Support For Groups - Latest Funding Opportunities

This page aims to keep you up-to-date with useful info about funding opportunities inside Westminster and more widely in London. Also make sure to check the training and events page for an updated list of training opportunities and events.

One Westminster can also help your organisation through the Online Resources section of this website and through our staff team.

Funding

July

Henry Smith Foundation - Proud Homes

Around one in four young people experiencing homelessness in the UK identifies as LGBT+. Most of them encounter a generalist service first: a hostel, a housing team, an outreach worker. Those encounters can be unsafe or dismissive: places where a young person cannot see themselves reflected, cannot trust that they’ll be heard.

Proud Homes will fund up to six generalist homelessness organisations to improve how they assess, place, and support LGBT+ young people. It will also fund up to two organisations already showing strong inclusive work.

This fund is designed for organisations ready to commit to sustained organisational change, including improvements to safeguarding, placement decisions, staff capability, supervision, culture, and systems. This is not for one-off training or short-term projects.

Grant amount: £200k (£50k per year up to 4 years). Organisations must have an annual income between £250k-£3m.

Deadline: Friday 24 July 2026, 5pm

Barchester's Charitable Foundation

Barchester's Charitable Foundation offers grants of £100 to £2,600 for projects, activities or equipment to combat isolation and loneliness among older or disabled people.

The Foundation supports applications from community health professionals, community groups and registered charities that combat isolation and loneliness and enable older people and adults with disabilities to be active and engaged.

Deadline: Friday 31 July 2026

August

Henry Smith Foundation – Equity in Justice Fund

The Henry Smith Foundation offers grants to organisations working with racially minoritised young men aged 18–25 who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Grants of up to £200,000 are available, and applicants are asked to specify whether this funding is required over a period of 3, 4, or 5 years.

EOI deadline: Wednesday 5 August 2026

The LGBT+ Fund

The LGBT+ Fund, powered by Consortium has been designed to provide accessible, flexible, and community-informed funding for LGBT+ organisations and groups in all 32 boroughs. Groups can apply for up to £20,000 per year, for up to three years.

Deadline: Wednesday 12 August 2026

HealthWorks

One Westminster, alongside our VCSE partners, are launching the Westminster HealthWorks programme. Westminster HealthWorks is a community-based programme that supports residents aged 16+ to live healthier lives through local activities and support. The programme will offer a mix of healthy lifestyle activities, talks and workshops, all led by trusted VCS organisations in the community.

Applications to join the programme are now open! Organisations can apply for Small Grants (£2-5k), Medium (£20-25k per year), or Large (£45-50k per year).

Applications for Medium and Large grants will close on Sunday 16th August 2026 at 11.59pm.

Before applying, please read the guidance documents covering Medium and Large grants, or the separate guidance document for Small grants.

We will be holding a Meet the Funder session on 16th July 2026 - please register on the One Westminster events page.

Newcomers Fund

Grants for organisations and partnerships supporting newcomers to the UK to rebuild their lives, feel at home and become active members of their local communities are now available.

‘Welcome’ is the process of support and inclusion that helps newcomers to the UK – by whom we mean refugees, people seeking asylum and other migrants – to settle, navigate and participate in community life. Effective Welcome combines practical and specialist assistance – e.g. with immigration, housing, welfare, mental health – with social and community activities that build trust, connection and a sense of belonging. Activities like cooking and language classes, sports and volunteering also provide trusted entry points for people to access specialist support.

This Fund supports providers of comprehensive Welcome support that enables people to start rebuilding their lives, feel at home and become active members of their local communities. The aim of the fund is to help strengthen organisations and partnerships that provide this help while also working to influence local conditions for Welcome. This will enable people to get support and help local communities strengthen cultures of Welcome.

