Grants of a minimum of £1,000 are available to UK registered not-for-profit organisations. A Co-op membership card number must be provided within the application. Your project must help people to thrive by enabling people access to food, creating opportunities for young people, improving people’s mental wellbeing, promote community cohesion or building sustainable futures.

Closing date is Midnight on 6th July. If successful you will be part of the Local Community Fund for 12 months from 19th Oct 25 to 17th Oct 26. Funds will be paid in Nov 2026.

Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available to non-fee paying schools, registered charities and not for profit organisations to regenerate green spaces for community use. Examples of projects are tree planting, allotments, adapting a green space to make it more accessible or creating a ‘pocket park’.

Closing date is 5pm on 30th June.

Grants of up to £5,000 are available for small, grassroots organisations, with an income of less than £250,000, running for a minimum of 12 months and with fewer that five FTE staff, that are providing direct services to minoritised groups to reduce stigma, share high quality information and improve education on women’s health in the areas of periods, menstrual health, perimenopause and menopause.

Grants must be spent within 12 months and funding will be distributed in two parts 50% at the beginning of the project and 50% upon receipt of a six-month report.

Deadline is 15th June with decisions announced in early September 2025.

Families caring for disables or seriously ill young adults aged between 18-24, living at home are invited to apply directly.

Families must be on a low income from work, or benefits such as Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit etc and the young adult for who they are applying for needs to have a high level of support needs in three of the following areas, Personal care, supervision and vigilance, access to social activities, education/vocational training/communication, therapy and medical treatment, specialist resources and the physical environment.

Funding is allocated on a first come, first served basis until funding is fully allocated.

A collaboration between Findarace and Run The World, offers quarterly grants of up to £1,000 to UK grassroots projects that promote physical activity, particularly in disadvantaged or underserved communities.

Find out more about the Go Far Fund.

Offers small grants up to £250 and large grants up to £3,000 for UK-based community projects focusing on education, environment, youth, and disabilities.

The next deadlines are 30th June for small grants and 31st July for large grants.

Find out more about Ford Britain Trust.

Offers grants averaging £2,000 - £3,000 to innovative projects across England and Wales that support young people aged 0–25, focusing on employment, education, and community integration.

Deadline 1st July 2025.

Find out more about Joanies Fund.

From £500 to £3,000 for registered charities across the North West, in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside, including the unitary authorities of Blackpool, Blackburn, Warrington and Halton, working to provide greater opportunities and improve the lives of children, the elderly and the disabled and their carers. For one-off expenditure for projects or capital expenditure.

Deadline 5pm on 30th May 2025.

Find out more about the Skelton Charity Fund.

Suitable for Charities and not-for-profit organisations that benefit local people. Grants of £10,000 - £20,000

Application Deadline: Wednesday 28th May 2025, 10am

Find out more about the ASDA Local Community Spaces Fund

Previously known as Recycle for Manchester, this fund aims to increase the amount of household items that are donated, shared, repaired, upcycled, and redistributed. A total of £180,0000 is available for small grants of between £2,000 and £10,000 and £40,000 is available for large grants of between £10,001 and £20,000. The fund is open to registered charities, not for profit organisations, faith groups, schools, colleges, and universities.

Application deadline is midday 30th May with an online application workshop taking place on 26th May. Applicants will be notified of decisions in August 2025.

Find out more about the GM Renew Community Fund

Grants are available for UK registered charities, CICs and Armed Forces units to support projects that tackle the underlying issues unique to serving women, providing improved access to support for their physical and mental health, wellbeing and education. Grants of between £25,000 and £100,000 are available for projects delivered over a two-year period. Projects are to start before December 2025.

There will be one application round this financial year and the closing date for this fund is midday 25th June. Decisions can be expected before the end of September 2025.

Find out more about Service Women: Seen & Heard grant.

Grants of between £500 and £2,000 are available for freelance and independent artists across Greater Manchester. The fund is to support a range of projects from musicians who would benefit from a new instrument or a small group who needs funds to replace costumes or a freelance artist who wishes to upskill via a training course. Round 4 is open from 28th March until 28th April. Round 5 opens 29th September until midday Friday 31st October.

Find out more about the fund.

