Spar Community Cashback

Amounts up to £10,000 are available, with a total pool of grants valued at £100,000.

SPAR is looking forward to catching up with last year’s grant winners and seeing how their grants have positively affected their communities.

There will be multiple grants available for local voluntary or community organisations and charities who need it most.

Shoppers from all over the UK can apply for a grant for an organisation or charity they feel deserves funding. All applicants need to do is share the exceptional contribution a local organisation has made to their community and what the grant would be put towards.

Central Social and Recreational Trust

In order to secure a grant please consider the following:-

All young people who are to benefit must be under 21 years of age and belong to a club/organisation based in England. The Trustees will consider the application where the majority are under 21, but will not consider grants for individuals.
The Trustees will consider grants for equipment for the use of all members of the club. Individual items will not be considered i.e. personal items of kit such as gum shields, shorts, vests etc.
The Trustees will consider grants to assist in the maintenance of properties as long as the property is owned by the club or there is a significant lease period
The Trustees may attach conditions to a grant e.g. conditional on match funding
The Trustees will only pay suppliers directly. It is therefore necessary for the clubs to obtain a written quotation/invoice from the supplier.
Economic or social circumstances surrounding the beneficiaries of the grant
What has the applicant done to fulfil the need from other sources?
Only clubs/organisations affiliated to their governing body i.e. England Boxing, National Association of Clubs for Young People; Football Association etc. will be considered for a grant. In exceptional circumstances the Trustees may consider applications outside this parameter.
Grants will generally be no more than £1500 although the Trustees will consider applications above this figure in exceptional circumstances.

The Dulverton Trust

The Dulverton Trust is an independent grant-making charity supporting organisations which are tackling a range of social issues, protecting the natural world, and preserving heritage crafts.

The Trust currently offers funding across the following categories:

Youth Opportunities: aims to support charities working with socio-economically disadvantaged children and young people. Funds initiatives that support young people to develop the life skills to enable them to thrive.
General Welfare: supports a wide range of charities that benefit disadvantaged people and communities
Conservation: supports charities working to support the health and resilience of the UK’s wildlife habitat
Heritage: supports the development of craftsmanship in the traditional techniques of repair and restoration
Kenya and Uganda: restricted to charities which already have a long association with the Trust
International Stability and Reconstruction: funds charities that provide support facilities or expertise to organisations engaged in disaster preparedness, or are engaged in peace intervention.
Funding minimum and maximum amounts are not given but usual grant sizes are in the region of £25,000+.

Radcliffe Trust

About Us: The Radcliffe Trust is one of Britain’s oldest charities, founded in 1714 by the will of Dr John Radcliffe. Today, The Radcliffe Trust continues his charitable bequest through the support of Music and Heritage & Crafts
Criteria: For charities, not-for-profit groups, and exempt organisations across the UK to support projects in the areas of music or heritage and crafts.
Grant Size: Between £2,500 and £7,500
Deadline for applications: 31st July 2025

Crowdfunder and Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation

About Us: Crowdfunder and Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation have teamed up to make £100,000 available for sustainable community projects based across England, Scotland and Wales.
Criteria: To access the match funding, you must:
Be located in England, Scotland or Wales
Have a Sponsor who is a Mortgage Advice Bureau member of Staff, customer or approved business partner.
Be an existing registered Charity or Community Interest Company
Grant Size: Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation may support your project with 3:1 live match funding to your project target, up to a maximum of £5,000.
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme

Berkshire Community Foundation – Funds for Older People

About Us: BCF manages a number of funds which aim to support projects tackling issues affecting older people, such as isolation, health and well-being.
Criteria: Funds are now available for groups and projects that support;
Improve health and wellbeing
Reduce social isolation including befriending schemes
Improve access to facilities, advice and training
Provide respite for carers
Improve access to information and IT, particularly where this involves
intergenerational work
Overcome problems such as illness, injury, disability, bereavement or financial difficulty.
Grant Size: up to £5,000
Deadline for applications: 10am on 19th June 2025

Warburtons Community Grants

About Us: Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.
Criteria: Community Grants aim to provide groups working towards one of our outcome area with small amounts of funding to support ongoing activities.
Grant Size: up to £400
Deadline for applications: 4th August 2025

Toy Trust

Grants are available to charities supporting disadvantaged children aged under 13. Applications should show real benefit for relieving hardship and suffering to beneficiaries.

Application deadline: 13th June 2025

Debt Advice Modernisation Fund 2025/26

This fund is specifically targeted at enabling not-for-profit organisations (authorised by the FCA to provide debt counselling and adjusting services) to implement innovative solutions that improve accessibility, efficiency, and overall effectiveness in the delivery of debt advice, particularly for vulnerable groups.

Application deadline: 13th June 2025 (12 noon)

Wellbeing of Women/Holland and Barrett – Women’s Health Community Fund

This fund is designed to support small grassroots organisations and community groups deliver projects that improve information, education or support for menstrual health, menopause and/or related gynaecological conditions, and support people and groups that are often excluded in mainstream healthcare.