The funder will fund organisations and partnerships whose charitable purpose is to support newcomers to the UK. Those applying should have ongoing, long-term access to safe physical spaces and have a proven track record of providing comprehensive help through three core elements of ‘Welcome’ work:  

Specialist support: for example, IAA-regulated immigration advice, help with rights and entitlements, destitution and housing matters, healthcare and therapeutic trauma support, English language education and employment. We anticipate that grant holders will deliver much of this work, but we aren’t prescriptive. We understand that enabling high-quality support might mean referring people to specialist providers.
Enabling belonging: through regular social contact and relationship building within newcomer communities and between newcomers and other residents, for example through activities involving food, sport or the arts, volunteering or community sponsorship
Influencing work: to help improve local conditions for Welcome. For example, strengthening links with local employers and educators or influencing local authority policies and practices that impact newcomers’ rights and ability to connect with and participate in the community

Grant amount: £200,000

Length: three years

Expressions of Interest deadline: Wednesday 26 August 2026, 5pm

The Drapers’ Charitable Fund

Grants from the Drapers’ Charitable Fund improve the quality of life and aspirations of people and communities, particularly those who are socially excluded or disadvantaged. They give most of their grants to charities in Greater London, where they have historical roots, for projects in education and social welfare. Grants are typically up to £25,000.

Deadline: Monday 31 August 2026.

September

Sported

Funding for charities, community groups and not-for-profit companies delivering sport and physical activity for wider social purpose.

Grants will support a wide range of projects and activities that address local need, promote social inclusion, and strengthen communities in underserved areas.

To apply for funding, your organisation should have a turnover of less than £1m. Organisations with a turnover of £250k or less will be prioritised.

Applicants must demonstrate support to one or more of the following underrepresented groups; people living in areas of high deprivation, women and girls, people from racially diverse communities, people living with disabilities, and individuals from the LGBTQ+ community.

Sported will prioritise applications from organisations that operate in and support people from areas of high deprivation (Indices of Multiple Deprivation 1-3).

Deadline: Tuesday 1 September 2026 (12 noon)

Grassroots Grants from Groundwork

Groundwork is working with People’s Postcode Lottery for a third year to deliver Grassroots Grants.

This year, the programme will provide unrestricted funding of up to £2,000 to 700 small, local organisations in England that are making a positive difference in their communities.

Funding can be used for core organisational costs that support the important work organisations deliver in their communities. The funding offered is unrestricted and therefore flexible and can be used where it is most needed.

The grant programme is possible thanks to funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and is awarded through Postcode Local Trust, Postcode Places Trust, Postcode Neighbourhood Trust and Postcode Society Trust.

Changes for 2026 – key information:

Applications may be submitted at any time between January and September
Eligible to organisations whose income is up to £25,000 in the last financial year
Applicants will receive a decision within 10 weeks of submission
Successful organisations awarded up to £2,000 will have 12 months to spend the grant
The programme will not fund sports or physical activities-based projects.

Deadline: September 2026

Compassionate Communities

Grants of up to £30,000 over one or two years are available to organisations, including constituted groups, that provide specific health-related activities that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of residents living in one of the following eight northwest London boroughs: Kensington and Chelsea, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Westminster.

Grant requests can be for a minimum of £5,000 and a maximum of £30,000. The amount request must not exceed organisational annual income. Projects must run for a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months

Deadline: Thursday 3 September 2026 - 16:00

Communities Leading Climate and Environmental Justice

This programme is for community-led organisations working with Londoners most affected by climate and environmental injustice. It will support action now, while strengthening communities’ ability to influence the systems, decisions, and narratives that drive inequality.

The funder is interested in work that:

is rooted in communities most affected by climate and environmental injustice, including low-income communities and communities facing wider forms of inequality
responds to climate and environment-related harms, including heat, damp, flooding and pollution
demonstrates an established and ongoing commitment to climate and environmental justice
strengthens community leadership and uses lived experience to influence longer-term change

In this first round, there is £5.6 million available. They will offer five years of core and flexible funding to small and medium-sized organisations with an annual income under £1.5 million.

Deadline: Tuesday 8 September 2026

Theatre Improvement Scheme

The Theatres Trust, in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, is currently accepting applications from not-for-profit theatre operators in the UK for capital improvement projects that will improve environmental sustainability (the current theme of their partnership).

Grants of up to £20,000 can be used for capital costs of building or equipment.

Because the theme for applications is 'Improving Environmental Sustainability' the funding will be given to projects that demonstrate how a small intervention can have a big impact on reducing the theatre's environmental impact, such as:

Purchase of key plant and machinery.
Replacement of inefficient or out-dated equipment.
Improvements to building heating or insulation.
Planting sedum roofs or green walls.
Impactful, high-quality interventions.

