Funding Opportunities in December

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Calisen Impact Charitable Trust

About Us: We fund charitable initiatives that champion sustainable energy solutions and foster inclusive, safe, and diverse educational and work environments.
Criteria: This Manchester based charity offers grants to UK registered charities based and working in England, Scotland or Wales. The funding will support the costs of projects that align with the Trust’s core objectives which are:
Youth Empowerment,
Children’s Play and Safe Spaces – supporting schools, youth clubs and programmes that actively reduce social exclusion, improve physical and mental wellbeing, and equip young people with life and employment skills through hands-on engagement.
Hospice and Palliative Care – support for projects that complement and enhance the essential work of hospices, focusing on initiatives that improve comfort and dignity for patients and families. (Core clinical operations or NHS-run hospices are not eligible).
Community-Based Social Benefit Projects – support for initiatives that strengthen local communities through direct support, such as food banks, befriending schemes, accessible transport services, or improvements to shared facilities that promote inclusion and wellbeing.
Community-Led Environmental Action – support for hands-on projects that enhance local environments and foster community wellbeing, including but not limited to tree planting, habitat restoration, community gardens, and the creation or improvement of outdoor spaces designed for public use.
Net-Zero and Energy Efficiency Projects – invests in infrastructure for charities whose core mission aligns with one of the other funding priorities that drives immediate carbon reduction – including but not limited to solar panel installations, heat pump systems, and retrofit schemes – with demonstrable environmental and cost-saving benefits.
Grant Size: up to £10,000
Deadline for applications: 31st December 2025

Radcliffe Trust

About Us: The Radcliffe Trust supports music, heritage and crafts.
Criteria: Grants for not-for-profit groups, and exempt organisations across the UK to support projects in the areas of music or heritage and crafts.
Grant Size: up to £7,500
Deadline for applications: 31st January 2026

Heathrow Community Take Off Fund

About Us: The Heathrow Community Take Off Fund (HCTOF) supports part of our ‘Giving Back Programme’ which sets out our goal to make the areas around Heathrow better places to live.​
Criteria: HCTOF funding will be allocated to support projects delivering:​

  • ​Health & Wellbeing​
  • Community Collaboration & Inclusivity​
  • Environmental Improvement​
  • Children/ youth, learning & development​
  • Legacy projects that support communities for years to come​

If you have a community project that would benefit from Heathrow funding, based on the above criteria, please contact communityrelations@heathrow.com
Grant Size: Not stated
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme

Schroder Charity Trust

Following a strategic review of the Schroder Charity Trust’s grant-making programme, we are only considering applications for work under the following two objectives:

Objective (1): Enabling children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive and achieve their potential in education and employment.

Objective (2): Strengthening communities through services and opportunities which enhance the wellbeing and life outcomes of vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

The Schroder Charity Trust typically makes grants of up to £5,000. We fund both core costs and project (restricted) costs. Grants are for a one-year period and not over multiple years.

Deadline: The eligibility questionnaire and application form for the next application window will go live at 9am on the 1st October 2025 and the window will remain open from 1st October – 30th November 2025. We anticipate making decisions on grants within four months of the application window closing. Application window dates for 2026 will be published on the Schroder Charity Trust website by the 31st December 2025.

The Kelly Family Foundation

The Kelly Family Charitable Trust is a grant-giving body founded in 2004 by members of the Kelly family.

We’re interested in funding charities whose activities involve all or most family members, where possible, in initiatives that seek to tackle problems facing one or more of its members. We’ve funded charities working in fields including early intervention, mediation, prison services and services for families affected by sexual abuse, physical abuse and domestic violence, among others.

We generally offer grants worth up to £5,000 – though trustees will consider requests for higher amounts. We’re happy to fund charities’ core costs and we encourage applications from relatively new charities to help them become established.

The trustees take a close interest in the progress of the charities they support, and projects shortlisted for grants will be contacted by the trust’s grants administrator Stuart Armstrong, or a trustee. The Trust only make grants to organisations whose activities take place within the UK.

The trust has decided to prioritise its funding in favour of charities whose activities involve all or most family members where possible, in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members. The objective is to reinforce the benefit and support that family members as a unit can give to each other.

The three areas of activity that the charity wishes to support are:

Interventions that support families and help them in ways that prevent the fracture of the family unit, eg practical family support, relationship counselling, mediation
Families where sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse threaten the integrity of the family unit
Prisoners and in particular their families, during and after the period of imprisonment
The trust prefers to support charities whose income is below £500,000. However, larger charities with pioneering pilot projects will be considered.

