England specific funding
All England grants
Moto Trust Community Grant Scheme
Funding available: unlikely to support applications above £10,000
Application deadlines: January 2012
Local charities and community groups that are located within 25 miles of one of the 48 Moto Service stations may be eligible to apply for funding through the Moto Trust’s Community Grant Scheme. Since 2005, the Moto in the Community Trust has been supporting various local, national and international charities by raising money at Moto sites nationwide and giving this back to our communities through grants. Projects supported by Moto in the Community include local schools, sports clubs, community groups, the elderly, education and environmental initiatives. In order to apply for a Grant, you should contact the relevant Moto Service Area to introduce your organisation.
Education Endowment Fund
Funding available: £50,000 +
Application deadline: 27 January; 1 June
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) exists to fund, develop and evaluate cost effective and replicable projects which address educational disadvantage. A substantial portion of any EEF-funded project must benefit children aged 5-16 eligible for free school meals who attend EEF target schools. In most cases projects would also reach more than one school. Applicants and target schools should establish some form of partnership before applying to the EEF.
Yapp Charitable Trust
Funding available: Up to £3,000 per year for three years
Yapp Charitable Trust make grants for running costs to small registered charities in England and Wales to help sustain their existing work. The work must focus on one of the priority areas: elderly people, children and young people aged 5 - 25, people with disabilities or mental health problems, moral welfare, or education and learning.
Football Foundation Facilities Grant
Funding available: up to £500,000
Application deadline: none
The Football Foundation has announced that its Facilities Grant Scheme is now open for applications for projects that improve facilities for football and other sport in local communities.
Organisations that are eligible to apply for funding include football clubs, multi-sports, local authorities, all educational establishments, registered charity organisations and not-for-profit organisations. They will support projects that: sustain or increase participation amongst children and adults, regardless of background age, or ability; and help children and adults to develop their physical, mental, social and moral capacities through regular participation in sport. The types of facilities the fund provides grants for include: grass pitches drainage/improvements;
pavilions, clubhouses and changing rooms; artificial turf pitches and multi-use games areas; fixed floodlights for artificial pitches.
Greggs Foundation Grants
Funding available: £2,000
Application deadline: any time
Local not for profit organisations such as charities, charitable companies, churches and schools can apply for grants through the Greggs Foundation regional grants programme. The Greggs Foundation prioritises local organisations that help people in need in their local area. Most of the grants are to support an identifiable cause such as trips, activities and equipment.
New Look Foundation
Funding available: not specified
Application deadline: any time
The New Look Foundation is open to applications from schools, community groups, and charities registered in England and Wales. The Foundation seeks to support:
- educational activities aimed at helping people to help themselves
- activities aimed at generating local communities and promoting a positive 'community spirit'
- activities which help people to feel included in local community life who might otherwise feel excluded
- activities which promote positive self-esteem and confidence.
Peter Harrison Foundation
The Peter Harrison Foundation support sporting activities or projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and to develop other personal and life skills.
Reaching Communities, England
Funding available: £10,000 to £500,000
Financial assistance is available for projects that help those most in need and improve the quality of life in communities across England.
Mini Mediabox
Funding available: £1,000 to £5,000
Application deadline: Rolling deadline
Mediabox grants aim to give disadvantaged thirteen to nineteen year olds the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects, using print, television, film, radio or online platforms.
Take it away – Arts Council
Funding available: Interest free loan of up to £2,000
'Take it away' is an Arts Council England initiative that offers an interest free loan for people to buy musical instruments, supporting musical equipment and tuition, through a network of participating retailers across England.
The Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work Scheme
Funding available: Parents can choose from a range of Ofsted childcare, with the LSC paying up to £175 per child per week, or £215 in London.
The Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work scheme will offer 50,000 eligible parents help through childcare support, while they train or learn and to support them into employment.