To be eligible, applicants must:

Own or manage theatres with titles or signed leases of more than five years on buildings in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Run a year-round programme of live performance, of at least 30 performances per year of theatre, dance, comedy, musicals.
Have a bona fide UK charitable or not-for-profit legal structure and be able to provide certified or audited accounts for at least two years. This can include local authorities or town and borough councils that own and/or operate a venue.
Have the permission of the property owner and any relevant planning body to do the work required.

Applicants can expect to have a decision within 10 weeks of the deadline.

Deadline: 11 September 2026 (noon).

The Mayor’s investment in youth clubs

Youth clubs and youth workers can play a vital role in a young person’s life. To support this, the Mayor is investing over £30 million to deliver at least one late night youth club in every London borough. This is the biggest ever single investment in youth clubs in the capital.

Funding will help youth clubs stay open later and longer, giving young Londoners a safe space to go on weekday evenings, weekends and school holidays - when they need it most.

With this funding, youth clubs will be able to:

Stay open later into the evenings on weekdays and weekends, and during school holidays
Offer more sports and creative activities and even gaming
Provide mentoring and support from trusted adults
Help young people build skills for their future
Give young people a safe, reliable place to go

Applicants should consist of:

one lead organisation per borough
organisations must be from the voluntary or community sector
organisations must have a track-record for delivering meaningful, impactful youth work, with the appropriate safeguarding policies and insurance in place.

One grant is available for every London Borough, to support activities during weekday evenings, weekends and school holidays. Funding will be available from October 2026.

Deadline: Monday 14 September 2026, 12pm (noon)

October

The Green Community Grants Scheme

One-year, flexible grants of up to £25,000 are available to non-profit groups in England, Scotland and Wales with an annual income of between £10,000 and £1,000,000. There will be three funding rounds in 2026.

The Green Community Grants scheme was established in 2025 by the Wildlife Trusts with funding from the People's Postcode Lottery and Postcode Green Trust.

To apply, an organisation's principle aims and objectives must fit with one of the following 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 wide range of sustainable activities, including recycling, litter picking, beach cleans or sustainable transport.

To apply, organisations must:

Have an annual income between £10,000 and £1 million in the most recent financial year.
Have been operating for a minimum of 12 months and have signed annual accounts at the time of submitting their application.
Have a UK bank account in the organisation's name with two unrelated signatories.

As funding is expected to be oversubscribed, priority will be given to organisations:

With an income of £250,000 or below.
That work in communities located in the top 15% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation
Whose main activities are focused on supporting marginalised groups. This could include, but is not limited to, disabled people, communities experiencing racial inequity, and LGBT+ people.

Groups can apply for no more than 25% of their annual income listed on their most recent set of signed accounts.

This funding is designed to offer flexibility and support so groups can strengthen their organisation and deepen their impact.

Applications for 2026 will be accepted in the following windows:

Round One: 25 March 2026 to 22 April 2026.
Round Two: 24 June 2026 to 15 July 2026.
Round Three: 30 September 2026 to 1 October 2026.

Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants

Formerly known as 'Stronger Starts' and not to be confused with Tesco Fruit and Veg for Schools (a different programme aimed only at schools), applications for Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants are now open. Schools can apply for both.

The Fruit and Veg Grant has a focus on children’s and young people’s projects and is open to schools and PTAs, voluntary/community organisations, registered charities, health bodies, Parish/Town councils, social enterprises, Community Interest Companies (with restrictions), community councils, local authorities and housing organisations.

All project applications must have a healthy food for kids focus.

Tesco Fruit and Veg Grants in London are distributed by Tesco and managed by Groundwork UK. They are the blue tokens that shoppers can use to vote for the 'favourite' project. There are 3 projects in the stores, all of which will receive funding, the one with most votes will receive £1500.00 and the remaining two, £1000.00 and £500 respectively.

Deadline: 15 October 2026

Anytime

Tesco Stronger Starts

Grants of up to £1,500 are available to support community projects involving Children and Young people or Food Insecurity in the broadest sense including equipment, activities, holiday/breakfast clubs, cookery classes, food growing courses, food packages etc.

Shortlisted projects are displayed in their local Tesco stores for a 3 month voting period, and the top placed project will receive up to £1500, the 2nd - £1000 and the 3rd - £500. Funding must be used within a year.

