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The Happiness Fund

Aims/priorities:  Funding is intended to build happy, strong, resilient communities by supporting grassroots, not-for-profit projects that enable sustainable outcomes in:

  • Mental health
  • Wellbeing
  • Inclusion
  • Skills development

Who can apply?  Grassroots, community-based organisations can apply.

To be eligible, applicants must be:

Strengthening Justice Fund

Aims/priorities:  LEF is working to create new connections between the law and communities facing injustice with a focus on using the law to promote human rights and tackle inequality in the UK. 

The funding is aimed at organisations that are accountable to their communities and committed to using the law to influence wider change

Macmillan Q Lab Funding

Aims/priorities:  The Macmillan Q Lab will be a collective effort to rethink how care is designed and delivered – reducing inequities and improving experiences for people with cancer in underserved communities across the UK.

The funding is for 4 to 6 teams and 15 to 18 individuals from across the UK to come up with a solution to the question: "How might we reimagine holistic cancer care closer to people's homes?" 

Teams:

Commonweal Housing - Call for New Ideas

Aims/priorities:  The funding is for not-for-profit organisations to undertake further research to establish the viability of their proposed housing and support solution. Where a feasibility study demonstrates a viable and impactful housing model, Commonweal may work with partners to develop a multi-year property-based pilot project.​ This may include acquiring suitable properties and supporting project mobilisation, independent evaluation and wider dissemination of learning.

Morrisons Foundation - Connecting Communities

Aims/priorities: Based in Bradford, the supermarket chain Morrisons established the Morrisons Foundation in 2015 to support local good causes across Great Britain. The Foundation, a charity registered in England, Wales and Scotland, receives its funding from a number of different sources. 

The Connecting Communities fund is for capital projects that make a difference to people's lives, by improving infrastructure development and shared spaces. Projects should:

Electrical Safety Fund

Aims/priorities: In response to the cost-of-living crisis and the likelihood of electricity safety being compromised by financial concerns, the Electrical Safety Fund, provided and administered by Electrical Safety First, will help fund electrical safety initiatives through partnerships working at a local level. 

This fund aims to support projects that focus on tackling risks associated with electrical products, increasing the public's awareness of electrical safety, and promoting changes in behaviour to keep people safe in their homes.

Veolia Environmental Trust

Aims/priorities: The Trust currently offers the following grant schemes:

  • Community Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations and local authorities to create or improve community buildings or outside spaces for the benefit of the community.
     
  • Habitat and Biodiversity Grants are for constituted, not-for-profit organisations that are enrolled with ENTRUST to support structural improvements to a single habitat, such as a waterway, woodland, or nature reserve.

The funder is looking for projects that:

National Garden Scheme - Community Gardens Grants

Aims/priorities: The Community Gardens Grants scheme was set up in 2011 by the National Garden Scheme and managed in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society. From 2019 the Award became wholly managed by the National Garden Scheme. In November 2024, the Julia Rausing Trust announce a £1.5 million grant to the National Garden Scheme for the Community Garden Grants programme.

The Award was set up in memory of Elspeth Thompson, a garden writer and journalist and supporter of the National Garden Scheme who died in 2010. 

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