Funding Opportunities in April

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Newly Opened: Lloyds Bank Foundation – Local Collaborations Programme

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

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

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

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

Newly Reopened: One Stop Community Grants

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deadline:

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

Eling Estate

The key objectives for the Trust and Estate include:

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

The relief of sickness and/or poverty;

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

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

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

An applicant must be an established registered charity;

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

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

Grants for projects rather than general running costs are favoured;

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

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

Community or Education facilities and provision of support;

Social and Welfare support and therapy.

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

Shoosmiths Foundation

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

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

Matthew Good Foundation

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

CLA Charitable Trust

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

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

Libraries Improvement Fund – Arts Council England

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

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

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

The Big Bike Revival – Cycling UK

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

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

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

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

Physical Activity Grants Programme – Parkinson’s UK

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

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

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

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

Football Foundation grants

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

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

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

Helping people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to:

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

The current application round will close on 1 May 2025.

Community Tree Planting Fund – Network Rail

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

Funding for projects is awarded in three bands:

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

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

Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund – The Tree Council

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

The application windows for 2025 in England are:

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

Youth Music Trailblazer Fund

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

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

Early years
Disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent young people
Youth justice system
Young people facing barriers
Young adults
Organisations and the workforce.
The deadline for applications is 11 April 2025.

Community support small grants – Trusthouse Charitable Foundation

Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 are available to charities and not for profit organisations for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Projects must have a focus on Community Support and address urban and rural deprivation in the UK.

if you are located in a rural area, you must be in the bottom 50% most deprived areas according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Your annual income must not exceed £250,000 and you can secure 50% of the total project costs.

This is a rolling programme with no deadlines.

Neighbourhood Planning Grant Funding – Locality

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

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

Home Instead Charities

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

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

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

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

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

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

The National Lottery – Reaching Communities

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

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

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

Funding Opportunities in March

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Screwfix Foundation

We are passionate about making a difference to those in need. We are a grant-making charity with a clear charitable purpose to support projects that improve, fix and repair buildings, homes and facilities specifically used by PEOPLE IN NEED throughout the UK. We donate grants in the region of £5,000 to charities and not for profit organisations. Prioritising those that will create a longer-term difference and where our donation will make an impact and fund the total cost (or the majority) of a project. The Screwfix Foundation is governed by the Board of Trustees and managed by The Screwfix Foundation Manager.

To be considered for a grant, your organisation AND project must meet the criteria noted below: Organisation criteria Project eligibility Your organisation must be a charity or not for profit company based in the UK and:

• Registered as a charity in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; or • Registered as a Not for Profit company at Companies House or the registered on the FCA mutuals register. We fund projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need. The types of projects we fund are: • Improved energy efficient lighting & heating • Installation of new kitchen, bathroom etc. • Installation of a sensory room • General painting & decorating • Improving safety and security of a building We are unable to donate products or vouchers from Screwfix and unable to fund: • Items that are easily removable from a property such as soft furnishings, curtains, tables, chairs etc. • White goods or electronic items • Grants for research • Purchase of vehicles • Purchase of garden machinery or removeable furniture such as lawnmowers, chairs or plants. • Repayment of loans • Annual Rent or service charges • Sponsorships • Salaries We do not support projects which will used by general members of the public i.e., sports clubs and associations, uniformed groups such as scout and girl guide groups or organisations that support wildlife or animals as their main beneficiary

Deadline: Rolling

Bracknell Forest: Dementia Friendly Homes

Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Bracknell Forest Council has grants available, up to £2,000, for people with dementia to help make their homes more dementia friendly. Works could include changing lights to improve brightness and visibility, redecorating walls to make rooms feel calmer, replacing floor coverings that cause confusion or safety issues, ensuring safe access to the property, and/or provision of a safe space. This list is not exhaustive and each case will be considered with help and advice from our occupational therapy service.

Heathrow Community Trust – Environment and Sustainability

About Us: Are you working to reduce energy consumption, tackle climate change, boost recycling or create a nature reserve? Do you have ideas to make your community more sustainable? Are you encouraging wildlife back into your neighbourhood? If so, you could qualify for a grant from our Environment and Sustainability Grants programme.
Criteria: Available for groups including charities, voluntary groups, schools, colleges, local authorities and Community Interest Companies working in Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Slough, Spelthorne, Richmond, Runnymede, South Bucks, or Windsor & Maidenhead.
Grant Size: up to £15,000 per year for up to two years
Deadline for applications: 3rd April 2025

Asda Foundation Young Futures Fund

About Us: Supporting grassroots groups to improve mental health and wellbeing for teens and young people (13-21 years) to help build better futures.
Criteria: Not-for-profit groups and organisations with an income of less than £250,000 and who already have an existing service for young people within the 13-21 age group can apply.
Applicants need to meet at least one of the following objectives:

