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When applying for funding, we can support you with

  • developing your funding strategy
  • finding the best funding opportunities for your project or organisation
  • reviewing your application and providing feedback
  • information on how to monitor and measure your impact

A list of funding opportunities is available to you below. Please click on the headers to see more information.

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National Lottery Funding

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National Lottery Awards for All

This fund can support you to continue to deliver activities that strengthen your community in some way or to change and adapt, becoming more resilient to respond to new and future challenges.

Grant size: smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £10,000
Funding covers: Running costs, utilities, staff costs, equipment
Decision timescale: usually takes around 12 weeks
Organisation size: keen to fund smaller organisations
Deadlines: Ongoing

Apply here


Reaching Communities

This fund is aimed at organisations that work with their community to help them thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

Grant size: £10,001 or more, for up to five years
Funding covers: direct costs associated with delivering activities in your community; organisational development; core costs;
Decision timescale: usually takes around 12 weeks to hear if you will progress to next stage.
Organisation type: charities and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises
Deadlines: ongoing

Apply here


Arts Council England and TNLCF - Project Grants

Project Grants is open to anyone who needs funding for an arts, museums or libraries project that shows public benefit.

Grant size: from £1,000 to £100,000, for projects that last up to 3 years
Funding covers: direct costs associated with delivering the project;
Decision timescale: if you are applying for £30,000 or under, you will receive a decision in 8 weeks. If you are applying for over £30,000 a decision will take 12 weeks.
Deadlines: ongoing

Apply here 


Heritage Fund

Fund for projects that are clearly focused on heritage – this can be national, regional or local heritage of the UK. They will prioritise heritage projects that will: boost the local economy, provide job creation and encourage skills development, support wellbeing and create better places to live, work and visit. They also expect that all projects to demonstrate that they are building long-term environmental sustainability and inclusion into their plans. 

Grant size: £3,000 to £10,000 for projects lasting up to one year
Organisation type: Charities and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises
Deadlines: ongoing

Apply here

Published: 18th January, 2021

Updated: 6th April, 2022

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BAME Specialist Housing Advice Grants

Haringey Council is currently requesting quotations for grant funding for 8 new BAME services, which will provide specialist housing advice to groups with specific cultural and linguistic needs. This is in recognition that some groups may find it more challenging to access the services offered by larger providers, and of the value in the tailored support that organisations founded within communities offer.

They are looking for quotations for the following provision:  

  • 1 x Young Black Males Specialist Housing Advice Service
  • 1 x BAME Women’s Specialist Housing Advice Service
  • 1 x Gypsy & Roma Traveller Specialist Housing Advice Service
  • 1 x Polish & Eastern European Specialist Housing Advice Service
  • 4 x BAME (non-specific) Specialist Housing Advice Service

Please click on the titles above to download the ‘Request for Quotation’ which applies to the client group you would like to apply for, this is the application for the grant for Specialist Housing Advice Services. Download here the service specification which should be used to inform the completion of the Request for Quotation. For the Gypsy & Roma Traveller Service, please use this specification.
 
As detailed in the Request for Quotation, any queries should be emailed to Amy Caul [email protected], by 12pm on Friday 13th May. The completed Request for Quotation should also be sent to Amy by 12pm on Friday 27thMay.
 
You are invited to two Funding Workshop run by Connected Communities where you will be able to seek advice on completing the application. This will be held virtually on Teams.

  • Wednesday 11th May 11:30 – 12:30 - book your place here
  • Wednesday 18th May 6 – 7pm - book your place here

Deadline: 12noon, 27 May 2022


Clarion Futures Digital Grants - Round 10

Grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 will be available to organisations seeking to deliver innovative, well designed projects that support Clarion residents and the wider community to address digital exclusion. The Fund is designed to support Clarion residents and the wider community to get online and stay online, and to use the internet as an everyday tool, safely and confidently.
 
Applications are open on a rolling basis; however to be considered for Round 10, applications must be submitted by 12 noon Wednesday 18 May 2022. Apply here


The John Coates Charitable Trust

Grants for registered charities working London wide and deliver services in the following areas:

  • Education
  • The arts
  • Medicine and healthcare
  • Heritage and the environment
  • Societal and community cohesion.

Grants are typically unrestricted grants and range from £5,000 to £10,000. The Trustees will
consider applications for core costs.

Deadline: 27 May 2022  Apply here


The 7stars Foundation

Project funding - grants of up to £2,500 for organisations supporting young people aged 16 years and under.

Organisation size: turnover of under £1.5M

Deadline: 01 June 2022   Apply here


Youth Social Action Fund 

BBC Children in Need, in partnership with the #iwill Fund and The Hunter Foundation, are delivering a £3 million fund to support organisations to embed youth social action across the UK.

