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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.

Charities should provide three year's financial information, with all three years showing a minimum income of £150,000 and maximum of £1.5 million.

The Trust is looking for applicant organisations that:

Benefact Trust – Building Improvement Grants

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to provide essential support to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage.

Who can apply? This programme is open to churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, and Christian charities.

Organisations that have previously received funding under the General Grants Programme will have to wait two years before making an application.

Jerwood Foundation

Aims/priorities: This fund aims to support organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and emerging talent in the arts throughout the UK.

Who can apply? Groups working to make art available for public benefit can apply.


Groups must provide a copy of their organisation's latest audited accounts (smaller charities should instead provide their annual budget with income and expenditure details).

Grant amount: There is no maximum or minimum award amount specified.

Middleton Holiday at Home Fund

Aims/priorities: 

Can you provide an enriching, fun holiday provision for children who live in Middleton? 

This funding is for organisations in Middleton that aspire to provide engaging, safe and fun activities for children and young people during the summer holidays 2025. 

Who can apply: 

Organisations that can deliver sessions in Middleton for children and young people who live in Middleton during the Summer holidays 2025. 

Grant amount: Up to £1000

Service Women: Seen and Heard Programme

Aims/priorities: The funding is for projects that address the unique challenges servicewomen face, providing education and information to help maximise their health and wellbeing.

To be eligible, projects must meet one of the four following outcomes:

Empower Her Football Activity

Aims/priorities: The aim of the ‘Empower Her Football Activity Fund’ is to diversify the women and girls involved in football by ethnicity, faith and low affluence, and to provide opportunities to experience football in different communities and settings across Greater Manchester.

The Empower Her Football Activity Fund will do this, by supporting organisations to: 

Create Opportunities To Play: Develop new opportunities for girls and women from diverse communities to play sessional football, local to them. 

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 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. 

Who can apply? Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations including community groups, youth groups and traditional sports clubs.

Farming Futures R&D Fund

Aims/priorities: The Farming Futures R&D Fund comprises two funding competitions focused on innovation in agriculture: the Precision Breeding Competition and the Low Emissions Farming Competition.

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