smaller than this.

The programme is open to applications at any time. We aim to respond to your application with a final decision within twelve weeks.

Veolia Trust

We award grants towards projects that make improvements to community facilities and the natural environment.

Active Derbyshire And Active Notts

Funding News - July 2025

The Pixel Fund

Our aim is to support improvement in mental health by providing grants to charities registered and operating solely in the UK and involved in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

Although we understand the necessity of securing core funding for charities, we wish, if possible, to target our grant-giving to specific projects that will provide a measurable difference to a charity’s users.

Government to ‘Unlock’ £440m from Dormant Assets to Benefit Communities in England

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published its Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy and announced £440 million that would otherwise be sitting idle is going to be ‘unlocked’ to benefit communities across England.

The Dormant Assets scheme redirects money from long-unused financial accounts to social causes. To date, over £750 million worth of dormant assets has been allocated to good causes (youth, financial inclusion and social investment wholesalers) across England, and has been delivered by four independent, expert organisations: Better Society Capital, Access - The Foundation for Social Investment, Fair4All Finance and Youth Futures Foundation.

The current amount (£440 million) will be distributed as follows:

£132.5 million for young people with funding going to services, facilities and opportunities to provide them with the skills and resources needed to succeed.
£132.5 million for financial inclusion and education, equipping individuals with the tools and knowledge to build financial security.
£87.5 million for social investment to strengthen the financial resilience of the voluntary sector. This programme of work will be delivered by Access - The Foundation for Social Investment.
£12 million is to be used to catalyse social investment opportunities for Black and Ethnically Minoritised communities via the Pathway Fund.
At least £12.5 million is to enable organisations that support improved youth outcomes to build resilience and expand their impact.
£87.5 million for community wealth funds, which will empower local people to make decisions about their communities, creating stronger neighbourhoods. This funding will be delivered by The National Lottery Community Fund who are also contributing an additional £87.5 million of Lottery funding to the programme. Further details on this new initiative are expected to be shortly.

Any funding opportunities to which groups can apply directly will be reported when the information becomes available.

In the meantime, groups that would like to read the full Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy can find it on GOV.UK.

Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy

Sport England – Movement Fund

Grants and other resources are available for community groups, local sports clubs and grassroots organisations across England with ideas of how to tackle inequalities and help get more people active. There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as:

People living on low incomes.
Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions.
Older people.
People from culturally diverse communities.
Pregnant women and parents with very young children.
Girls aged 5-16.
LGBTQ+ people.
People who are in foster care.People who provide care without pay.

Grants of between £300 and £15,000 are available.

Home Instead Charities

Founded by Home Instead, the UK’s leading provider of home care, Home Instead Charities’ mission is to end loneliness for ageing adults. The organisation exists to bring happiness and joy into the lives of Britain’s ageing population so that ageing adults are thriving, not just surviving.

To this end, they offer funding to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities.

There are two levels of funding:

Grants of up to £500 for small grass roots organisations.
Grants of up to £1,500 for small local registered charities. Larger grants can be considered for exceptional projects.

The funder will only fully fund a grant request where the applicant holds no more than three months operating costs in reserve. For organisations that have more than this, up to 50% of the project costs will be funded.

The grants can be used for:

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 the group such as a local historian.

National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities

The National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) announced that from 1 April 2025, the Reaching Communities programme has new priorities which will help the funder to deliver its missions and create fairer, stronger, more resilient futures for communities across England. Projects must achieve one of the NLCF missions, which are to support communities to:

Come together, by

Providing inclusive places, spaces and activities (either physical or virtual). Especially for communities where people are least able to come together.

Help children and young people thrive, by

Developing positive social and emotional skills.
Providing safe spaces and relationships they can trust.
Involving them, and their families, in the decisions that affect their lives.
Helping prevent issues before they happen.

Be healthier, by

Supporting people most affected by health inequalities.
Supporting people who've experienced health inequalities to influence the health system.
Helping prevent issues before they happen.

Be environmentally sustainable by:

Empowering people to engage with climate issues and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. Or,
Taking part in activities to make a positive environmental impact. Like reducing carbon emissions or creating space for wildlife. Or,
Helping communities to have access to nature. By increasing the amount and quality of natural space for wildlife. Meaning that people can experience nature around them, and that more varieties of wildlife can thrive.

Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation

This charitable foundation offers a limited number of grants to registered charities in England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Republic of Ireland as well as to eligible Roman Catholic Dioceses and Roman Catholic charities in these countries.

The funding is for charitable projects that are based in and for the benefit of people living in England, Wales, the Isle of Man or Republic of Ireland.

To be eligible, projects need to address one or more of the current funding priorities:

Victims of modern slavery.
Victims of domestic abuse.
Ex-offenders and their families.
Homelessness.
Medical research.
Support for people with terminal illnesses / life limiting. conditions and their carers.
Drug and substance misuse.
Support for people with intellectual disability.
Care leavers: to give them a chance to succeed on a par with other young people.
Worship and associated community outreach.
Amateur sport.
Care for the elderly.

Funding is at the discretion of the Trustees. Previous grants have ranged from £5,000 to £2.25 million.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Barchester Healthcare Foundation is offering grants of up to £2,500 for small community groups and local charities across England, Scotland, and Wales for projects that help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities, and generally improve mobility and quality of life for older people and adults with physical, learning, or mental disabilities.

Funding is intended to help small community groups and local charities with the following:

Activities.
Equipment and materials for use by members.
Member transport.
Day trips, outings, and group holidays in the UK.

Priority will be given to innovative projects that help older people and those with a disability to get active, meet people, and reduce isolation.

Funding is for small and local groups, and groups with financial reserves of over £150,000 are unlikely to receive support.