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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.
Naturesave Trust
Charities, social enterprises, community groups, voluntary organisations, small grassroots groups and businesses who are working to connect their communities to nature can apply now for a grant of up to £5,000.
The funding is intended to encourage nature connection initiatives within the local community including:
- Community gardening
- Green gyms.
- Eco anxiety and mental health.
- Social prescribing.
- Arts and cultural activities.
- Access to nature.
- Nature mindfulness.
- Training a community with green skills.
- Conservation volunteering.
- Urban nature programmes.
- Community wildlife surveys
Applicants must be entirely based in the UK and have a website or social media presence.
Cycling UK - Big Bike Revival Grants Programme
Deadline: 14th July 2025
Cycling UK is offering voluntary groups and not-for-profit organisations across England grants to deliver cycling projects aimed at adults who are either not currently cycling or cycling less frequently.
Through the Big Bike Revival Programme, grants of up to £3,500 are available for groups to deliver events that use the ‘fix-learn-ride’ model to achieve the following objectives:
- Inspire and encourage the large proportion of the adult population who do not cycle, to start cycling.
- Increase the number of adults that cycle by addressing the fact that a high proportion of adults in England own cycles (42%) but are not using them.
- Increase the number of trips made by cycles by addressing the fact that adults in Britain appear to be aware of cycling and its potential for shorter journeys but have safety concerns about using it as a form of travel.
- To improve the perception of cycling safety by providing opportunities for adults to access supported cycling activities, training on how to cycle safely, and how to keep cycles in safe working order.
Events should be aimed at people returning to cycling, starting as complete beginners, and other people who do not cycle regularly. This includes reaching new people, including groups who are underrepresented in cycling or face challenges and perceived barriers to cycling.
Scottish Power Foundation - Art for Climate Fund
The Fund aims to support projects that will inspire evidence-based action for climate and to promote sustainable development, by increasing participation in the climate debate and fostering an understanding and appreciation of nature.
It is anticipated that the fund will award two grants of £100,000 over two years.
To be eligible, applicants must have:
- An active board of at least three unrelated trustees.
- Been registered with one of the UK Charity Regulators for at least three full years.
- At least three full years of published accounts that show as received on the relevant charity regulator website.
- An income of greater than £130,000 but less than £10 million.
- A bank account into which the funding is to be made that is not based in a restricted country (ie tax haven, high corruption risk or sanctioned country).
The deadline for applications is 18 July 2025 (noon).
Guidance and an online application form are available from the Scottish Power Foundation website.
Contact the Scottish Power Foundation for further information.
Derbyshire Mind’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Activity Project
Applications are now open for the third and final phase of Derbyshire Mind’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Activity Project. Funding is available to enable groups to deliver a range of physical activity and wellbeing-based sessions across Derbyshire with the aim of improving mental wellbeing.
Take a look at their website for more details and use the eligibility checker before you start your application.
Applications close 31st July 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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:
- Shout! on 22 July (13:00 to 14:00)
- Together We Begin on 30 July (14:00 to 15:00)
- Domestic Abuse Fund on 12 August (13:00 to 14:00)
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
True Colours Trust - UK Small Grants
Grants of up to £10,000 are available for registered charitable organisations with an annual income of less than £350,000 across the United Kingdom to deliver projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.
The True Colours Trust Small Grants Programme will support projects such as:
- Activities for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
- Activities which support siblings of disabled children or siblings of children with life-limiting conditions.
- Bereavement support for children and young people and families bereaved of a child.
- Family and parent-led peer support for parents of disabled children.
- Respite which supports the whole family.
Priority will be given to organisations that operate in areas of high deprivation.
Eligible costs include renovation work, upgrading, and additional equipment for hydrotherapy pools and multi-sensory rooms, minibuses, and specialised play equipment or access to play for disabled children, children with life-limiting conditions and their families.
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.
Football Foundation - Facilities Grants
The Football Foundation is a partnership charity, formed by the Premier League, the Football Association, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Sport England. On 21 March 2025, DCMS announced further funding of £82.3 million for grassroots football facilities in England for 2025/26.
The charity's aim is 'to transform lives and strengthen communities through the power of football'.
The funding is intended for smaller capital projects and the maintenance/improvement of facilities.
The following can be funded:
- Goalposts.
- Storage containers.
- Portable floodlights.
- Minor works to changing rooms and club house refurbishment.
- 3G pitch maintenance machinery and equipment.
- Improvements to grass pitch playing surfaces.
- Fencing.
- Small-sided facility improvement.
The grant size available depends on the type of investment that the club is applying for. Football Foundation support is generally of up to a maximum of £25,000.
Parkinson’s UK Physical Activity Grants
Parkinson’s UK supports activity providers, national governing bodies, Parkinson’s groups and branches, and sports and healthcare professionals who are based and operating within the UK.
For a fifth year, grants of between £500 and £3,000 are available to support physical activity projects for people with Parkinson's within the UK.
The funding is for projects that can demonstrate the following desired impact:
- People with Parkinson's become and stay active, and/or significantly increase their levels of activity if they are already active.
