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Funding for community groups and charitable organisations

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funding opportunities

If you’d like advice or support with a funding application please get in touch

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VCS Alliance Funding

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.

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The Fore’s Summer 2025 Funding Round

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.

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Lloyds Local Collaboration Fund

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.

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Google Generative AI Open Call

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.

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Buttle UK - Chances for Children

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.

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JJ Charitable Trust Literacy Small Grants Scheme

Grants are available for organisations undertaking charitable projects focusing on literacy teaching for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, in the UK.

Applications are always open, for further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following: Tel: 020 7410 0330 Email: info@sfct.org.uk

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The True Colours Trust

UK Small Grants provides grants of up to £10,000 to help support families, children and young people in the UK with complex disabilities and/or life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.

The Trust seeks to bring about better lives for children and their families through a broad mix of research, advocacy, service delivery and innovation.

The programme is open to applications at any time. They aim to respond to your application with a final decision within eight weeks but this can sometimes take longer.

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The Manchester Guardian Charitable Trust

The Trust makes donations of between £250 – £3,500 in the Greater Manchester area, specifically to benefit smaller charities. They are particularly interested in assisting:

  • Organisations for young people e.g. scouts, guides, youth organisations

  • Provision for the sick and disabled

  • Assistance for groups providing for the elderly and disadvantaged members of society

  • Support for educational initiatives by arts organisations particularly for children and young people

  • Community associations; and Organisations providing services for people in Greater Manchester.

There is no deadline, however, only one application will be accepted from an organisation within a two year period.

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Britford Bridge Trust

Grants of up to £30k for the prevention or relief of poverty, education, health or the saving of lives, and the arts, culture, heritage, or science.

The secondary charitable purposes of the Trust are citizenship or community development; amateur sport; environmental protection or improvement; and the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage.

Applications to the trust are reviewed quarterly. Quarterly cut offs are 30 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December each year.

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Web Design & Development - Falcon Digital

Falcon Digital is now offering free website design and digital marketing advice for any UK charities or community interest groups such as sports clubs and support services. No longer will charities need to budget for expensive digital services and advertising advice.

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London Hearts Defibrillator Scheme

London Hearts are here to help you with funding for a defibrillator to help support your community and local area.

London Hearts are a defibrillator charity that can help you with starting your defibrillator project and will help supply medical devices that can save those who may experience a cardiac arrest. Let us aid your fundraising efforts and reduce the cost of a defibrillator. We can help to boost your efforts and bring this essential and life saving equipment to the heart of your community quicker.

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Movement Fund - Sport England

Provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and support to help projects that get more people active. If you're eligible and your project aligns with their goals, you could receive up to £15,000 to cover a wide range of costs and items that'll help deliver positive change in your community.

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 Always open funds

These funds have a rolling deadline and can be applied for at any time.

  • The programme supports development by allowing artists, cultural practitioners and organisations to work in new ways and to get their work out to new audiences.

    Find out more here

  • The Core Costs Funding Stream is for charities and not-for-profit organisations. Applicants to this programme can apply for grants for up to three years. They aim to give quicker decisions for grants of £15,000 or less per year.

    Find out more here

  • Funding for specific projects and activities children and young people aged 18 or under. Priority to smaller, local organisations and rarely fund organisations with income above £1 million. For UK wide Hospices and Housing Associations there is no maximum income limit. They will only consider applications for over £15,000 pa, if you are a registered non profit.

    Find out more here

  • Minor Grants are aimed at supporting small local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. They fund core costs, average grant size is £500 - £4,999

    Community Grants are aimed at assisting and supporting the development of smaller local charitable organisations which deliver services directly to beneficiaries. Grant Size in the range of £5,000-£20,000

    Find out more here

  • Grants are available to organisations doing legally charitable work in the UK that focuses on Communities or people most affected being involved in campaigning or leading change / Work which makes connections across our aims: Our Natural World, A Fairer Future and Creative, Confident Communities. You must have an annual turnover of less than £100,000. Funds of £30,000 upwards

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  • The grant is always open for applications from charities and community organisations to bid for up to £1,500. Three projects in 575 local communities are voted on by customers in Tesco stores throughout the UK, with projects changing every three months.

    Find out more here

  • A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding between £300 and £20,000.

    Suitable for Voluntary or community organisations

    Apply at least 16 weeks before you want to start the activities or spend any of the money.

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  • Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for organisations that work together with a shared set of goals to help their community thrive – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

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  • Offers a larger amount of funding (over £10,000) for projects that last up to five years. They’re looking for projects that work with their community – whether that’s a community living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences.

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