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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
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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
Organisation type: voluntary and community organisation
Deadlines: Ongoing

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Reaching Communities

This fund is aimed at projects that work with their community – 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 £15,000 or under, you will receive a decision in 6 weeks. If you are applying for over £15,000 a decision will take 12 weeks.
Organisation type: the fund will focus on the needs of smaller independent organisations
Deadlines: ongoing – until April 2021

Apply here 


Heritage Fund

Support organisations working with heritage to adapt and recover in the continuing coronavirus crisis. This funding will support activity that is led by and/or engages diverse groups typically under-represented in heritage, such as young people, minority ethnic and LGBT+ communities, disabled people and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Grant size: £3,000 to £10,000 and £10,000 to £100,000
Decision timescale: eight weeks
Organisation type: Charities and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises
Deadlines: ongoing

Apply here

Published: 18th January, 2021

Updated: 28th January, 2021

Author: Isadora Nicastro

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The Women Thrive Fund

This programme will fund work supporting the UK’s most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or under-represented women and girls to:

  • Improve their mental health and wellbeing, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to sustain those improvements; and/or
  • Improve their financial resilience, increasing their routes out of poverty, gaining confidence, tools, skills and support to secure a stable financial future.

Grant size: up to £40,000
Organisation type: specialist women’s organisations across the UK

Deadline: 25 March 2021  Apply here


Youth Covid-19 Support Fund

The £16.5 million Youth Covid-19 Support Fund is open to grassroots youth organisations, to help to mitigate the impact of lost income during the winter period due to the coronavirus pandemic, and ensure services providing vital support can remain open. 

Grants: up to £250,000
Funding covers: Essential business expenditure, such as staff salaries, and fixed/operational costs.
Organisation type: grassroots youth clubs, uniformed youth groups, and national youth and umbrella organisations.
Organisation size: Income per most recent accounts less than £1 million.

Deadline: 5pm, 19 February 2020  Apply here


Community Business Renewal Fund

The Community Business Renewal Fund provides grants to community businesses in England affected by the Covid-19 crisis to adapt, renew and rebuild their business so they can remain financially viable.

Grant size: £10,000 and £20,000
Funding covers: grant could be used to cover core staffing costs, contribute to meeting capital costs of adapting your community business and ensuring that your community business can continue to provide the vital support to local people.
Organisation type: incorporated organisations

Round three: Opening 10am on Tuesday 2 March – closing at 4pm on Tuesday 9 March  Apply here


National Churches Trust - Cornerstone Grants Programme

The Cornerstone Grant Programme offers grants towards the cost of major urgent structural repair projects costed at more than £100,000 including VAT. We will also consider projects that introduce kitchens and accessible toilets to enable increased community use, costed at more than £30,000 including VAT.

Grant size: £10,000 and £50,000
Decision timescale: July 2021
Funding covers: up to 50% of major urgent structural repair projects
Organisation type: Christian places of worship

Deadline: 1 March 2021  Apply here


The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund - General & Small grants

Grants for work with people with learning disabilities.

Grant size: General Grant Programme for appeals over £10,000 and a Small Grant Programme for appeals below £10,000.
Decision timescale:  
Funding covers: capital and revenue costs and for both specific projects and for general running/core costs.
Organisation type: Charities

Deadline: 1 March 2021. Deadline only apply for the General Grant Programme.  Apply here


The Grocers’ Charity

The Grocers’ Charity provides grants for work in the following areas:

  • Disability
  • Health
  • Children & Young People
  • Environment
  • Heritage & The Arts
  • Relief of Poverty
  • The Elderly, Military

Grant size: up to £5,000
Decision timescale: if invited, 2nd stage application decisions are in June
Organisation type: Registered charities with annual turnover of under £500K

Deadline: 9 March 2021  Apply here


Masonic Charitable Foundation - Large grants / Small grants

The Masonic Charitable Foundation provide grants in two funding streams:

  • Children and Young People Grant - support for disadvantaged children and young people to overcome the barriers they face.
  • Later Life Grant - support for work to reduce loneliness and isolation in later life.

Large grants
Grant size: £10,000-£60,000, awarded over one to three years.
Funding covers: salary costs, activities, materials etc.
Organisation type: larger charities whose annual income exceeds £500,000

Small grants
Grant size: £1,000 to £15,000
Organisation type: charities whose annual income does not exceed £500,000.

Deadline: 31 March 2021  Apply here


The Voice4Change England – Windrush Scheme

This fund is open to help ensure that organisations and groups can raise awareness and support engagement among those eligible for the government’s  Windrush Scheme and Windrush Compensation Scheme.

Grant size:  £2,500 - £25,000
Decision timescale:  8 weeks
Organisation type: charities, community organisations and/or grassroots groups

Phase 2 will open for applications on 1 April 2021 and will close on 30 June 2021.  Apply here


BBC Children in Need - Small & Main Grants Programme

Grants for work with Children and young people aged 18 years and under experiencing disadvantage through:

  • Illness, distress, abuse or neglect.
  • Any kind of disability.
  • Behavioural or psychological difficulties.
  • Living in poverty or situations of deprivation.

Grant size: Small grants - up to (and including) £10,000 per year. Main grants - £10,001 or more, per year Grants may be up to 3 years in length. No more than £40,000 per year
Funding covers: Project delivery (Including staffing and salary costs); Organisational costs to support stability and adaptation; (including the day-to-day running costs of an organisation as opposed to specific project costs).
Organisation type: not-for-profit organisations
Deadline: 12 April 2020  Apply here


The A B Charitable Trust

The AB Charitable Trust support work on the areas:

  • Migrants and Refugees
  • Criminal Justice and Penal Reform
  • Human Rights, particularly access to justice.

Grant size: between £10,000 and £20,000
Organisation size: turnover of between £150,000 and £1.5 million
Funding covers: project or core costs, however capital appeals are rarely supported.
Organisation type: Registered Charities

Deadline: 25 April 2021 Apply here


The Concertina Charitable Trust

Concertina makes grants to charitable bodies which provide musical entertainment and related activities for the elderly.

Grant size: £250
Funding covers: project delivery costs.
Organisation type: small organisations which might otherwise find it difficult to gain funding

Deadline: 30 April 2021 Apply here


Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

The Foundation primarily provides funding towards practical items that directly support those in need including those with disabilities, affected by homelessness, or with serious health issues.

Grant size: Grants from £250 to £1000
Decision timescale: next meeting 10 March. If your application is successful, you’ll receive the fund after 7 days of the meeting.
Funding covers: Donations usually fund items of "capital expenditure". That means items must directly help those in need, rather than contributing to the charity's running costs. Organisation type: UK registered charities with a turnover of less than £1m.

Deadline: 3 May 2021  Apply here


Trust for London

Trust for London fund long-term work which tackles poverty and inequality in the capital.

Grant size: There is no minimum or maximum size of grant and the amount you request should be the amount you need. However, the average grant will be around £80,000 in total - The amounts may be spread over one, two or three years. Small groups will be around £25,000 in total
Decision timescale:  around 4 months
Organisation type: organisations undertaking charitable activities. You do not need to be a registered charity
Deadline: 1 June 2021  Apply here

Published: 18th January, 2021

Updated: 16th February, 2021

Author: Isadora Nicastro

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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.

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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 bags of Help

Bags of Help is Tesco’s local community grant scheme, which funds thousands of community projects every year.

Grant size: £1000
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

Author: Isadora Nicastro

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