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Aims/priorities: The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide activities which seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes for their communities:
- Improved health and/or wellbeing and/or reduction in rural loneliness.
- Positive impact on the local environment,…
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 scheme is intended to support registered charities in the UK that are undertaking charitable projects in at least one of the following fields:
- Quaker Work and Witness.
- Environmental Action and Sustainability.
- Peace and Reconciliation.
- Social Action.
Who can apply? Charities registered…
Aims/priorities: The LCF Primary Fund Programme supports capital improvement works to public amenity projects for community use.
Who can apply? To be eligible, applicants must:
- Be run on a not-for-profit basis. This could include community groups, parish councils, charities, community interest companies, sports clubs, community associations,…
Aims/priorities: The Foundation aims to use its funding to improve the quality of life for people and communities that face disadvantage and marginalisation.
Who can apply? UK registered charities, community interest companies, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools) with an annual income under £10 million can…
Aims/priorities: A package of funding support including grants and loans from the Recovery Loan Fund are available for Black and Racially Minoritised charities and social enterprises based in England who are improving people's lives or the environment they live in.
Who can apply? Eligible organisations must:
- Be Black and Racially…
Aims/priorities: Our grant funding programme supports registered charities delivering projects which help to improve people’s lives in communities across England, Scotland and Wales. We have set funding objectives, which are:
- Tackling poverty and social deprivation;
- Enhancing community spaces, facilities and services;
- Improving…
Aims/priorities: We’re doing all we can to reduce our carbon footprint and we want to help others do the same.
If you are a community group, educational facility or a small business with a project or initiative to help create a green, more sustainable world, we can help.
Our Stobart Sustainability fund is aimed at supporting community-led sustainability projects…
Aims/priorities: The Booster Fund supports new and existing community businesses in England that are at all stages of a community share issue. If you are from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, find out other routes for…
Aims/priorities: The Prize is intended to recognise and advance efforts towards the alleviation of human suffering. It falls within the Foundation's aim of providing humanitarian aid to the most unfortunate and disadvantaged. The Prize highlights the worldwide need for humanitarian aid, and to encourage other actors to expand their support.
Who can…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to provide essential support to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage.
Who can apply? This programme is open to churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, and Christian charities.
Organisations that have…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support UK-based organisations in developing and delivering creative project development programmes in feature film (narrative, documentary, animation) and/or narrative immersive media. These programmes should benefit participants and projects, supporting creatives such as writers, directors, producers and immersive artists.…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations to help provide essential advocacy support for Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS) claimants.
In Year two, the funding will support established organisations with experience in delivering Windrush Compensation Scheme advocacy support, enabling support to potential claimants within an awarded region and throughout…
Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support Christian organisations to deliver projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities and contribute to the following objectives:
- Growing congregations and Christian communities.
- Addressing social challenges facing communities.
- Enabling wider community use of church…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is for charitable work that meets one or more of the Foundation's current priorities:
- Victims of modern slavery: to provide facilities for and support to victims on their journey back to independent living, better mental health and employment.
- Victims of domestic abuse: to provide emergency safety and to support victims…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to help communities across England rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings.
The programme will focus on regenerating historic buildings in town centre locations by supporting community organisations to take ownership of, adapt and reuse the local heritage assets that matter to them, transforming them into thriving…
Aims/Priorities: As part of its Heritage 2033 strategy, the National Lottery Heritage Fund has launched three strategic initiatives offering targeted funding to address long-standing heritage issues across the UK.
These initiatives are:
- …
Aims/priorities: The new priorities are projects that:
- Support places, people or communities experiencing poverty, disadvantage or discrimination, and
- Support people and communities to shape the decisions that affect their lives.
Projects must achieve one of the NLCF missions, which are to support communities to:
- Come…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that address the following broad categories:
- Royal Navy and Royal Marines
- Education
- Youth
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from registered charities/CIOs/CICs in the UK that have an income of less than £30 million per annum.
Applications are also accepted from…
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 Foundation aims to make a difference to the lives of older people and other adults with a physical, learning or mental disability; supporting practical solutions that lead to increased personal independence, self-sufficiency and dignity.
The aim of this fund is on connecting or re-connecting people with others in their local community. Applications…
Aims/priorities: We care deeply about the communities we operate in and that's why we've created our Local Community Fund, which shares small grants with local good causes. Grants of £200 to £500 are typically made and support projects from local schools and sports clubs, to community projects. This is a competitive process, and the winners are decided by our own…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to enhance the grassroots football experience by supporting projects ranging from the purchase of goalposts to improving changing pavilions. The Football Foundation provides comprehensive funding to improve football facilities for all participants.
Who can apply? Applications are accepted from football clubs and…
Aims/Priorities: The Booster Fund supports new and existing community businesses in England that are at all stages of launching a community share issue.
This includes the very early stages of exploring whether it is the right choice, through planning a community share issue to being ready to launch, or in exceptional cases, recently launched
Who can apply…
Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for voluntary organisations who are working to improve the health and wellbeing of people in their community.
The Foundation is taking a broad approach in the areas of work it supports because the causes of poor health, loneliness and social exclusion are complicated. This means the type of projects that improve health and…
Aims/priorities: This scheme covers grants for the repair and conservation of listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered parks and gardens. Grants are primarily awarded for urgent repairs or other work required to address risk by preventing loss or damage to important architectural, archaeological or landscape features.
The funding is for projects that involve…
Aims/priorities: A package of funding support including grants and loans from the Recovery Loan Fund are available for Black and Racially Minoritised charities and social enterprises based in England who are improving people's lives or the environment they live in.
Who can apply? Eligible organisations must:
- Be Black and Racially…
Aims/priorities: This programme runs once a year.
The 2026 round will only fund autistic-specific holiday schemes. The programme will be for autistic-specific activity programmes that run in the school holidays in the UK, including sessions for siblings.
Who can apply? Not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply.
To be…
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 scheme makes grants towards the VAT incurred in maintenance and repairs to listed buildings that are primarily used for public worship, or which are listed places of worship owned by, or under the authority of, a number of specified organisations that look after redundant places of worship.
The scheme applies to listed places of worship of all…
Aims/Priorities: The Hospital Saturday Fund provides grant funding to registered health charities such as hospitals, hospices and medical organisations for medical projects, care, research or support of medical training taking place in the United Kingdom.
Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from registered charities with medical/health…
Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended for a wide range of not-for-profit organisations in the UK for activities that improve people's ability to become more financially capable in their present and future circumstances.
MSE Charity defines financial capability as the ability to manage money well – both day-to-day and through significant life events, such as: having a…
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The Energy Resilience Fund is finance to enable community and social enterprises to retrofit energy generating/saving technology on community owned or managed buildings, with an initial focus on stabilising or reducing energy costs.
Fund Offer:
- Investment…
Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations who are expanding collection and processing services for reuse and recycling, as well as driving awareness of these services among local residents, with the aim of making it easier for everyone to reuse or recycle their unwanted electricals.
The funding will support projects to:
- Grow/develop existing household…
Aims/priorities: This funding will support research projects aiming to improve understanding of the specific consumer harms diverse and disadvantaged communities experience, and develop evidence-based solutions.
This year, Which? is seeking proposals specifically in two policy areas:
- Next-generation energy business models supporting the clean…
Aims/priorities: Greater Manchester Police’s Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS) allows us to reinvest money recovered from criminal activity back into local communities. GMP receives a share of these funds from the Home Office, creating an opportunity to support initiatives that make Manchester safer and stronger. Greater Manchester Police’s Asset Recovery…
