Hays Travel Foundation
About Us: We strive to help and improve the communities where we work and live, and this is something we believe we have a strong track record of accomplishing.
Criteria: The funding is intended for local groups which operate or have an impact in an area in which Hays Travel have a branch and whose project helps young people up to 25 years of age develop in at least one of these areas: education, prevention of poverty, health, arts, culture or sports.
Grant Size: Up to £15,000
Deadline: 28th September 2025
The Hilden Charitable Fund
About Us: The Fund’s aim is to address disadvantages by supporting charitable causes which are less likely to raise funds from public subscriptions or statutory sources.
Criteria: We do not fund individuals, only organisations. To be eligible to make an application your organisation must be based in the UK and be one of the following:
Registered Charity
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Charitable Company (NB you must be registered both as a charity and a company)
Excepted Charity.
Grant Size: Usually between £5,000 – £7,000
Deadline: 3pm on 21st August 2025
McCarthy Stone Foundation
About Us: Our vision is a society where older people are valued, connected and engaged with their communities.
Criteria: Registered charities, constituted community groups and Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee with an annual income of less than £250,000 can apply for grants for projects to reduce loneliness and isolation for people over 65 living in the more deprived areas of England, Scotland and Wales.
Grant Size: up to £7,500
Deadline: Opens 1st August and closes 5pm on 29th August 2025
Music for All
About Us: Music for All is dedicated to changing lives across the UK by improving access to music making. We are a passionate, focused and ambitious UK charity helping disadvantaged music makers experience the joys and far-reaching benefits of making music.
Criteria: We’re delighted to be offering financial support to community projects and individuals in the following categories: Physical mobility or accessibility needs, Mental health and loneliness/isolation, Choral groups, Working with early years aged children and Descant recorder pack and music pack.
Grant Size: up to £2,000
Deadline: 12 noon on Wednesday 24th September 2025
Veolia’s Sustainability Fund
About Us: Transforming local communities and environments.
Criteria: Any not-for-profit organisations, community groups or individuals can apply to the Sustainability Fund. We welcome projects that strengthen the local community, including but not limited to: employment support programmes, rehabilitation projects, and youth development initiatives.
Grant Size: up to £1,000
Deadline: 30th September 2025
Arnold Clark Community Fund – Cost of Living Support
About Us: We want to give back to the communities that we serve.
Criteria: Applications for the Arnold Clark Community Fund Cost-of-Living Support are only eligible if the organisation falls in one of the following categories: foodbank, accommodation, poverty relief and where people/communities in the UK are the primary and immediate focus of investment. Applications are also only eligible if they’re made by an organisation that are based/operates solely in the UK and are located within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark branch.
Grant Size: up to £2,500
Deadline: Rolling programme
The Fat Beehive Foundation
About Us: The Fat Beehive Foundation is an independent UK grant-making charity that supports small charities to improve their digital presence.
Criteria: We support UK-based charities with an annual turnover of under £1 million, offering funding for a wide range of digital projects. Whether that’s building a new website, developing online resources, or improving digital accessibility, our aim is to help you reach more people, raise more funds and deliver more impact.
Grant Size: up to £2,500
Deadline: Rolling programme
Woodroffe Benton Foundation
About Us: The Small Grant funding round will focus on projects that improve the quality of life and social engagement for people with severe physical and/or learning disabilities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Criteria: The Foundation provides grants to officially recognised charitable organisations within the United Kingdom only in respect of:
Relief of persons in need, hardship or distress by reason of disaster or as a consequence of social or economic circumstance.
Provision/Maintenance of care and accommodation for the sick and elderly.
Promotion of education – in particular within the Derbyshire region.
Environmental Conservation/Preservation/Protection/Improvement – in particular where this would encourage the provision of access by members of the general public.
Human physical well-being – but applicants should note that funding in this area is proactive and the trustees will not make grants in response to unsolicited applications
Grant Size: £500 to £2,500
Deadline: 31st August 2025 or when 150 applications have been received
Rewilding Innovation Fund – Rewilding Britain
The Rewilding Innovation Fund aims to remove barriers to rewilding across Britain. Whether your site or project is in the early planning stages or looking to try out a new approach, you can apply.
From business plans to feasibility studies, community engagement to trialling the latest technology, Rewilding Britain funds works that could potentially unlock further funding for you or move you up the rewilding scale.
They choose the projects they consider will have the highest impact on people and nature, on land and sea, with opportunities for shared learning with the Rewilding Network.
Projects have two opportunities to apply for funding through the Rewilding Innovation Fund each year, in the new year and summer. The 2025 summer round is now open.
You can apply for up to £15,000 and the deadline for applications is 29 August 2025.
Music for All
Financial support to community projects and individuals is available in the following categories:
Physical mobility or accessibility needs (groups and individuals)
Mental health and loneliness/isolation
Choral groups
Working with early years aged children
Descant recorder pack and music pack
You can apply for up to £2000 and the deadline for applications is 24 September 2025.
Community support small grants – Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 are available to charities and not for profit organisations for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Projects must have a focus on Community Support and address urban and rural deprivation in the UK.
if you are located in a rural area, you must be in the bottom 50% most deprived areas according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Your annual income must not exceed £250,000 and you can secure 50% of the total project costs.
This is a rolling programme with no deadlines.
Bernard Sunley Foundation grants
The Foundation offers grants in the categories of Community, Education, Health or Social Welfare.
They offer three levels of grants. These are large grants of £20,000 and above; medium grants of up to £20,000 and small grants of £5,000 and under. Grants can be used for:
Capital projects which include new buildings, extensions, refurbishments and recreational spaces.
New minibuses and other vehicles that provide a vital service to those most in need in their local community.
Churches and other places of worship with a strong, secular community focus.
Charities or CIOs (Charitable Incorporated Organisations) registered in England and Wales.
Certain organisations with exempt status such as specialist schools, scout and guide groups, housing associations, cooperatives, and community benefit societies.
Applications are accepted all year round.
Barclays’ Female Tennis & Cricket Coaches for Girls Fund
About Us: We want to grow participation at every level and have grants dedicated to getting more women qualified across the UK to coach girls’ football at a grassroots level.
Criteria: This fund is available to all clubs and groups that run football, cricket or tennis activities for girls and aspire to get more female coaches qualified.
Grant Size: up to £200
Deadline: 22nd August 2025
Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund
Grants are available for local authorities, combined authorities, charities, research organisations and consortiums to support new, locally delivered, highly tailored and targeted interventions that meet the needs of digitally excluded people in England.
Application deadline: 10 September 2025 (15:00)
Warburtons Community Grants
About Us: provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.
Criteria: Not-for-profit organisations/Charities/CICs, or Warburtons volunteers/employees in a capacity. Projects must deliver direct benefit to families and align with at least one theme:
Health: improving physical health and/or wellbeing
Place: creating safer, greener, more inclusive community spaces
Skills: developing useful skills for life or employment
Grant Size: up to £400
Deadline: 4 November 2025
With thanks to Rural Services Network, Slough CVD, West Berkshire Volunteer Centre and Bracknell & Wokingham InVOLve for the information contained in this article.
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