Funding Opportunities

The Forbes Foundation provides financial support to children, and their families, who are in need, by reason of ill health, disability, and/or financial hardship within England and Wales but predominantly the North of England, by providing facilities, equipment and monetary grants.

How they can help

Support comes in many different shapes and sizes. For example it could be:

• a financial contribution to much needed treatment
• to provide life changing facilities to aid walking
• to provide people with lots of helping hands to decorate a new room or create a sensory garden
• to support talented and gifted children where financial hardship may be a barrier to maximising their potential.

For a copy of the Foundation’s Request Form and to see if they can help, please get in touch.

Providing vital funds for clubs across the UK for a decade

Cash4Clubs is a sports funding scheme, giving clubs a unique chance to apply for grants to improve facilities, buy new equipment, gain qualifications and invest in the sustainability of their organisation.

The Cash 4 Clubs scheme has given out sports grants to many deserving recipients and is committed to funding even more sports clubs in the future. With awards of £500 and £1000 available, Cash 4 Clubs gives away real money that can help your club.

The Cash 4 Clubs scheme is funded by Paddy Power Betfair and is supported by SportsAid, the charity for sports people.

For more information go to Cash4Clubs

Deadline 23rd September

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ‘celebrating involvement in healthcare’ community grants scheme is now open for applications.

Grants of up to £2500 are available to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to showcase how they have been involving patients, service users and the public in improving health services.

You can read the guidance as an online pdf here

You can apply online here

Deadlines 4^th September and 7^th January

The Hinrichsen Foundation is a charity mainly devoted to the promotion of new music.

It was founded in 1976 by Mrs Carla Eddy Hinrichsen to ensure the continuation of the tradition of supporting contemporary music established by the Hinrichsen family as the proprietors of Edition Peters the music publishers, established more than 200 years ago in the German city of Leipzig.

Until 2010 the Hinrichsen Foundation was the beneficial shareholder of Peters Edition Limited, London. Since the amalgamation of the post-war branches of Edition Peters in 2011, the Hinrichsen Foundation has been a major shareholder in the company, and its income derives from the company’s profits.

For more information go to the Foundation’s website

Deadline 31^st August

Funding applications are welcome from clubs, community groups and regions with an active interest in wider canoeing participation.

Online funding applications are typically expected to be in the range from £2,000 to £20,000. Grant payments are in arrears, on a direct payment, or pass-through basis.

For more information go to the Foundation’s website

Deadline  28^th February

The directors are particularly interested in supporting the following areas of charitable work:

• Medical research
• Care of the elderly
• General welfare
• Hospices
• The Deaf and Blind
• Care of the physically & mentally disabled
• The Armed Forces

If you are a charity working in any of these fields and would like to request financial assistance, please read their Application Guidelines.

Directors’ Meetings are held in April and October each year.  Applications must be received by the end of February or the end of August to be sure of consideration at the Spring or Autumn Meetings.

For more information go to the Inman Charity website

Next deadline 3^rd February 2020

Creative United’s Prosper North Programme aims are to improve the capabilities of around 80 cultural heritage organisations in the North of England– from music venues to community art groups, and independent museums to literature festivals – to increase income and impact, becoming more resilient businesses.

Between May 2019 and May 2021, 3 cohorts of participants will benefit from a series of free workshops on subjects such as business modelling, social investment and change management, and one-to-one business advice.

The application deadline for the next edition is 3 February 2020.

For more information go to Creative United’s website

Deadline 4th September 2019

Funding is available from Comic Relief for a minimum of 12 to a maximum of 15 months. They will fund investments from £50k up to £250k

Comic Relief believes women and girls should have equal power and agency in decision-making at all levels.  One of the ways in which they have been working towards this vision is through funding organisations working to end gender-based violence.

For more information and to apply go to Comic Relief

Deadline 23^rd September

The GSK IMPACT Awards provide funding, training and development for charities doing excellent work to improve people’s health and wellbeing. They are funded by GSK and managed in partnership with The King’s Fund. The awards are open to registered charities that are at least three years old, working in a health-related field in the UK, with a total annual income of between £80,000 and £2.5 million.

2020 GSK IMPACT Awards are now open for applications

For more information, and to apply, go to the King’s Fund website