- More physical activity provision for everyone with Parkinson’s across the UK.
- Improved social wellbeing in people with Parkinson’s as a result of attending the project.
Priority will be given to innovative and new projects that will help people with Parkinson's:
- Become and stay active, or
- Who are already active to significantly increase their levels of physical activity.
BBC Children in Need to Pause Grant Applications for Four Months from 15 April
Groups who are planning to apply to the BBC Children in Need Core or Project grants programme will need to act quickly as the funder has announced it will be unable to accept Expressions of Interest over a four-month period, during which time it will be moving to a new grantmaking system.
Expressions of Interest will close on 15th April 2025 and are expected to reopen in mid to late September 2025.
Over the next five weeks, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations who work with disadvantaged children and young people of 18 years and under living in the UK, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands can apply for either core costs or project costs.
The maximum grant is £120,000 (or £40,000 over three years), though most grants made are for much less than this.
Chesterfield Rotary Club - Community Fund
Are you a small community organisation, group or project, based in Chesterfield, which would dearly like to do something special for local people but don’t have the money to support it?
Then take a look at Chesterfield Rotary's Community Awards Fund. This makes small donations of up to £500 where it would make a difference to a project being able to happen. Contact Paul Davies: 07753 605272, prdsmail@gmail.com or visit their website.
https://chesterfieldrotary.org.uk/community-fund/
Peak District National Park - Connect Fund Grant
Grants are available for schools, community groups and associations to help pay for the cost of a trip to visit the Peak District National Park. The grant can help with the cost of a trip to the Peak District National Park. This could include:
- Transport costs
- Learning provider fees
- Any equipment needed for the activity
- The cost of providing food to participants if this is a major barrier to their involvement.
Organisations/groups looking to deliver an event or project that is entirely focused on under-represented groups can apply. Priorities for the Connect Fund are ethnically diverse groups, groups from low-income areas, and those with disabilities.
Health Lottery Foundation
The Health Lottery Foundation recently announced it will launch a grants programme later this year that focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of people across Britain.
Non-profit-making voluntary sector organisations who are working to improve the health and wellbeing of people in their community will be able to apply for a grant to support work that addresses one of the following six themes:
- Chronic disease
- Disability inequity
- Healthcare IT
- Health disparity
- Preventative care
- Young people
The funding can be used for diverse initiatives such as emotional support services, fitness programmes for disabled people, rural healthcare access, AI health solutions, nutrition programmes and youth mentoring services. Projects addressing health inequalities and improving access to care in underserved communities will be considered.
Groups who are interested in applying can sign up to the Foundation's mailing list. Applications are expected to open later this year.
Naturesave Trust
Naturesave Trust is currently accepting applications to its Spring 2025 round.
This small, registered charity is the charitable arm of Naturesave Insurance, an ethical insurance provider, and provides funding three times a year to support specific UK-based environmental, conservation and community renewable energy projects.
The Trust offers funding for a different theme each year.
This year, grants of up to £5,000 are for projects that actively promote sustainable and eco-friendly approaches to travel and transport.
NatureSave is looking to support the following types of projects:
- Vehicles – clean fuel, batteries or both. This can include electric vehicles, hybrid power systems and fuel cells.
- Infrastructure – such as public transportation systems.
- Energy source – using renewable energy sources instead of fossil fuels like coal.
- Activity – walking, cycling or using a scooter instead of driving.
Applications are accepted from a range of UK based organisations, including charities, social enterprises, voluntary organisations, small grassroots community groups and businesses.
To be eligible, the organisation and/or project must be entirely based in the UK and have a website or social media presence.
Tesco Stronger Starts Programme
Schools and other not-for-profit organisations can apply for grants of up to £1,500 for projects and activities that help children across the UK have a stronger start in life. Priority is given to initiatives that provide food and support to young people.
These grants assist schools and organisations in offering nutritious food, healthy activities that promote physical and mental wellbeing—such as breakfast clubs or snacks—and equipment for healthy pursuits.
Every three months, three local good causes or projects are selected for the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK, with grants awarded based on the number of votes each project receives. The funding is being made available through the Tesco Stronger Starts Programme, which is managed by Groundwork across the UK.
The Fore
The Fore offers unrestricted funding to small charities across the UK that are making a big impact and who want to significantly grow, strengthen, become more efficient or resilient. The national funding programme is open to any sector and region within the UK with particular interest in grassroots organisations working with underserved communities.
Unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 spread over one to three years are available. In addition, non-financial support such as access to a network of skilled, pro-bono volunteers, online training workshops and seminars are available to successful charities for life.
The unrestricted funding can be used for any purpose, including core costs and capital funding as long as the grants will help strengthen the organisation internally and help it to take the next step forwards in its growth or sustainability.
Applications will be considered from registered charities (including those constituted as charitable trusts, charitable unincorporated associations, charitable incorporated organisations and charitable companies limited by guarantee), Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, or Community Benefit Societies and social enterprises that are charitable companies limited by guarantee or CICs limited by guarantee.
