They make unrestricted grants which have the potential to have a transformational impact on an organisation. Transformational impact includes helping organisations become more sustainable, more efficient, to grow significantly or enabling an organisation to take a major step forward of some kind.

Any registered charity, CIC, CIO or Community Benefit Society with turnover of under £500,000 in the last financial year is eligible to apply.

2024 funding dates are as follows:

Summer: Thursday 28 March, to 12pm (midday) on Thursday 4 April

Autumn: From 12pm (midday) Wednesday 24 July, to 12pm (midday) on Wednesday 31 July

The Tree Council is offering grants of between £250 and £2,500 for schools, constituted community groups and charities, community interest companies, Tree Warden networks, and other organisations across the UK to deliver tree-planting projects during the 2024/25 Winter planting season (between the end of November 2024 and early February 2025).

The deadline for applications is 1st December 2024.

Find out more and apply here.

In it’s seventh year of running, Rosa’s Voices from the Frontline Fund offers  grants of up to £10,000 over 18 months to women’s and girls’ organisations to support campaigning and influencing work that enables women and girls to use their voice to achieve change. 

Women’s and girls’ organisations are at the forefront of addressing social issues and they believe change comes about when women and girls who have lived experience of injustice and inequality get heard. 

The deadline for applications is 4pm on Monday 9th December. You need to submit your application form and video by this date.

Please see the application guidance, FAQs and eligibility criteria here. 

A programme for small, local, specialist charities supporting people facing complex issues.

Under this programme, successful applicants will receive a grant of £75,000 over three years, along with a breadth of tailored support aimed at helping strengthen charities and building the knowledge, skills and capabilities of their staff and trustees.

There are 83 grants available across England & Wales.

The deadline for applications is 23 January 2025, 5pm.

Find out more and apply 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.

An opportunity for community groups within a 20 mile radius of Dunham Massey (which includes the whole of Stockport) to bid for funding of between £500 and £5,000 for initiatives that create, look after, or improve local freshwater habitats and provide opportunities for people to connect with nature. 

The money has to provide some sort of positive benefit for water and habitats. This could be as large scale as building a pond, or it could also be smaller scale community activity such as a river litter pick. This money could be spent by groups to take communities on trips to freshwater areas, so long as there is a positive impact on the freshwater area while they are there (e.g. litter pick, citizen science data collection, learning how to make a good freshwater habitat at home). The money could also be used by the groups to purchase outdoors equipment or to provide training in outdoors activities. The criteria is purposefully broad to allow creativity in applications. 

Projects must be completed by 31 December 2025.

Grants are available for youth-led organisations across the United Kingdom to deliver projects and activities that support youth-led social action in local communities.

One-year grants of up to £20,000 are available. Groups or organisations with an annual income of less than £250,000 that wish to deliver youth-led projects and activities can apply. Partnership applications are welcomed.

Groups should first go through the online eligibility checker available from the Co-op Foundation website.

The deadline to complete the eligibility checker is Thursday 14 December

Find out more here

Forever Manchester are offering 125 awards of £125 to support Communities at Christmas.

Deadline is Thursday 14 November

If you're a part of a not-for-profit organisation, group or charity within the Stockport area, that benefits the local community, you can apply for this funding.

Previous awardees have received funding amounts between £100 and £650.

Deadline is 15th November 2024, the application is very short and easy to complete.

Councils, community groups and charities can bid for a share of up to £500,000 for educational, arts and sporting projects in the run up to Windrush Day on 22 June 2025.

Applications close at 11.59pm on Monday 25 November 2024.

Grants of up to £25,000 for Greater Manchester based VCFSE organisations undertaking projects to deliver innovative projects that will raise awareness of the early signs and symptoms of cancer and identify and understand the barriers people face when receiving a cancer diagnosis.

You don’t need to be cancer experts and 10GM will give you the support you need to help your community.

To find more about the fund and how to apply, you can register for a Meet the Funder session on Friday 11 October 3pm-4pm.

The deadline to complete the Expression of Interest Form is Thursday 24 October.

