Wilfred Francis Southall Trust
About Us: We award grants to charities that are registered in the UK and working in the areas of quaker work / witness, peace / reconciliation, environmental action / sustainability, and/or social action.
Criteria: We also prefer charities who make good use of volunteers, who show creativity and innovation in their work and who promote social justice, inclusion, diversity and challenge structural inequalities and injustice.
Grant Size: up to £5,000
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme
Find out more about the Wilfred Francis Southall Trust
Matthew Good Foundation
Every three months, we’ll share £15,000 between 5 shortlisted projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment.
Since 2011, the Matthew Good Foundation has empowered employees of the John Good Group to support many good causes in the UK and around the world by nominating good causes for funding. However, in 2021, our tenth year, we wanted to extend our impact and allow small charities, community projects and social entrepreneurs to come straight to us.
To stay true to our ethos of donating funds to causes close to the hearts of our members, every three months, five shortlisted projects will be voted for by John Good Group employees. These five charities will all receive a share of £15,000 – the more votes a cause receives, the bigger the donation. Following the vote, the project that receives the most votes will receive a grant of £5,000, second place £3,500, third place £2,500 and fourth and fifth place will both receive £2,000.
Charities and projects are welcome to apply all year round, and your application will be considered in the next funding round. Your application must be on behalf of a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment and has an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.
We want to make it easy for very small charities or new community interest companies to apply, so organisations/groups do not need to be a registered charity, however, you will need to have a bank account in your organisation’s/project’s name such as a community bank account. We are not able to provide funding to personal bank accounts.
Grants for Good – Matthew Good Foundation (Reg Charity 1143550)
Deadline: Funding will be awarded every three months, in April, July, October and January, with an application deadline of the 15th of the month before. Eg. for the April round, applications will close on the 15th March, for the October round, applications will close on 15th September.
The Anchor Foundation
Our vision for the work of The Anchor Foundation is to support Christian Charities working with Art, Healing and through those seeking to offer Social Inclusion.
We particularly target Christian Charities because they may find it harder, if not impossible, to obtain grants funding from secular grant givers on account of their religious rooting.
The hope is to especially support those who work in the Arts, because it is an often demanding and thankless profession (in money terms), and also to support those directly involved in a Healing ministry in the wider sense of the word. We see it as essential that those activities are socially inclusive as part of their expression.
We receive many applications from worthwhile causes but sadly cannot support them all. We will consider applications for projects in the UK or overseas. The maximum grant provided is £12,000. Only in exceptional circumstances will grants be given for building work. Charities with a number of projects operating should select a single project for their application.
Information for Applicants — The Anchor Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
We are a grant making foundation giving grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts.
Small Grants:
• Your organisation’s postcode falls within the following on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation:
o if you are located in an urban area, you must be in the bottom 15% most deprived areas
o if you are located in a rural area, you must be in the bottom 50% most deprived areas
• Your project has a focus on community support
• Your annual income does not exceed £250,000
• You can secure 50% of the total project costs
• You can supply your most recent annual accounts
• You can start spending our grant within 1-2 months of receipt
• You are embedded in your local community
You cannot apply for more than 50% of the total cost of the project/salary/core running costs. We do not fund capital projects.
Major Grants:
We fund voluntary sector organisations with a turnover up to £1 million.
• Single year grants between £10,000 and £100,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs or
• Multi-year grants for a maximum of 3 years, not to exceed £100,000 in total over this period, for core costs, salaries, running or project costs
Organisations should have a focus on Family Support, this may further include:
• Early intervention
• Families coping with addiction
• Prisoners’ families
Your organisation’s postcode, or the project area, must be ranked within the most deprived 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for urban areas or within the most deprived 50% for rural areas.
Our Grants | Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Morrisons Foundation
About Us: The Morrisons Foundation supports registered charities making a positive difference in local communities across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Criteria: The Morrisons Foundation prioritises applications from small charities, those with an income of less than £1m.
Grant Size: up to £10,000
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme
Find out more about Morrisons Foundation
Gisela Graham Foundation
About Us: The Gisela Graham Foundation is a small charity which reflects the wishes and support of the proprietor, Gisela Graham, together with her fellow Trustees. The Foundation aims to provide financial benefit to those in need through the provision of grants and other payments to provide assistance in specific cases of poverty and poor education; it will also help to further the advancement of public health and safety and to provide education and cultural life for the general benefit of society.
Criteria: Applications will only be considered from corporate bodies and registered charities.
Grant Size: Normally for sums under £10,000, but most donations are for less than £5,000.
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme
Find out more about the Gisela Graham Foundation
Tesco Stronger Starts
About Us: £5m grant scheme launched by Tesco to support schools and children’s groups with funding for food and healthy activities.
Criteria: The grants will help schools and children’s groups provide nutritious food and healthy activities that support young people’s physical health and mental wellbeing, such as breakfast clubs or snacks, and equipment for healthy activities.
Grant Size: up to £1,500 available – organisations are chosen by Tesco’s customers via their blue token scheme.
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme
Find out more about Tesco Stronger Starts
Screwfix Foundation
The Screwfix Foundation is a registered charity set up in 2013. We are passionate about making a difference to communities across the UK. We are a grant giving charity with a clear purpose to support projects that improve, repair and maintain homes and community facilities used by those in need throughout the UK.