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced that the Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme has been re-funded for a 5th year. This announcement includes continued funding to the North West RSMP to deliver the North West Welcome Hub as well as continue our work funding vital projects and programmes across the region supporting BN(O) visa holders.

The Government is continuing to fund the following key elements of the Welcome Programme:

• Demand-led funding for local authorities in England to provide English language and destitution support. Funding for English language support will be available for the first three years that a BN(O) is in the UK – this is a change in eligibility for the English language funding and the attached updated guidance has also been produced by Government;

• Funding for the 12 Welcome Hubs across the UK;

• Funding for the Hate Crime Reporting Service for BN(O)s and ESEA communities. There will be a reduction in the operating hours for the service with details to be confirmed; and,

• Funding for the mental health and wellbeing project being delivered by Barnardo’s until September 2025.

Information is also available on the RSMP website or on the Gov.uk BN(O) webpage

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced that people in the UK will benefit from upgraded sports facilities in their local area backed by £100 million of government funding.

The funding is expected to support new and improved pitches, changing rooms, goalposts and floodlights to improve access to sport and physical activity for local communities. The funding will be targeted at deprived areas and support greater access and participation levels among under-represented people including women and girls, ethnic minority groups and disabled players.

Clubs and organisations in the UK are now being urged to come forward and apply for funding. Applications can be made in England via the Football Foundation on an ongoing basis. The first tranche of beneficiaries are expected to be confirmed in summer 2025.

These grants aim to:
– Enable smaller grass-roots groups to develop a delivery record
– Tackle health and wellbeing issues in communities
– Undermine the wider social determinants of health that impact in communities
– Build capacity and resilience across the VCSE sector.

Their grant awards are either:
Micro grants – £50 to £500
Small grants – £500 – £2500

The grants are expected to be delivered within 12 months of the award - it may be a one off event or a project that runs for 1 to 12 months.

Find out more here.

Alongside their national funding round, they are also running two regional rounds in Summer 2025:

• North West funding round (for organisations based in the North West of England, which includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside)

• South West funding round (for organisations based in Cornwall)

Successful applicants will receive:

• An unrestricted grant: Up to £30,000, spread across 1 to 3 years

• Access to skills and networks: Including peer support and pro bono support from experienced professionals

• Access to training: Through our workshops programme and fully funded impact measurement support courses

Who they fund:

• Registered Charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), Community Interest Companies (CICs) limited by guarantee, and Charitable Community Benefit Societies (CBSs)/Non-Charitable CBSs with an asset lock

• Your annual revenue should be less than £500,000

What they fund: 

They offer unrestricted funding to help your organisation grow, become more sustainable, efficient, or resilient. We are interested in organisational development, and we believe that by asking you and your charity what you need, our grants will create a transformational impact on your organisation. 

You can find examples of what they have previously funded here.

Find out more here.

They are hosting an online Q&A session on Tuesday 18th March, 12pm to 1pm. If you want to hear more from The Fore team about their application process and pose your own questions before you register your interest in applying, you can sign up here. If you can’t make it on the day, please still register if you would like to receive the recording.

Lloyds local collaborations funding programme will open soon for its second round. Through this fund, they will award grants to 15 collaborations across England and Wales looking to influence change around one of three themes:

• accommodation

• social security

• support for refugees and asylum seekers

Collaborations can apply for £100k over 2 years initially and will be able to access development support. Find out what this support looks like. 

When the programme launches you will have the opportunity to join a webinar to find out more and talk to one of our team about your proposal before you apply. 

In the meantime, take a look at what they've already funded through the programme and read the blog from a local charity leading a collaboration.

Grants and technical expertise are available to non-profit organisations, civic entities, academic institutions, and social enterprises from the UK and worldwide to build socially impactful gen AI-powered solutions across Google.org’s three focus areas:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Learning

• Scientific Advancement

• Resilient Communities.

They are offering up to equivalent of USD £500k-2M, and pro bono assistance from Google employees, technical training, and access to Google Cloud credits.

Find out more here.

The programme is open to all schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, with priority given to projects that provide food and support to young people.

Buttle UK provide individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.

They only accept applications from frontline professionals working for a registered charity, housing association or public sector organisation.

There is a list of things they WON’T fund, including where the main reason is disability, ongoing serious illness or the additional needs of a child.

There is no deadline for applications - find out more here.