Funding Opportunities in October

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Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation

Grants are available to UK registered charities for charitable work in the UK that helps people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to access a place to call home and to improve their financial wellbeing.

Application deadline: 31 October (17:00)

Cash4Clubs Opens for UK Applications

Unrestricted grants are available for community and voluntary sports groups across the UK and Ireland, delivering activities for a social purpose to under-represented communities.
Application deadline: Applications are accepted from 8 September 2025 to 8 December 2025.

Take the Lead Community Grants

Grants are available for community groups across the UK to deliver a standalone project, event, or series of activities exploring how data can support health and wellbeing in their communities.
Application deadline: The deadline for applications is 13 October 2025 (17:00) with notification of decisions by end of November 2025.

Scops Arts Trust

A limited number of grants are available to charities across the UK for new high quality projects that provide opportunities for people from all backgrounds to access, enjoy and participate in the arts.
Application deadline: The deadline for stage 1 applications is 9 December 2025.

Henry Smith Foundation – Christian Grants Programme

Grants are available to churches and charities for projects that support the wellbeing of Anglican clergy within the UK to ensure they remain healthy and effective in their ministry.

Ninevah Trust

About Us: The Nineveh Charitable Trust supports a broad range of UK-based projects and activities of benefit to the General Public, with an emphasis on promoting better understanding of the countryside.
Criteria: For UK Schools, PTAs and not for profit organisations that run projects promoting a better understanding of the environment.
Eligible projects include:

Environmental education schemes such as forest schools, farm visits, and nature trails;
Conservation and biodiversity initiatives;
School farms and tree planting programmes;
Activities that improve access to the countryside for young people/disadvantaged groups.
Grant Size: £3,000–£5,000
Deadline: Rolling programme

National Garden Scheme – Community Gardens Grants

Grants are available for community groups in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to create a garden or similar project with horticultural focus for the benefit of their local community.
Application deadline: 20 October 2025 (12 noon).


John Rayner Charitable Trust

Grants are available for smaller charities with a lower public profile undertaking general charitable activities in England.
Application deadline: 31 January 2026

Cumber Family Charitable Trust

Grants are available for grassroots organisations in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Developing Counties working in the areas of housing and welfare, children, youth, education, medica, disability, environment and overseas.

Arts Council England – Supporting Grassroots Music Fund

Grants are available to support the transition of artists, bands and industry professionals in England to sustainable careers in music, as well as the development of new audiences.
Application deadline: This is a rolling programme

The Andy Thompson Foundation

We look to make grants to small charities involved in helping disadvantaged people, whether this be as a result of poverty, illness, being disabled or substance abuse. As we are a small charity, our focus will be on one off capital needs.

We like to visit the organisations that we help and as we are based in the South East of England we will tend to choose charities in the Home Counties although not exclusively.

There is no minimum grants size you can request. However due to the amount of funding available our maximum grant size is currently £2,500.

Deadline: Rolling

Health Data Research UK – Take the Lead Community Grants

Community groups across the UK can apply for between £500 to £1500 to deliver a standalone project, event or series of activities exploring how data can support their health and wellbeing in their communities between January – March 2026. Importantly, the application must be led by and embedded in community organisations primarily working with at least one of the following under-served audiences:

People from low socio-economic backgrounds
People from minority ethnic backgrounds
Older children and young adults aged 11–25 (especially in areas of deprivation)
People over 65 (especially in areas of deprivation)
People living in rural areas (defined as settlements of fewer than 10,000 people in England and Wales, fewer than 5,000 in Northern Ireland, and fewer than 3,000 in Scotland)
People experiencing digital exclusion
We’ll be looking for community-led proposals that take a responsive, inclusive and creative approach. Examples could be a community step challenge, data-inspired arts and crafts, or a project to help gather trustworthy data to advocate for a community’s health and wellbeing needs. Community groups know their audiences best – we want to enable them to take the lead, providing support and guidance if needed.

Deadline: 5pm (BST) on 13 October 2025.

The Linnean Society – Our Local Nature Grant

The Our Local Nature Grant scheme is designed to provide young people with an opportunity to take the lead on projects that involve their local nature and natural spaces, to aid young people in realising their influence to affect positive change, to have their voices heard, and see their ideas come to life.

We therefore fund innovative projects that are designed and led by young people in the UK.

