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Aims/priorities: The purpose of The Step Forward Fund is to:
- Provide funding and support to grassroots organisations from Global Majority and racially minoritised communities
- help them move from smaller project-based funding to larger grants and investment
Our funding aims are to:
- Invest in the growth of these grassroots organisations…
Aims/priorities: Following a strategic review of the Trust's grant-making programme, applications will be considered for work under the following two objectives:
- Enabling children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive and achieve their potential in education and employment.
- Priorities:
- Enhancing early years school…
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Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations and partnerships whose charitable purpose is to support newcomers to the UK. They should have ongoing, long-term access to safe physical spaces and have a proven track record of providing comprehensive help through three core elements of 'Welcome' work:
- Specialist support…
Aims/priorities: The IMPACT Awards recognise and reward small to medium-sized charities in the UK that are doing excellent work to improve people's health and wellbeing.
Who can apply? Charities that are located and registered in the UK are eligible to apply.
Charities must:
- Have existed for a minimum of three years by the application…
Aims/priorities: The funding is aimed at very small charities working in their communities to address health inequalities and who find it hard to access unrestricted funding and support for their leaders. This is particularly true for organisations led by and supporting the most disadvantaged communities – such as those supporting ethnic minority communities, people with…
Aims/Priorities: The Foundation has been set up to help with initiatives that develop and improve local communities by:
- Tackling a specific community issue.
- Helping voluntary and community groups become more effective and efficient.
- Encouraging the involvement in the community of those too often excluded.
Enabling young people to develop…
Aims/Priorities: The aim of the Foundation is to help small, non-religious charities to serve severely disadvantaged children anywhere in the world. In recent years, the Foundation has provided grants to organisations working on youth projects in the following categories:
- Education.
- Health and wellbeing.
- Holidays.
- Sport, play and leisure.…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to foster new and ambitious community rewilding projects, and to remove barriers to rewilding projects within Britain, whether they’re at the early planning stages or want to move a project one step wilder. Funding will be awarded to projects with potential for the highest impact for people and nature.
Who can apply? To…
Aims/priorities: The Strengthening Civil Society (SCS) programme supports UK organisations to use legal tools to achieve social change. From 2026, the programme focuses on supporting action to address corporate harm, particularly where corporate behaviour contributes to discrimination or disadvantage.
The current funding round focuses on migration.
Who can…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that contribute to one or more of the following objectives:
- Access to justice
- Equality of opportunity
- Sustainable environment
Priority will be given to organisations:
- Based in London, and/or
- Those whose focus is on supporting the needs of vulnerable persons such as:
- …
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to improve the lives of children and young people (up to the age of 25 years), enabling them to access the transformative benefits of inclusive community sport.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from local community groups and sports clubs (with priority given to sports clubs):
- Based in Greater…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-based visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials.
The aim is to support exploratory projects that embrace openness, collaboration and iteration, enabling organisations 'to work in an expansive way with materials, unpicking and challenging preconceptions…
Aims/priorities: BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances. This Fund is administered by Family Fund Business Services.
This programme provides items for the most basic needs of vulnerable children and young people who may be:
- Living in severe poverty and…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to provide solutions and support for partners of serving personnel, including reservists, to reduce the challenges that service life can sometimes present.
The direct and primary beneficiaries must be current non-serving partners of currently serving personnel or reservists only. Indirect beneficiaries will be the wider…
Aims/priorities: Our grants go directly to the child or young person and are shaped around their unique needs. Whether they’re dealing with crisis, instability, trauma or multiple disadvantages, our grants step in early, preventing things from getting worse and helping them move forward with confidence. We believe Buttle is the best children’s charity to deliver what’s…
Aims/priorities: The UK Government has opened Round 12 of the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF), a £288 million capital grant programme supporting the transition to low-carbon heat networks. Public, private and third sector organisations in England and Wales can access capital grant funding to help new and existing heat networks move to low and zero carbon technologies, such as…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to enable museums and galleries to fully fund commissions for early to mid-career artists to create innovative, high-quality new work. It supports artists at a pivotal stage in their development while contributing new contemporary works to public collections. It aims to support early to mid‑career artists based in or connected to the UK…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support projects to improve the health, wellbeing and financial literacy of people who are experiencing homelessness.
Who can apply? UK registered charities may apply for a:
- Small Grant if their turnover is less than £500,000. They can be working anywhere in the UK.
