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.

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.

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.

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

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

Grants are available to support grassroots football clubs across the UK with a priority on supporting children up to the age of 18 access sport and physical activity and/or providing more equipment and opportunity for children.

Find out more here

Tesco and easyfundraising have come together to support voluntary organisations, charities, and CICs. They will donate £1000 funding pots to 5 community organisations this October. Follow these simple steps for a chance to win.

Firstly, register your organisation with fundraising platform easyfundraising. easyfundraising enables your community organisation to receive unrestricted funding from 8,000 leading online retailers including Tesco.

Then shop online at Tesco. Ask anyone who is connected to your organisation to use the easyfundraising platform to shop with Tesco. Each time one of them shops online at Tesco, your organisation will be entered into the draw to receive a £1,000 funding boost. The more people who shop online with Tesco on your behalf, the more chances your organisation has of winning.

Plus each time someone shops with Tesco, your organisation will receive £1.75. That’s £1.75 for free.

Find out more here

GMCVO have launched a new social investment fund for organisations and businesses working in Greater Manchester who are trading for social good and looking to grow.

They are working in a unique partnership with the Greater Manchester Credit Union Consortium, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to deliver local investment with real impact, in communities where the need is highest.

Find out more here

Grants are available for community groups and voluntary organisations across Stockport for projects and activities that positively contribute to the environmental, economic, or social wellbeing within a particular ward. Grants of between £50 and £1,000 are available.

Aviva, in partnership with WWF and the RSPB, is giving £1 million to support community groups across the UK to protect and restore nature in their local area.

Find out more here

Funding and support to charitable organisations that help young people in North West England. It is made up of two funding streams.  One-off unrestricted grants for small community organisations, the typical one-off grants range from £2,000-£2,500. The Foundation aims to support organisations with a turnover of less than £500,000. Funding stream two is based on long-term funding partnerships for small North West charities that want to strengthen and grow.  Typical grants of £10,000-£30,000 pa for 3 years, to scale or strengthen operational health.

Find out more here

The Department of Health and Social Care is inviting interested organisations to register expressions of interest for its £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund, aimed at increasing the number of AEDs in public places where they are most needed and help save lives.

An estimated 1,000 new defibrillators are to be provided by the fund, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.

As part of the grant award, applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, vulnerable people, rural areas or due to the nature of activity at the site.

Examples could include town halls, community centres, local shops, post offices and local parks, to ensure that defibrillators are evenly spread throughout communities and easily accessible if someone is experiencing an unexpected cardiac arrest.

Between £5,000 and £50,000 is available for local voluntary and community organisations, including charities, social enterprises, and public sector bodies and other eligible groups delivering projects that benefit communities. They will consider projects such as revenue investment in infrastructure at cultural venues to enable better programming in the future, investment in programmes and events of cultural activity, for example, new festivals or recurring events, high profile cultural events, investment to increase the reach and impact of current externally-funded cultural projects in the borough.

The fund is also keen to support projects that are in line with Stockport’s priorities. These include local economic growth and community impact, support for local activities, nature based public spaces (excluding maintenance), community wellbeing and social value. Your proposed project should be completed by 28 February 2026.

The deadline for submitting bid applications is Friday, 13 June 2025, at 17:00.

The Cellnex Digital Inclusion Fund (up to £500) is offering small awards from groups of local residents or grassroots constituted community groups who want to get a new project or activity up and running. The Fund will focus on three main areas:

·        Empowering communities and places

·        Increasing confidence, skills and motivation

·        Affordability, accessibility and connectivity.

Who can apply?

If you’re a group of local residents who want to get a new digital inclusion project or activity up and running, or a constituted community group with an income of £2,500 or less, then you can apply.

You need to be based in one of the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and be planning to run your activity in the area where you live.

How much can you apply for?

The maximum award request that will be considered is £500.

The Fund will close once all funding has been fully allocated.

The aim of the programme is to support smaller organisations in the UK that provide activities and services that help children to have a happy, healthy and fun childhood. Grants of up to £2,200 are available.

Applications are assessed once a month with the deadline on the last day of each month.

Grants are available to local community groups and sports clubs for projects that will increase opportunities for young people in disadvantaged areas of the UK to play outdoor sport. Grants in the range from £2,500 to £5,000 are typically available, although a larger grant may be possible in some circumstances.

The initiative invites employees working for either TK Maxx or Homesense to apply for a grant on behalf of a local charity. Grants can be as small as £500.

There’s no official application form - we suggest contacting the Stockport or Cheadle stores to find out more.