Organisations that have been nominated by a Tesco employee via this portal not only stand a very good chance of being selected at shortlisting, but because of this local endorsement would not necessarily need to fit the themes of children and young people or food insecurity.

Applications are now open on a rolling basis and will be accepted at any time.

Masonic Charitable Foundation - Children and Later Life Programmes

Following a period of closure to review its grants processes, the Foundation has reopened its Small and Large Grants applications on a rolling basis.

This announcement relates to grants in two main areas:

Creating the best start in life for disadvantaged children and young people
Reducing isolation and loneliness for older people.

Charities registered with the Charity Commission can apply as long as their beneficiaries are in England.

The Foundation offers large grants starting from £10,000 up to around £60,000, and small grants of between £1,000 and £5,000.

Organisations with an income of less than £500,000 can apply for a small grant covering core funding, while those with an income exceeding £500,000 can apply for a large grant covering project and delivery costs.

Final decisions are expected in around two to three months for small grant applications, and around three to four months for large grants.

Applications are now accepted at any time.

Trust for London

Funding is available for organisations carrying out charitable work (whether registered as a charity or not) that strive for economic and social justice under the new Trust for London 2030 strategy.

Under the economic justice aim, they want to fund work under four priority areas:

Decent work
Tackling the housing crisis
Improving social security
Ending the poverty premium

Under the social justice aim, they want to fund work under three priority areas:

Ending migrant destitution
Racial justice
Disability justice

The Trust provides two different types of funding:

Project funding: Funding for discrete and timebound pieces of work.
Unrestricted funding: If you’re a registered charity working solely to tackle poverty in London you can apply for unrestricted funding. By unrestricted, they mean funding that can be used flexibly for general operational costs in your organisation.

Grants usually range from £40,000 to £80,000 a year for up to five years.

Deadline: on a rolling basis

Lead the Change

Lead the Change is a new £3.4 million, three-year initiative that will support young people to play a leading role in strengthening relationships, fostering understanding and building belonging in their communities.

The funding is being by launched by BBC Children in Need with other partners, and coordinated by UK Community Foundations. Funding will be delivered across 27 target localities by community foundations.

Lead the Change will invest directly in youth leadership, community connection and opportunity. Grants of £123,353 per organisation will be available, over three years.

The programme aims to:

Strengthen community connection and safety
Empower young people as leaders, storytellers and changemakers
Support young people to build digital literacy and challenge harmful narratives
Increase opportunity for young people through skills and leadership pathways
Build a national movement for youth‑led connection and change

Expressions of interest open on Wednesday, 1 April 2026 with a three-week submission window.

The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation

The grant scheme support capital projects, not running costs. There are three types of grant; major grants of £50,000 and above, medium grants between £5,000 and £50,000 and small grants below £5,000. Small grants account for 80% of those awarded annually.

There are two criteria to fulfil before applying for a grant. Please ensure you read these carefully before making an application.

1. You must be a registered charity in England or Wales or have accepted/exempt status to apply

AND

2. You must fall into one of the categories set out below. Please click on a link for more information as to whether you qualify:

Community
Education
Health
Social Welfare

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at anytime.

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing.

All applications must be made by a registered referrer.

There is no deadline for applications, but each region or nations has a tier allocation, which may be subject to change, as the current funding year progresses.

Sport England - Green Sport Initiatives

Sport England has announced up to £16 million from its £160 million Movement Fund will be reserved to help the sector respond to the impact of climate change in a move to help create the 'greenest sports sector in the world'.

Community sports clubs and physical activity groups looking to become more environmentally friendly and sustainable are being encouraged to apply for grants of between £300 and £15,000 from the Movement Fund to promote environmental sustainability.

There is particular interest in initiatives that promote and support ‘climate justice’ – addressing the barriers facing those most affected by climate change to support them to access sport and physical activity opportunities.

Sport England is now looking for projects that:

Show they will improve environmental sustainability by addressing at least one of the six Every Move priorities:
- Just transition: Inequalities, inclusion and participation
- Energy and resources: Carbon emissions – travel and facilities
- Energy and resources: Circular economy – supply chains, products and waste
- Nature: Blue-green environment quality and use
- Nature: Biodiversity
- Resilience: Adapting to climate change and extreme weather events.
Show they will benefit physical activity in the community.
Have a clear, feasible and reasonable delivery plan.

