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Leche Trust - Heritage Conservation Grants

Aims/priorities: Grants are available for the conservation of historically, artistically and culturally significant buildings and objects dating from before 1837 that are in urgent need of remedial treatment.

This funding is for projects which meet the Trust's current priorities:

Leche Trust - Performing Arts

Aims/priorities: The Leche Trust is a grant-making charity founded and endowed by the late Angus Acworth CBE in 1950. It was constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2024.

This funding is for projects which meet the Trust's current priorities:

Barclays Community Sport Fund 2025 to 2027

Aims/priorities: The funding supports community groups and grassroots sports organisations who are working within the most deprived and/or rural areas of the UK and are making sport more accessible to women and girls, as well as engaging people from other under-represented groups including people with disabilities, from racially diverse communities and from the LGBTQ+ community. 

Funding stream available:

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Teacher Development Fund

Aims/priorities: Grants are available to partnerships of arts/cultural organisations and up to ten schools to support delivery of effective arts-based teaching and learning opportunities in the primary classroom.

The purpose of the Teacher Development Fund is to support teachers to develop arts-based approaches which create equitable classrooms where all children learn and thrive. It aims to do this through supporting teachers and school leaders to develop the necessary skills, knowledge, confidence and experience.

The Fund is focused on:

Gardens Trust Community Grants

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to help seed-fund volunteer projects that will support historic designed landscapes in the UK.

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from:

  • Volunteer groups across the UK can apply, preference will be given to smaller charities. 

Grant amounts: Grants of up to £10,000 are available.

Application process: 

GM Walking and Wheeling Fund

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to improve the health and well-being of communities across Greater Manchester by encouraging people who are usually less active to start or increase the amount they regularly walk or wheel during the colder months. 

Priority will be given to projects targeting the following groups:

DCMS 'Connections Through Gaming' Pilot Fund (Boys 11-16)

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support delivery of a programme that combines gaming-based activities with structured wellbeing and confidence-building support. The programme will help participants build friendships and positive social connections, primarily through in-person activities in youth settings supported by trusted adults.

The successful applicant will be required to provide regular progress reports to DCMS, support programme evaluation activities, and work collaboratively with the independent evaluator appointed by DCMS.

Youth Music - Trailblazer Fund

Aims/priorities: This funding aims to support young people who want to change their lives through music but cannot because of who they are, where they are from or what they are going through.

The grants are for organisations who want to trial work or test a new way of working, sustain a grassroots programme or disrupt the status quo (or all three).

Your work must meet one of these themes: 

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