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Aims/Priorities: The Trust aims to promote and maintain to a high standard the choral services of the Church of England, the Church in Wales and the Church of Ireland.
Who can apply: Applications must be submitted by an institution in England, Wales or Ireland. Usually this will be a cathedral, choral foundation, parish church, choir, or choir school.
Applications fall into the following categories:
Aims/Priorities: Financial payments are available for LGBT veterans who served in HM Armed Forces between 27 July 1967 and 11 January 2000 and who have been affected by the Ban on LGBT personnel serving in HM Armed Forces. The scheme provides two types of payment to recognise the discrimination and the detriment suffered by LGBT personnel under the Ban:
Aims/Priorities: The Rewilding Challenge Fund, a new annual fund, is provided and administered by Rewilding Britain, an independent charity committed to catalysing rewilding and influencing rewilding policy across all of Britain.
This fund has two main aims:
Aims/Priorities: The primary aim of the programme is to improve the evidence on effective support for young people aged 16-24 facing significant barriers to work to develop essential employment skills and ultimately access good jobs.
Aims/priorities: Grants are available for charities, not-for-profit social enterprises and community interest companies in the UK that are working to support young people with criminal convictions or young people at high risk of offending for the first time. For the 2026 funding rounds, the focus is specifically on young women and girls who have been in the criminal justice system or who are at a high risk of being drawn into it.
Aims/priorities: Grants are available to registered charities and not-for-profit groups across Great Britain for projects that improve nature for local communities.
The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund's themes:
Aims/priorities: The Trust operates a three-year rotation system, with different fields of interests being funded each year:
Aims/priorities: The Edward Holt Trust invites applications from charities working in Greater Manchester for ambitious new pilot projects that aim to lift people out of poverty and/or prevent homelessness.
They are looking for bold, practical and locally rooted proposals focused on prevention. Projects should tackle root causes, reduce vulnerability and build lasting resilience for individuals and communities.
Aims/priorities: Grants are available for UK-based charities to deliver projects and activities that make the arts more accessible and support the communities that keep them thriving.
This fund aims to support projects and activities that enable access to the arts and heritage.
The theme of the current funding round is Community Engagement. Proposed projects should meet all of the following criteria:
Aims/priorities: Launched in June 2021, the Shoosmiths Foundation is a grant-making body working to help address societal issues, to empower sustainable change and to improve the lives of the people and the environment in the UK.
Grants are available for registered charities across the UK to deliver projects that widen access to legal and business services careers for underrepresented groups.
The Foundation offers grants in the following categories: