Funding

List of funding opportunities

Refugee Week Grant
Organisations can apply for grants of up to £1000 to deliver relevant projects during Refugee Week. These can be existing activities or new pilot programmes.
Deadline: 31 March. Apply here

Cultural Hackney
Apply for up to £4,000 in funding from Cultural Hackney. This fund supports communities in Hackney to plan and deliver culture-led projects.
Deadline: 11 April. Read more 

The Happiness Fund
This fund gives grants to support community projects that improve mental health, wellbeing, inclusion, learning and skills development.
Deadline: 28 March. Apply here

Peter Harrison Foundation Active Lives
The Peter Harrison Foundation funds life-enhancing opportunities for disabled people living in the most deprived areas in the UK.
Deadline: 1 April. Read more

Home Instead Charities
This fund is for small grassroots community groups and small local registered charities providing activities and projects to prevent social isolation and loneliness for older people.
Deadline: 30 April. Read more

WCIT Charity 
The WCIT Charity works with a wide range of non-profit organisations and aims to strengthen communities using the power of technology.
Deadline: 7 May. Apply here

The Goldsmiths’ Foundation 
This foundation supports organisations that focus on vocational skills and training, working with creativity and social change.
Deadline: 5 May. Read more

BlueSpark Foundation
This foundation supports the education and development of children and young people by providing grants for educational, cultural, sporting and other projects.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

Hackney Parochial Charities
Hackney Parochial Charities aims to relieve hardship and poverty in Hackney by giving grants to individuals and organisations in Hackney.
Deadline: 19 April. Read more

Lloyds Bank Foundation – Local collaborations programme
This programme funds collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence changes to the social security system, access to accommodation and support for asylum seekers.
Deadline: 30 April. Read more


Ongoing funding

Match My Project in Hackney
Match My Project connects local businesses that can provide resources with community organisations that need these resources.
Deadline: ongoing. Find out more

AB Charitable Trust – Migrants and Refugees
AB Charitable Trust funds organisations working in their priority areas. They support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people.
Deadline: tbc. Read more

Access Without Limits
Voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations can access up to £10,250 of grant funding, combined with support from our operations teams to set up, launch and deliver their Duke of Edinburgh programme.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Awards for All  
The National Lottery Awards for All programme has changed. You can now apply for up to £20,000 for projects of up to two years in length.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

Asda Foundation
As a response to the cost-of-living crisis, Asda Foundation is offering grants of up to £2000 to local community groups following increases in their rent, utility bill and food costs as a result of the cost of living crisis.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

Aviva Community Fund
Organisations can receive up to £50,000 in match funding from the Aviva Community Fund. Eligible organisations must have been operating for at least 12 months.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

Bruce Wake Trust
Trustees at the Bruce Wake Trust will consider grant applications for projects that provide leisure activities for disabled people.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

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.
Deadline: tbc. Read more

DWF FoundationThe Foundation supports charities that work in areas including homelessness, health, employability, education and the environment.Deadline: tbc. Read more

Delamere Dairy Foundation 
This foundation is open to applications from organisations working on environmental protection, young people, financial hardship, sickness or education.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

Fix the Digital Divide Fund
These grants are for existing members of the National Digital Inclusion Network to develop new or existing digital support services or to support people with their digital skills and access to data.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

Grants for Good Fund
The Matthew Good Foundation supports small charities, not-for-profit groups and social entrepreneurs who are passionate about making a difference to people, their community or the environment.
Deadline: tbc. Read more

Morrisons Grant Funding
This grants programme supports registered charities delivering projects that help to improve people’s lives in communities.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

Biffa Award
Biffa Award gives grants to community projects near landfill sites. They aim to fund projects that build communities and transform lives.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

BBC Children in Need – Emergency Essentials
The Emergency Essentials programme supports individual children and young people living with severe poverty, a lack of the basic facilities which most of us take for granted and additional pressures such as domestic violence, disability or poor health in the family.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

BBC Children in Need – Project Funding 
Project Costs support the aims and delivery of a specific piece of work. This work will usually be time-limited and based on a defined set of activities.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

Barclays Community Football Fund
The Barclays Community Football Fund, in partnership with Sported, is now open offering £500 grants, free training and exclusive ticket offers to help make football more accessible.
Deadline: None specified. Read more

Clothworkers Foundation
The Clothworkers Foundation has updated the criteria for their capital Open grants programme, to include other types of digital infrastructure including databases and websites.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Organisations must have an annual income of over £100,000 to apply. The majority of their grants are for three to five years.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

The Edward Gostling Foundation
The Edward Gostling Foundation provides financial support to charities seeking to create significant and positive change to the lives of disadvantaged people with a long-term illness or impairment.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Energy Saving Trust: Energy Redress Fund
Energy Saving Trust has been appointed to distribute payments from companies that may have breached Ofgem rules. Charities can apply for funds to deliver energy-related projects that meet the scheme’s priorities.
Deadline: None given. Read more

Henry Smith – Improving Lives
The Improving Lives programme provides grants to charitable organisations that help people when other sources of support are not available. They support established organisations delivering services directly to beneficiaries.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Hedley Foundation
Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support smaller charitable organisations undertaking projects for young people, disabled people, terminally ill patients and others in need.
Deadline: May. Read more

Garfield Weston Foundation
Garfield Weston supports a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith.
Read more

Growth Impact Fund
The Growth Impact Fund is a social investment fund. They offer businesses investment and provide support with diverse representation at board and leadership level.
No deadline given. Read more

Grocer’s Charity Memorial Grant
One-off grants of up to £5,000 are available to small charities young people, older people, health, the arts and heritage.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Masonic Charitable Foundation’s Children and Young People’s Grants
This programme is open to national and local charities helping disadvantaged children and young people to overcome the challenges they face.
No deadlines. Read more

Morrisons Foundation
The Morrisons Foundation awards grant funding for charity projects which make a positive difference in local communities. In the main grants are available to fully fund projects up to £25,000.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Migrant Fund
This funding supports efforts to prevent the rollback of rights, strengthen protections, build community solidarity, and empower people to shape a better future, guided by those working for migrant justice.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

Percy Bilton 
Percy Bilton provides grants towards furnishings and equipment for charities assisting disadvantaged youth, disabled people, people with mental health problems and older people.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

Tesco Stronger Starts
Tesco Stronger Starts is open to charities and community organisations to apply for a grant of up to £1,500. Every three months, three local good causes are selected to be in the blue token customer vote in Tesco stores throughout the UK.
Deadline: Every three months. Read more

National Lottery Community Fund – Reaching Communities
This programme offers funding for organisations that work with their community to help them thrive. They fund projects that work to make positive changes in their community – whether that is for people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

The True Colours Trust 
The Trust only funds registered charities or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes. Their work is focused on: improving access to palliative care for babies, children and young people in the UK enabling disabled children and young people to live their lives to the full.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

Reach FundThe Reach Fund helps charities and social enterprises raise investment. The grant is aimed at helping these organisations provide the final information that investors need before they can invest. The programme offers grants on average of between £5,000 and £15,000.Deadline: none given. Read more

The Salters’ Charitable Foundation
This foundation is welcoming expressions of interest for grants of up to £10,000 for projects that have a positive impact on disadvantaged local communities and bring about wider social change.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

The UK Fund
The UK Fund offers larger amounts of funding for existing projects that help bring diverse communities together, including those that help children and young people use their voice to influence change.
Deadline: ongoing. Find out more

Yapp Charitable Trust
Yapp Charitable Trust offer grants only for core funding to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000 who are undertaking work that focuses on one of their priority groups.
Deadline: ongoing. Read more

 


Further information 

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