Adult applicants should develop their proposal alongside young people and the projects should seek to empower local young people to enact changes they want to see, such as increasing access to natural spaces and improving understanding of their local biodiversity.

The maximum award is £1,000 per proposal. We welcome and encourage applications for significantly lower amounts – in the last two years we have funded a wide spread of projects ranging from £150 to £1,000. The Society is happy to co-fund any project with other organisations.

This grant is purposefully broad and welcomes novel ideas. Some examples of possible proposals could be: running a school festival about nature; painting community murals showcasing biodiversity in the area; building a community garden; creating a nature walk; hiring a speaker to come and talk about local foraging.

Deadline: Midnight 25 October 2025

Architectural Heritage Fund

We are pleased to launch a new grants programme for England – the Heritage Revival Fund.

The Heritage Revival Fund has been created to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings. This programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations.

It will do this by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving spaces that meet their needs.

This grants programme has been made possible with funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Historic England, and forms part of the government’s wider £270 million investment in arts and culture.

Project Viability Grants: We are currently offering grants of up to £15,000 to support early-stage work on historic building projects. These grants should help you to establish whether a project is viable. Work will probably focus on understanding the condition of the building, how it might be used, and whether that intended use is appropriate for the building and likely to be sustainable.

Project Development Grants: We are currently offering grants of up to £100,000 to support development work on historic building projects. Please note that the average grant is likely to be £70,000 – £80,000. Project Development Grants can contribute towards the costs of developing and co-ordinating your project and taking it towards the start of work on site. To qualify, an organisation must have established that the end use of the project is likely to be viable and have decided to take the project forward.

Deadline: 13 October 2025 for a decision in December 2025

Triangle Trust

About Us: We give grants to community organisations supporting those in need.
Criteria: The grants are for smaller community organisations that are led by women and whose beneficiaries are 100% women and girls for work that is taking place with young women and girls aged between 11 and 30 who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of entering it. There is particular interest in applications that work with:
Girls who are either outside of education or are at risk of being excluded from school
Projects that run activities for girls who are vulnerable to becoming involved with gangs (these projects might run in evenings, weekends or through school holidays)
Projects that provide peer mentoring providing role models to girls and young women who are in crisis and need support
Work that goes into schools and other community settings to raise awareness of the risks to girls of exploitation and links to criminal justice outcomes.
The Trust is keen to receive applications from organisations working with young women and girls who are care-experienced, neurodiverse, outside education or close to exclusion, have known involvement in gangs or county lines or are from Black or minoritised/racialised communities.
Grant Size: up to £10,000
Deadline: 20th October 2025

Schroder Charitable Trust

About Us: The Schroder Charity Trust is an independent grant-making family trust which supports charitable activities.
Criteria: The Schroder Charity Trust typically makes grants towards core and project (restricted) costs to charities registered in the UK. Applications for work only under the following two objectives will be considered:
Enabling children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive and achieve their potential in education and employment.
Strengthening communities through services and opportunities which enhance the wellbeing and life outcomes of vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
Grant Size: up to £5,000
Deadline: Opens 1st October, closes 30th November 2025

The National Lottery – Awards for All Environment

About Us: We fund community-led projects that improve the environment and help people connect with and enjoy nature where they live.
Criteria: Suitable for: Voluntary, statutory or community organisations. You can use the funding to:
start a new activity or continue an existing one
help your organisation adapt to new challenges
run one-off events that have a clear environmental benefit.
Grant Size: £300 to £20,000 for up to two years
Deadline for applications: 17th December 2025

Berkshire Community Foundation Surviving Winter

About Us: With the cost of living crisis continuing to put pressure on charities, we recognise that organisations need more support than ever to manage rising costs and keep vital services running through the colder months.
Criteria: Funding from this round can only be used to help with energy bills to ensure organisations can stay open and continue serving their communities this winter.
Priority will be given to organisations supporting the most vulnerable, including:

  • Babies and children
  • Young people
  • Older people
  • People with disabilities
  • Those with life-limiting illnesses
  • Grant Size: up to £2,500
    Deadline: 10 am on 30th October 2025


