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B&Q Foundation - Home Improvement Grants

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended for UK charities working to improve the lives of people in need by supporting projects that make homes safe, welcoming, and comfortable. Grants are for essential home improvements and home starter kits—helping individuals and families facing homelessness, domestic abuse, disabilities, illness, or financial hardship to feel more settled and supported in their living spaces.

Who can apply? UK registered charities based and working in the UK can apply.

To be eligible, applicants must:

Reach for the Sky Challenge Fund

Aims/priorities: The Fund supports projects that encourage more young people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in aviation and aerospace by helping to address barriers to entry. Through a competitive funding process, it provides grants to outreach partners whose proposals contribute to the objectives of the Generation Aviation programme.

Good Place to Live: New Beginnings

Aims/priorities: Through this fund, were focusing on four major life moments where the evidence shows people face a heightened risk of homelessness.  We want to back organisations that provide the right support at the right time, to help people before they reach crisis point. 

We’re funding work that supports people who are leaving: 

A B Charitable Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust aims to support charities that promote human dignity and defend the human rights of marginalised and excluded people in the UK.

Who can apply? Charities registered and working in the UK can apply.

To be eligible, organisations must:

King Charles III Charitable Fund – Small Grants

Aims/priorities: The scheme provides small grants to support independent UK registered non-for-profit organisations for grassroots, community-based projects that fall within its core funding themes:

  • Heritage and conservation.
  • Education.
  • Health and wellbeing.
  • Social inclusion.
  • Environment.
  • Countryside.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK registered not-for-profit organisations, including:

Dan Maskell Tennis Trust

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to support people with disabilities in the UK to play tennis through the purchase of wheelchairs, tennis equipment and grants for coaching.

Who can apply? Disability groups and programmes, clubs, schools and associations in the UK are eligible to apply. Individuals are also eligible to apply.

Grant applications for the same purpose are accepted two years after a previous application.

Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust

Aims/priorities: The objectives of the Trust are to donate to projects or activities encompassing one or more of the following areas:

  • The benefit and protection of animals.
  • The relief of suffering in animals.
  • The conservation of wildlife.
  • The encouragement of a greater understanding of animals.

Who can apply? Applications are accepted from UK registered charities working in the UK or abroad. (Charities with an annual income under £5,000 do not need to be registered to be eligible.)

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