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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