Home Instead Charities

About Us: Home Instead Charities’ mission is to end loneliness for ageing adults. The organisation exists to bring happiness and joy into the lives of Britain’s ageing population so that ageing adults are thriving, not just surviving.
Criteria: Funding to support local community events that enhance and enrich the lives of people over the age of 55 to combat loneliness and sometimes isolation, ensuring they stay fit, active, healthy and connected and contributing to their local communities. Small grass roots organisations and small local registered charities can apply. The funder will only fully fund a grant request where the applicant holds no more than three months operating costs in reserve.
Grant Size:
Grants of up to £500 for small grass roots organisations.
Grants of up to £1,500 for small local registered charities.
Deadline: 31st October 2025

Common Ground Award

About Us: The UK government’s £1.7 million Common Ground Award aims to recognise good practice across England, in promoting social cohesion, by directly investing in organisations making a positive impact.
Criteria: Voluntary, community and social enterprise sector organisations that are working to bring people together from different backgrounds will be able to apply for capital grants for community facilities and equipment.
Grant Size: up to £10,000
Deadline: Opens on 13th October 2025 and closes on 21st November 2025

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.

Wokingham United Charities (Wokingham)

Christmas Cheer Grant Programme Now Open!

We’re delighted to announce that our Christmas Cheer! Grant Programme is back for its fourth year! This initiative provides a token contribution to local charities, community groups and organisations supporting individuals and families experiencing hardship over the festive season.

About the Christmas Cheer! Grant

For many, Christmas can be a difficult time without the means to enjoy gifts, a festive meal or a seasonal outing. The Christmas Cheer Grant helps spread joy and creates special moments for those who might otherwise miss out.

Grants can be used to fund festive activities such as:

Providing Christmas gifts
Hosting a festive meal or celebration
Organising seasonal outings and events
These small but meaningful contributions bring warmth, community, and the magic of Christmas to people who need it most.

Who Can Apply?

We welcome applications from local charities and organisations that support people living in poverty across the Wokingham Borough. If your work helps ensure more people can enjoy the spirit of Christmas, we encourage you to apply.

Deadline: Applications close at the end of the day on 12th October 2025.
The Grants Committee will be meeting on 21st October to review applications.
We aim to share the outcomes with applicants by 24th October.

Seed Corn Grants – The National Archives

Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage.

These grants are designed for community groups, Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) or other heritage organisations looking to test concepts, build partnerships, or pilot activities.

There will be two funding rounds. The current round closes on 28 November. A second round will then open on 2 February and close on 17 April 2026.

Energy Resilience Fund – Power to Change

The Energy Resilience Fund is an initiative assisting community businesses in retrofitting their buildings with energy-saving measures. The programme is funded by Power to Change and delivered by Key Fund.

Investment amounts are available from £10,000 to £150,000. Up to 40% of the total is available as grant, where justifiable to support cost stabilisation or reduction. The minimum loan term for the remainder is 12 months, with a maximum of 7 years.

Energy Audit Grants are also available between £500 and £2,500 where these have not been completed.

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Funding Opportunities in August

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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

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Funding Opportunities in July

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Awards for All, and Reaching Communities – The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF)

Awards for All:

TNLCF offer funding from £300 to £20,000 and can support your project for up to two years. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.

They can fund projects that’ll do at least one of these things:

  • bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities
  • improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
  • help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage
  • support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.

Reaching Communities England:

TNLCF fund projects and organisations that work to make positive changes in their community. By community they mean people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences. They offer funding that starts at £20,001.

Their priorities are to fund projects that:

  • support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination, and
  • support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.

Funding programmes | The National Lottery Community Fund (tnlcommunityfund.org.uk) 

Creative Foundations Fund – Arts Council England

This is is an open-access capital fund that supports creative and cultural organisations in England in revitalising, restoring, retrofitting, or renewing cultural assets, including urgent work to address issues which prevent organisations from effectively delivering work for the public.

Applicants must demonstrate that the investment in buildings and equipment is business-critical to delivering creative or cultural activity, minimising the risk of asset failure and increasing the economic sustainability of the creative and cultural sectors.

The fund is split into two strands:

Strand 1: grants of £100,000 up to and including £1 million.
Strand 2: grants above £1 million up to and including £10 million.
The online expression of interest form opens on 30 June and the deadline for expressions of interest is 25 July 2025.