Social Enterprise Investment Fund - Department of Health
Social enterprises which improve the quality of health and social care for local communities can now apply for loans and grants from the Department of Health's Social Enterprise Investment Fund.
Department of Health website
Grants for the arts - individuals and organisations
Application deadline: No deadline
Grants available: Organisational grants are up to £100,000; individual grants are up to £30,000.
Grants for the arts are for individuals, arts organisations and other people who use the arts in their work. They are for activities that benefit people in England or that help artists and arts organisations from England to carry out their work.
Visit the Arts Council website for more infromation.
Abbey Charitable Trust Grant
Funding available: £500 to £20,000
Application deadline: Applications can be made at any time
The Trust is committed to supporting local communities and disadvantaged people, particularly in areas where Abbey, Alliance and Leicester or Bradford and Bingley have a significant presence. It provides grant assistance to local organisations that support disadvantaged groups.
South East and London grants
Redbridge Small Grants Fund
Funding available: £250 - £5,000
Application deadline: 11 January
Funding is intended to support small and emerging community and voluntary sector groups that are based in and working in Redbridge for projects that benefit Redbridge residents. Projects must meet at least one of the objectives of the Redbridge Community Strategy.
Team London Bridge Small Grants Fund
Funding available: £500 - £2,000
Application deadline: 20 January
To help young people aged 5-19 develop their experiences outside of the school curriculum, and to help young people make a positive and valuable contribution to their community in the Bermondsey area.
Tom Amos Charity
Funding available: not specified
Application deadline: 23 January; 1 April; 1 June; 1 September
The charity aims to provide grant funding in support of activities that benefit the residents of Little Waltham, Chelmsford, Uttlesford and Braintree. Activities should be in the following areas: the provision of recreational facilities; the advancement of education; the relief of poverty; the advancement of religion; and other charitable objects that are beneficial to the community.
The Suffolk Foundation
Funding available: £500 - £ 5,000
Application deadline: 6 February
Grants are available to community organisations in Suffolk delivering the objectives of the Suffolk Community Strategy 2008-2028 under the following themes: Safe, Healthy and Inclusive Communities; Learning and Skills for the Future; Creating a Prosperous and Vibrant Economy; and The Greenest County.
Hillingdon Community Trust - Small Grants Programme
Funding available: £100 - £7,500
Application deadline: 28 February
Funding is intended to support projects and activities that benefit the people living in the southern six wards of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Projects and activities should involve the environment, public amenities, education and training, crime prevention and recreational facilities. You can also apply for a main grant for sums over £7,500.
Children Can Do
Funding available: £1500
Application deadline: 16 May
They provide support, funding and training to new or small community groups usually, with an annual income of less than £25,000. Funded by Novas Scarman. Groups must contact the organisation at least three weeks before the deadline to allow time for a development worker to visit.
They support projects:
- initiated by children aged 8 – 13 who live in Brighton & Hove
- that benefit children who have greater needs and fewer chances
- that empower children to plan their own activities and play a central role in the funding application process
- that provide activities that are safe and help to raise childrens and young peoples aspirations.
Aylesbury Vale Community Chest
Funding available: up to £1,000
Application deadline: 15th of each month
Financial assistance is available to voluntary and community organisations, parish and town councils within Aylesbury Vale for projects that will improve the quality of life for residents.
Wycombe Community Support Grants
Funding available: Up to £1,500 for small grants
Deadline: Any time for small grants
Financial assistance is available to help the voluntary and community sector deliver services or projects that will benefit the residents of Wycombe. Small grants are for one-off projects that are time limited eg community days, play schemes, school summer holiday projects etc. Larger annual revenue grants are also available.
Ford Britain Trust
Funding available: small grants - up to £250; large grants - £250 - £3,000
Application deadline: Small Grants: 1 March; 1 June; 1 September; and 1 November.
Large Grants: 1 May; and 1 September.
