Funding

The Return to Play: Small Grants fund seeks to support projects addressing the challenges coronavirus (Covid-19) has posed to people taking part in sport and physical activity. A total of £10 million is available, with grants of between £300 and £10,000, to help not-for-profit community organisations create coronavirus-secure settings for community sport and ...
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Deadline 12th November The Immediate Impact Grant responds to the needs expressed by local communities. These grants are for small-scale, short-term projects. They award grants of between £300 and £2,000 for entrepreneurial individuals, voluntary/community organisations, schools/PTAs, clubs and societies in the UK. They can cover a wide range of projects ...
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Applications are open to UK-based organisations with a minimum annual income of £50,000, who care for individuals suffering from mental health issues, or who focus on research in the mental health field. The Foundation predominantly fund registered charities and NGOs, however they will consider funding other types of organisation so ...
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Deadline 2nd December The SSE in partnership with Power to Change opens the application window for their CBTU program.  (Community Business Trade Up) Community Businesses can apply for a £10k grant, free learning programme to help build back and adapt post Covid, and access to a supportive, like-minded network. The ...
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Grants are available for voluntary and community sector organisations in England that are supporting women whose poverty has been exacerbated by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic or those that have been pushed into new poverty and financial hardship. Grants of between £20,000 and £30,000 are available. Organisations are asked to apply for ...
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Deadline 3rd November Grants are available for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups and organisations, working to deliver coronavirus/COVID-19 related services in England. The grants programme has three sections: Delivering COVID 19 services. Groups can apply for help with current costs, if their funding has been affected by ...
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Deadline 10th November The Fund exists to help charitable organisations in England that support the people hardest hit by Covid-19. Through hundreds of targeted grants, this fund will support those working with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups such as those living in deprived areas, those supporting Black, Asian and minority ethnic ...
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The deadline for applications is 30th October 2020 (5:30pm). The new £3 million Postcode Recovery Fund is provided with funding from the Postcode Dream Trust, which was created to provide opportunities for charities to deliver their dream projects through collaboration. The Trust’s work has been realigned this year to support ...
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Deadline 1st November Grants for youth-led projects in the UK, aiming to increase access to local natural spaces and encourage a deeper appreciation and understanding of nature. The "Our Local Nature" Grants are available to fund innovative projects, designed and led by young people in the UK, which aim to ...
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Nominations are now open for the new Child of Britain Awards, a national initiative dedicated to celebrating the achievements and courage of children and young people across the UK. The courage and achievements of some 15 children will be recognised at the awards, which will be held in late 2021 ...
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A trailblazing scheme of £4.27m launched on Monday 5th October, aimed at helping the mental wellbeing of communities hardest hit by coronavirus. The project will examine how to scale-up green social prescribing services in England to help improve mental health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and alleviate demand on the health ...
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One of Britain’s biggest cultural donors, Dame Vivien Duffield, has announced a £2.5m package to help safeguard the learning and community work of arts organisations during the pandemic. The Clore Duffield Foundation has, over two decades, given £30m to fund Clore learning spaces at 66 cultural organisations, from Sage in Gateshead to Bristol ...
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Deadline 30th October The BAME Healthy Communities Surviving COVID-19 Fund is provided by Comic Relief and administered by the African Health Policy Network (AHPN), in partnership with House of Rainbow and the Africa Advocacy Foundation. The aim of the Fund is to enable small and medium sized BAME-led organisations and ...
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Deadline 2nd November Leeds Community Foundation is delighted to be working with Northern Gas Networks and Northern Powergrid to double the available funding to enable community groups to deliver schemes that tackle issues that are close to their hearts as utility companies – such as affordable warmth or the lack of ...
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Financial aid is only given to groups and societies helping people in Hull and its immediate neighbourhood. Priority is given to small, specific projects which would not otherwise receive funding. Amounts granted are rarely more than £500 and sometimes considerably less. Unfortunately the Trust does not have a website – ...
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Deadline 9th November The Bettys and Taylors family heritage is very much rooted in food and hospitality. The legacy of their founder and his early experiences in life are central to where Bettys and Taylors are now. Frederick had a very difficult start to his life. Despite this, he was ...