Grants to connect communities to nature – The Naturesave Trust

Creative Foundations Fund: Guidance for applicants | Arts Council England

 Grants to connect communities to nature – The Naturesave Trust

The funder states: “Fresh air and exercise have long been recommended as a way for many to feel better, physically and mentally, but a connection to nature can also have a profound impact on our ability to create positive action for climate change.”

They are looking for grant applications up to £5000 from charities, community groups, and organisations who are working to connect communities to nature through:

Arts and cultural activities
Community gardening
Green gyms
Eco anxiety and mental health
Training a community with green skills
Conservation volunteering
Urban nature programmes
Social prescribing
Access to nature
Community wildlife surveys
Nature mindfulness
They are also open to other nature connection initiatives.

The deadline for applications is 15 July 2025.

The Naturesave Trust – Naturesave Insurance

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust grants

The objectives of Trust focus on the areas of agriculture, rural development and insurance in the UK and in particular:

Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to agriculture
Advance the education of young people within rural areas
Relieve poverty within rural areas
Promote the benefit and social welfare of inhabitants of rural communities by associating together with the inhabitants and local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education and leisure
Promote research into agriculture associated activities
Advance the education of the public by means of research and dissemination of information in relation to insurance provided that the charity may also promote, facilitate and support any such other purposes as are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales
The Trust focuses on providing funding to larger initiatives, which would have a significant impact on the rural community. The Trustees are particularly interested in initiatives in the areas of education of young people in rural areas and relief of poverty within rural areas.

The Trustees meet twice a year to consider applications received. These meetings are currently held in June and November. Applications for the November meeting must be submitted by 10 October 2025. Most grants fall within the range £1000 to £50,000.

NFU Mutual Charitable Trust: What do we do | NFU Mutual

Access without limits grants – DofE

This fund is open for applications until January 2026. Grant funding of up to £10,250 is available for eligible community and voluntary organisations to set up and deliver the DofE, as well as the enrolment costs for young people taking part.

DofE not only offer grant funding but support organisations every step of the way. This includes training for your staff and volunteers.

Access Without Limits – Community – The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

The Big Bike Revival – Cycling UK

The Big Bike Revival is an intervention for adults aimed at encouraging an uptake in cycling. By providing solutions to perceived barriers, adults are enabled to learn to how to cycle and to increase their cycling levels for short, everyday journeys. Events focus on presenting cycling as a practical, normal and habitual way to get around locally.

The Big Bike Revival is delivered across England by a wide range of community-embedded partners. Typically, these are volunteer-led groups, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are rooted in local communities and working to address a range of local needs. Such groups can apply for grants to run events as part of Big Bike Revival.

Grant funding is available for any amount up to £3,500.

For Grants of £2,000, partners should be able to deliver at least 6 events.
For Grants of £3,500, partners should be able to deliver at least 10 events.
Events must take place by 31 October 2025. The deadline for applications is 14 July 2025.

Youth Music Trailblazer Fund

The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).

Your work must meet one of the Fund’s themes:

Early years
Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
Youth justice system
Young people facing barriers
Young adults
Organisations and the workforce.
The next round of applications will open on 1 August and close on 29 August 2025.

Trees Outside Woodland Fund

About Us: The fund’s purpose is to establish trees outside woodland to create or enhance green spaces using a range of tree types and planting methods.
Criteria: Who can apply:

Local authorities based in England (county council, unitary authority, metropolitan or London borough, combined authority, district or city council)
Registered charities planning to undertake a project in England (with a turnover of more than £100,000)
Grant Size: Between £10,000 and £40,000
Deadline for applications: Expressions of interest will be accepted between 10 June 2025 and 31 October 2025, or until all funding has been allocated.

The National Lottery – Awards for All Environment

About Us: We fund community-led projects that improve the environment and help people connect with and enjoy nature where they live.
Criteria: Suitable for: Voluntary, statutory or community organisations. You can use the funding to:

start a new activity or continue an existing one
help your organisation adapt to new challenges
run one-off events that have a clear environmental benefit.
Grant Size: £300 to £20,000 for up to two years
Deadline for applications: 17th December 2025

Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund

About Us: To support larger improvement projects to rural community buildings in England such as full refits and extensions.
Criteria: The scheme is for those responsible for rural community buildings who wish to make substantive improvements to their building, whether that be extensions or improving energy efficiency and contributing to Net Zero. The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide activities which seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes for their communities:

Improved health and/or wellbeing and/or reduction in rural loneliness.
Positive impact on the local environment, contributes towards net zero.
Support for the local rural economy.
Promotion of community cohesion.
Grant Size: Awards can be made to cover 20% of eligible project costs, from £7,500 to a maximum amount of £75,000.
Deadline for applications: There is currently no set deadline for completion of the Stage 1 form. However, there is no guarantee the application will be processed should the Fund be oversubscribed. ACRE will process applications in order of receipt.

