The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced that the Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme has been re-funded for a 5th year. This announcement includes continued funding to the North West RSMP to deliver the North West Welcome Hub as well as continue our work funding vital projects and programmes across the region supporting BN(O) visa holders.

The Government is continuing to fund the following key elements of the Welcome Programme:

• Demand-led funding for local authorities in England to provide English language and destitution support. Funding for English language support will be available for the first three years that a BN(O) is in the UK – this is a change in eligibility for the English language funding and the attached updated guidance has also been produced by Government;

• Funding for the 12 Welcome Hubs across the UK;

• Funding for the Hate Crime Reporting Service for BN(O)s and ESEA communities. There will be a reduction in the operating hours for the service with details to be confirmed; and,

• Funding for the mental health and wellbeing project being delivered by Barnardo’s until September 2025.

Information is also available on the RSMP website or on the Gov.uk BN(O) webpage

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that people in the UK will benefit from upgraded sports facilities in their local area backed by £100 million of government funding.

The funding is expected to support new and improved pitches, changing rooms, goalposts and floodlights to improve access to sport and physical activity for local communities. The funding will be targeted at deprived areas and support greater access and participation levels among under-represented people including women and girls, ethnic minority groups and disabled players.

Clubs and organisations in the UK are now being urged to come forward and apply for funding. Applications can be made in England via the Football Foundation on an ongoing basis. The first tranche of beneficiaries are expected to be confirmed in summer 2025.

These grants aim to:
– Enable smaller grass-roots groups to develop a delivery record
– Tackle health and wellbeing issues in communities
– Undermine the wider social determinants of health that impact in communities
– Build capacity and resilience across the VCSE sector.

Their grant awards are either:
Micro grants – £50 to £500
Small grants – £500 – £2500

The grants are expected to be delivered within 12 months of the award - it may be a one off event or a project that runs for 1 to 12 months.

Find out more here.

The NOMA Fund is offering awards of up to £1,500 to support grassroots community activity.

Applicants should be working with young people between 11 and 25 years old and have an annual income of less than £100,000.

Activity needs to be taking place and supporting those who live within the boundary of the M60 motorway.

The deadline is midday Thursday 3rd April - you can find out more about the fund here.

Alongside their national funding round, they are also running two regional rounds in Summer 2025:

• North West funding round (for organisations based in the North West of England, which includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside)

• South West funding round (for organisations based in Cornwall)

Successful applicants will receive:

• An unrestricted grant: Up to £30,000, spread across 1 to 3 years

• Access to skills and networks: Including peer support and pro bono support from experienced professionals

• Access to training: Through our workshops programme and fully funded impact measurement support courses

Who they fund:

• Registered Charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, and Charitable Community Benefit Societies (CBSs)/Non-Charitable CBSs with an asset lock

• Your annual revenue should be less than £500,000

What they fund: 

They offer unrestricted funding to help your organisation grow, become more sustainable, efficient, or resilient. We are interested in organisational development, and we believe that by asking you and your charity what you need, our grants will create a transformational impact on your organisation. 

You can find examples of what they have previously funded here.

Find out more here.

They are hosting an online Q&A session on Tuesday 18th March, 12pm to 1pm. If you want to hear more from The Fore team about their application process and pose your own questions before you register your interest in applying, you can sign up here. If you can’t make it on the day, please still register if you would like to receive the recording.

From 23 to 30 June 2025, the Small Charity Week Match Funding campaign will help small charities sustain their essential work across the UK by providing vital financial support.

Through this campaign, donations made to participating charities via Big Give, will be doubled. This means every pound donated will have twice the impact in supporting small charities' vital work.

• Applications open: Wednesday 19 February

• Closing date: Wednesday 2 April

• Funding offers announced by Wednesday 7 May

Eligible charities must have an annual income of between £5,000 and £1 million.

Apply directly on Big Give here.

Thomas Wall Trust is now open for its latest funding round.

The Thomas Wall Trust believes that communication skills are critical capabilities for people who want to improve their employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

The Trust offers grants up to £5,000 for specific projects that improve communication skills for disadvantaged adults and supports NEET people into employment.

Beneficiaries must gain at least one accredited vocational qualification during delivery or within two months of project completion.

The deadline for this round of funding is 5th May 2025.

Find out more here.