Provide services that support, educate and empower.
Connect young people to their peers.
Support rehabilitation and recovery and provide shelter.
Deliver activities / programmes that improve physical health and wellbeing.
The funding can be used for a number of different things. Examples of the kinds of items and services that could be funded include, but are not limited to:

Intervention and prevention programmes to address social issues.
Essential items for crisis support, such as clothes, food and hygiene items for a homeless shelter focusing on young people.
Delivery of specialist support or services or speakers.
Group drop-in and talking sessions.
Workshops to upskill and deliver life skills (cooking, finance, employment, CV writing).
Resources for recreational activities, eg, craft materials, board games
Sports kit and/or equipment (cap £500).
Volunteering costs (cap £100 per person).
Peer support events, and activities that bring people together.
The grant must be used and projects completed by September 2025.

Grant Size: up to £1,000
Deadline for applications: The application window opens on 27th February 2025 (noon) and closes on 13th March 2025 (noon)

The Arts Society

About Us: We believe in Arts for All and will use our grants to make a positive contribution to people’s lives through the arts. Never has there been a greater need to support our local arts organisations and museums and continue the vital contribution of skills development in the arts and heritage sector.
Criteria: Available for UK-registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £3 million to deliver projects across all aspects of the arts, crafts, and heritage and support local and regional art museums and organisations.
Funding is available for projects such as:

Projects that support a wide range of activities to introduce people of all ages and backgrounds to artistic experiences and practice, such as the development and training of skills in the arts, crafts, and heritage through bursaries, sponsorships, and crafts apprenticeships.
Support for regional museums, galleries, and arts organisations, such as:
Special projects.
Displays.
Internships and part-time posts.
Training.
Conservation activities.
Regional and local theatres and performing arts spaces and groups.

Grant Size: up to £2,000
Deadline for applications: 31st March 2025

Small Charity Week match funding campaign

About Us: Seven-day online campaign, running between 23rd-30th June 2025. Donations made during the campaign will be doubled through Big Give’s match funding model, thanks to the generosity of Champion funders, including the players of People’s Postcode Lottery. This means each pound donated goes twice as far in empowering small charities in their mission.
Criteria: Charities with an annual income between £5,000 and £1 million are eligible to apply for match funding, helping them to raise vital funds and maximise their impact.
Grant Size: Charities seeking to raise either £500, £1,000, £2500, £5,000, or £10,000 in public donations (to be doubled by the match funds).
Deadline for applications: 2nd April 2025

Turners Court Youth Trust

Applications are considered from registered charities and small community groups whose work is based around the Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire region and is focused on the needs of vulnerable and disaffected children and young people up to the age of 23.

It should be noted that the Trust can only make grants available for projects or groups that exist for charitable purposes.

  • Projects will be assessed as to the positive difference they will make to children and young people with regard to one or more of the following:
  • Early life experiences, particularly for those whose personal circumstances are challenging and difficult.
  • Emotional, social and physical safety and/or well-being.
  • Personal safety and protection from harm and neglect.
  • Involvement in activities that help them overcome barriers to education and employment and to achieve their full potential in life.
  • Development of independent life and work skills.
  • Prevention from entering the judicial system.

Ordinarily one-off grants of between £250 and £5,000 are awarded for appropriate projects which can demonstrate that they will make a difference to children and young people. However, depending on the circumstances and subject to approval of Trustees larger grants may be considered.

Your application will be considered by the Trustees, and you will be contacted soon after their decision, which is final.

Please then send your application to Turners Court Youth Trust either by: Email to grants@turnerscourt.org.uk Or post to the registered address: 30 High Street, Wendover, Buckinghamshire HP22 6EA and mark the envelope ‘TCYT Grant Application’. Your application will be considered by the Trustees, and you will be contacted soon after their decision, which is final.

Hall and Woodhouse Community Chest

Applications are welcome from any voluntary or community organisation that is based, or works in, our trading area across the south of England, from Devon to Sussex and in the north from Bristol to Twickenham. NB: Awards will only be considered for organisations with a total income of more than £200,000 in very special circumstances.

Grants or funds raised could be used to support the following:

Youth work and activities
Sports and social clubs
Elderly and people with disabilities
Health and social care
Local arts and culture
Conservation and the environment
Please note: Applications will not be considered from national organisations or those that are profit making or political.

Groups can apply for grants or fundraising support ranging from £300 and £3,000 to help achieve their aims. These grants or fundraising commitments could be used towards things such as equipment and furniture, training, transport, professional assistance, specific project resources or operational costs that will help your cause.

The Four Barrows Foundation

We give grants to Primary Schools and Charities who provide opportunities for pre-school and primary age children. We believe these organisations are most likely to understand the areas, children and groups who are likely to benefit from extra support. We are not able to support any other organisation.

We support organisations in specific areas – because they are local to our trustees: Lothian and Fife Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey.