The Ford Britain Trust was created for the advancement of education and other charitable purposes beneficial to the community. In making donations, the Trustees pay particular attention to those organisations that are: located in and working in areas where the Ford Motor Company Limited has its present activities; and have a long-standing association with local communities ie Essex, Bridgend, Southampton and Daventry.
Greggs Foundation Breakfast Club Programme
Funding available: Not specified
Application deadline: Not specified
Greggs Foundation will help new breakfast clubs to get started in disadvantaged areas of the UK. They provide grants for healthy food and equipment, including games to help children play together. You must be able to show that at least 40% of your pupils qualify for free school meals and that the school serves a disadvantaged community. You should able to attract adult volunteers to help run the scheme and attendance at the club must be free for all pupils. The scheme is currently only operating in London, inside the M25. Waiting lists exist for other areas.
Marion Ruth Courtauld Educational Fund
Funding available: £1,000
Application deadline: None
The Fund awards grants to support unique educational opportunities for young people (generally under 25) in the Braintree area. Grants are awarded to further educational skills in any subject area, but preferably history and geography. Activities could include educational trips abroad to develop skills and to assist others through teaching or community work.
Near neighbours
Funding available: £250 - £5,000
Application deadline: Not specified
The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced a new three year programme which will offer small grants to communities that have bright ideas for local inter faith projects. A wide range of community, education, environmental, arts, and sports activities will be eligible, as long as they encourage involvement by local people from different faiths or none. It is focussed on four key areas: the M62 mill towns (including Bradford and Burnley), Leicester, East London and east Birmingham which are diverse, multi-faith neighbourhoods. These grants will be administered through the Church Urban Fund via local parishes.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Foundation
Funding available: £250 to £10,000
Application deadline: ongoing
Various charitable funding that is available, and accessible, to voluntary organisations and community groups active in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The funds are only for voluntary and community groups that are working locally.
The Mercers Company Education Programme
Funding available: not specified
Application deadline: not specified
The Mercers Company makes grants to charities and state maintained schools to improve the availability and quality of educational opportunities for children and young adults, especially in London and in particular areas of the West Midlands - Walsall, Sandwell and Telford. The company is particularly interested in, and will give priority to projects which:
- encourage participation in science, maths and technology
- educational projects for young people aged 5 to 19
- projects linked to improving boys' educational achievement
- citizenship projects
- exceptional or innovative projects that use art, drama, dance, music and sport to enrich and extend educational opportunity
- educational initiatives for disadvantaged groups, such as young people from refugee and asylum communities.
The Capital Community Foundation
Funding available: Various
Application deadlines: Various
The Capital Community Foundation is an independent charitable foundation supporting good causes in London. Their aim is to make it easier for Londoners to bring about positive social change. They provide funding and support to frontline charities, community projects and social enterprises.
For a list of the latest grants available for projects in London visit: www.capitalcf.org.uk/grants/grants_available.php
St Katherine and Shadwell Award
Funding available: There is no fixed amount, grants range from a few hundred pounds to tens of thousands.
Application deadline: The Board meets every three months, usually at the end of January, April, July and October, and it helps if they have the information at least a fortnight before the next meeting.
Since 1990, the St Katherine and Shadwell Trust has been awarding grants to organisations or groups working to benefit people living in the former St Katherine or Shadwell wards in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The City Bridge Trust
Fudning available: No minimum or maximum amount
To work for change to benefit the people of London. Specific grant schemes include:
- Accessible London
- Bridging Communities
- Improving Londoners’ Mental Health
- London’s Environment
- Positive Transitions to Independent Living
- Strengthening the Third Sector.
Surrey Community Foundation
Funding available: There is no minimum or maximum grant award though the average grant in 2008 was around £2,500.
If you are a community or voluntary group, or charity helping people in Surrey you can apply for a grant.
Gatwick Airport Community Trust Fund
Funding available: £250 to £5,000
Application deadline: Currently, the Trust awards grants once a year. Applications are usually invited in January with a deadline date in March.
