Asda Foundation – Outdoor Community Spaces Fund is inviting local grassroots community organisations with an income of less than £250,000 to apply to their new £500,000 fund which will support improving or transforming an outdoor space by August 2025.

Grants of £500, £1,000, £1,500, £2,000, £2,500, or £3,000 are available for projects within the UK which meet at least one of the following aims:

• Transform an outdoor area, creating greener and more engaging community spaces

• Create or enhance community growing projects

• Enable community clean ups (maximum grant is £500).

  Groups should not wait to apply as the scheme may close early if demand for funding is high. Deadline: 11.02.25 at 12pm.

Shaping the Future is designed to bolster leadership in the refugee and migration sector. The fund provides resources for individuals, organisations and networks to foster holistic, sustainable leadership development. Join a webinar on 11 February or 24 February to learn more about the criteria.

 Apply by 12 March ➜

 Applicants can apply for funding for up to two years. There are three funding pots are available:

Individuals: Grants of up to £10,000 to support personal leadership development.

Organisations: Grants of £10,000–£60,000 to strengthen leadership within organisations.

Collaborative partnerships: Grants of £60,000–£100,000 to support collaborative initiatives that foster leadership across networks.

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.

The Hedley Foundation offers grants up to £5,000 for small UK charities. Please note this excludes core salaries, building construction, general running costs, transport, financial deficits, and overseas projects.

Deadline 26.02.25

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.

The GM Walking Festival 2025 is a celebration of walking and wheeling, as part of May’s National Walking Month, and an opportunity for everyone to get involved, whatever role you play in Greater Manchester.

 This year, we’ve increased the number of ways in which you can get involved and recognise the many benefits of walking and wheeling more as a fundamental part of daily life.

Grants of up to £100 are available to support walk organisers to plan and host a walk during the GM Walking Festival in May and help to sustain the walking activity beyond this.

Find out more about the grants at one of our two Zoom Support sessions on Thursday 13 February (10-11am) or Monday 10 February (5-6pm). Book a place here.

Key dates

• 28 February - Deadline for GM Walking Festival grant applications

• 21 March - Deadline for organisations to submit a public walk onto GM Walking website

• April - Public walks published on GM Walking website

• 1 May - GM Walking Festival begins

• 12-18 May - Mental Health Awareness Week

• 19-23 May - Walk to School Week

• 31 May - GM Walking Festival ends

Full details on how to get involved can be found on their website, any questions please email info@gmmoving.co.uk.

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.

The Grow Wild Community Programme is offering around 20 grants of up to £2,000 to not-for-profit groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi.

Projects should enhance the biodiversity of the urban space with planting and growing as a core activity, be led by groups who care about the environment and will use sustainable materials and practices and have the potential to reach at least 300 people.

Deadline: 13th February, 3pm.

Find out more here.

Age Without Limits, Centre for Ageing Better’s campaign to challenge ageism, is running their annual Age Without Limits Day on 11 June 2025. This is a day for us all to come together and take action to end ageism – as individuals, with friends and family, in our communities and in our workplaces.

The 2025 theme for the Age Without Limits Day is Celebrate Ageing. Challenge Ageism.

There is a micro-grant funding opportunity open now for applications. This is available to community groups and voluntary sector organisations to hold activities and events on the day. Groups and organisations can apply for up to £500, with an additional £150 to cover anything needed to make the activity more accessible.

Deadline: 10th February, 5pm.

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.

BCBN’s Grant Initiative aims to provide small third-sector grant awards to empower charities and local community projects. This initiative will distribute a one-off grant award of up to £3,000 per charity or to small but credible community projects, which are able to demonstrate their positive impact on the communities they aim to serve.

Applications close 16th February 2025, you must complete their grant eligibility quiz prior to downloading the application pack.

Find out more and apply here.

For registered charities to support young people and adults to gain additional skills and confidence to enter the UK labour market and develop their careers.

CABWI is aiming to fund projects that work with individuals with complex barriers to employment, including but not restricted to, ex-service personnel and ex-offenders, work directly with young people and adults who are either not in employment, education, or training (NEET), to improve their access to employment and the labour market, or increase life skills, with a particular focus on the water, utilities, and construction industries.