The trust will consider both capital and revenue grants. The trust is happy to support requests for core funding as well as project-based grants, and actively encourages applications from relatively new organisations to help them become established.

Community and Shared Transport Grants Available From the Motability Foundation

The Motability Foundation are currently accepting applications for their Community and Shared Transport grants. These are intended to help community transport providers make an immediate impact in their local area by developing, expanding and improving transport options for disabled people.

Available over a period of one to three years, grants can be used to address local needs and challenges by organisations that have been active for at least three years.

There are two different grants available depending on the level of funding required:

Small Grants

1- Suitable for small community transport operators.

2- Requests can be up from the value of £50,000 to £149,999 to help cover the costs of staff, vehicles & their associated costs, as well as training.

Apply for a Small Grant

Large Grants

1- Suitable for medium-large community transport operators

2- Requests can be up from the value of £150,000 to £1 million to help cover the costs of staff, vehicles & their associated costs, as well as training.

Apply for a Large Grant

Applications must be received by 23 December 2025.

Funding for Charities Working with Older People Programme

This initiative aims to support UK-registered charities and local authorities that provide care and services for older individuals, particularly those with neurodegenerative conditions or experiencing social isolation.

The grant focuses on capital projects that enhance the quality, accessibility, and sustainability of services.

Eligible organisations must be UK registered charities or local authorities. If applicable, they should have at least a ‘Good’ rating from a regulator such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Projects should also aim to increase the financial sustainability of the organisation.

Applicants can request grants ranging from £25,000 to £75,000.
Applications deadline : Applications follow a two-stage process. The deadline for Stage 1 applications is 5 January 2026. Organisations invited to proceed will have until 1 March 2026 to submit a full application.

Arts Council National Lottery

Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants is our funding programme for arts, museums and libraries projects.

The programme supports a broad range of high quality creative and cultural projects that benefit people living in England.

Projects can range from creating and delivering creative and cultural activity to projects which have a longer term positive impact, such as organisational development, research and development, and sector support activity.

We aim to broadly reflect the diversity of England through the grants we make.
Applications are open for the £30,000 and under strand of our National Lottery Project Grants programme. We’re currently using alternative online systems to support you in making your application. All questions remain the same in our new process, and the guidance below can support your preparation.

Deadline: Submit your full application, ensuring that you use the link at the bottom of this webpage. We’ll get back to you with a decision within 12 weeks of your submission date for applications submitted from 3 November, or within 10 weeks for applications submitted before 3 November. For applications we receive between 20 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, when our offices are closed, the turnaround time will be 14 weeks.  

The Calisen Charitable Trust

We’re committed to supporting projects that deliver maximum impact with minimal waste. We believe that small, well-targeted grants can unlock significant change, especially when driven by organisations that know their communities best.

That’s why we look for:

  • A well-defined problem and a practical solution
  • Direct action with clear, measurable outcomes
  • A commitment to social or environmental benefit through physical delivery; not through education or awareness alone
  • Efficient use of funds with transparent reporting of the impact achieved
  • Tangible and direct interventions with clear and immediate benefit

We want every pound we invest to stretch as far as possible – creating real impact for people, places, and the planet.

Our funding priorities are geographically targeted across Great Britain, with a particular focus on where Calisen operates and where our employees live. This approach ensures our support is rooted in the communities we know best. The fifth category, Net-Zero & Energy Efficiency Projects, is open to eligible charities across Great Britain, provided their core mission aligns with one of the other four funding areas.
The Trustees will accept applications for funding based on their alignment with the Charity’s core objectives which are detailed as follows:

Youth Empowerment, Children’s Play & Safe Spaces

  • Supporting schools, youth clubs and programmes that actively reduce social exclusion, improve physical and mental wellbeing, and equip young people with life and employment skills through hands-on engagement.
    Hospice & Palliative Care
  • We fund projects that complement and enhance the essential work of hospices, focusing on initiatives that improve comfort and dignity for patients and families. We do not fund core clinical operations or NHS-run hospices.
    Community-Based Social Benefit Projects
  • Enabling initiatives that strengthen local communities through direct support, such as food banks, befriending schemes, accessible transport services, or improvements to shared facilities that promote inclusion and wellbeing.
    Community-Led Environmental Action
  • Funding hands-on projects that enhance local environments and foster community wellbeing, including but not limited to tree planting, habitat restoration, community gardens, and the creation or improvement of outdoor spaces designed for public use.
    Net-Zero & Energy Efficiency Projects
  • Investing in infrastructure for charities whose core mission aligns with one of our other funding priorities that drives immediate carbon reduction – including but not limited to solar panel installations, heat pump systems, and retrofit schemes – with demonstrable environmental and cost-saving benefits.