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Deadline 9th November The Garfield Weston Foundation has announced a £25m fund to help cultural organisations recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. It will offer grants of between £100,000 and £2m to visual arts organisations, arts centres, museums and galleries with a minimum annual income of £500,000. While the fund focuses ...
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£50,000 - £250,000. Deadline noon 2 October 2020 £250,000 - £5million. Deadline for Expressions of Interest noon 24 September 2020 A short-term competitive fund to kick-start environmental renewal whilst creating and retaining a range of jobs in England. It is open to environmental charities and their partners. The Green Recovery ...
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The Trust will consider applications from charities registered in England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland in the fields of Education & Young People, Communities, Environment & Conservation, Health, Arts & Culture, International Development, Heritage, and Supporting the Armed Forces The Schroder Charity Trust generally makes grants of up to £5,000. In ...
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The KFC Foundation provides grants to support grass roots organisations in the heart of our restaurant’s communities. Organisations empowering young people in the UK to fulfil their potential by providing safe social spaces, mentoring or work and social skills. They want to fund work that helps young people to create ...
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Deadline 30th September Grants for voluntary and community organisations and charities to help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years) with physical, mental, or emotional impairments. Applications are accepted from individual families and on behalf of groups of children, registered charities ...
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The National Emergencies Trust has announced £1.5 million of funding to support grassroots Disabled Peoples Organisations (DPOs) across the UK to respond to the covid-19 needs of disabled people. The funding will be administered and distributed through a partnership of DPOs across the UK. Disability Sheffield has been chosen as the regional partner ...
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Deadline 30th October Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations can apply for funding to run projects focused on starting well in life, in particular, in order to develop schemes for babies from deprived areas or BAME backgrounds The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and Improvement, and ...
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Deadline 15th November The Getting Schools Back on Track grant has been designed to help ease the pressures that have been placed on all families during the pandemic. Getting children back to school in September is a priority not only for learning needs but to also enable parents to go ...
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Charitable, not-for-profit and commercial organisations operating within England's arts, museums and heritage sectors can apply for a loan from noon on 21 August. The £270 million Culture Recovery Fund - Repayable Finance Programme aims to support cultural organisations which were financially sustainable before COVID-19 but are now at imminent risk ...
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Historic England is offering grants of between £1 million and £10 million to support repair and restoration works at nationally important heritage attractions which have been impacted by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Historic England will be delivering the £50 million Heritage Stimulus Fund to restart vital construction and maintenance on heritage ...
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From Civil Society A fund of £4.95m to help charities scale up their digital capabilities has opened for applications. Funds are provided by the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) and distributed in partnership with the Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST), supported by the Catalyst Network. Charities that ...
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Deadline extended to 30th October The Tackling Loneliness programme will address social isolation by targeting specific groups within the Armed Forces community who are traditionally harder to reach. To be eligible to apply, your organisation must be one of the following. An established registered charity or Community Interest Company (CIC) ...
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Deadline  for round 2: 30th November Using feedback from their open consultation, they have designed a new local grant programme, awarding grants up to £20,000 to projects supporting Armed Forces communities to become less isolated and engage more in their local area. To be eligible to apply, your organisation must ...
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Deadline 25th September Humber Learning Consortium have successfully been awarded the ESF Community Grants Programme 5 2019-2021 and are pleased to announce the launch of the 4th round of funding available. ESF Community Grants  are part of the European Social Fund (ESF) programme which is distributing small grants in the Humber, East Riding, York and North ...
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The Grants to Arts Scheme is now open.  All applicants will need to demonstrate that they are working within Covid-19 restrictions and adhering to government advice. You may be eligible to apply for a grant of up to £5000 for activity that: is within the Hull city boundary and open to the general ...
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Small grants applications will close on 22nd September 2020. Medium/Large grants applications will close on 30th September 2020. LGBTQ+ organisations and groups across the UK can apply for grants of up to £15,000 to support their vital role in supporting LGBTQ+ communities through the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. METRO Charity in partnership ...