Grants of up to £35,000 are available for one year.

Applications are open from 06.01.25 – 03.02.25, with a information webinar session on 8th January 2025.

Find out more and apply here.

African Health Policy Network is offering 8 grants between £20,000 and £30,000 for Black and Global Majority-ked organisations across the UK who are working to improve the health and well-being of Black and global majority communities. To apply, 75% of the organisation’s governing body members and more than 50% of leadership but be represented by Black and Global Majority communities. This is a 2 stage application.

The expressions of interest deadline is midnight Monday 23 December.

GMCA have now announced a 3-year small grants programme for VCFSE organisations supporting victims of crime within Greater Manchester. £5,000 is available to organisations providing essential services to victims of crime to help them cope and recover REGARDLESS of whether the crime is reported to the Police or not.

There will be three discrete elements to the fund:

-Small grants to be awarded to community organisation who support victims (Max £5,000) Such as - Cost of living grant for victims – to provide personal budgets and personal funding for victims with cost-of-living pressures

-Cost of living grant for organisations working with victims (Max £2,000)

-Grant to organisations working with victims (Max £ 5,000) Supporting Community development and collaboration

Applications will close on Monday 6 January

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.

Up to £5000 is available to support the integration of Hong Kong BN(O) visa holders across the North West. The grant is open to a range of proposals including helping BN(O) visa holders to access services and support, supporting those experiencing destitution, support integrating with the community, and accessing ESOL.

The Grant Application Form and Guidance Document are available on their website: ANNOUNCEMENT: North West Hong Kong BN(O) VCSE Small Grant Applications – NOW OPEN - Northwestrsmp

Information session’s will be held in December and January, to register to attend please see the webpages below.

• 12th December 2024: Information Session: North West Hong Kong BN(O) VCSE Small Grants Tickets, Thu 12 Dec 2024 at 13:00 | Eventbrite

• 7th January 2025: Information Session: North West Hong Kong BN(O) VCSE Small Grants Tickets, Tue 7 Jan 2025 at 14:00 | Eventbrite

Applications close at 11:59pm on the 12th January 2025. Applications should be submitted by email to HongKong@manchester.gov.uk.

Make It Big is here to fill a crucial gap in support for Black and Global Majority-led charities and social enterprises, helping you strengthen your foundation and prepare for social investment.

This unique programme is designed to empower Black and Global Majority-led charities and social enterprises across the UK. Through grants of £25,000, alongside expert-led support and training, the programme will equip organisations to overcome systemic challenges, scale sustainably, and drive meaningful, lasting change.

The deadline for applications is 5pm 14th January 2025, find out more here.

Grants for small, community-based and locally controlled groups who need a bit of financial help to be able to work with their community in the way they would like to. Grants of up to £2,500 are available.

Applications close Thursday 19th December, midday.

Find out more here

This funding programme from the Baobab Foundation supports Black and Global Majority individuals and organisations tackling racial injustice in their collective work. The fund offers grants ranging from £5,000 to £30,000 per year for up to 5 years. Applications close on Monday 3 February.

GMCA have now announced a 3-year small grants programme for VCFSE organisations supporting victims of crime within Greater Manchester.

The objective of this funding is to support VCFSE organisations in Greater Manchester that provide essential services to victims of crime to help them cope and recover REGARDLESS of whether the crime is reported to the Police or not.

There will be three discrete elements to the fund:

1. Small grants to be awarded to community organisation who support victims (Max £5,000) Such as - Cost of living grant for victims – to provide personal budgets and personal funding for victims with cost-of-living pressures

2. Cost of living grant for organisations working with victims (Max £2,000)

3. Grant to organisations working with victims (Max £ 5,000) Supporting Community development and collaboration

The maximum amount of funding is £5,000  

GMCA will be hosting an online engagement event on 27th November, it will be an opportunity to ask questions about the fund. To register please email : Lucy.phelan@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk

The applications will close on Monday 6th January 2025, information can be found here.