Maximum Grant Available: £10,000 per project.

The Ironmongers Charity

The Ironmongers’ Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential.
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We are looking for projects that deliver clearly defined educational benefits to a specific group of children or young people. Projects could, for example, support special educational needs, or foster social, emotional or life skills. Preference will be given to projects piloting new approaches where the outcomes will be disseminated to a wider audience.

Grants range from £3,000 up to around £10,000. Preference will be given to requests where the grant would cover a significant element of the project costs (at least 50%) and to applications from smaller charities.

Grants must be spent within twelve months from the date of the award.

Recipients are expected to submit a written evaluation report within three months of the completion of the project.

Grants are only given to registered charities. We do not give grants to community interest companies.​

All of the criteria must be met. Projects must:

Have a commencement date after 31 October 2025 (Spring 2025 round) or 30 April 2026 (Autumn 2025 round)

Be for children and young people under the age of 25 who are disadvantaged

Consist of educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills

Have clear aims and objectives to be met within a planned timescale

Be carried out within the UK.

The National Churches Trust’s Medium Grants Programme (UK)

About Us: Protecting church heritage.
Criteria: To listed and unlisted Christian places of worship, of any denomination, across the UK towards project development and investigative work up to RIBA planning stage 1, to support churches preparing for a major project, and in developing their project to the point at which they can approach a major grant funder.
Grant Size: Up to £10,000
Deadline for applications: 16th December 2025

Friends of the Elderly

About Us: Friends of the Elderly provides grants to older people living on low incomes.
Criteria: To support vulnerable older people living on low incomes in England and Wales. The funding which is being made available through the charity Friends of the Elderly assists individuals and couples who are of or over the state pension age, have savings of less than £5,000, and do not meet the criteria for other funders. The funding aims to assist with various needs such as purchasing a new fridge, paying unexpected bills, obtaining food and clothing, or covering gas and electricity costs. To apply for these grants, individuals must submit their applications through a third-party Referral Agent. Acceptable Referral Agents include charities, local authorities, housing associations, community organisations, Information, Advice and Guidance providers, as well as social services representatives.
Grant Size: up to £600
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme

Calisen Impact Charity Trust

About Us: We’re committed to supporting projects that deliver maximum impact with minimal waste.
Criteria: The Trustees will accept applications for funding based on their alignment with the Charity’s core objectives which are detailed as follows:
Youth Empowerment, Children’s Play & Safe Spaces

  • Supporting schools, youth clubs and programmes that actively reduce social exclusion, improve physical and mental wellbeing, and equip young people with life and employment skills through hands-on engagement.
    Hospice & Palliative Care
  • We fund projects that complement and enhance the essential work of hospices, focusing on initiatives that improve comfort and dignity for patients and families. We do not fund core clinical operations or NHS-run hospices.
    Community-Based Social Benefit Projects
  • Enabling initiatives that strengthen local communities through direct support, such as food banks, befriending schemes, accessible transport services, or improvements to shared facilities that promote inclusion and wellbeing.
    Community-Led Environmental Action
  • Funding hands-on projects that enhance local environments and foster community wellbeing, including but not limited to tree planting, habitat restoration, community gardens, and the creation or improvement of outdoor spaces designed for public use.
    Net-Zero & Energy Efficiency Projects
  • Investing in infrastructure for charities whose core mission aligns with one of our other funding priorities that drives immediate carbon reduction – including but not limited to solar panel installations, heat pump systems, and retrofit schemes – with demonstrable environmental and cost-saving benefits.
    Grant Size: £10,000 per project
    Deadline for applications: Rolling programme

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

Funding Opportunities in November

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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.

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.

Contains content from Volunteer Centre West Berkshire, Wokingham & Bracknell InVOLve, Slough CVS and Rural Services Network online.

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

With thanks to Rural Services Network, Slough CVD, West Berkshire Volunteer Centre and Bracknell & Wokingham InVOLve for the information contained in this article.

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.