Funding Opportunities

Deadline 6^th December

The Feeding Communities Grant has been designed to help provide meals to anyone in need in the lead up to Christmas. With more local and national lockdowns in place and changes anticipated in the coming weeks, supporting those with food provision is needed more than ever. Communities are struggling, charities are feeling the pressure, Asda Foundation is providing support. Meals can be provided for individuals, families, meals at children’s healthy holiday clubs.

Applications are made via the group’s local Asda Store’s Community Champion.

Grants of up to £1,000 are available.

The grant can contribute to meals which cost £4.00 or lower.

For more information go to the Asda Foundation

Grants are available to smaller community-led groups that support people at the margins of society in the UK, encouraging independence, inclusion and integration.

Tudor makes grants, and provides other types of support, to voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. They particularly want to help smaller, community-led organisations that work directly with people who are at the margins of society: organisations that support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities.

There is no maximum or minimum level of grant, although it is unusual for a grant of less than £10,000 to be made. Grants are usually for one, two or three years.

For more information go to the Trust’s website

Whilst the Foundation does occasionally make donations to the health and social care sectors, it should be noted that the majority of its support is directed towards the cultural sector, and in particular to cultural learning and to museum, gallery, heritage and performing arts learning spaces. Support for enhancing Jewish life has largely been directed towards JW3: London’s Jewish Community Centre.

Applications are reviewed and rejected on an ongoing basis, although all successful grants can only be awarded at meetings of the Trustees. These are held twice a year, usually in June and December. Grants range from £10,000 to in excess of £1m, although larger grants are made infrequently. The majority of expenditure is for capital projects – only a small number of grants are made each year for programme funding.

Please note that organisations must be registered charities to be eligible for the Main Grants Programme, with the exception of local authority cultural organisations. Every year the Foundation receives many more requests than can ever be granted, and like most grant-making organisations, has to turn down many of the applications received. Applicants are therefore encouraged to apply to multiple funding sources, and not just to this Foundation.

You can find more information here

The UK Youth Fund – Covid Relief has been created to support youth organisations who have not had access to the crisis funding they require to survive the Covid pandemic. Youth organisations with an income of under £250,000, that are based in, and deliver their work in England are eligible to apply for up to £50,000

You can find full information here

Deadline 27^th November

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has £4.98 million funding for 2021 to 2024 to allocate to voluntary and community sector organisations to help them provide advice and support to HMRC customers who need extra help understanding and complying with their tax obligations and claiming their entitlements, including those who are digitally excluded.

HMRC is looking for voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations to help customers to form or rebuild a relationship with HMRC that enables them to engage directly with HMRC in the future.

For more information go to the Government website

Next round opens 25^th November

This fund is for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups and organisations, working to deliver COVID-19 services in England.

This grants programme is designed to help tackle the disproportionate impact of COVID 19 on BAME communities.

The grants programme has three sections:

1. Delivering COVID 19 services. Groups can apply for help with current costs, if their funding has been affected by the pandemic.
2. Delivering mental health and well-being services, particularly to those who have been further impacted by COVID 19
3. Delivering sports activities to tackle BAME inequalities and help with the impact of COVID 19 including well-being initiatives

This programme is open to all BAME led community groups and organisations, working primarily with BAME communities. In this context, BAME includes white minority communities other than white British e.g. Polish, Lithuanian etc., as well as communities that are Black, Asian, Chinese, African and Middle Eastern etc. Eligible groups must be not-for-profit, or with a clearly ethical main purpose.

More information here

Grants for organisations to widen and deepen participation in the arts.

The Access and Participation Fund addresses inequalities of opportunity to access and participate in the arts. The Foundation believes in the power of the arts as a force for change and one that enriches people’s lives and communities.

This scheme is aimed at supporting change in the way the arts are created, presented, accessed and experienced so that a wider and more diverse group of people have access to quality artistic practice, both as audiences and participants.

For more information go to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Grants to support work which enables pupils in formal education settings, particularly those experiencing systemic inequality or disadvantage, to thrive through engagement with high quality, arts-based learning.

The Foundation’s funding is focused on six priorities (five in the UK and one in India) where it wishes to see change. These are detailed in the Foundation’s current UK Strategy.

The five priorities for the UK are:

• Investing in young people
• Migration and integration
• Arts access and participation
• Education and learning through the arts
• Nurturing ideas and people

For more information go to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Deadline 16th November

Grants from the Peter Sowerby Foundation are available for smaller charities working within the areas of community, environment and the arts to reinvent their face to face service delivery through means other than digital as a result of the impact of COVID-19.

There are three separate streams of funding:

• Digital Health Breakthrough Grants for large charities in the area of innovation and transformation in health and social care.
• Digital Good Causes Grants for smaller charities working within the areas of community, environment and the arts to transform or adapt their services digitally.
• Adapted Good Causes Grants for smaller charities working within the areas of community, environment and the arts to pilot and test new services in response to COVID-19.

Applications will be accepted from charities with a maximum turnover of £1 million. Preference, however, will be given to smaller organisations with a turnover of around £500,000.

Applicants should be working within the area of community, environment and the arts. This includes organisations working with significantly hard to reach groups, such as those who are homeless, older people, or arts organisations that require face to face interaction and where programmes or activities need to be redesigned or reshaped.

For more information go to the Foundation’s website