To apply for funding, organisations must first register some basic contact details at the start of the funding round. Once their place on the funding round has been confirmed by email, they have three to four weeks to submit an application. Only organisations that have registered with the Fore and are allocated a place may submit an application for the specific funding round.
The Spring 2025 round will open at 12pm (midday) on 4 December 2024 and close at 12pm (midday) on 11 December 2024.
Royal Countryside Fund - Supporting Rural Communities
The new Supporting Rural Communities grant programme will open to applications from across the UK on 10 January 2025.
The Royal Countryside Fund has announced that this ‘new differentiated funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives across the UK, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities’. The aim is to support innovative solutions that will ‘power up, not prop up’ communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy.
Not-for-profit community organisations with an income of less than £500,000 a year can apply for grants of up to £25,000 over a period of 24 months to deliver activities along the themes of:
- Keeping young people in the countryside
- Powering up rural communities
- Increasing environmental sustainability
- Building emergency resilience in rural areas.
Support will be focused on isolated rural areas where the activity is required due to a lack of alternative services. Projects must be community led and show that they actively listen to, understand and respond to the needs of their local community.
The funding is for communities to create tangible change. This could be a project that generates a new income stream for the local community, or the delivery of training to develop skills opportunities for young people. It could also be activities to increase community awareness and engagement in the local environment, or an initiative to bring the community together to plan for the impacts of climate change.
A webinar for prospective applicants will be held on 17 December 2024 (18:00). Registration is required and can be done on Zoom.
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.
Energy Resilience Fund
Charities and social enterprises that are looking to install energy-saving measures or generation technology to buildings/land (including new builds), and/or to purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment can apply now for a blended funding package of loan and grant to improve their energy resilience.
They may need this support for many different reasons, for example, reduced carbon emissions, energy cost savings, upgrading energy efficiency ratings to meet future regulations, increased use or comfort of buildings, replacing older vehicles and equipment with modern energy efficient versions.
Funding of £25,000 to £250,000 is available via a blend of grants (40%) and loans (60%). The loan repayment term is one to ten years. Loans have a 2.5% arrangement fee and an interest rate of 8.5% fixed per annum. Loans will generally be provided unsecured.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts Fund
Grants are available to support the core costs of not-for-profit cultural organisations working at the intersection of art and social change within the UK. The Fund provides long-term, core funding to organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change so they can continue the work they are already doing and for programmes which are central to their mission.
The Arts Fund supports organisations to do the following:
- Build capacity and resources for culture within historically underfunded communities
- Explore the role that artists can play in addressing issues of social justice
- Create the infrastructure for a more equitable cultural sector.
The support is for not-for-profit cultural organisations who:
- Use their creative practice to help us engage with the complexity of the world around us.
- Centre the lived experience of those affected by injustice in their programmes, leadership and governance.
- Are exploring how values of care, equity and justice can be embedded in their own organisational culture.
- Have a clear sense of their own role in supporting change as part of a wider ecosystem.
- Are generous with their learning and working with other organisations towards mutual aims.
- Use their creative practice to challenge traditional cultural hierarchies of genre and art form.
The Arts Fund supports the long-term development and transformation of these organisations as a route towards social justice and sustainability. Grants of between £90,000 and £300,000 for activity lasting up to three years.
One Stop Community Partnership Programme
Community groups and other not for profit organisations within a two mile radius of a One Stop shop can apply for grants of up to £1,000 through the One Stop Community Partnership programme. The programme, administered by the environmental charity Groundwork, is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and which are;
- Tackling food poverty
- Supporting the vulnerable
- Supporting the elderly
- Supporting low-income families
- Supporting local sports teams
- Improving the local environment
- Reducing Waste in the community.
Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund
The Department of Health and Social Care is currently running a £1 million match funded Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund, aimed at increasing the number of AEDs in public places where they are most needed and to help save lives.
All types of organisations may apply.
To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be based in England.
- Not be an organisation that is eligible for the Department of Education scheme, eg, a school or an academy.
- Locate the secure defibrillator on an external wall in an area that is accessible to members of the public 24 hours per day. (The equipment must be installed and registered on The Circuit within 4 weeks).
- Be able to provide an electrical power source to ensure the defibrillator cabinet light and heater operate to keep the device at the right temperature
- Provide match funding for their application (c. £750).
The funding is based on a 'first come first served basis'.
Applications will be accepted until all the funding has been allocated.
There are about 400 units left, and it is expected that the scheme will close to applications within four to six weeks from 1 November 2024 (by the end of November or mid December 2024) though it could be sooner.
B&Q Foundation
B&Q Foundation offers grants to charities who are using the funds to provide, maintain, repair or improve housing or community space. A wide range of UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply for one-off grants of up to £5,000 for garden projects or up to £10,000 for building or indoor projects.
The funding is for registered charities working with people most in need because of homelessness, financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage.
Charities can use the grants to decorate, renovate or create spaces (indoors and outdoors) with the aim of making people feel at home and having a sense of belonging. Projects could include creating community gardens, redecorating properties, installing new boilers, and creating new buildings or rooms. The funding will cover the full cost for the completion of the project, including staff time required.
Please note CICs and unregistered community groups are not eligible for this funding.