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Green Community Grants Programme

Aims/priorities: The funding is for organisations whose main aims and objectives fit with one of the following Fund's themes: 

  • Contributing to nature recovery and responding to the climate emergency.
  • Improving nature-rich spaces and access to them.

The grants can be used for a wider range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport. 

Who can apply? Not-for-profit groups based in England, Scotland and Wales can apply.

Freelands Foundation – Learning Through Making Fund

Aims/priorities: The funding is for UK-based visual art education projects that creatively engage audiences with the process of making and exploration of materials.

The aim is to support exploratory projects that embrace openness, collaboration and iteration, enabling organisations 'to work in an expansive way with materials, unpicking and challenging preconceptions about making and material literacy, interrogating practice and working in an open and collaborative way'.

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:

Armed Forces Families Fund - Supporting Partners Programme 2026-27

Aims/priorities: The funding is intended to provide solutions and support for partners of serving personnel, including reservists, to reduce the challenges that service life can sometimes present.

The direct and primary beneficiaries must be current non-serving partners of currently serving personnel or reservists only. Indirect beneficiaries will be the wider family or serving person who will benefit from their partner's improved well-being.

Projects needed to address one or more of the following outcomes:

Historic England - History in the Making Fund

Aims/priorities: History in the Making is a grant that enables underrepresented young people (aged 13-25) to discover, engage, and connect with their local stories and ensure the history that matters to them is not forgotten. Using different art forms, from artworks and murals to immersive walking trails and theatre productions, young people decide who and what to celebrate and how best to do it. Successful applicants will work directly with young people out-of-school hours in areas of high social deprivation.

The aims of the project are: 

Trauma Responsive Greater Manchester Fund

Aims/priorities: The Fund is designed to support organisations to move beyond basic awareness of trauma and embed trauma-responsive environments within their services, systems, and setting

All proposals must align with at least one of the priorities below. Strong applications will demonstrate a clear understanding of trauma‑informed principles, explain how these principles will be applied in practice, and set out robust outcome measures to show meaningful improvements in wellbeing and resilience.

Green Heat Network Fund

Aims/priorities: The UK Government has opened Round 12 of the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF), a £288 million capital grant programme supporting the transition to low-carbon heat networks. Public, private and third sector organisations in England and Wales can access capital grant funding to help new and existing heat networks move to low and zero carbon technologies, such as heat pumps, solar and geothermal energy. 

The scheme's objectives are to:

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