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Deadline 31st December The Trust accepts applications from charities in the UK and internationally that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Applications for medical equipment and the production or distribution of PPE will also be ...
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Deadline extended to 28th September The funding aims to provide emergency financial assistance to local homelessness organisations, preventing closure, service cuts or staff redundancies threatened by increased operational costs and a loss of fundraised income due to the Coronavirus. It will also support organisations that have needed to expand or ...
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The maximum grant size is £5000 over one year. The main priorities for the Assura Community Fund 2020 are projects which benefit the mental health and wellbeing of individuals where the majority are  living within a 15-mile radius of Assura owned healthcare buildings. Programme activities must be targeted towards improving mental ...
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The All Churches Hope Beyond grants programme aims to enable churches and Christian charities to meet changing needs within their communities, helping them and the communities they support to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by the Coronavirus pandemic. Grants of up to £50,000 are available to churches and ...
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Digital funding for small charities The Foundation’s aim is to help small charities carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.They only fund charities with an average income of less than £1 million a year. As they aren’t a large funder, they ...
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The aims 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 ...
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Deadline 31st August Common Call is a grant fund powered by Do it Now Now.(opens in a new tab) Do it Now Now is an open innovation organisation driven by the desire to bring social empowerment to Black communities across the globe. We bring charities, social entrepreneurs, startup teams, social innovators, investors, ...
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Deadline 11th September  The Foundation has launched a £7.4m fund to help small and local charities recover from the coronavirus crisis. The funds will go to 140 charities in total, which will receive two-year unrestricted grants worth up to £50,000. The focus is on helping charities to adapt their work and fundraising for ...
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Deadline 10th August The Sustaining Creativity Fund is to support artists, songwriters and composers to create and develop when they need it most. PRS have adapted Round 3 to provide targeted support for Black music creators who are affected COVID-19 pandemic. This is one immediate step in their commitment to making meaningful changes ...
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First round closes 20th July  Round 2: 13th August to 20th August  Round 3: 10th September to 17th September 2020  To be eligible for this funding, your social enterprise must meet the following criteria:  In England; your beneficiaries are mostly in England  An incorporated social purpose organisation, with an asset lock  Incorporated at least a ...
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The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society has established a £1M COVID-19 Response Fund to provide financial support to UK merchant seafarers and fishers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.   The response fund has launched to coincide with Seafarers Awareness Week (6-12 July) and will provide support to working age seafarers facing the economic ...
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Seafarers UK is a leading provider of grants to maritime charities and charitable maritime projects, working to help serving and ex-serving seafarers and their families who are experiencing hardship.  The aim is to provide sustainable funding and improve the quality of life for those in greatest need.  They meet that aim through supporting organisations ...
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Deadline 31st July   The COVID-19 Inspiring Futures Programme has been developed in partnership with Youth Futures Foundation (opens in a new tab)   The Inspiring Futures programme is open for applications from Friday 10th July until 11:30am on Friday 31st July, 2020.   BBC Children in Need and Youth Futures Foundation are partnering to deliver Inspiring Futures, a £6 ...
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The Community Justice Fund is a joint initiative to help specialist social welfare legal advice organisations cope with the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lay the foundations for longer-term renewal.   The Community Justice Fund is, therefore, focused on the needs of specialist social welfare legal advice organisations. It ...
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Deadline 25th August Part of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, the Positive Pathways programme will award fixed grants of £35,000 for projects developed by and for veterans. Projects should aim to improve veterans’ mental health and wellbeing by getting veterans out and active. This programme is open to Armed Forces charities. To ...
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Deadline 14th September 2020.  Applications are now open for the 2021 GSK IMPACT Awards, which provide core funding and free training for charities that are working to improve people’s health in the UK.   Up to 20 awards will be made, ranging from £3,000 to £40,000, plus free training and development valued at a further £9,500.   Organisations will also ...
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The first round of applications will open on Tuesday 28 July at 10am and close at 1pm.  The scheme will offer grants up to £100,000 to community-led organisations that are providing vital support to communities and are struggling financially because of Covid-19. The £9.5 million scheme is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, and delivered by Power ...
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