As part of Just Giving’s ongoing commitment to the fundraising sector, in partnership with Fundraising Everywhere, they have launched the ‘Digital Learning Grant’. A fully funded online learning programme designed to help charity or nonprofit professionals build better digital skills.

The is a 6 month step-by-step blueprint and 1:1 coaching programme specifically designed to build better digital skills, available for up to 200 individuals.

Whether you’re just starting out, or you’ve been in the social good space for some time, if you want to boost your skills and confidence, this is for you!

Applications are open now, until 5pm on 15 October 2024.

Back for it’s fifth year, the ‘GM Mental Wellbeing Grant’ is aimed to support people from communities of identity or experience, based in Greater Manchester, to improve their mental wellbeing. With grants available up to £5000, for VCFSE’s with an income of under £75,000 in the previous year, to run activities that will support the mental wellbeing of people from a range of communities of identity or experience. 

This programme aims to support Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership’s 2023-2028 strategy which sets out how they will work together to improve the health of people across Greater Manchester, through the partnership. 

Applications open on Tuesday 8th October, and close 5th November 2024.

Motability Foundation are asking organisations interested in applying for funding, to submit their Stage One application by Tuesday 8 October.

New Stage One applications for this round of funding cannot be accepted beyond this date.

Funding programmes are based on research and insight which shows where grant-funding can have the biggest impact for disabled people. They help to address the challenges that disabled people face accessing transport right now, while Motability Foundation continue their own research and innovation work into longer-term solutions to make all transport accessible.

Charities and organisations can apply for grants from £50,000 up to £4 million.

ASDA will donate 0.5% of your spend to a state-funded primary school of your choice each time you shop using the Asda Rewards app.

Once your school registers for the initiative, ASDA will add an additional £1 for every customer who signs up.

They anticipate around £500 will be raised for each school taking part.

Register by 30th November 2024.

Masdar Arlington has launched funds to support Greater Manchester Communities. They develop, own and operate battery energy storage assets and is committed to supporting the local communities that host its infrastructure.

Masdar Arlington is inviting local groups within a 10-kilometre radius of Welkin Road to apply to the fund on BizGive. They welcome any projects with a positive environmental, social or economic impact.

Applications close 29th November, when decisions will be taken on which projects to support.

SKylight Community Fund provides grants of up to £2000, prioritising grassroots projects and projects that support digital inclusion in Stockport, including:

• Developing digital skills

• Peer-to-peer support

• Online activities

• Digital and online support groups

• Other community-centred activities including one-off events, support groups, skill-building, or community development.

  Early applications are encouraged. The fund will close to bids on 5pm on 11.10.24, but they reserve the right to close the application earlier should the funding limit be reached.

The Our Local Nature Grant scheme is designed to provide young people with an opportunity to take the lead on projects that involve their local nature and natural spaces, to aid young people in realising their influence to affect positive change, to have their voices heard, and see their ideas come to life.

It is aimed at projects that seek to empower local young people to enact changes they want to see, such as increasing access to natural spaces and improving understanding of their local biodiversity.

The maximum award is £1,000 per proposal, with applications for lower amounts also accepted.

Deadline to apply is 25th October.

Funded by GM Moving, small grants of up to £2,000 and medium grants of up to £5,000 are available through 10GM to support VCSE organisations that encourage people who are usually less active to start or increase the amount they regularly walk in winter 2024-2025.

All projects must encourage people who are usually less active or inactive to increase the amount they walk or wheel regularly. To achieve this goal, both the small and medium grant funds have specific criteria that must be met.

Deadlines are: Small Grant - 12pm 18th October 2024 / Medium Grant - 12pm 7th October 2024

Organisations wishing to access the Energy Redress Scheme must complete a simple online information form so that Energy Saving Trust can check whether they are eligible to apply. Organisations that meet the initial criteria will be notified and will be emailed a link to create an account, through which they can apply for all subsequent rounds.

The amount of funding available through the scheme varies throughout the year and will be reviewed on a quarterly basis in January, April, July and October. When funds become available, eligible organisations will be notified to use their online account to apply for funds.