We aim to provide annual grants between £1,000 and £3,000. We understand these efforts often require a long-term commitment, so funding may be provided for more than one year.

Newly Opened: Warburtons Community Grants

Warburtons Community Grants provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.

Based on our localism approach, our community investment funds are allocated to our local bakeries and depots. This helps our Community Champions to make the best decisions for our local communities. We will use your postcode to understand which of our sites is closest to you and they will then receive the application and make a decision.

Deadline: 5th May 2025

Project Groundwater Innovation Fund

Grants are available for charities, small-to-medium enterprises, voluntary and community groups, and other organisations across the Berkshire Downs (Lambourn Valley) to deliver projects that address groundwater flooding while benefitting local communities.

Application deadline: 17th March 2025 (9am)

Grow Wild Youth Grants

Grants are available for young individuals (aged 16 to 25 years) in the UK to deliver a creative project that celebrates why UK native plants and/or fungi are so special. Young people must have a supporting organisation to help them deliver the project. An webinar giving information about the scheme will be held on 26 February 2025 (12:00 to 12:45pm) – you can register via the link below.

Application deadline: 19th March 2025 (3pm)

Peter Harrison Foundation

Active Lives Funding:
The Trustees have decided to focus our limited resources by prioritising applications which meet all of the following criteria:

work with people living with disabilities in the top 10% of areas of deprivation (Indices of Multiple Deprivation decile 1) AND
from organisations with a track record of working with this population AND
have a robust plan for wider impact of the project through dissemination, training etc


To avoid wasting your time, please ensure you meet our revised eligibility and funding criteria before starting an application.

Type of funding: We will consider applications for capital, project or core funding.

Location of project: Anywhere in the United Kingdom. Grant amount: We accept applications for £5,001 – £30,000. Grant period: You can apply for a grant spread over 1, 2 or 3 years

Positive Futures Projects:

The Trustees have decided to focus our limited resources by prioritising applications which meet all of the following criteria:

work with children and young people living in the top 10% of areas of deprivation (Indices of Multiple Deprivation decile 1) AND
from organisations with a track record of working with this population AND
have a robust plan for wider impact of the project through dissemination, training etc
To avoid wasting your time, please ensure you meet our revised eligibility and funding criteria before starting an application.

Type of funding: We will consider applications for capital, project or core funding.

Location of project: South East of England (Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; Hampshire; Isle of Wight; Kent; Oxfordshire; Surrey; East Sussex; and West Sussex only).

Grant amount: We accept applications for £5,001 – £30,000. Grant period: You can apply for a grant spread over 1, 2 or 3 years

The Alpkit Foundation

About Us: It makes small awards that support grass roots, direct action projects where a positive difference can be made to remove the barriers in getting outdoors and experience the benefits of time spent outdoors.
Criteria: Community groups, schools and organisations based and working within the UK can apply for grants to support:
Diversity and inclusion projects that engage individual and groups from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Environmental projects that seek to support, conserve, or generate understanding of our environment and wild places.
Health projects enabling people to gain physical and mental wellbeing from the Great Outdoors.
Education projects such as First Aid, D of E, Forest Schools and Mountain Leader.
Participation projects that get more people experiencing the Great Outdoors.
Grant Size: Between £50 and £500
Deadline for applications: Applications can be submitted at any time and will be considered every two months.

Grants For Good

Applications close on Saturday 15th March.
These grants are 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. To be eligible, applicants must be a local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise that has a positive impact on communities, people or the environment, must have an average income of less than £50,000 in the last 12 months, and must have a bank account in the organisation’s name.
The top five shortlisted projects will receive between £2,000 and £5,000. Find out more.

Community Impact Fund

Applications close on Thurs 20th March.
Small grants of up to £1,000 are available for charities, CIOs, and CICs across the UK to deliver projects and activities that benefit local communities across the themes of environment, sustainability, creativity, and local issues.
By fostering innovation and collaboration, we aim to enhance the well-being of our community and promote sustainable development.
We invite community groups and charitable organisations to apply for funding to bring their impactful projects to life.

The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust

The objectives of the Trust are:

  • to promote horticulture;
  • to promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity through the application of horticultural techniques
  • to promote the creation, development, preservation and maintenance of gardens (preference will normally, but not exclusively, be given to gardens accessible to the public); and
  • the advancement of horticultural education.

The Trust achieves its objectives by making grants to individuals, organisations and institutions carrying out projects of significance to:

  • horticulture;
  • gardening; or
  • botany with a strong horticultural element.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of typical projects.

  • restoring gardens of historic interest;
  • developing new gardens, or new garden areas within existing gardens, for public access and enjoyment;
  • exhibitions, book publications, research and educational programmes relating to horticulture;
  • expeditions and travel to study, collect and protect plants of scientific and horticultural value;
  • study-visits by horticulturists or botanists with strong horticultural links, and
  • gardeners’ training schemes run by appropriate organisations (but not to individuals, see Training and Traineeships).