Deadline: Ongoing

The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund

Charitable Grants are available to UK registered charities working within the UK. Whilst we prioritise those charities working for the benefit of people in Greater London, we do welcome and support applications from all corners on the UK. Fund is available for special projects, capital grants and core costs such as salaries, rent and utilities. You can apply for up to four years of funding.
The Fund operate two grant giving programmes for charities:

The Small Grant Programme is a fast track grant assessment for one-off grants of up to £3,000. Applicants can expect a result within six weeks of making an application.
The Main Grants Programme is a far more thorough assessment for single and multiple year grants of £5,000 or more. A successful application can take up to nine months to receive a result.

The Fund particularly welcome applications supporting the use of leather within the fashion industry, education in leather technology and the leather trade.

The Architectural Heritage Fund Project Viability Grant

Grants of up to £15,000 are now available for formally constituted charities or social enterprises that have the necessary powers to undertake a project involving the acquisition and conversion of an historic building.

The Architectural Heritage Fund Project Viability Grant aims to enable organisations to work out whether a proposed use for a building will be economically viable. The grant will contribute towards the cost of exploring different options for reuse or testing a single option.

Applications can be submitted at any time and you will normally get a decision in 6 to 8 weeks.

Sport England – Movement Fund

The new fund replaces Sport England’s existing Small Grants Programme and Active Together fund. The Movement Fund aims to get more people active and increase sports participation across England, closing the ‘significant activity gap’ between people based on where they live, how affluent they are, their sex, ethnic background or whether they have a disability or long-term health condition. The launch coincides with the introduction of Sport England’s new Movement Hub pilot – which aims to make it easier to find existing tools and resources.

Grants of between £300 and £15,000 are available for not-for-profit organisations working with people living in England.The funding is intended for local not-for-profit groups and organisations whose projects promote physical activity, including active travel, walking, cycling, dance, fitness and sporting activities.Priority will be given to projects in communities where there is a greater need.

There is particular interest in projects providing opportunities for groups facing barriers to activity, such as:

People living on low incomes.
Disabled people or those with long-term health conditions.
Older people.
People from culturally diverse communities.
Pregnant women and parents with very young children.
Girls aged 5-16.
LGBTQ+ people.
People who are in foster care.
People who provide care without pay.

Projects and activities need to address Sport England’s four ambitions:

Encouraging positive experiences of sport and physical activity.
Involving the community in planning and delivery.
Prioritising environmental sustainability.
A good use of public money.

The money could be used for equipment, facilities, learning and development, delivery costs or emergency relief.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation – Arts-based Learning Fund

Arts organisations and charities that are working with schools, colleges and other formal education settings can apply for grants of between £30,000 and £300,000 to enhance the lives, development and achievements of children and young people who have experienced inequality through high quality arts-based learning activities.

Yapp Charitable Trust

The Yapp Charitable Trust offers grants only for core funding to registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000 and are undertaking work that focuses on one of these priority groups:

Elderly people
Children and young people aged 5 - 25
People with physical impairments, learning difficulties or mental health challenges
Social welfare - people trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin (such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, offending)
Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)
The charity will fund running costs for up to three years. Grants are for a maximum of £3,000 per year.

Applications are accepted at any time.

Google Ad Grants

Google Ad Grants provide over £7,500 per month of free Google Ads advertising to eligible Not For Profit organisations. The adverts will appear on relevant Google search result pages and can boost organisations’ visibility to their key audiences. The programme is designed to help people connect with causes to make a greater impact on the world.

No deadline

City & Guilds Foundation - Local Community Skills Fund

The funding aims to support a wide range of initiatives that will make a positive impact on communities across the UK.

One key focus is to fund innovative local and community-led projects that may not be eligible for traditional funding sources. This could include anything from setting up a community garden to running a digital skills workshop. The fund also seeks to help disadvantaged people develop the skills they need to find employment by providing training and support.

Additionally, the fund will address specific skills gaps in local areas and reach out to communities where access to training and development opportunities is limited. By working with external organisations, the fund aims to create a sustainable model for delivering social impact through funding and match-funding.

Eligible Expenditure

Funding for projects that are:

Seeking funding for projects or activities that will be delivered in the UK.
Supporting people 16+ who are facing barriers.
Supporting the development of skills required to move towards or into employment.