Bracknell Forest Household Support Fund

The aim of the scheme is to support Bracknell Forest residents who are facing unexpected costs, need emergency help, and/or who have a low income and are most in need. The scheme provides a short term and one-off form of support and is offered in the event of an emergency or crisis when family, friends, charities, or insurance cannot help. It aims to help minimise the risk of harm to vulnerable residents and their household as well as ease the financial pressure for residents in Bracknell, who have low income and are most in need. Please note that only one application is allowed per household and, although the fund is open until March 2026, it may close earlier than advertised if the funds have been exhausted.

Bracknell Forest Community Conversations Fund

Bracknell Forest’s Community Partnership is developing a long-term plan to help local communities grow and thrive. This 10-year strategy is being created by the community.

Organisations can apply for a grant of up to £250 to host community engagement conversations. These conversations will help inform the 10-year communities strategy.

The National Archives – Spaces, Places and Belonging

The ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging’ Community Hub is a new national programme led by The National Archives in partnership with Leeds Museums & Galleries, the National Library of Wales, and the Community Archives & Heritage Group. Funded by the AHRC (UKRI), the Hub will support inclusive, community-led research across the UK’s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) and heritage sectors.

It will offer three grant schemes—Seed Corn Grants, Skills Bursaries, and Project Grants—totalling £550,000, alongside a programme of training, digital skills development, and network-building. The Hub will also create a permanent digital platform to share resources, learning, and best practice, ensuring that community engagement becomes a lasting part of the national collection. Designed to empower underrepresented communities and build confidence across the sector, the Hub will be a collaborative, flexible, and sustainable space for innovation and inclusion.

Seed Corn Grants offer between £500 and £5,000 to support early-stage, exploratory projects that spark new ideas and approaches to community engagement with heritage. These grants are designed for community groups and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) organisations looking to test concepts, build partnerships, or pilot activities. With a high tolerance for experimentation and learning, Seed Corn Grants provide a flexible and low-barrier entry point into the Community Hub programme, encouraging innovation and inclusion from the ground up.

Skills Bursaries provide up to £1,000 awards to individuals seeking to grow their expertise in community heritage work. Open to practitioners at any stage of their journey, these bursaries can be used for training, mentoring, attending workshops, or other professional development activities to be determined by you.

Offered on a rolling basis, the bursaries are designed to be accessible and responsive, helping to build confidence and capability across the sector—particularly among those who may not have had access to such opportunities before.

Project Grants of up to £30,000 to fund substantial, collaborative projects between at least one GLAM organisation and one community group. These grants support in-depth research, skills development, and the creation of lasting resources that reflect diverse voices and experiences. Projects should be co-designed and community-led, with a focus on inclusion, sustainability, and impact. Whether building upon a Seed Corn project or starting fresh, Project Grants are intended to create meaningful change and long-term value for both communities and institutions.

Tree Council – Branching Out Fund

Branching Out is designed for community groups, schools, not-for-profits, residents associations, Tree Warden Networks, charities and many more. The Tree Council is pleased to reopen our Branching Out small grants fund to support a new season of community tree planting. Over the past 20 years, we have supported community groups, volunteer Tree Wardens and many others to plant hundreds of thousands of trees across the UK, thanks to generous Tree Partners and other supporters.

Successful applicants will be notified within 5-6 weeks of a completed submission. Applications for grants under £500 are likely to be processed more quickly.

Grants will be paid after planting has taken place, upon submission of a claim form, receipts and evidence of planting (photos).

All projects must have planted and submitted a claim form before midnight on Sunday 15 March 2026.

Grants of between £250 and £2,500 are available per application.

Deadline: Midnight, 14 November 2025

Grants for Good

Grants for Good is funded by the John Good Group and is designed to direct funding only to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment.

We appreciate that it can be really hard work and a steep learning curve when you are starting out a new charity or project. A funder that is right for you can often be difficult to find and manage due to demanding applications processes and inflexible funding restrictions.