Application deadline: 15th June 2025

Power of Music Fund

Small grants are available to local organisations using music making to support people living with dementia and their carers – note that the fund is only open to applicants working with underrepresented communities, including those from racially minoritised communities.

Application deadline: 16th June 2025 (8am)

Naturesave Trust

As a small charity the Trust focuses on small projects for charities, social enterprises and grassroots community organisations whose activities are based within the UK.

Projects are chosen in accordance to the needs set out in the latest funding window and how well they fit with the Trust’s funding guidelines, criteria and objectives.

The Trust operates funding windows each year to help us manage demand and make a fair assessment of the applications we receive.

We are a small charity with finite resources, and we endeavour to offer funding to numerous projects. Whilst this means that we are not able to fully fund all organisations that apply to us, we hope that our financial assistance goes some way to contribute to projects that we feel are worthwhile.

Tesco Stronger Starts – Cooking for All

Tesco Stronger Starts has expanded its commitment to promoting children’s health and wellbeing across the UK. After the successes of our recent Footie for All and Activity for All funds, we are now expanding ‘for all’ to include Cooking for All.

In recognition of children needing a Stronger Start in life, our Cooking for All campaign in partnership with The Sun, will offer £150k in grants through the Tesco Stronger Starts fund in an effort to improve children’s access to healthy food, have a wider understanding of where food comes from and an opportunity to learn how to prepare and cook healthy and nutritious meals.

With 150 grants of £1,000 each available, Tesco is committed to helping local communities thrive by investing in children and young people, supporting them through access to healthy food, nutritional information, where food comes from, and how to cook it.

The applicants must be an organisation or school in local communities with a priority on supporting children and young people up to the age of 16 with access to healthy, nutritious food, and educating them around food, particularly how to cook.

Cooking for All –

Deadline: Applications will close at noon on Friday 30 May 2025.

Masonic Charitable Foundation

The MCF is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales. Our Charity Grants programme is open to registered charities in England and Wales working with any of our four main priority groups:

Improving the health and wellbeing of older people with dementia and their carers
Early Years (0-5), with a focus on poverty and neglect
Children affected by Domestic Abuse
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
The Small Grants programme awards grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 to smaller charities whose annual income is between £25,000 and £500,000.

Small grants are unrestricted and do not have to be used on a specific purpose, although grant recipients are asked to report on how they used the funding.

We want to contribute to a socially just and anti-racist society, where people have their rights protected, as well as the opportunity to speak and be heard, and the freedom to express their creativity. And across all our work in A Fairer Future, we are keen to support organisations led by the people they serve.

Working with others, we will contribute to three key impact goals by 2030:

Improved systems, policy and practice.
Organisations are strengthened to use their power to tackle systemic injustice and inequity.
Organisations work together and build movements to tackle systemic injustice and inequity.
See our guidance and watch our Q&A webinars to learn more about applying for support towards A Fairer Future

We have five priority areas where we believe we can make the most effective contribution; using our existing knowledge and relationships, by working at the intersections of issues; and by building our understanding through working with others, especially those with experience of the issues we are trying to address:

Arts and creativity making change
Children’s and young people’s rights
Racial justice
Gender justice
Migrant justice.

Asda Foundation – Local Community Spaces Fund

Grants from £10,000 – £20,000**

We know accessible community spaces can be a lifeline for local people, and many of these spaces require funding to repair, renovate and develop them so that they can continue delivering vital activities and services. In addition, loneliness and isolation continue to be highlighted through our Community Insight Survey as top areas of concern for local communities throughout the UK.

To be eligible to apply for this fund, your community space must be an accessible place where members of the community can interact, seek support and access a variety of services and activities.

Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants

Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants is part of Bupa’s ‘Healthy Cities’ campaign – helping to make our cities and communities greener, one grant at a time. To date, the Bupa Foundation has invested over £1M in green grants to hundreds of local schools and community groups.

In 2023 the Bupa Foundation invested more than £500,000 in Green Community Grants programme to fund projects in local communities – making places and spaces greener and empowering school and charities to put their green ideas into action.

These grants of £2,000 exist to make deep impact in local communities – making places and spaces greener and empowering school and charities to put their green ideas into action.

Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants – Groundwork

Deadline: The Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants programme will be open for applications from June 1 to June 30, 2025.

Poundland Foundation’s Kits 4 Kids

About Us: Groups from across the UK can now apply for the next round of Poundland Foundation’s Kits for Kids programme, which will see local children’s teams and clubs provided with new sports kit.
Criteria: The funding is available for local charities, community interest companies and unregistered community organisations across the UK, providing they have an annual income of less than £10,000 and reserves of less than £5,000.
Grant Size: £750
Deadline for applications: 26th May 2025

Thank you to West Berkshire Volunteer Centre, Slough CVS and Bracknell& Wokingham InVOLve for the information contained in this article.