Financial assistance is available to local voluntary and community organisations for community projects in the areas most directly affected by the airport's operations.
Heathrow Community and Environment Grants Awards
Funding available: £2,500 to £50,000
Application deadline: The grants are offered up to three times each year.
Financial assistance is available to community groups, schools and local authorities in the Heathrow area for projects that benefit their community and local environment.
Visit the BAA Heathrow community support web page for more information.
East Hampshire grants
There are over 2500 funding schemes that community groups in East Hampshire are eligible for from EU, national, regional and local sources. To search for funding oppotunities in Hampshire, visit the East Hampshire funding 4 community website.
John Lyon's Charity Grant (part of the Harrow School Foundation)
Funding available: Main grants programme - not specified; Small grants programme - Up to £5,000
Application deadline: John Lyon's Charity will accept Stage One Initial Proposals at any time.
Decisions are made at Trustee meetings three times a year in March, June and November.
Enhancing the conditions of life and improving the life-chances of young people through education.
South West grants
Lord Lieutenant’s Fund for Youth
Funding available: up to £5,000
This fund aims to help young people who have demonstrated a desire and capacity to accomplish great things but who are in danger of being held back by personal or family hardship or disability. Fields of talent could include sport, academics, arts, voluntary service, music, science or enterprise.
Visit the Cornwall Foundation website for more information.
Quartet (West Country)
Quartet Community Foundation supports small, community-based charities and voluntary groups in the West of England whose work benefits local people. They give grants to a broad range of causes. For a detailed list of the Quartet grant schemes, visit www.quartetcf.org.uk.
Specific Quartet grant schemes include:
Bristol Children & Young People's Partnership Fund – Up to £5,000 available for small voluntary and community sector organisations working in Bristol with 8 to 12 year olds, for the purposes of improving the transition from primary to secondary school.
Bristol City Council Development Fund - Up to £5,000 is available for small local not-for-profit organisations that provide specific services either on a local or citywide basis in Bristol.
Bristol Youth Community Action - Grants of up to £1,000 are awarded to young people-led, community safety projects.
Express programme - Grants of up to £2,000 are awarded to small, local voluntary and community organisations where a small amount of funding can make a difference in disadvantaged areas. The work must benefit people who are disadvantaged or isolated.
Mall Fountain Fund - Grants of up to £1,000 are awarded to small, local voluntary and community organisations, within 25 miles of the Mall, which help people in need.
South Ward Neighbourhood Management Community Chest – Grants of up to £3,000 are available to support community activity in the South Ward of Weston-super-Mare and to encourage more residents to get involved in activities in their neighbourhood.
Midlands grants
Area Forum Fund - North Warwickshire
Funding available: £500
Application deadline: 1 February; 1 August
For projects that address issues of local importance in North Warwickshire. Grants are awarded for one-off projects which provide lasting benefit to the community. Project should be able to identify a link to at least one of the Sustainable Community Strategy areas.
Ford Britain Trust
Funding available: small grants - up to £250; large grants - £250 - £3,000
Application deadline: Small Grants: 1 March; 1 June; 1 September; and 1 November.
Large Grants: 1 May; and 1 September.
The Ford Britain Trust was created for the advancement of education and other charitable purposes beneficial to the community. In making donations, the Trustees pay particular attention to those organisations that are: located in and working in areas where the Ford Motor Company Limited has its present activities; and have a long-standing association with local communities ie Essex, Bridgend, Southampton and Daventry.
East Midlands Airport Community Fund
Funding available: £2,000
Application deadline: Community Fund meetings are held bi-monthly.
Financial assistance is available to community groups for projects having a long lasting community and/or environmental benefit in the areas most affected by the airport's operations.