This programme, funded by the John Good Group, offers unrestricted funds that you can use for any of your organisation’s costs, including core running costs, and our applications process is a short and as simple as possible, which is great for those looking to make their first steps into applying for their first funding opportunity. We do get a lot of applications though – so please read though our advice section – which will help you give your application the best chance of being shortlisted.

To be eligible, applicants must:

Be a UK-based local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise.
Have an annual income of less than £50,000.
Have a bank account in the organisation’s name.

Deadline: 16 June – 15 September. Applications for funding announced in November/December

SNG Thriving Communities Fund

SNG offers place-based grants that empower local groups to take action and deliver cohesive, sustainable and resilient communities which people are proud to be part of.

Who is eligible to apply?
Projects must be taking place in an SNG community and be actively promoted to SNG customers.

What are the funder priorities?
​1) The Strengthening Place Grant will support projects that focus on a broad range of themes, including Health, Wellbeing & Social Isolation, Ageing Well, Young People, Community Safety, Environment & Sustainability, Youth and Ageing Well for community groups. ​

​2) The Skills & Learning Grant will focus on Community Digital Support, Financial skills and resilience &  Family Learning and Food Education. ​

How much can organisations apply for?
£1K – £7.5K

Healthy Heart Grants – Heart Research UK

Healthy Heart Grants of up to £15,000 are available for community projects aimed at supporting adults to reduce their risk of coronary heart disease, helping them to live healthier, happier and longer lives. The grants are available to charities and community interest companies across the UK.

The application windows for 2025 in England are:

England South: 16 July to 13 August

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.

Thanks to the following organisations for the information contained in this article; Slough CVS, Volunteer Centre West Berkshire, Reading Voluntary Action and Rural Service’s Network.

Funding Opportunities in June

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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.

Funding Opportunities in April

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Newly Opened: Lloyds Bank Foundation – Local Collaborations Programme

This programme will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change around improving the social security system, improving access to suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees. Collaborations can apply for grants of £100,000 over two years.

We would expect your influencing work to align with at least one of these themes:

making the social security system work better for those facing the greatest challenges;
making sure people facing complex issues have access to suitable accommodation;
improving support and services for asylum seekers and refugees.
This funding cannot be used to fund direct delivery of services and is exclusively to support partnerships to influence locally and regionally.

Apply for funding under our local collaborations programme.
Deadline: Complete the Expression of Interest by 30 April 2025

Newly Reopened: One Stop Community Grants

Successful applicants will receive an initial grant of up to £1,000 and begin a partnership with their local One Stop store.

This programme is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and which are;

Tackling food poverty
Supporting the vulnerable
Supporting the elderly
Supporting low-income families
Running youth sports teams
Reducing / recycling waste
Improving the environment
Please note we cannot support food bank/breakfast club projects that are requesting funding to purchase food items. However please contact your local One Stop store manager as it may be possible to discuss setting up food bank donation point at your local store. Funding can be awarded to food banks for equipment such as fridges, freezers or to purchase storage units.

The programme provides partnership as well as financial assistance. Alongside a grant of up to £1,000, and the opportunity to create a long-term tailored programme of support for successful applicants with their local One Stop Store Team. Grant recipients then work in partnership with the One Stop Store Team at their local shop to deliver support to the community.

The tailored support from the store teams will help community causes to increase or improve their service by assisting in areas such as, but not limited to, volunteering support, fundraising and awareness-raising.

Please only submit one application, so please prioritise your key project and do not submit applications for more than one project and do not submit multiple applications but with different store postcodes. If you have received funding from One Stop Community Partnerships in the last 12 months you are ineligible to apply for funding on this occasion. If you have received funding for a project more than 12 months ago, you are welcome to apply.

Deadline:

Applications open Applications close Decision Date W/C
3 March 31 March 12 May
2 June 30 June 11 August
1 September 29 September 10 November

Eling Estate

The key objectives for the Trust and Estate include:

The advancement of the Christian religion and the teaching and usage of Orthodox Churches of the East;

The relief of sickness and/or poverty;

The long-term maintenance of the character of the Estate, and the local environment, and:

Management of the woodlands and other features of the Estate for the public benefit and to facilitate public access where appropriate.

The Trustees meet three times a year to consider applications for donations to charities. Applications are generally considered where they meet all of the following criteria:

An applicant must be an established registered charity;

The grant should relate to activities in West Berkshire or neighbouring counties;

We are not able to give to overseas charities or funds;

Grants for projects rather than general running costs are favoured;

Grants should fit into one or more of the following categories:

The advancement of the Christian religion and particularly the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches;

Community or Education facilities and provision of support;

Social and Welfare support and therapy.

Applications should be made in writing, including a copy of the most recent charity accounts. Send to:

Shoosmiths Foundation

About Us: The Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.
Criteria: Offering UK-based registered charities grants for projects that advance access to justice in Shoosmiths locations across the UK. Proposed projects should achieve one of the following:
Sustaining or improving community access to specialist legal advice.
Leveraging organisation’s and educational institution’s pro bono programmes to increase access to justice.
Projects must address underrepresentation and support intersectionality more broadly. For example, projects that not only support access to justice prospects but also address other factors of underrepresentation such as:

Characteristics listed in the Equality Act 2010.
Ex-military personnel.
People with convictions.
People experiencing homelessness.
Long-term unemployed.
Refugees.
Care-experienced individuals
Grant Size: Between £25,000 and £50,000
Deadline for applications: 4pm on 18th April

Matthew Good Foundation

About Us: Grants for Good is funded by the John Good Group and is designed to direct funding only to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment.
Criteria: To be eligible, applicants must:
Be a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment.
Have an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months.
Have a bank account in the organisation’s name
Grant Size: Up to £5,000
Deadline for applications: Ongoing

CLA Charitable Trust

About Us: We support charitable organisations that access the benefits of the countryside to pursue the health and wellbeing of people and to provide opportunities for education about the countryside in England and Wales.
Criteria: The CLA Charitable Trust awards grants to small and medium sized charities and not for profit organisations such as CICs that access the benefits of the countryside to pursue the health and wellbeing of people and to provide opportunities for education about the countryside in England and Wales. The Trust prioritises organisations working with children and young people and those disadvantaged financially, physically, mentally, or from areas of deprivation.
Examples of eligible activities engaging young people and communities in these areas include, but are not limited to:

Farms providing day or residential experiences for disabled or disadvantaged young people.
Growing projects including horticultural therapy and community projects supporting people through outdoor activities and gardening.
Forest school type activities giving people the opportunity to utilise their outdoor spaces for the benefit of their mental and physical wellbeing.
Conservation and environmental projects giving people the chance to learn about the natural environment and how to care for it.
Grant Size: Up to: £5,000
Deadline for applications: Ongoing

Libraries Improvement Fund – Arts Council England

This fund will enable library services across England to invest in a range of projects to upgrade buildings and technology so they are better placed to respond to the changing ways people are using them.

Local authorities can apply for capital expenditure between £50,000 to £500,000.

Expressions of interest will open on 6 May and close on 30 May 2025.

The Big Bike Revival – Cycling UK

The Big Bike Revival is an intervention for adults aimed at encouraging an uptake in cycling. By providing solutions to perceived barriers, adults are enabled to learn to how to cycle and to increase their cycling levels for short, everyday journeys. Events focus on presenting cycling as a practical, normal and habitual way to get around locally.

The Big Bike Revival is delivered across England by a wide range of community-embedded partners. Typically, these are volunteer-led groups, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are rooted in local communities and working to address a range of local needs. Such groups can apply for grants to run events as part of Big Bike Revival.

Grant funding is available for any amount up to £3,500.

For Grants of £2,000, partners should be able to deliver at least 6 events.
For Grants of £3,500, partners should be able to deliver at least 10 events.
Events must take place between 18 April and 31 October 2025. The deadline for applications is 14 July.

Physical Activity Grants Programme – Parkinson’s UK

This programme supports activity providers, communities, networks, organisations and others to develop opportunities for people with Parkinson’s to become and stay active.

Projects must run for a minimum of 12 weeks and a maximum of 52 weeks and must start within 12 weeks of receiving the grant.

Applications can be made for a minimum of £500 up to a maximum of £3,000. Up to 100% of costs are available if required,

Applications opened on 10 March and will remain open until all funds are allocated.