Projects will also be viewed positively if they address any of the following:

People with convictions, young people at risk of offending, refugees and displaced people, neurodiverse learners and lower socio-economic groups.
Can evidence that they are addressing local skills gaps and/or directly link to job outcomes.
Are in a community or region of defined social need (Indices of Multiple Deprivation, DofE cold spots).

Applications can be made at any time throughout the year and will be reviewed on a monthly basis.

The Hedley Foundation

The Hedley Foundation can offer grants of up to £5,000. Occasional larger sums are given to charities where high impact can be achieved.

Small charities can also benefit from smaller grants of £250 upwards.

The Foundation seeks to help and improve the quality of life of people in the UK, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This is achieved by making grants to charities for the benefit of young people, disabled people, elderly people, the terminally ill, the homeless, ex-offenders, and otherwise disadvantaged people and their carers.

Applicants should be from a charity with an annual income below £1m. Community Interest Companies cannot apply. Grants cannot cover core salaries, building construction, general running costs, or transport.

The Foundation’s trustees meet regularly to discuss applications and to make decisions on grants.

The Percy Bilton Charity

Capital grants are available to organisations and individuals in need throughout the U.K.

Social workers may apply on the behalf of individuals who have a disability or mental health problem, or who are over 65, for grants to purchase basic furniture, equipment and clothing.

Organisation that may apply should be a registered charity in the U.K. whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups:

Disadvantaged/underprivileged young people (persons under 25)
People with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities or mental health problems)
Older people (aged over 60)

They have 2 programmes for organisations:

Large grants: one off payments for capital expenditure of approximately £2,000 and over i.e. furniture and equipment; building/refurbishment projects. Please note that they do not fund running costs.
Small grants - Donations of up to £500 towards furnishings and equipment for small projects. This programme is more suitable for smaller organisations.

Deadline: Applications may be submitted at any time and will be considered at the next appropriate Board meeting. Applications for Small Grants are considered monthly.

Westminster Community Events Fund

Funding has been made available for communities in Westminster to lead and organise events of cultural significance as well as events that promote community cohesion and integration. These can be:

Cultural events
Events that raise awareness of issues that affect the community
Events that bring communities together for collective reflection.

The fund can be used to book a space or pay for other associated event costs. For each event, a maximum of £2,500 will be made available, or for collaboration between organisations grants of up to £5,000 will be available.

Deadline: the fund will close when the allocated funding runs out.

The Access Foundation - Digital Divide Grant

The Access Foundation awards grants to support charities and CICs to mitigate the digital divide by making IT facilities, support and learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Grants are between £10,000 and £50,000. This funding will normally support a project that lasts no more than a year.

There are no application deadlines. They aim to have approved or declined your request within 12 weeks of receiving your completed application.

John Lyon's Charity - School Holiday Activity Fund

The School Holiday Activity Fund is designed to enable organisations to deliver fun and accessible activities for children and young people during the school holidays. This includes all half-term breaks, Easter, Christmas and the summer holiday. You may apply to the School Holiday Activity Fund once a year for a maximum of three consecutive years.

The Fund will pay for the running costs of holiday programmes that provide young people with activities in supportive and accessible environments. Up to £4,000 is available.

Applications to the School Holiday Activity Fund can be submitted at any time, but must be received by the Grants Office by the following deadlines:

Christmas and February half-term – 1 October
Easter and May half-term – 1 February
Summer and October half-term - 1 May

King Charles III Charitable Fund

King Charles III Charitable Fund has opened its small grant programme to UK registered non-profit organisations supporting grassroots projects in diverse and deprived communities. The small grants programme awards single or multi-year grants to a maximum value of £5,000. The average award is £1,500.

Applications will be considered from organisations with an income of up to £1 million that have completed at least two years of activity and are able to submit accounts or income and expenditure statements.

This is a rolling programme - Please note that the Small Grant Committee considers applications in February, May, July and October.

Aviva Community Fund

Organisations can receive up to £50,000 in match funding from the Aviva Community Fund. Eligible organisations must have been operating for at least 12 months.

Funding areas:

Financial Wellbeing: helping people take control of their wellbeing by giving them the tools to be more financially independent and ready for anything.
Climate Action: Promoting healthy, thriving communities by preventing, preparing for and protecting against the impacts of climate change.

