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#iwill Fund 2025

Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that help young people to take part in place-based youth social action. This could include activities like volunteering, mentoring or improving local environments.

Social action opportunities should:

Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is for proposed projects that contribute to either of the Fund’s primary objectives:

  • To support innovative initiatives to increase digital participation, producing new knowledge on ‘what works’ and building the evidence base on effective digital inclusion interventions.
  • To support best practice with the ambition to scale and replicate successful digital inclusion activities across England.

Projects must address at least one of the Digital Inclusion Action Plan Focus Areas:

North West RSMP – Community Integration Grants

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations to deliver integration support projects to the following:

  • Hong Kong BN(O) visa holders.
  • Homes for Ukraine (HfU) and Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) visa holders.
  • Communities for Afghans households.

As part of this grant programme, funded organisations are strongly encouraged to engage with and promote to at least two of these communities, and priority may be given to organisations that can demonstrate this. 

Virgin Media O2 £1 Million Apprenticeship Talent Fund

Aims/priorities: Virgin Media O2 has launched the £1 million Apprenticeship Talent Fund to support small businesses, charities, social enterprises and local authorities in recruiting and training apprentices in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) roles. The fund will cover the full cost of apprenticeship training for eligible roles by enabling organisations to access Virgin Media O2's apprenticeship levy funds through levy transfers.

Where People Meet Grant Programme

Aims/priorities: We are using what we have learned from our New Local research about the creation and development of community spaces that are most effective in supporting people to lead good, healthy lives. We are seeking to make grants to a diverse group of projects that will provide rich learning individually and collectively, and will support us to bring other funding and investment together to enable community spaces to thrive into the future.

Community Grants

Aims/priorities: As a charity our mission is to provide funding opportunities for all good causes to ensure their sustainable future. As part of this, we are happy to announce our Community Grants scheme.

Who can apply? This opportunity is open to good causes, defined as:

Road Safety Trust

Aims/priorities: The overall aims of the Road Safety Trust are to reduce death and injury on the UK roads through providing independent funding for research and the development of innovative approaches.

The objectives of the grant programme are to:

Benefact Trust - Heritage Skills for Christian Buildings Grants

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support the preservation and promotion of heritage skills that are essential to the conservation of historic Christian buildings. Funding is available for organisations to train individuals who are pursuing a career in the heritage sector through apprenticeships, scholarships, and training courses.

Who can apply? Registered Christian charities offering training in heritage skills can apply.

Applicants must demonstrate that funding will support skills relevant to the preservation of Christian buildings.

Alzheimer's Society Accelerator Programme

Aims/priorities: The Alzheimer’s Society Accelerator Programme is open to businesses creating a product or service that makes an everyday task easier for a person living with dementia.

Applicants may be using novel technologies to unblock challenges in the dementia pathway, or they could be giving an existing product a new purpose in the dementia space.

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