The maximum grant is £5,000 but some organisations only require modest sums and applicants are welcome to apply for grants of less than £500. Typical grants are usually in the range of £3,500- £5,000.

Only one grant is usually made for each project but it is possible for subsequent grants to be made to the same individual or organisation for a new project or an additional component of the original project over two or three years. 

Deadline: Grants are normally awarded twice a year, in April and September (following application deadlines of 15 February and 15 August).

Rural Funding Digest March 2025

Thank you to Slough CVS, West Berkshire Volunteer Centre and Bracknell & Wokingham InVOLve.

New Year Funding Opportunities

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BHF’s Community Defibrillator Funding Programme

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has recently reopened their Community Defibrillator Funding Programme.

This scheme allows local community groups to apply and potentially receive a free defibrillator and cabinet which must then be made accessible for use within the local community.

In areas where health inequalities exist, survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest are reduced, so this scheme may be of significant assistance to these areas. Follow the link below to see if your group is eligible.

BHF expect to close applications by 5pm on Friday 28th February 2025. They may close applications earlier depending on the volume received, so groups are advised to apply early.

Royal Countryside Fund

About Us: The UK-wide Supporting Rural Communities grant programme launches on Friday 10th January 2025. This funding will support transformative, community-led initiatives, unlocking the huge potential for positive change in rural communities. Their aim is to support innovative solutions that will “power up, not prop up” communities, inspiring change and encouraging economic vibrancy.
Criteria: Not for Profit organisations (excluding Town and Parish Councils) can apply for grants to deliver activities along the themes of:
* Keeping young people in the countryside
* Powering up rural communities
* Increasing environmental sustainability
* Building emergency resilience in rural areas.
Grant Size: of up to £25,000 over a period of 24 months.
Deadline for applications: Deadline for expressions of interest is 21st February 2025

Berkshire Community Foundation Vital for Berkshire Fund

About Us: The fund aims to support charities, community groups and projects that work to tackle the most salient and pressing issues within Berkshire’s communities at any given time.
Criteria: We invite applications for grants from charities, community groups and projects that support vital needs in Berkshire, such as (but not limited to):

  • physical and mental health
  • supporting young and vulnerable people or groups
  • combating isolation, tackling poverty and disadvantage
  • offering equal opportunities for all
    Grant Size: up to £5,000
    Deadline for applications: 10am on 16th January 2025

Greenham Trust – Peter Baker Grants

Grants are distributed in line with the original intentions of Peter Baker; for charitable purposes within a 20-mile radius of Market Place, Newbury, Berkshire.

Application deadline: 13th January 2025

Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

Grants are available for UK registered charities undertaking projects to support those in need of a safe and secure home.

Application deadline: 10th February 2025

Imperial Polythene Community Impact Fund

About Us: Imperial Polythene is proud to announce the launch of the Imperial Community Impact Fund; a new initiative designed to support local community groups and charities committed to making a positive difference.
Criteria: To encourage and empower local organisations working in the fields of environment, sustainability, creativity, and addressing local problems.
Grant Size: Up to £1,000 per project
Deadline for applications: Thursday 20 March 2025

Youth Music Trailblazer Fund

About Us: Youth Music’s Trailblazer Fund aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through.
Criteria: Funding is available for projects for children and young people (aged 25 or under) to make music activity more inclusive and foster learning, creation and employment opportunities.The fund provides grants for organisations that want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three). Priority is given to small organisations with limited resources, those supporting children and young people facing barriers, and established groups seeking to innovate.
Grant Size: Two levels of grants are available:
• Grants of £2,000 to £15,000 are available to organisations of less than one year old.
• Grants of £2,000 to £30,000 are available to organisations of more than one year old.
Deadline for applications: 5pm on 11th April 2025

National Archives Engagement Grants

About Us: The Engagement Grants Programme offers grants for organisations to conduct outreach and engagement projects that will connect archives with their communities in places across England and Wales.
Criteria: Public sector bodies, not-for-profit organisations including registered charities and business archives can apply for grants. This year’s theme is ‘Community’. Projects can either reach out to new audiences or connect with old audiences in new ways.
Grant Size: up to £3,000
Deadline for applications: 5pm on 17th January 2025

Idlewild Trust

About Us: We support learning programmes that provide opportunities for professional musicians, dancers, actors, writers, artists and those involved creatively in the arts at an early stage in their career. We also support the conservation of nationally/internationally important works of art and historic objects.
Criteria: The Trust offers grants to registered charities working in the following two areas:
• Arts Grants: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals – grants support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career.
• Conservation Grants: Objects and Works of Art – grants support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognised national and international importance in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings, or landscapes accessible to the public (also available to museums that are exempt charities).
Grant Size: up to £7,000
Deadline for applications: noon on 14th February 2025

The Kelly Family Charitable Trust

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.