This fund will help to build children and young people’s confidence and skills, empowering them to take an active and leading role in developing solutions to issues which affect their lives and their communities. Grants size: up to £15k for unregistered organisations and up to £50k for registered bodies. 

To apply to this fund, you must sign up to a one hour information session before 5pm on Friday 8 April 2022. Application forms will be sent out after the information sessions to those who have attended. 

Find out more here


We Move Youth Social Action Fund

The We Move Youth Social Action Fund is aimed specifically at Black led organisations and organisations that work with Black children and young people. To be part of the fund at least 75% or more of the children and young people you are working with on this project should self-identify as Black.

To apply you will need to register your interest in the fund by 10 June.  Find out more here


The Wolfson Foundation – funding for places

Grants for capital initiatives, i.e. buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. There are opportunities available for organisations working in mental health, disability, older people, arts, places of worship.

Grant size: Usual grant range - £20,000 – £75,000

Deadline: 14 May 2022 Click here to find out more


Partners for Health Programme 

Grants of up to £10,000 are available for social action projects tackling health inequalities in London. 

The fund is open to charities that are developing a response to health and social care inequalities which involve joint working with an expert partner. Projects need to demonstrate positive outcomes for people facing barriers to health. This can include people with disabilities, age related and long term progressive health conditions and those experiencing homelessness. 

Deadline: 5pm, 2 June 2022  Apply here


BCBN Grant Initiative

This initiative will distribute a one-off grant award of up to £3,000 per charity or to small community projects which are able to demonstrate their positive impact on the communities they aim to serve.

Deadline: 15 July 2022   Apply here


The Steel Charitable Trust

Grants from £10,000 for charities with annual turnover of over £50,000. Trustees will consider contributions towards core costs and capital works as well as specific projects.

There are 5 funding categories: Arts & Heritage, Education, Environment, Health, and Social or Economic Disadvantage. From 21 April 2022, applications for the Environment category may include measures that improve the applicant organisation’s carbon footprint.

Deadline: 20 July 2022   Apply here


The Fore Autumn 2022 Funding Round

This fund is offering unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 in total, over up to 3 years, to help fantastic small charities and social enterprises plan for the longer term and take the next step in their development.

The Fore is particularly looking to fund small organisations working with marginalised groups that may have found it hard to access trust and foundation funding in the past. 

Any registered charity, CIC, CIO or Community Benefit Society with turnover of under £500,000 in the last financial year is eligible to apply.

Deadline: register by 10am, 25 July 2022  Apply here


LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund

Grants will be available for organisational running costs, projects and organisational / leadership development and can range from £100 - £25,000. 

Applicants must be an England based non-profit group² or organisation that is led by and for LGBT+ people in the UK.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and the programme will close to new applications on 30th October 2022. 

Apply here

Published: 18th January, 2021

Updated: 6th May, 2022

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Arnold Clark Community Fund

The Arnold Clark Community Fund is open to local community groups that can apply to receive up to £1,000 in financial aid.

Apply here


The Henry Smith Charity - Holiday Grants

The purpose of the Holiday Grants programme is to provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children who experience disadvantage or who have disabilities. You must apply at least six weeks before your trip or holiday is due to take place. 

Grant size:£500 – £2,500

Apply here


City Bridge Trust - Small grants

Grants are available for the following areas of work:

- Greening and growing projects which bring communities together and improve the local environment.
- A project which enables disabled people and/or older people who are disadvantaged to actively participate in the arts, sports and health and wellbeing opportunities.

Grant size: £1,000 and £10,000 per year are available for a maximum of five years
Decision timescale: within 12 weeks
Organisation size: income of less than £100,000
Funding covers: Capital funding, Revenue funding, or a mixture of the two.
Organisation type: Registered charity, CIC, CIO

Apply here


City Bridge Trust - Advice and Support Grants

They welcome applications for up to five years of funding, and core funding will be considered. Applications must be for one of the Trust’s priority areas:

1. Advice and support for disadvantaged individuals in the following areas: benefits; debt & money; fuel poverty; employment problems; housing; or immigration status.

2. Food poverty
The Trust want to tackle issues related to hardship and crisis by funding the infrastructure needed to support the distribution of donated food. They are particularly keen to hear from organisations who work to ensure that clients receive culturally appropriate food. Please note that the Trust are not able to directly fund the purchase of food for distribution.

Apply here


Magic Little Grants

The Magic Little Grants Fund provides charities and community groups that are either in their first year of operation or have an annual income under £250k the opportunity to apply for a £500 grant.

Apply here


People's Postcode Lottery

Grants between £500 and £20,000 for smaller charities and good causes in the south of England under the themes:

  • Improving mental wellbeing
  • Enabling community participation in the arts
  • Preventing or reducing the impact of poverty
  • Supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality
  • Improving biodiversity & green spaces
  • Enabling participation in physical activity
  • Responding to the climate emergency & promoting sustainability
  • Increasing community access to outdoor space

There will be a funding round opening on the first day of each month, from February until October.