Spirita Community Chest
Funding available: £250
Application deadline: none
Spirita is a Midlands-based housing association, so projects must benefit their residents, but they do not have to be the only beneficiaries. Small grants scheme supporting local community- based initiatives or activities in the Midlands region in the areas of community-cohesion, reducing crime and antisocial behaviour, education and training, improving the environment, reducing poverty and isolation.
Saffron Community Fund
Funding available: £2,000
Application deadline: none
Saffron Community Foundation supports projects that are aimed at improving the quality of life and well-being of groups and communities in the areas in which Saffron Housing Trust has stock ie Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Local Donors' Fund (Leicestershire)
Funding available: up to £500
Application deadline: none
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Foundation also hold a number of funds set up by local companies and individuals to support communities in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. Grants are available for small, locally run projects.
Near neighbours
Funding available: £250 - £5,000
Application deadline: Not specified
The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced a new three year programme which will offer small grants to communities that have bright ideas for local inter faith projects. A wide range of community, education, environmental, arts, and sports activities will be eligible, as long as they encourage involvement by local people from different faiths or none. It is focussed on four key areas: the M62 mill towns (including Bradford and Burnley), Leicester, East London and east Birmingham which are diverse, multi-faith neighbourhoods. These grants will be administered through the Church Urban Fund via local parishes.
The Mercers Company Education Programme
Funding available: not specified
Application deadline: not specified
The Mercers Company makes grants to charities and state maintained schools to improve the availability and quality of educational opportunities for children and young adults, especially in London and in particular areas of the West Midlands - Walsall, Sandwell and Telford. The company is particularly interested in, and will give priority to projects which:
- encourage participation in science, maths and technology
- educational projects for young people aged 5 to 19
- projects linked to improving boys' educational achievement
- citizenship projects
- exceptional or innovative projects that use art, drama, dance, music and sport to enrich and extend educational opportunity
- educational initiatives for disadvantaged groups, such as young people from refugee and asylum communities.
Mansfield Building Society - Community Support Scheme
Funding available: £100 to £500
The Scheme invites applications from groups within Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire that are in need of financial assistance to help with their objectives.
Ockash Trust Grant
Grant for third sector organsiations in the Ockbrook and Borrowash areas of Derbyshire.
Herbert Strutt Charitable Trust Grant
Grant for third sector organisations active in the Belper area of Derbyshire.
Wolves Aid Grant
Financial assistance is available to local registered charities and community groups delivering community projects within Wolverhampton.
Community Development Fund - Nuneaton and Bedworth
Funding availbale: Up to £3,000
Application deadline: Not specified
Financial assistance is available to local voluntary and community groups for projects that benefit residents of North Warwickshire.
Focus on Young People in Bassetlaw Grants - Nottinghamshire
Funding available: Grants average between £150 and £250.
Small grants are made to young people's organisations or individual young people aged 8 to 25 years who live in the Bassetlaw district.
The University of Nottingham’s Community Chest Fund
Funding available: Up to £500
The Community Chest is a fund to which students, community organisations and local agencies can bid for up to £500, to promote innovative projects encouraging social harmony in the community; to promote innovative projects in assisting and maintaining a good, healthy and clean environment for The University of Nottingham students and their neighbours; to promote innovative projects in the prevention of crime and anti-social behaviour.
Visit the University of Nottingham website for more information.
Coventry Building Society Charitable Foundation
Funding available: Up to £3,000
Grants for groups, or activities, aimed at improving the quality of life and opportunity among those who are disadvantaged or deprived, the consequence of which may lead to social exclusion.
North West grants
Carlisle Youth Bank
Funding available: from £50 to £500
Application deadline: Applications are assessed monthly.
The scheme offers grants for organisations to host projects run by young people, for the benefit of young people in Carlisle. Projects may include: sports; workshops in dance, drama, circus, arts and craft; days out and short breaks; creating a new club. Eligible groups must: be run by young people, for young people; have a constitution or set of rules; be non profit-making; operate in the area of Carlisle, from Bewcastle to Dawson; have support from an adult; provide activities for young people aged 11-25 years.
Oglesby Charitable Trust
Funding available: Main grants - up to £60,000; Acorn Fund - £200 to £1,000.
Grants for:
- Artistic development, both on an individual and group level
- Educational grants and building projects
- Environmental improvement projects
- Improving the life and welfare of the underprivileged, where possible, by the encouragement of self-help.
The Morgan Foundation
Funding available: Not specified
Application deadline: Not specified
Grants to support charities across North Wales, Merseyside, West Cheshire and North Shropshire. The Morgan Foundation specialises in supporting organisations helping children and families and we will consider any work which has a positive effect on their welfare and quality of life, or which expands the opportunities and life choices for young people in this region.
The Francis C Scott Charitable Trust
Small grants: Up to £5,000
Grants to support charities addressing community deprivation in Cumbria and North Lancashire – we are principally concerned with meeting the needs of the young from nought to nineteen years.
Shepherd Street Trust Grant
Funding available: £100 to £2,000
Grant available for third sector organisations for projects that benefit young people in Preston.
Liverpool One Foundation Grant
The foundation works with registered charities local to Liverpool that deal specifically with issues of significance to local people. In particular the focus is on those charities working in key areas such as the prevention and relief of poverty, education and skills attainment (particularly for young people) and social and community advancement and health.
Kirkby Moor Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund, Cumbria
Funding available: £1,500
Grants for voluntary, community groups or local partnerships which benefit communities less than six kilometres from the wind farm.
Holehird Trust
Funding available: Up to £2,000
Grants for voluntary and community organisations in Cumbria supporting residents of the former County of Westmorland. Priority will be given to projects benefiting one or more of the following groups: disabled people, children, young people up to age 18.
North East grants
ESF Community Grants for South Yorkshire
Funding available: £2,000 - £10,000
Application deadline: South Yorkshire - 3 Feb, 4 May, 3 Aug, 2 Nov 2012; Humber - 3 Feb, 8 June, 5 Oct 2012.
Funding is available to voluntary and community organisations in the South Yorkshire regions who provide learning opportunities that help unemployed people move closer towards a job or training. Eligible activities may include:
- initial help with Basic Skills.
- taster work experience (including voluntary work).
- training advice and guidance.
- job search assistance.
- confidence building and personal development.
- debt counselling.
Safe, Sensible, Social - Small Grant Scheme
Funding available: £250 - £5,000
Application deadline: ongoing
Grants are available to voluntary and community groups in Gateshead involved in innovative projects and activities targeting alcohol related issues. Partnership applications are welcome.
The Brelmns Trust
Funding available: £1,000 to £15,000
Grants to support community projects based in Yorkshire, and specifically Sheffield.
The JG Graves Charitable Trust
Funding available: Up to £5,000
Application deadline: The deadlines for applications are 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December.
The JG Graves Charitable Trust makes small grants for charitable work in Sheffield.
Apply to the Trust Secretary at R. H. M. Plews F.C.A., 2nd Floor, Fountain Precinct, Balm Green, Sheffield, S1 2JA or telephone 0114 276 7991.
Inspiration Fund Grants - Sunderland
Funding avaialble: Up to £750
Application deadline: Applications can be made at any time throughout the year.
Financial assistance is available to local voluntary and community groups for projects and activities that promote the wellbeing of children in Sunderland.
Arts in the Neighbourhood Grant - Kirklees
Funding available: £150 to £2,000
Application deadline: There are three funding rounds: 30 April, 31 August and 31 December
Financial assistance is available to local community and voluntary groups to set up arts and cultural projects and events that benefit or involve Kirklees residents.
The Children's Foundation - Regional Small Grants
Funding available: Up to £1,000
Application deadline: The Regional Small Grants panel meet in March, July and November
The Children's Foundation Regional Small Grants programme supports community projects that benefit children and young people in the North East area.