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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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Get in touch to discuss how we can support you.

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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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    Building Strong Communities Fund - Round 2 

    The Mayor of London is offering funding for London equity-led voluntary and community sector organisations to enable communities to shape their recovery from COVID-19. The funding pot for this round is £350,000 and is made up of micro and small grants:

    • Microgrants of £1,000 to £5,000.
    • Small Grants of £5,001 to £10,000.

    Microgrants are available for groups with an annual turnover of £0 to £50,000 or under and small grants are available for organisations with an annual turnover of £0 to £200k and under. 

    Deadline: 1pm, 8 August 2022     Apply here


    Untold Stories: grants by the Commission for Diversity in Public Realm 

    The Mayor of London is offering community-led organisations funding and support to make a change in our public spaces, whether this is creating something new, highlighting something missing or hidden, or presenting a different story to what already exists. You can apply for grants from £1,000 to £25,000 and there is a programme of workshops and extra support to help you apply.

    Deadline: 4pm, 5 October 2022     Apply here


    The Baring Foundation

    Grants of up to £60K available for Global Majority led arts organisations to develop their work in mental health.

    There is no ‘official’
    definition of Global Majority Communities. In line with their concern over racial equity they are using this to mean communities that experience racism in the UK. More details here

    Deadline:12noon, 26 July 2022  Apply here


    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 to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work for the first time, test a new way or working, or disrupt the status quo (or all three!).

    Deadline: 29 July 2022    Apply here


    The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust

    The next grant round will be focused on "The Arts: BAME communities"

    • BAME performers
    • outreach projects within BAME communities
    • initiatives to increase participation with BAME communities

    Organisations with income/expenditure minimum of £25,000 and maximum £1,000,000 can apply for grants of £1,000. 

    Deadline: 31 July 2022    Apply here


    London Catalyst Project Grants

    Priority is given to new initiatives and service developments targeted at people disadvantaged as a result of long term ill-health, disability and poverty. Normally to organisations with an income <£500k. Grants range from £1,000 to £5,000.

    You can apply for all relevant project costs, including salaries, training, volunteer
    expenses, management, supervision and evaluation

    Deadline: 9 August 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

    Small grants to grassroots groups and organisations who are run by and for one or more of our 5 communities of focus:

    • D/deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent LGBT+ people.
    • LGBT+ People of Colour and People from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnicities.
    • LGBTQI+ Women.
    • Older LGBT+ people.
    • Trans and Non-Binary people.

    Grants will be available for organisational running costs, projects and organisational / leadership development and can range from £100 - £25,000. 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: 13th July, 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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