Lloyds local collaborations funding programme will open soon for its second round. Through this fund, they will award grants to 15 collaborations across England and Wales looking to influence change around one of three themes:

• accommodation

• social security

• support for refugees and asylum seekers

Collaborations can apply for £100k over 2 years initially and will be able to access development support. Find out what this support looks like. 

When the programme launches you will have the opportunity to join a webinar to find out more and talk to one of our team about your proposal before you apply. 

In the meantime, take a look at what they've already funded through the programme and read the blog from a local charity leading a collaboration.

Grants and technical expertise are available to non-profit organisations, civic entities, academic institutions, and social enterprises from the UK and worldwide to build socially impactful gen AI-powered solutions across Google.org’s three focus areas:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Learning

• Scientific Advancement

• Resilient Communities.

They are offering up to equivalent of USD £500k-2M, and pro bono assistance from Google employees, technical training, and access to Google Cloud credits.

Find out more here.

This funding opportunity aims to support organisations that work to empower young people who are at immediate risk of, or experiencing homelessness to access the right support at the right time.

Through this funding programme, they will provide flexible, core funding to organisations which do both of the following:

• Specialise in the provision of holistic support to young people aged 16-25 in the UK, who are at immediate risk of, or experiencing homelessness. Support services should be tailored, inclusive and accessible, to remove barriers and better meet the multiple and diverse needs of young people at immediate risk of or experiencing homelessness. This work could be delivered by the applicant alone or in partnership.

• Meaningfully involve young people with lived experience of homelessness, or who have been at risk of homelessness. This should include involving young people in the development of the organisation’s work and priority areas, and/or in the running of the organisation.

This fund is for UK based organisations with an annual income of £250,000 to £10m.

You’re welcome to apply for up to £200,000, for a funding period of 3-5 years. Deadline is 3pm on 7th May 2025.

You can find out more here.

Grants are available to constituted UK based organisations to run projects in England for children and young people (aged 25 or under) to make music activity more inclusive and foster learning, creation and employment opportunities.

Organisations are welcome to apply for up to £30,000, by 11th April 2025.

Find out more here.

The programme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.

Buttle UK provide individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.

They only accept applications from frontline professionals working for a registered charity, housing association or public sector organisation.

There is a list of things they WON’T fund, including where the main reason is disability, ongoing serious illness or the additional needs of a child.

There is no deadline for applications - find out more here.

Grants are available for organisations undertaking charitable projects focusing on literacy teaching for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, in the UK.

Applications are always open, for further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following: Tel: 020 7410 0330 Email: info@sfct.org.uk

UK Small Grants provides grants of up to £10,000 to help support families, children and young people in the UK with complex disabilities and/or life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.

The Trust seeks to bring about better lives for children and their families through a broad mix of research, advocacy, service delivery and innovation.

The programme is open to applications at any time. They aim to respond to your application with a final decision within eight weeks but this can sometimes take longer.

The Trust makes donations of between £250 – £3,500 in the Greater Manchester area, specifically to benefit smaller charities. They are particularly interested in assisting:

• Organisations for young people e.g. scouts, guides, youth organisations

• Provision for the sick and disabled

• Assistance for groups providing for the elderly and disadvantaged members of society

• Support for educational initiatives by arts organisations particularly for children and young people

• Community associations; and Organisations providing services for people in Greater Manchester.

There is no deadline, however, only one application will be accepted from an organisation within a two year period.

Grants of up to £30k for the prevention or relief of poverty, education, health or the saving of lives, and the arts, culture, heritage, or science.

The secondary charitable purposes of the Trust are citizenship or community development; amateur sport; environmental protection or improvement; and the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage.

Applications to the trust are reviewed quarterly. Quarterly cut offs are 30 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December each year.

Falcon Digital is now offering free website design and digital marketing advice for any UK charities or community interest groups such as sports clubs and support services. No longer will charities need to budget for expensive digital services and advertising advice.

London Hearts are here to help you with funding for a defibrillator to help support your community and local area.

London Hearts are a defibrillator charity that can help you with starting your defibrillator project and will help supply medical devices that can save those who may experience a cardiac arrest. Let us aid your fundraising efforts and reduce the cost of a defibrillator. We can help to boost your efforts and bring this essential and life saving equipment to the heart of your community quicker.

Provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and support to help projects that get more people active. If you're eligible and your project aligns with their goals, you could receive up to £15,000 to cover a wide range of costs and items that'll help deliver positive change in your community.