Apply here


Lloyds Bank Foundation

Small and local charities with a yearly income of £25,000 to £1 million who are helping people experiencing complex social issues can now apply for a two-year unrestricted grant of £50,000. Applications for funding will remain open throughout the year. 

Grant size: £50,000
Decision timescale: decision within four months of application

Apply here


Alpkit

Alpkit usually supports organisations that encourages people to get outdoors and have great experiences that otherwise couldn’t happen. Now, they are also focusing on Pandemic Projects that are a community response to Covid 19 such as food access, health, well-being and recovery issues.

Grant size: £50 to £500
Decision timescale: Trustees meet every 2 months to consider applications.

Apply here


Foyle Foundation

The Foyle Foundation are currently accepting applications for two funding schemes: Main Grants (for charities whose core work covers Arts and Learning) and Small Grants (for small charities in all fields).

Grant size: £1,000 - £10,000 | £10,000 - £50,000, one-year grants only
Decision timescale: 3 months
Funding covers: core costs, favouring those with no, or without significant, public funding; essential equipment or re-equipping to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, delivery of on-line digital services and education work.
Organisation type: the Small Grants Scheme supports charities in all fields with a turnover of less than £150K per annum.

Apply here


Garfield and Weston Foundation

The Foundation supports UK registered charities working in the areas of Welfare, Youth, Community, Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health and Museums & Heritage.


Grant size: up to £100,000
Decision timescale: around four months
Funding covers: Capital, Project and Revenue costs.
Organisation type: UK registered charities

Apply here


Henry Smith Charity - Improving Lives

Grants for small and medium sized organisations in the UK to support projects and the running costs of organisations.

Grant size: £20k – £60k per year
Length: 1-3 years
Decision timescale: 6 Months
Organisation size: £50k – £3m (in exceptional circumstances up to £5m)
Funding covers: Running costs, salaries and projects
Organisation type: Charities and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises

Apply here


Hope Beyond

Hope Beyond grants programme aims to enable churches and Christian charities to meet changing needs within their communities, helping them and the communities they support to adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Grant size: up to £50,000
Funding covers: capital costs, some revenue costs and project-related salaries
Organisation type: Christian charities

Apply here


Marsh Christian Trust

The Trust will fund work in the areas: Arts and heritage, Education and training, Environmental causes and animal welfare, Healthcare, Social welfare

Grant size: £300-£2,000
Funding covers: core funding
Organisation type: registered charity with annual income under £25,000.

Apply here


Tesco Community Grants

Projects are voted on by Tesco customers in stores across the UK, with projects changing every three months.

Tesco Community Grants is currently looking for applications from charities and community groups who deliver projects that help to tackle food insecurity in their communities. This might include, for example, breakfast clubs, holiday clubs and food banks.

Grant size: up to £1,500
Funding covers: project costs
Organisation type: charities and community organisations

Apply here


The Edward Gostling Foundation

Small Grants - This programme is aimed at charities that support people living with physical or mental disability or a long-term illness needing urgent grant support to help maintain an existing service.

Grant size: up to £5,00
Decision timescale: 1 month
Organisation type: small and medium-sized charities with a gross annual income of £3M or less
Funding covers: cost of any charitable activity

Capital Grants
Grants for projects that support people living with a physical and/or mental disability or a long-term illness.

Grant size: £5000 - £15000
Organisation type: all charities with a gross annual income of £5M or less
Funding covers: project costs

Apply here


The Leathersellers’ Company - Small Grants Programme

The Leathersellers’ Company want to hear how you are making a difference in the lives of vulnerable people.

Grant size: up to £3000
Decision timescale: within a month of submitting the application
Organisation type: UK registered charities (this includes Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO) but not Community Interest Companies (CIC)) with annual income under £200K

Apply here


The Morrisons Foundation

The Morrisons Foundation awards grant funding for charity projects which make a positive difference in local communities.

Grant size: up to £25,000
Funding covers: project costs
Organisation type: registered charities

Apply here


The Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Ann Rylands Small Donations programme

Grants to support smaller charities providing support for older people, people with disabilities or others facing difficulties in their lives.

Grant size: up to £1,500
Funding covers: core costs or to support a specific project.
Organisation type: registered charities

Apply here


The True Colours Trust

Grants to support organisations working with

  • disabled children and young people;
  • children and young people with life-limiting conditions;
  • and their families, particularly BAME

Grant size: up to £10,000
Decision timescale: 6 weeks
Organisation size: annual income is less than £350,000.
Organisation type: registered charitable organisations and CICs
Funding covers: Projects, Equipment and Materials;

Apply here

Published: 28th January, 2021

Updated: 6th April, 2022

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