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BA Better World Community Fund
Match funding (50%) of up to £50,000 to help organisations who are supporting social mobility, driving opportunity for education and employability in disadvantaged communities and supporting individuals from ethnic minorities as well as providing opportunities for girls in STEM. Funding will also target organisations who support and provide Health and Wellbeing services to those in need. There will also be funding available to support projects who help their local community become more sustainable by providing innovative ideas to prevent or reduce the impacts of climate change.
Community Football Fund - Barclays
Grants of £500 are available for groups wishing to start offering football, those keen to expand their existing provision to new audiences or those already delivering football to under-represented young people. Alongside the grants, the programme will be offering training and support resources to groups to help reduce inequalities in the participation of football.
The programme will focus on including girls and young people from lower socio-economic and under-represented groups: including racially diverse communities, people with disabilities, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.
Happiness Fund
Funding UK grassroots, neighbourhood-based community projects; mental health and wellbeing, inclusion, learning and skills development. Open to individuals and other organisations. Up to £2,500 per quarter, per project.
Quarterly application deadlines
Esme Fairbairn Foundation Grants
Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change / Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future and Creative, Confident Communities. You must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000. Funds of £30,000 upwards
Ongoing deadline
DWF Foundation
Provides funds, resources and support to help local communities achieve their full potential. Supports charities with impact in 1 of following areas: Homelessness, Health & Wellbeing, Employability or Education. Up to £5,000 available
Ongoing deadline
The Chestnut Fund
Part of The Conservation Volunteers commitment to support Community Network members. The fund makes grants available to encourage and enable community groups to carry out conservation activities. Two grants are available for Start Up (up to £160) and Support (up to £350).
Applications are reviewed every 6 weeks
Persimmon Homes Community Champions
They are giving away up to £2,000 every month to fund local community initiatives.
Ongoing applications
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
There are 5 UK focused funding priorities: arts access and participation; education and learning through the arts; migration and integration; investing in young people; nurturing ideas and people. Organisations can request up to £90,000 spread over three years.
Arnold Clark Community Fund
This charitable fund is back open for applications, making grants of up to £1,000 to UK registered charities and community groups. For this winter round of funding, the Fund will only accept applications from projects delivering:
Food banks, Toy banks, Poverty relief, Housing and accommodation
Strengthening Communities - The Henry Smith Charity
Grants of between £20,000 and £60,000 per year for up to three years are available to grassroots level community-led charities and not-for-profit organisations working to support communities in the most deprived areas of the UK.
Decisions are made quarterly
Trusthouse Small Grants
Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Projects must have a focus on Community Support.
Ongoing deadline
The Schroder Charity Trust
Up to £5,000 is available to projects focused on arts, culture and heritage; environment & conservation; strengthening communities; education, training & employment; health & wellbeing.
Decisions made twice a year
The Hedley Foundation
Grants are available from £250 - £5,000 to small and medium sized UK charities.
The next meetings are as follows:
24 January 2024
24 April 2024
17 July 2024
13 November 2024
Applications should be received at least 6 weeks prior to the meeting date
The Wakeham Trust
Offer grants of up to £2,500 to small charities and projects that encourage community service by young people to their own neighbourhoods and communities.
Ongoing deadline
The National Lottery Community Fund - Partnerships Fund
This programme offers a larger amount of funding of over £10,000 for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences. The support is aimed at enabling organisations to continue to deliver activity or change and adapt to improve resilience.
Ongoing deadline
Foyle Foundation - Community Grants
Their Small Grants Scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the UK, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. The focus is to make one-year grants only to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services to charities that can show financial stability.
Ongoing deadline
The Swire Charitable Trust
Awards grants via three funding programmes to registered charities:
Opportunity Programme (Improving life chances, realising potential), Environment Programme, Heritage Programme
They offer awards of up to and over £25,000 as well as multi-year grants.
Ongoing application window
Warburtons Community Grants
Provides small grants up to £400 to support charitable organisations towards broader activities which improve Health, Place or Skills for families in their community.
Quarterly deadlines in November, February, May and August
Awards for All - TNLCF
Funding between £300 to £20,000 for VCFSE organisations to:
bring people together to build strong relationships in and across communities
improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage
support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis.
Ongoing deadline
Garfield Weston Grants
Two grant options are available small grants of up to £100,000 and major grants of £100,000 or more. The types of grant made fall into one of three categories – Capital, Revenue (often called ‘core costs’) and Project work. The most important thing is that you apply for what you need.
Ongoing deadline
Always open funds
These funds have a rolling deadline and can be applied for at any time.
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The programme supports development by allowing artists, cultural practitioners and organisations to work in new ways and to get their work out to new audiences.
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The Core Costs Funding Stream is for charities and not-for-profit organisations. Applicants to this programme can apply for grants for up to three years. They aim to give quicker decisions for grants of £15,000 or less per year.
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Funding for specific projects and activities children and young people aged 18 or under. Priority to smaller, local organisations and rarely fund organisations with income above £1 million. For UK wide Hospices and Housing Associations there is no maximum income limit. They will only consider applications for over £15,000 pa, if you are a registered non profit.
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Minor Grants are aimed at supporting small local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. They fund core costs, average grant size is £500 - £4,999
Community Grants are aimed at assisting and supporting the development of smaller local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. Grant Size in the range of £5,000-£20,000
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Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change / Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future and Creative, Confident Communities. You must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000. Funds of £30,000 upwards
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The grant is always open for applications from charities and community organisations to bid for up to £1,500. Three projects in 575 local communities are voted on by customers in Tesco stores throughout the UK, with projects changing every three months.
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A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.
Suitable for Voluntary or community organisations
Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
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Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for projects that last up to five years. They’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.
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