Funding

Funding

List of funding opportunities

Grants for Good Fund
The Matthew Good Foundation supports organisations that are passionate about making a difference to people, their community or the environment.
Deadline: 15 March. Apply here

Our Space Award
Groundwork’s Our Space Award offers groups grants of up to £5,000 to improve local green and open spaces.
Deadline: 16 March. Apply here

Innovate Now with Wellcome
This grant and capacity building programme provides funding to black-led initiatives that support black and mixed-black heritage research.
Deadline: 25 March. Apply here

Happiness Fund
Funds for projects focused on mental health, wellbeing, inclusion and skills development that have a long-term impact and help people thrive,
Deadline: 27 March. Apply here

A B Charitable Trust
This charitable trust promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of marginalised and excluded people.
Deadline: 24 April. Apply here

Screwfix Foundation
Funding for projects related to the repair, maintenance, improvement or construction of buildings that are used by people in need.
Deadline: 10 May. Apply here

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: 20 May. Apply here

Groundwork Grassroots Grants 
This programme provides unrestricted funding of up to £2,000 to small, local organisations that make a positive difference in their communities.
Deadline: 1 September. Apply here

North London Community Fund
North London Waste Authority offers funding to support community-led projects that reduce waste. Grants of up to £20,000 available.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

The Skinners’ Company Charity Programme
The Skinners’ Company funds programmes of work that help young people not in education or employment to get ready for, and move into, employment.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

KFC Youth Foundation
This foundation provides grants for grassroots organisations that help economically disadvantaged young people to fulfil their potential.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here


Ongoing funding

The Access Foundation 
The foundation provides grants to mitigate the digital divide by making IT facilities and support available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
The trust allocates funds to charities advancing the arts, health, medical welfare and environmental protection.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

Alpkit Foundation
Grants of up to £500 for individuals and community groups, to encourage people to get outdoors and have experiences that otherwise wouldn’t happen.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

Arnold Clark Community Fund
Grants are available for charities for projects supporting those most affected by the cost of living crisis.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

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: January 2026. Read more

Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation
This funding is for registered charities with expenditure under £10million whose charitable work meets the foundation’s current priorities.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

Arts Council – Supporting Grassroots Music
This investment programme currently supports venues, festivals, studios and rehearsal spaces, as well as sector bodies operating in grassroots music.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

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

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

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

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

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 an Open Grants Programme funds capital costs that support the infrastructure needs of small- and medium-sized charitable organisations working with disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities.
Deadline: Ongoing. Read more

Drapers’ Charitable Fund
This fund gives grants to improve the quality of life and aspirations of people and communities, particularly those who are socially excluded or disadvantaged.
Deadline: Ongoing. Apply here

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

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

National Lottery Awards for All England – Environment
This programme funds community-led projects that improve the environment and help people connect with and enjoy nature where they live.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

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.
Deadline: ongoing.
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

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: Ongoing. Apply here

London Marathon Foundation: Active Spaces Fund
Funding is available for projects that improve spaces and help the least active young people to lead active and healthy lives.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

London Catalyst – Main Grants
This programme aims to address factors that influence health outcomes, including poverty, housing, education, employment, discrimination and isolation.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

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

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

Merchant Taylors’ Foundation
This grants scheme funds Hackney charities working with people in need due to age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
Deadline: tbc. Apply here

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

The Pixel Fund
Grants are available for projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.
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

The Rayne Foundation
Funding for young people’s mental health, creating opportunities for refugees, and for improving the lives of people in later life and their carers.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

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 Solidarity Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund has launched a programme to fund organisations that deal with the causes of inequality.
Deadline: ongoing. Apply here

Triangle Trust
Grants are available to fund work with young women and girls who are in the criminal justice system or are vulnerable and likely to enter it.
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 voices 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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