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.

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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

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 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.