Deadline: Grants are awarded twice a year. Applications must be submitted by 1st March and 1st September. The trustees will ask for more details from those charities that pass the initial screening and may visit them.

Barchester’s Charitable Trust

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation is a registered charity that helps older people and adults with a disability across England, Scotland, Wales and Jersey. Our focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community, and we support applications that combat loneliness and enable people to be active and engaged.

Our aim is to enrich lives and encourage an active lifestyle through arts, music, sports and culture for older people or adults living with a disability or mental health problems.

We are particularly keen to provide grants that enable groups and individuals to mix and join in social activities and reduce their danger of isolation and loneliness.

We help small community groups and local charities with activities, outings, equipment and materials for members/service users. Our grants range from £100 up to £2,500. Before starting the application, make sure to have a cost breakdown/budget and your latest annual accounts ready to upload.

Deadline: Rolling

Arnold Clark Community Fund: Cost of Living

What is the Cost-of-Living Support?
With the rising cost of living, more people than ever before are facing severe challenges and financial hardship. Our Cost-of-Living Support fund is available to organisations whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as foodbanks, accommodation or poverty relief, and any other organisation which falls into our eligibility 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.

Most organisations are eligible to apply, and we particularly welcome applications from smaller voluntary and community organisations who are working with those most affected and vulnerable to the increased cost of living. 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
Cost of Living Support | Arnold Clark Community Fund

Deadline: Rolling

The Wolfson Foundation

We have a wide range of funding programmes and activities. Our fundamental aim is to improve the civic health of society, mainly through education and research. More specifically, we support excellence in the fields of education, science & medicine, health & disability, and heritage, humanities & the arts.

Grants of between £15,000 and £150,000 are available to UK performing arts organisations for new build projects, refurbishment and major and specialist equipment to improve performance and training facilities.

Who Can Apply:

Charities working with disability * Charities working in mental health
Charities working with older people * Historic buildings & landscapes
Hospices & palliative care organisations * Places of worship
Libraries & archives * Museums & galleries
Performing arts organisations * Public engagement with science organisations funding
Secondary schools & sixth form colleges * Special needs schools & colleges
Universities & research institutions

Funding for places
About 85% of our funding is for capital infrastructure – buildings (new build or refurbishments) and equipment. These awards support excellence across education, science & medicine, heritage, humanities & the arts and health & disability.

Funding for people
A smaller proportion of our funding (about 15%) is for people, through scholarships or fellowships. We do not accept unsolicited applications under these programmes. We generally work with partner organisations who identify individuals for support.
Deadline: Rolling

Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants Programme

Small grants are available for local projects, activities and organisations that have charitable aims and that will be of real direct benefit to families.

Application deadline: 3rd February 2024

The Moto Foundation

Grants are available for community organisations and schools operating within a 15-mile radius of a Moto site for projects and activities that deliver benefits to local communities.

Application deadline: N/A

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

Funding Opportunities in December

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SNG Thriving Communities Fund

Deadline 20 December 2024

SNG (Sovereign Network Group) is a leading housing association, committed to improving customers’ wellbeing and developing thriving and resilient communities. Their Thriving Communities fund is aimed at supporting not-for-profit groups and organisations to deliver cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities which people are proud to be a part of.

Grants will be awarded for initiatives and projects that actively support affiliated communities.

Who is eligible to apply?
To apply for this fund, applicants must be a local not-for-profit group, community organisation, or a registered charity who will be able to demonstrate how they will engage with and benefit SNG customers.

The fund will be split into six distinct regions across the South of England (Reading being covered in one of the six regions) and will be limited to one project per organisation. Eligibility criteria is listed in the guidance notes (below).

What are the funder priorities?
Funding will prioritise groups whose work will directly benefit the funder’s customers.

Priority will be given to applications that clearly demonstrate their objectives, the outcomes that their project will achieve and the difference that will be made by their project as a whole. Applications will also be assessed on how they aim to engage with, and benefit SNG customers and communities within the designated areas.

How much can organizations apply for?
Grants from £1,000 up to £5,000 are available.

Peter Harrison Foundation

We have two grant programmes that are open to applications:
• Active Lives
• Positive Futures
For each programme there are two levels of funding available
• Small grants: up to £5,000
• Major grants: £5,001 – £30,000
Types of funding: We accept applications for capital, project or core costs
Levels of funding: There are 2 levels of grants – Small grants: up to £5,000 – Major grants: £5,001 – £30,000
Location:

  • Active Lives funds work all over the UK.
  • Positive Futures only funds work in the South East of England