Football Foundation grants

Football Foundation grants are available to football clubs, schools, councils and local sports associations under the following categories:

Goalposts
Storage containers
Portable floodlights
Changing pavilions and clubhouses
3G pitch maintenance machinery and equipment
Fencing
3G pitches
Creation of new grass pitches
Small-sided facility improvements
Grass pitch improvement
Grass pitch drainage
Grass pitch maintenance machinery and equipment
Premier League defibrillator fund
Premier League stadium fund
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Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation

The Charitable Foundation has identified two focus areas through which it aims to drive social impact.

Helping people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to:

access a place to call home.
and improve financial wellbeing.
The trustees will select charities based on their alignment with one or both focus areas. The Foundation has committed to fund UK registered charities, where successful, up to a maximum of £10,000.

The current application round will close on 1 May 2025.

Community Tree Planting Fund – Network Rail

The Tree Council and Network Rail work in partnership to deliver a programme of community tree planting. Together, they have already planted more than 300,000 trees in 108 communities across the UK.

Funding for projects is awarded in three bands:

Main Grants – Projects between £2,500 and £5,000
Large Grants – Projects between £5,000 and £10,000
Flagship Grants – Projects over £10,000 and up to £15,000
Flagship Grants will be awarded in limited numbers to those projects that deliver a significant impact across our programme priorities.

Funding is now open and all details are on the website.

Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund – The Tree Council

Healthy Heart Grants – Heart Research UK
Healthy Heart Grants of up to £15,000 are available for community projects aimed at supporting adults to reduce their risk of coronary heart disease, helping them to live healthier, happier and longer lives. The grants are available to charities and community interest companies across the UK.

The application windows for 2025 in England are:

England North: 7 May to 4 June
England South: 16 July to 13 August
Healthy Heart Grants – Heart Research UK

Youth Music Trailblazer Fund

The Youth Music Trailblazer fund offers grants of £2,000 to £30,000 to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).

Your work must meet one of the Fund’s themes:

Early years
Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
Youth justice system
Young people facing barriers
Young adults
Organisations and the workforce.
The deadline for applications is 11 April 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.

Neighbourhood Planning Grant Funding – Locality

Government has confirmed the continued importance attached to supporting neighbourhood planning and on 1 October 2024 launched the procurement process for the new contract for Neighbourhood Planning Support Services for 2025 to 2027. Government intend to sign the new contract in April 2025 for the new services to open from July 2025.

To read more on funding opportunities, click the Rural Services Network April 2025 Funding Digest.

Home Instead Charities

Money raised from our dedicated network of Home Instead Offices and external supporters fund groups who support the mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing of ageing adults.

If you are a small grass roots organisation you can apply for funding up to £500. If you are a small local registered charity you can apply for funding up to £1,500. If your group is a registered charity, you must attach a copy of your governing document AND your last set of accounts. If either of these documents are missing, we will not be able to process your application.

Most of your group members must be over 55 years old or the project you are requesting funding for must benefit people aged over 55. The project must support its members through activities and projects that support wellbeing or reduce social isolation and/or loneliness. Your group must be open and inclusive irrespective of race, religion, disability, sex or sexual orientation.

We will only fund individuals if it is to provide access to your group, i.e. transport costs or communications devices to access your groups activities. We will only fully fund grant requests from organisations who hold no more than 3 months operating costs in reserve. If you have more than this, the charity will only co-fund your project up to a maximum 50% of the funding required.

We will consider applications from groups, associations and charities that do not service the over 50s directly but the project they require funding for does, i.e., a local school wishes to hold a special afternoon tea for its local care home residents.

If you are a registered charity your application must be accompanied by a copy of your constitution and annual accounts.

The National Lottery – Reaching Communities

About Us: With this funding we’ll help strengthen communities and improve lives across England. Our funding is available to all communities. But our priority is the places, people and communities that need it most.
Criteria: Voluntary or community organisations in England. Our priorities are to fund projects that:
support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination
and
support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.
And your project must achieve one of our missions. Which are to support communities to:

Come together, through inclusive places, spaces and activities (either physical or virtual). Especially for communities where people are least able to come together.
Help children and young people thrive, by developing positive social and emotional skills.
Be healthier, by addressing health inequalities. And helping prevent poor health.
Be environmentally sustainable. By engaging with climate issues and having a positive environmental impact. And improving access to quality natural spaces.
Grant Size: £20,001 to £500,000
Deadline for applications: Rolling

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