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Co-op Local Community Fund

Aims/priorities: The Local Community Fund supports projects in its members’ communities that provide access to opportunities and resources to help people thrive. For the latest round, Co-op Members will decide how to invest £3.5m through the Local Community Fund. 

You can apply if your project helps people to thrive in one of the following ways:

Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support community tree-planting projects that are well-planned, sustainable, and will directly benefit people and communities.  

Who can apply? The following can apply:

  • Local authorities.
  • Charities & other NGOs.
  • Community groups.
  • Education institutions.
  • Individual landowners.

Proposed projects must: 

Health Lottery Foundation Grants 2025

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 wellbeing outcomes are quite varied.

The funding is for work that address the following project themes:

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme

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:

Islamic Relief UK Grants Programme

Aims/Priorities: This fund aims to support projects that empower and increase support for marginalised and vulnerable people and their communities across the following themes:

  • Build greater resilience to poverty.
  • Combat challenges faced by women.
  • Supporting refugees and asylum-seeking populations.
  • Promote and facilitate the development of young people and their families.

Who can apply? Organisations with charitable purposes can apply, such as:

Parkinson’s UK – Physical Activity Grants for Marginalised Communities 2025

Aims/Priorities: The funding is intended to help more people with Parkinson's from marginalised communities to get active and to engage in local physical activity classes.
 

The funding is for any innovative new projects that will help marginalised Parkinson's communities who are not currently accessing physical activity opportunities and local authorities with the highest levels of deprivation indicated by the Index of Multiple Deprivation in the UK (2019).

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from:

W F Southall Trust

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 in the UK can apply.

Charities should be working in at least one of the following four areas:

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