The next application deadline is 1st January 2025

Community Radio Fund

About Us: The Community Radio Fund is allocated by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and managed by Ofcom.
Criteria: Grants for Ofcom-licensed community radio stations broadcasting on AM, FM, or by a Community Digital Sound Programme (C-DSP) license on a digital radio multiplex, to help with the essential core work involved in running a radio station. Applicant stations must be on the air as of the date of their application for their application to be considered. Payment can only be made to stations that have launched.
Grant Size: The total amount available in the 2024-25 financial year is £400,000 across two funding rounds. There is no set level of funding. However, in the previous funding round, grants ranged from around £4,000 to £33,000.
Deadline for applications: 8th December 2024

Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts Fund

About Us: We want to support organisations who are working at the intersection of art and social change.
Criteria: For not-for-profit organisations who work at the intersection of art and social change. The Fund supports organisations to do the following:
• Build capacity and resources for culture within historically underfunded communities
• Explore the role that artists can play in addressing issues of social justice
• Create the infrastructure for a more equitable cultural sector.
Not-for-profit cultural organisations with a turnover of at least £60,000 per year can apply. The grants can cover up to 50% of an organisation’s annual turnover over three years, based on their last audited accounts. Priority will be given to applications which are actively anti-racist and intersectional in their approach.
Grant Size: The Foundation provides grants of between £90,000 and £300,000 for activity lasting up to three years.
Deadline for applications: 31st January 2025

Ulverscroft Foundation

Applications close on Sunday 15th December.
We support projects that help visually impaired people. Applications for funding can be considered from any non-profit source, a charity, CIC or social group, from the UK or overseas. Applications for academic and clinical research, or from public libraries run by local authorities, will also be considered. We can support, for example, transport for reading groups, reminiscence projects, the acquisition of specialist equipment, etc. Applications can be made by downloading, completing and posting or emailing us an application form. Please note that within any group there may be an element of visual impairment, but grants can only be considered if the visual impairment element is significant. Find out more information.

Bentley Motors

Applications close on Friday 20th December.
Bentley Motors, community investment and corporate citizenship are key elements of our sustainability approach. Grants are available to support small, local charitable organisations working with vulnerable, disadvantaged or underrepresented communities in locations within a 20-mile radius of the specified UK Bentley.
The programme’s areas of focus are improving accessibility, empowering confidence, increasing quality of life, and/or creating better futures. Applicants’ organisations must have an income under £ 1 million per year. More info.

Crowthorne Community Grants

Applications close on Friday 13th December.
Each year Crowthorne Parish Council considers requests for grants to assist organisations involved in delivering valued services to the Crowthorne community. Application are only considered if they are accompanied by a copy of your latest set of annual accounts showing the organisation’s income, expenditure, level of balances and reserves policy. If the organisation does not prepare annual accounts, copies of the bank statements covering the previous six months must be attached. Organisations which are successful be presented with their cheques at the Annual Parish Meeting held in March and April 2025.

Turners Court Youth Trust

Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Grants are available for registered charities and small community groups whose work is focused on the needs of vulnerable and disaffected children and young people up to the age of 23 years in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Projects will be assessed as to the positive difference they will make in regards to difficult early life experiences, safety & wellbeing, protection from harm & neglect, overcoming education & employment barriers, developing independent life & work skills, and/or crime prevention.

Cumber Family Charitable Trust

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
One-off grants are available for projects in developing countries, UK national needs and projects local to Berkshire and Oxfordshire with a preference for those with active involvement in agriculture or rural development, or working in the areas of welfare, education, medicine, disadvantaged children, agriculture and/or conservation.

Woodward Charitable Trust

Applications close on Friday 13th December.
We only makes grants for core costs rather than specific projects as we recognise that smaller charities can find these funds harder to access. We hope that this will have a more direct impact on the organisations that we choose to fund.
We also only fund organisations which support children / young people up to 25 years of age, disadvantaged families, and/or prisoners /
ex-offenders. Typically grants are below £1,000, but sometimes fund up to £3,000. 

Benefact Group: Movement for Good

We’re giving away £120,000 in December – 12 Days of Giving is our festive final phase of Movement for Good 2024. In December, we’ll be giving 120 charities £1,000 each over 12 days.

The first draw takes place on December 5th and the last on December 20th with 10 charities drawn every week day. It only takes 30 seconds to nominate your charity.

Movement for Good – Nominate a charity for an award.
Deadline: Nominations are open until 23:59 on December 19th 2024.

Moto Foundation

The Moto Foundation makes a positive difference to the communities around our network of Motorway Service Areas – one of the ways we do this is through community grants.

Any application that is submitted must have the endorsement of a Moto colleague; that is someone directly employed by Moto Hospitality Ltd. The online form will prompt you to add the name and contact details of the Moto colleague endorsing your application, so please have these to hand.

Please take some time to read through the following criteria before completing the application process. Following the completion of your application you will receive an email from the Moto Foundation office to acknowledge your application and advise you whether your application will be progressed through to the approval process.

