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

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

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

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

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

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

Offer grants up to £5,000 to registered charities with specific projects or core activities that help to improve employment prospects, self-confidence, resilience, and life chances.

Currently OPEN to new applications for their July meeting.

The deadline for 1st stage applications is Monday 15 May 2023.

Funding of up to £5,000 for UK registered charities and CIO’s currently supporting vulnerable people in geographical areas of high deprivation (within the UK) and with an annual income under £200,000.

Rolling deadline

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.

Ongoing deadline

BlueSpark provides grants for projects that support the education and development of children and young people. The funding is for small-scale projects which might not happen or would only happen on a lesser scale without the support of BlueSpark. Funding provided by BlueSpark must be crucial to your project rather than marginally incremental to its funding.

Ongoing deadline

Funding available for VCFSE’s with projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment and an average annual income of less than £50,000. Organisations/groups do not need to be a registered charity, however, will need to have a bank account in the organisation’s/project’s name such as a community bank account.

Application deadlines:

16 March / June / September / December

Awards grants of an average of £5,000 to causes working at community level in the UK and developing countries which are less likely to be able to raise funds from public subscriptions. Current UK funding priorities are: Homelessness, Penal Affairs, Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Community-Based initiatives for Disadvantaged Young People Aged 16 to 25.

2024 deadlines:

Tuesday 9 April 2024 - Tuesday 14 May 2024

Tuesday 10 September 2024 - Tuesday 15 October 2024

Funding of over £20,001+ for projects that help communities to thrive.

The deadline to apply is ongoing but be sure to spend time finessing your application.

Grants of £500 - £5,000 for small charities or groups that support older people 65+, adults with a physical or learning disability or mental health problems. They favour applications that help improve people’s mobility, independence and quality of life. Their funding focus is about connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community.

Ongoing deadline

Offer grants for core funding to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40k who are undertaking work that focuses on one of the following:

• Elderly people
• Children and young people aged 5 - 25
• People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges
• Social welfare
• Education and learning

Grants of up to £3,000 per year for three years are available.

Trustees meet 3 times per year to consider applications and a decision time can take up to 5 months from the date of submission.

UK charities can apply for funding of up to £2,500 to help them improve their online digital presence. Small grants are available to charities with an average income of less than £1 million a year. Funding will help organisations to build websites and apps, digitise services, and purchase digital products.

Organisations such as Registered Charities, Community Interest Companies, Co-operatives and Credit Unions; etc. that have a Community Directplus account can apply for funding of up to £1,000 from the Customer Donation Fund.

Applications close in March and September every year

Two grants available: Large grants for £2000+ to fund furniture and equipment and Small Grants up to £750. Only registered charities in the U.K. whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups: Disadvantaged/underprivileged young people (under 25), People with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities) or mental health problems, Older people (aged 60+).

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Awards grants of up to £25,000 to community projects that improve people’s lives. Applicants must also have raised some funding towards the project elsewhere.

Ongoing deadline

Funding pots of between £500 - £2,000 and £500 - £20,000 are available for projects centred around mental wellbeing, community participation in the arts, preventing or reducing the impact of poverty, supporting marginalised groups and promoting equality, improving biodiversity & green spaces, enabling participation in physical activity, responding to the climate emergency & promoting sustainability and increasing community access to outdoor space.

Funding round dates for 2024 are:

Round 1: 25 March 9am to 1 April 12 noon.

Round 2: 24 June 9am to 1 July 12 noon.

Round 3: 24 September 9 to 1st October 12 noon.