WCIT Grants
About Us: Our purpose is to use the power of tech for impact through digital inclusion, education, charitable, and public engagement initiatives across the entire UK.
Criteria: Available for educational establishments and constituted not-for-profit organisations across the UK to support IT projects and activities.
Grant Size: up to £15,000
Deadline for applications: 6th February 2026
The Gardens Trust
About Us: The Gardens Trust offers a grant scheme for volunteer projects supporting historic designed landscapes.
Criteria: For volunteer-led projects that support historic designed landscapes across the UK. Provided through the Gardens Trust Community Grants programme, the funding helps volunteer groups promote the conservation, understanding, and enjoyment of these landscapes, which can include historic parks, gardens, and cemeteries. Intended as seed funding, the grants aim to help kick-start or develop initiatives such as restoration planning, establishing Friends groups, conducting research, or delivering volunteer training schemes.
Grant Size: up to £8,000
Deadline for applications: 14th November 2025
Places of Worship Protective Security Scheme
About Us: Apply for security to protect places of worship and associated community centres.
Criteria: The Home Office is offering funded security measures (like CCTV, alarms, and secure doors) to places of worship and faith community centres in England and Wales that are at risk of hate crime. The scheme covers installation and one year of maintenance.
You can apply to the scheme if you are a:
church
gurdwara
temple
faith community centre (linked to a place of worship and host regular, active worship)
other place of worship
You will also need to be a registered charity (or exempt from registering as a charity).
Grant Size: Not stated
Deadline for applications: 8th December 2025
The Paddle Trust
About Us: We support the Clear Access Clear Waters campaign to improve sustainable places to paddle on UK waterways and coastline.
Criteria: Applications will be accepted from a range of organisations, including paddle clubs, community groups, charities, parish councils, and local authorities. We offer grants for projects across the UK that:
Increase or enhance existing public access points to water for all forms of paddlesport.
Create launching and landing sites, to and alongside water, for all sectors of the community and all abilities, that are designed to be durable and use sustainable materials when applicable.
Protect and enhance natural blue spaces such as rivers or coastline.
Grant Size: up to £10,000
Deadline for applications: 17th December 2025
Arnold Clark Community Fund
Our Communities Support is available to organisations who provide services which are widely accessible to those within our local communities and address the needs of the people living within them, supporting our local communities to a better future. Arnold Clark Foundation will decide on the amount given to successful applicants, up to £2,500.
Most organisations are eligible to apply, and we particularly welcome applications from smaller voluntary and community organisations who are working within our local communities. Please ensure you read and understand the below eligibility criteria before submitting an application.
We welcome applications from:
UK-registered charities.
Local community groups.
Social enterprises.
Community interest companies.
Groups of organisations that are community or voluntary-led.
Charitable incorporated organisations.
The following times show which categories will be open when:
Category 1 – December – Accommodation aid, food and utility banks, poverty relief and equal opportunities
Category 2 – November – Youth groups and clubs
National Lottery Awards for All England – Environment
Grants are available for voluntary and community organisations, schools and local authorities in England to carry out community-led projects that improve the environment and help people connect with and enjoy nature where they live.
Applications deadline: 17 December 2025.
Naturesave Foundation
Theme: Biodiversity
In 2022, the UK committed to protect at least 30% of land and sea for biodiversity by 2030 (30×30). Expanding and improving protected areas helps nature recover and creates healthier places for people—clean air and water, resilient soils, beautiful green spaces, and greater climate resilience.
Biodiversity underpins the processes that support all life on Earth. Without a wide range of animals, plants and microorganisms, we cannot have the healthy ecosystems we rely on for the air we breathe and the food we eat.
We’re inviting applications from charities, community groups, and organisations boosting biodiversity via:
Pollinator plans
Habitat restoration
Hedgerow management
Wildlife gardens
Pesticide alternatives
Conservation volunteering
Education
Influencing local councils
Citizen science
Community wildlife surveys
Got a fresh idea we haven’t listed? If you have a completely new approach to encouraging nature connection, we’re all ears. We offer grants up to £5,000.
Deadline: 12 noon on 27th November 2025
Englefield Charitable Trust
You do not need to apply on a special form but it would help us very much if you can answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your application email. We receive hundreds of applications a year. We look at each one on its merit but we cannot wade through long and complicated applications, glossy brochures or sets of accounts.
A summary is respectfully requested. You will also appreciate that it is not possible for us to acknowledge receipt of every application or to notify unsuccessful applicants. We favour applications for projects either based in, or active in, Berkshire, together with certain areas of Hackney and Inverness-shire which are also connected with the Englefield Estate.
Grants are given entirely at the discretion of the Trustees. The criteria are broad and include education, sport, community, social welfare and medical support, churches and faith groups, agriculture and conservation, heritage and the arts and the armed forces.
Capital grants are preferred but revenue grants will be considered. Grants are generally between £500 and £5,000 and commitments are generally on a one-off basis rather than spread over a number of years.
Garfield Weston Foundation
The Foundation support a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith. They fund small local organisations and large national institutions. Grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. The grants can be for your organisation’s running costs, for a specific activity or for capital projects. The Foundation are flexible and fund what charities need the most. Normally, capital grants are no more than 10% of a total project cost. However, for local community projects (e.g. village halls, community centres, places of worship, etc.), grants are unlikely to be over £30,000 regardless of the project size. If your organisation wants to apply for £100,000 or over, they expect your annual income or project to be over £1 million. What we fund – Garfield Weston Foundation
Matthew Good Foundation
Grants for Good Fund Grants are available for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. https://www.matthewgoodfoundation.org/grantsforgood
Information courtesy of Slough CVS, Volunteer Centre West Berkshire and Wokingham & Bracknell InVOLve.
Connecting Communities in Berkshire 