Please be advised that the application to approval process can take up to 8 weeks to complete. In order to assist as many organisations as possible the average grant given through the funding process is £1,000. Depending on the strength of an application and demonstration of commitment by both the Moto site and Partner, larger grants may be agreed.

Tesco Stronger Starts

The scheme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people. Examples of eligible applications with a focus on food security, children and young people could be:

A school providing pupils with food for breakfast clubs or snacks throughout the day.
A school wanting to buy equipment for outdoor or indoor activities.
A school wanting to develop a food growing area.
A school supporting an after school club.
A voluntary organisation working with families to run a food bank.
An organisation addressing holiday hunger.
A healthy eating project that supports families to cook healthy meals on a budget.
A Brownie or Scout group needing funding for new play equipment or activities.
If you are a Tesco colleague or customer, you can also nominate a cause that you’d like to see supported. Tesco colleagues in each store will help select those needing a little help in your local area and when our customers are given a blue token, in any of our Tesco stores at the checkout, they can vote for their favourite charity to receive a grant. Community charity Groundwork manages this website and administers the funding across the UK. Groundwork is working with Greenspace Scotland to support successful projects in Scotland.

Energy Resilience Fund – Loan/Grant Scheme

About Us: Charities and social enterprises that are looking to install energy-saving measures or generation technology to buildings/land (including new builds), and/or to purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment can apply now for a blended funding package of loan and grant to improve their energy resilience.
Criteria: Eligible organisations must:
Be an incorporated voluntary, community or social enterprise organisation.
Be based in England and serving communities primarily within England.
Be constituted for social benefit and improving people’s lives or the environments they live in.
Have a minimum of two years’ operating activity.
Have a minimum turnover of £100,000 in their last set of end of year accounts.
Have fewer than 250 employees and either an annual turnover not exceeding £40 million or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding £35 million.
Be unable to access mainstream bank lending for this purpose.
Have freehold ownership or a suitable written lease agreement with a minimum of 12 years remaining on it if they are applying to install energy saving/generating measures to buildings/land.
Have the support of their senior decision makers for taking on loan finance.
Grant Size: Funding of £25,000 to £250,000 is available via a blend of grants (40%) and loans (60%). The loan repayment term is one to ten years.
Deadline for applications: Rolling programme

Berkshire Community Foundation – Vital for Berkshire

Our Vital for Berkshire fund is open for applications.
The fund aims to support charities, community groups and projects that work to tackle the most salient and pressing issues within Berkshire’s communities at any given time.
We invite applications for grants of up to £5,000 from charities, community groups and projects that support vital needs in Berkshire, such as (but not limited to):
⭐physical and mental health
⭐supporting young and vulnerable people or groups
⭐combating isolation, tackling poverty and disadvantage
⭐offering equal opportunities for all
and more.
Apply for Vital for Berkshire by visiting https://bit.ly/vitalforberkshirefund
Funds close at 10am on Thursday 16th January 2025.

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

Funding Opportunities in November

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Neighbourhood Watch Community Grants Fund

About Us: Our focus is to help you kickstart, improve or expand your community work. The Trustees of Neighbourhood Watch Network set aside funds for this scheme.
Criteria: grants are only for registered Neighbourhood Watch members who are representatives of a registered and recognised Neighbourhood Watch scheme, group, Area or Association in England and Wales.
Funding priorities
• Tackling Antisocial Behaviour – Improving the community environment
• Increasing membership of local watches
• Addressing crime through Community Cohesion
• Tackling loneliness in our Neighbourhood Watch communities
Grant Size: Between £100 – £300. Groups can only hold one grant at a time and only hold one grant in each financial year.
Deadline for applications: 14th January 2025

Cash4Clubs Sports Funding

Applications close on Tues 12th November.
Grants of £2,000 are available for community and voluntary sport groups across the UK and Ireland, who are delivering activities for a social purpose to under-represented communities. This programme is exclusively focused on supporting adult clubs as we want to offer funding to groups that deliver activities to over 18s only, with an emphasis on 18–25 year olds. Learn more.

Bracknell Forest Household Support Fund

Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The council will be using funding to support low income households with the rising cost of living, including energy, food and essential bills. The scheme will be enhanced to enable Bracknell Forest residents in financial hardship who would not otherwise automatically qualify for support to apply. If households are eligible, they can apply based on an existing assessment criteria which will include a financial assessment of income and assets, or cost-of-living vouchers for low-income families not eligible for school distributed vouchers.

West Berkshire Council Household Support Fund

The Household Support Fund is there to help people struggling to meet essential housing costs including energy and water bills, food, and wider essentials. There is £695,000 available which includes funding for individuals and families, as well as money set aside to provide free school meals and help for pensioners and young people leaving care.

Winter Wishes Fund

Applications close on Weds 13th November.
This fund is for grants of between £300 – £1,000 for organisations running projects that provide vital support to those most vulnerable in our communities, helping to navigate this time of year. Funding can be used in a variety of ways, from providing the local community with a warm nourishing meal, gifting toys and hampers to families in need and providing shelter to people without a safe place to call home at Christmas.