The Charles Haywood Foundation

The Charles Hayward Foundation is a grant-making charitable trust which is located in the United Kingdom. They make grants to charities which are registered through two different programmes:

Main grant programme

Social & Criminal Justice and Heritage & Conservation (for charities with an income of more than £350,000) and Overseas (for charities with an income between £150,000 and £5,000,000).

Small grant programme

Social & Criminal Justice and Older People (for charities with an income of less than£350,000).

The Foundation predominantly funds capital costs. Projects that are preventive or provide early intervention are encouraged with a preferred area of impact at the community and neighbourhood level.

Size of grant is typically £15,000 to £25,000. Where agreed, project funding may be for up to a maximum of three years in duration. Small grant scheme makes grants of up to £7,000.

The trustees meet only four times a year to consider applications and you may have a wait of several months before you receive a decision. On average, trustees approve one in twenty applications.

The Fat Beehive Foundation - Digital Fund

The Fat Beehive Foundation is providing small grants of up to £2500 for websites and digital products for small UK registered charities to help these organisations carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way.

Charities must have an average income of less than £1 million a year.

No deadline

The National Lottery Community Fund - The Solidarity Fund

This funding is for organisations in England dealing with the causes of inequality. By inequality they mean poverty, disadvantage and discrimination. They’ll fund organisations that are working on making a lasting change to the causes of inequality. Organisations can apply for between £1 million and £5 million in total. This funding can be spent over 5 to 10 years. They are expecting to fund around 10 organisations in the first year.

What they’ll fund: your work must,

help make big and lasting changes to the root causes of poverty, disadvantage or discrimination. By this they mean doing more than helping people with the issues they are facing now. Like changing the way organisations or sectors work together, so it’s fairer for people. This is sometimes called ‘systems change’.
bring people together to deal with the root causes of poverty, disadvantage or discrimination. By supporting people to work on this across different issues and communities. This is what they mean by working in ‘solidarity’.

How they expect you to work: you must,

support communities to build power. So they have the skills, confidence, and support to get organised and make lasting change,
create, share, and use learning from people that experience inequality. To support them to have a say and be heard. And to support people to take action to make things better.

Deadline: Ongoing

Cameron Grant Memorial Trust

Applications for a grant of between £100 and £2,500 will be considered. The grant can be used to trial a new service, create an asset, a technology, a performance, fund research, or otherwise experiment in any way that supports the treatment mental health. The emphasis will be on innovation – using new methods, channels, technology, ideas or approaches to reach out and effect change. Ideas should typically fit into one of the following categories:

Destigmatising mental health
Reducing barriers to mental health care
Improving mental wellbeing

Note the grants are for project-based activities that demonstrate clear innovation. They will not be made to fund ongoing operational expenses or salaries.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Migration Fund

Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Migration Fund has reopened after a pause and is now focused on supporting not-for-profit organisations in the UK who are working towards the Foundation’s vision of a world in which everyone is free to move and no is forced to move.

Grants of up to £60,000 per year for three to four years (a total of £240,000) or grants up to £50,0000 per year for five years (a total of £250,000) are available to support core costs and specific programme costs.

Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations of any size working anywhere in the UK who are working towards:

Embedding anti-racist practice across their organisation and work.
Adopting an organisational culture that centres care and wellbeing.
Shifting power to migrants and diaspora communities so their interests, perspectives and contributions are centred across the organisation’s work.
Building solidarity and collaboration across communities, while working towards transformational change that benefits us all.
Unlearning and challenging the harm, inequity, and oppression within their organisational structures and work.
Learning, reflecting and being responsive to change

Priority will be given to applications from organisations:

Led by migrants and diaspora communities.
That work with historically underfunded groups and regions.
With an annual turnover under £500,000.
That have less access to funding from other sources.

Newly established and unincorporated groups who meet the Fund’s criteria are welcome to apply.

There are no deadlines. The Fund operates on a rolling basis.

David Riddell Memorial CIO

This fund aims to support suicide awareness and prevention programmes run for charitable purposes. Priority will be given to innovative projects. Grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 are available. The David Riddell Memorial CIO is established to reduce the number of people who take their own lives by educating people about suicidal ideation and informing them of ways to prevent suicide, particularly people working in the financial services sector and associated industries.

Applications will be taken all year round and assessed on a rolling basis.