This page presents a list of potential funding opportunities from which your group may be able to benefit. Sorry for the short notice on some of these. Please feel free to find out more below.
February deadlines
Asda Foundation – Cost of Living Grant
Grants are available for local community groups who are affected by the increase in the cost of living.
Deadline: Monday 13th February
Idlewild Trust
Grants are available to registered charities for arts and conservation projects.
Deadline: Tuesday 14th February
McCarthy Stone Foundation – Small Grants Programme
Grants are available to community organisations for projects that focus on the health and wellbeing of older people through intergenerational projects and regeneration of the local community.
Deadline: Wednesday 15th February
Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust
Funding is available for projects to further the advancement of horticulture.
Deadline: Wednesday 15th February
Ulverscroft Foundation
The Foundation provides funding for projects that benefit visually impaired people.
Deadline: Wednesday 15th February
Alec Dickson Trust
Grants are available to support volunteering projects, organised and run by young people (under 30 years).
Deadline: Sunday 19th February
Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund – Small Grants
Small grants are available for non-profit organisations supporting grassroots projects in diverse and deprived communities.
Deadline: Monday 20th February
SUEZ Communities Trust Landfill Communities Fund – Primary Fund
Grants are available to non-profit making organisations for improvements to local community facilities, historic buildings and structures, sport and recreation facilities.
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd February
SUEZ Communities Trust Landfill Communities Fund – Smaller Projects Fund
Grants are available to non-profit making organisations for physical improvement to community facilities, such as village halls, public parks, sports facilities, historic buildings and structures.
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd February
Windrush 75 – Windrush Day Grant Scheme
Grants are available for local authorities, charities and community groups to celebrate, commemorate and/or educate about the history of the MV Empire Windrush and the contribution of the Windrush Generation to British economic, social and cultural life.
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd February
Lawrence Atwell’s Charity – Charities Programme
Grants are available to registered charities for projects to support NEET young people to move into employment or become employment ready.
Deadline: Friday 24th February
Skinners Company – Lady Neville Charity
One-off capital grants are available to grassroots charitable organisations that are offering a diverse range of activities and interests within one of the Charity’s areas of priority: local heritage, local community; and performing arts and visual arts.
Deadline: Friday 24th February
Civic Power Fund – Community Action Fund
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups that are building the power of their community and campaigning for long-term change.
Deadline: Sunday 26th February
Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust
Grants are available to registered charities that work with communities for projects that address specific categories set out by the Trust each year.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost (with Crowdfunding)
Grants are available through this match funding scheme to assist local not-for-profit organisations who are supporting their communities through rising costs this winter, by bringing people together into warm spaces.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Gilchrist Educational Trust – Grants to Organisations
Grants are available to support organisations that are undertaking projects which fill up educational gaps or make a particular aspect of education or learning more widely available.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust CIO
Grants are available for registered charities working with children, young people and families who are living in difficult circumstances or are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Inman Charity
Grants are available for registered charities carrying out medical, social welfare or general welfare activities.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Magdalen Hospital Trust
One-off grants are available for small registered charities working with vulnerable children and young people especially those at risk of sexual and other forms of exploitation.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
McCarthy Stone Foundation – Winter Warm Spaces Support Grants
Grants are available to support small clubs and organisations who can provide a regular warm space for older people to meet during the cost-of-living crisis.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
Naturesave Trust
Grants are available to community groups, charities and social enterprises for environmental projects.
Deadline: Tuesday 28th February
March highlights
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund
Grants are available to voluntary organisations, charities and schools to assist with the care and relief of children, young people and adults with learning disabilities.
Deadline: Wednesday 1st March
Kelly Family Charitable Trust
Grants are available for registered charities, working locally or regionally in the UK, whose activities nurture and support family life.
Deadline: Wednesday 1st March
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales – Specialist Programme
Unrestricted grants are available for small and medium-sized local charities with a proven track record of providing in-depth, specialist support to people with complex social issues.
Deadline: Wednesday 1st March
Centre for Social Justice Awards
Financial awards recognising small grassroots charities and social enterprises who are proving themselves effective at preventing and tackling poverty.
Deadline: Monday 6th March
KFC Foundation Community Grants Programme
Grants are available to support grassroots organisations providing safe social spaces, mentoring, work, or social skills for young people aged 11 to 25 years old.
Deadline: Monday 13th March
Help the Homeless Grant Scheme
Grants for capital projects are available to small and medium-sized charities working to assist homeless people to rebuild their lives and return to the community.
Deadline: Wednesday 15th March
Weaver’s Company Benevolent Fund
Grants are available for smaller charities working with young offenders, prisoners and ex-prisoners, and young disadvantaged people, especially those at risk of criminal involvement.
Deadline: Thursday 16th March
Asda Foundation – Investing in Spaces and Places Grant
Grants are available for small, local groups to improve community spaces and places where local people can be together and thrive.
Deadline: Saturday 19th March
National Citizens Service (NCS) – Open to All & Targeted Grants
Grants are available to local organisations delivering community-based experiences at a grassroots level for young people in England.
Deadline: Sunday 20th March
Hospital Saturday Fund
One-off grants are available to registered medically related charities in the UK and Republic of Ireland for medical capital projects, medical care or research, medical training and running costs.
Deadline: Wednesday 22nd March
Adamson Trust
Grants for voluntary and community organisations and charities to help with the cost of holidays or respite breaks for disabled children (aged 3 to 17 years) with physical, mental, or emotional impairments.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Beacon Lodge Charitable Trust
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups supporting children, their families and carers.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Daniell Trust
Grants are available to registered charities and CICs for ‘more significant and sustainable’ projects that improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people (up to the age of 25 years) with complex special educational needs through connections to nature and the environment or environmental conservation projects.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Granada Foundation
Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking projects that encourage involvement in and understanding of the arts and sciences in the North West of England.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Innovation for All Foundation
Grants are available to registered charities to deliver projects which use innovative and creative solutions to benefit local communities.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Margaret Dobson Further Education Trust – General Grants
Grants are available to small registered charities working to support people with a learning disability to learn skills to help them live more independent lives after they leave formal education.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Tweed Family Charitable Foundation
Grants are available to local not-for-profit groups working to inspire socially disadvantaged young people to achieve their full potential.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Woodroffe Benton Foundation
Grants are available to smaller registered charities for relief of hardship, care for the elderly, environment and conservation.
Deadline: Friday 31st March
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation
Grants to support registered charities and good causes in local communities to alleviate poverty, improve health and save lives.
Deadline: Friday 31st March