Improving Homes & Community Spaces

Applications close on Friday 15th November.
One-off grants are available to UK registered charities for projects that improve homes and communities spaces for those who are experiencing homelessness, in financial hardship, impacted by health, disability or other disadvantage or distress. We generally support with funding of up to £10K for building or indoor projects, and up to £5K for garden projects.

Nature Hubs Funding

Applications close on Fri 29th November.
Grants are available for registered organisations across to deliver projects and activities that create or enhance green spaces within 5 kilometres of a Starbucks store. Groups can apply for grants up to £6,000 to set up or enhance community-led green spaces.

Petplan Charitable Trust

Applications close on Mon 9th December.
Grants are available to support animal welfare charities and institutions to promote the health and welfare of animals across the UK. Animal assisted therapy charities will be considered, however there is a requirement to detail the current and long term welfare needs of the
animals.

The Adamson Trust

Applications close on Tues 31st December.
Grants are available for non-profit organisations and charities to help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children, aged 3 to 17 years, with physical, mental, or emotional impairments.

Turners Court Youth Trust

Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Grants are available for registered charities and small community groups whose work is focused on the needs of vulnerable and disaffected children and young people up to the age of 23 years in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Projects will be assessed as to the positive difference they will make in the areas of early life experiences, safety, wellbeing, overcoming barrier, work skills, independence and/or crime prevention.

Just Transition Fund

A total of £5 million is available in grants to charities and community energy groups across England, Scotland and Wales to develop renewable energy projects that benefit those most in need. The fund, piloted under the scheme’s Carbon Emissions Reductions priority, aims to build the capacity of the community energy sector and deliver impactful renewable energy projects. It seeks to demonstrate how a just transition to net zero can benefit everyone.
Criteria: Registered organisations, in England, Scotland and Wales, can apply for grant funding to deliver energy related projects that meet the scheme priorities.
Grant Size: The Just Transition Fund will award grants between £20,000 and £250,000 to individual projects.
Deadline for applications: 5pm, 19 November 2024

Material Focus

The Electricals Recycling Fund aims to grow existing methods or test new creative and practical ones for recycling small household electricals.
Criteria:
They fund two types of projects – those seeking to grow or develop existing household collection services for small household electricals, and those seeking to innovate new collection methods. Applications from registered organisations only – such as local authorities, waste collection authority areas, contractors, non-profits, community sector organisations, producer compliance schemes, and retailers – not individuals.
Grant Size:
Growing existing services – grants of up to £100,000 for projects that grow existing collection methods for small electricals.
Innovating new methods – grants of up to £50,000 to come up with new approaches to repair, reuse and/or recycle electricals.
Deadline for applications: Rolling basis

The Alec Dickson Trust

The Trust supports volunteering or community service projects organised and run by young people aged 30 and younger.
Criteria: For individuals or small groups of young people to help them put their ideas into action and run projects that benefit the lives of others.
The funding is for projects that:
• Support and encourage youth volunteering, particularly those that involve lots of volunteers, and encourage young people to stay engaged as volunteers in the long term.
• Have a positive impact on disadvantaged communities and individuals. Projects should identify a specific need and how to address this need. There is particular interest in projects that will have a deep and meaningful effect on those it reaches, as well as projects that are as long-lasting and sustainable as possible.
• Are innovative and try to do things differently. This could be addressing a real need for the community or doing something that has not been done before.
Grant Size: Up to £500
Deadline for applications: 13 November 2024

B&Q Foundation

About Us: The B&Q Foundation Grants programme is managed by Neighbourly, a platform used by local Good Causes across the UK and Ireland. Groups will need to create a profile on the Neighbourly platform as part of the B&Q Foundation application process.
Criteria: Grants to registered charities to provide, maintain, repair or improve housing or community space. The projects should benefit people most in need because of homelessness, financial hardship, sickness, disability or other disadvantage.
Grant Size: Up to £5,000 is available for garden projects and up to £10,000 for building or indoor projects.
Deadline for applications: 6pm on 15 November

Music 4 All

Music for All’s next funding round of 2024 is NOW OPEN to applicants!
See their website for full details on our upcoming community funding opportunities.
Please read the eligibility criteria and instructions carefully before applying.
Funding round 4 will close on the 13th of January.

Comic Relief Community Fund

Grants of up to £5,000 are available and offered on a flexible basis, depending on need.

Funding can be used on core organisation costs, direct project related costs or a combination of both that support your organisation to deliver against any of the four areas.

An example of core funding could be a contribution to organisation’s annual budget to continue its good work, funding to expand the work, or to add something new that amplifies results. It could also be allocated for expenses that are harder to fund, such as salaries of senior management or administration, or ongoing costs that are not covered by other grants.

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