The Screwfix Foundation currently offers local registered charities and not for profit organisations funding up to the region of £5,000. Before applying for funding from The Screwfix Foundation, your organisation MUST:
• Be a registered charity or not for profit organisation.
• Help those in need. This could be by reason of financial hardship, sickness, distress or other disadvantages in the UK.
• Be looking for funding to support projects that relate to the repair, maintenance, improvement or construction of. homes, community buildings and other buildings.
Screwfix Foundation | Help | Screwfix
Deadline: Rolling. All applications are reviewed individually by our team on a quarterly basis, the review dates are in March, June, September and December.
Music for All
Working with groups with mental health challenges and/or affected by loneliness/isolation.
This award is open to community group applicants, providing music making opportunities to those experiencing mental health challenges and/or affected by loneliness/isolation. Applicants for this award will need to demonstrate how music is used within their project work and where possible, be able to illustrate previous successful examples of their work as well as demonstrate how funds will be used to provide meaningful and positive support for their group and enable active participation in music-making. A grant of up to £1500 is available for this award.
• Working with diverse communities from the Global Majority, in partnership with Black Lives in Music.
This award is for community-based groups providing music-making opportunities working with diverse communities from the global majority. A grant of up to £1500 is available for this award. Applicants should be able to demonstrate ways in which they nurture disadvantaged individuals in music-making opportunities.
Newly Opened: Thames Valley PCC Community Fund
Money for the Community Fund, which is jointly managed by the PCC and the Chief Constable, is created from the proceeds from the sale of items seized from criminals that cannot be returned to their rightful owners.
The Fund is open for applications twice a year for projects that help to achieve the objectives of the PCC’s Police and Criminal Justice Plan. This Fund is an opportunity for community and voluntary groups to get involved and assist both the PCC and Thames Valley Police in tackling and reducing crime. Applications for the latest round of the Community Fund are now open, with £200,000 of grant funding available for community and voluntary groups across Thames Valley.
Your organisation should be:
• Working in the Thames Valley Police Force area;
• Able to demonstrate that the application supports one of the priority areas of the current Police & Criminal Justice Plan (which can be downloaded here)
• A policing and/or community safety related charity or community group
Community Fund – Thames Valley PCC (thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk)
Deadline: The closing date for this round of applications is 12pm on Monday 11th September and applications will be considered jointly by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and the Chief Constable. Applications that have been successful will be notified by email on Friday 6th October.
Newly Opened: DEFRA Coronation Living Heritage Fund
£2.5 million in funding is available to support local tree planting projects across England. To get funding, you must apply for a grant. You can apply for £10,000 to £50,000 for each project. The Coronation Living Heritage Fund (CLHF) celebrates the coronation of King Charles III. The fund is made up of 2 schemes:
• Coronation Micro Woods: to enable local authorities to plant miniature areas of woodland in urban areas
• Coronation Community Orchards: to provide grants to local people and groups to establish community orchards
Each local authority can apply for a grant from both schemes
The following types of local authority can apply:
• county councils
• unitary authorities
• metropolitan and London boroughs
• combined authorities
• district, borough and city councils
The tree officer or environmental team at these local authorities can also apply for funding on behalf of:
• parish, community and town councils
• community groups and parishes
Apply for the Coronation Living Heritage Fund – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Deadline: You must apply by 10 am on 26 September 2023. Projects must be completed by 31 March 2025.
Biffa Award
About Us: Biffa award is part of the landfill communities fund, giving grants to projects that seek to improve their local communities.
Criteria: They have four themes – Community Buildings, Recreation, Rebuilding Biodiversity and Cultural Facilities. Your project must fit in one of these themes and benefit the local community.
They fund a variety of different projects – everything from re-roofing a community hall or creating a new play park to creating wetlands for wildlife or new habitats for pollinators.
They can’t fund projects that are situated on school sites or that do not provide a community benefit.
Grant Size: Application value is between £10,000 – £75,000
Deadline for applications: This is a rolling programme and as such there are no deadlines to submit an Expression of Interest in their Main Grants Scheme. They accept applications at any time.
Community Ownership Fund Round 3 Open
About Us: The Community Ownership Fund is a Government Fund which is open to voluntary or community organisations and charities to apply for funding to take ownership of assets at risk of loss in your community.
Incorporated voluntary and community organisations, and parish, town and community councils (depending on eligibility requirements) may apply
Criteria: The goal of the funding support community groups to take ownership of assets which are at risk of being lost to the community
• support community groups where the asset is already in community ownership but needs essential renovations to be sustainable for the long-term benefit of the community
• strengthen community ownership across the UK
• strengthen the social infrastructure that helps communities to thrive
Grant Size: Capital funding is available of up to £2 million for all asset types, but the Department for Levelling Up expects that most awards will be for up to £250,000 of capital funding.
Deadline for applications: Expression of Interest stage – always open
Round 3 Bidding Window 2 – 30 August – 11 October 2023
Applications must be submitted by 11:59am on each bidding window’s respective closing date.
Veolia Sustainability Fund
Applications close on Friday 29th September.
Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations and community groups in the UK who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to support projects that create a better environment or a more sustainable local community. Find out more.
John Sykes Foundation – Cost of Living Crisis Fund
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups in reading for projects which support vulnerable residents who may be struggling with the cost-of-living crisis in Reading.
Application deadline: N/A Click here for more details.
Thank you to the following organisations for the information contained in this article; Slough CVS, Wokingham & Bracknell inVOLve & West Berkshire Volunteer Centre.
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