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.

The Gilchrist Educational Trust offers grants for individuals, expeditions and organisations.

One-off grants generally between £500 and £4,000 for registered UK voluntary and community organisations for projects that fill gaps in educational provision or make a specific aspect of education or learning more accessible.

Deadline 28th February 2025.

Grants of between £2750 and £5750 for registered charities working in one of their priority areas:

Culture and the arts, educational opportunities for adults and / or children, protection, preservation or enhancement of the natural environment, stronger / better / more sustainable communities, promoting health and medicine, with an emphasis on research or education, but not hospices.

They hold a priority to north of England and will fund core costs.

Applications are considered quarterly, with the next deadlines being 31st August 2024, 30th November 2024, 28th February 2025.

The Magdalen Hospital Trust offers grants of between £500-£2,000 for registered charities with an annual income of less than £150,000, working with vulnerable children and young adults, especially those at risk of sexual and other forms of exploitation.

With a preference to fund project costs, they aim to provide grants for training, education, clubs & play schemes, counselling and emergency care.

Submission dates for applications are between 1st and 31st October 2024.

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.

Grants between £1,000 and £5,000 are available for ambitious projects that raise awareness about climate change and enable people to take climate actions.

There'll be 2 rounds of the CAN Catalyst Fund across 2024 and 2025:

-Round 1: applications open from 25 March to 30 June 2024

-Round 2: applications open from 1 December 2024 to 28 February 2025

Funding decisions will be made by the cabinet member for Climate Change and Environment.

Aims to support residents, communities and schools to take action.

Grants up to £1,000 are available for small projects that enable residents of Stockport to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions locally.

Funding decisions will be made by your local councillors at area committee meetings.

This funding is open for applications until February 2025.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have launched a £25.5 million funding package to help voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations in England improve their energy efficiency.

Eligible organisations will be able to apply for 1) an independent energy assessment and 2) capital grants to install energy efficiency measures.

To apply for the second element, organisations not owning their premises will need to ask for their landlords’ permission.

Grants are available for local groups to support social and environmental projects and activities that benefit the residents around the NextEnergy’s solar assets in the Midlands and the Northwest of England. The maximum grant is £1,500. Decisions will be made on an ongoing basis.

Applications close 24 October 2024

Find out more here

The CDL Fund welcomes applications from grassroots community groups based in the borough of Stockport.

The Fund aims to support the activities of local community or voluntary groups and projects that contribute positively to the quality of life, wellbeing and improved health of people and communities which address any or all of the priorities listed below:

- Digital inclusion

- Older people

- Children and young people

- Stronger communities

- Environment

- Health and Wellbeing

Up to £1,000 available for Stockport based groups and organisations.

Applications close Thursday 31 October

Grants are available to support grassroots football clubs across the UK with a priority on supporting children up to the age of 18 access sport and physical activity and/or providing more equipment and opportunity for children.

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Tesco and easyfundraising have come together to support voluntary organisations, charities, and CICs. They will donate £1000 funding pots to 5 community organisations this October. Follow these simple steps for a chance to win.

Firstly, register your organisation with fundraising platform easyfundraising. easyfundraising enables your community organisation to receive unrestricted funding from 8,000 leading online retailers including Tesco.

Then shop online at Tesco. Ask anyone who is connected to your organisation to use the easyfundraising platform to shop with Tesco. Each time one of them shops online at Tesco, your organisation will be entered into the draw to receive a £1,000 funding boost. The more people who shop online with Tesco on your behalf, the more chances your organisation has of winning.

Plus each time someone shops with Tesco, your organisation will receive £1.75. That’s £1.75 for free.

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GMCVO have launched a new social investment fund for organisations and businesses working in Greater Manchester who are trading for social good and looking to grow.

They are working in a unique partnership with the Greater Manchester Credit Union Consortium, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to deliver local investment with real impact, in communities where the need is highest.

Find out more here

Grants are available for community groups and voluntary organisations across Stockport for projects and activities that positively contribute to the environmental, economic, or social wellbeing within a particular ward. Grants of between £50 and £1,000 are available.