Grant…
Aims/priorities: The funding aims to mitigate the impact of separation and relocation for families of serving personnel and reservists through a place-based (location focused) portfolio of projects.
Projects should focus on serving families (including reservists) affected by service-related separation (for example: deployment, exercises/training, unaccompanied…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support organisations working with racially minoritised young men aged 18 to 25 who are in contact with the criminal justice system. The key aim of the fund is to increase these men's access to specialist services designed to meet their specific needs.
The Fund will provide multi-year grants to organisations with a focus…
Aims/priorities: The Greater Manchester Nature Network Grant is designed to support progress towards the ambitions of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy, by giving small grants to charitable and third sector organisations to create more wildlife-rich land with the GM Nature Network. The GM Nature Network Grant is a standalone grant through working with marginalised groups…
Aims/priorities: The Institute of Physics provides funding for projects across the UK and Ireland that improve people’s relationship with physics in their family or community groups.
The funding is for projects that support the aims of the Limit Less campaign by reaching one or more of the target groups that are currently underrepresented in the physics community. IOP is…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-registered charities with projects that address the funder's current priorities:
- The arts.
- Education.
- Support for carers and older people.
- Early intervention projects for disadvantaged children and young people.
- Animal welfare.
- Health and disability.
Who can apply?…
Aims/priorities: The Arnold Clark Community Fund offers the following support at different times of the year:
- Cost of Living Support – funding to registered charities and community group that are within a 50-mile radius of an Arnold Clark branch and whose work directly supports those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis, such as foodbanks…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support IT projects and activities that relate to one or more of the following priority areas:
- Education.
- Inclusion.
- Tech for charities.
- Public understanding of Technology.
Who can apply? Registered charities and organisatoins with a formal not-for-profit constitution, such…
Aims/priorities: The Yapp Charitable Trust is offering grants of up to £3,000 per year to small registered charities supporting some of the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in our communities. They prioritise work supporting:
- Elderly people
- Children & young people
- Mental health, disability & learning difficulties
- People…
Aims/Priorities: The Community Grants Programme is provided by Warburtons, a family run bakery business, and is administered on their behalf by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The principle aim of this funding is to focus on supporting families that need help the most, in a way which adheres to their principles of transparency, trust and transformation.
The aim of these…
Aims/priorities: The Green Spaces Fund provides grants to community groups across Greater Manchester who want to increase the amount of accessible, nature-rich green space where people need it most.
The fund is focused on three principles:
- To benefit communities in greatest need of quality green and/or blue (water based) spaces
- To tackle our…
Aims/Priorities: ChurchCare is the Church of England's Cathedral and Church Buildings Division. It works in partnership with various grant-giving bodies to provide funding for the conservation of historic church interiors and churchyard structures, to ensure that conservation projects in Anglican churches across England are carried out to a high standard.
Grants…
Aims/Priorities: Cellnex, Europe's leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure is launching the Cellnex UK Community Fund, a new grant programme that will invest directly in the communities where its digital infrastructure operates across the UK.
The fund will award grants of up to £5,000 to individual organisations in its first year, representing a total…
Aims/priorities: The aim of the Holiday Hunger Grants is to support organisations and service providers to give disadvantaged children and young people (up to and including 18 years old) access to food and activities during the school holidays. Projects must encourage children to eat more healthily and be more active during the school holidays.
Who…
Aims/priorities: The Cash for Kids Impact Grant supports community groups, schools and charities working with children and young people affected by and living with disadvantage.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities (with an annual turnover less than £1 million), schools, community organisations and other grassroots groups…
Aims/priorities: The UK Small Grants programme supports local organisations and projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK-registered charitable organisations and community…
Aims/priorities: The focus of the fund is getting schools who lack funds and resources to apply for extra financial help they might need to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people's mental and physical wellbeing.
Priority is given to projects working in schools and organisations nominated by Tesco staff.
Who can apply? The…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support the creation of websites or digital products that enable small charities to carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.
As only a limited number of projects can be supported based on the funding available for distribution, each year the Foundation determines priority…
Aims/priorities: The funding helps to provide opportunities for children aged 13 years or younger who face financial hardship, systemic inequity, or disability to go on a short recreational holiday or outing they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. Priority is given to fun and new experiences, such as camping, adventure activities, or visits to the seaside…
