The Charity’s aims are to support a wide range of charitable causes, particularly in the fields of welfare, children, education, medicine, music and the arts.In particular, the Trustees prefer to support smaller charities or projects. Grants typically range from £2,000 - £5,000 per annum. Multi-year grants up to a maximum of three years are considered.

Quarterly meetings

Part of The Conservation Volunteers commitment to support Community Network members. The fund makes grants available to encourage and enable community groups to carry out conservation activities. Two grants are available for Start Up (up to £160) and Support (up to £350).

Applications are reviewed every 6 weeks

Funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations. The average grant size is around £5,000-£6,000. Particularly interested in unusual, imaginative or pioneering projects which have perhaps not yet caught the public imagination.

Quarterly application deadlines

The Booster fund helps all types of community businesses to prepare a community share offer, to support their recovery from COVID-19.

Development grants – up to £5,000 to prepare a community share offer: financial planning, governance support, marketing costs and being awarded the Community Shares Standard Mark.

Match equity investment – typically matching pound for pound up to £25,000 invested by the Booster Programme, providing that the minimum share offer target is achieved.

The Finnis Scott Foundation awards grants of up to £10,000 to projects in the areas of horticulture and plant sciences, as well as art history and the enhancement, conservation and preservation of art.  Preference is given to smaller charities where a grant would have a significant impact. The Foundation funds both capital and revenue projects.

Ongoing application window

They are giving away up to £2,000 every month to fund local community initiatives.

Ongoing applications

There are 5 UK focused funding priorities: arts access and participation; education and learning through the arts; migration and integration; investing in young people; nurturing ideas and people. Organisations can request up to £90,000 spread over three years.

Support efforts to achieve social, economic and environmental injustice, and to end imbalances of wealth and power. Grants range from £500 to £3000. They run 2 funding cycles a year. Open to community groups.

Up to £5,000 is available. All applications must relate to projects that assist individuals in their return to mainstream society, rather than offering shelter or other forms of sustenance.

The quarterly deadlines for applications for funding each year are: 15 March / 15 June/ 15 September/ 15 December

This charitable fund is back open for applications, making grants of up to £1,000 to UK registered charities and community groups. For this winter round of funding, the Fund will only accept applications from projects delivering:

Food banks, Toy banks, Poverty relief, Housing and accommodation

Charities supporting sick and disadvantaged people across the UK can apply for grants of up to £2,500. Funding supports projects of a humanitarian nature or supplement core funding, with priority given to organisations supporting the elderly, people with disabilities or living with serious illness, or those facing challenges with mental health, social exclusion, homelessness or other difficulties in their lives.

On going applications

'Charity Pot' is a Lush hand and body cream where 100% of all sales (minus local taxes) are distributed as grants, to groups working in the areas of Animal Protection, Environment or Human Rights (incl. social justice, peace & equality). Charity Pot grants range from £100, up to a maximum of £10,000 per project/application.  The average Charity Pot grant is between £2,000 - £4,000.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Grants of between £20,000 and £60,000 per year for up to three years are available to grassroots level community-led charities and not-for-profit organisations working to support communities in the most deprived areas of the UK.

Decisions are made quarterly

Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Projects must have a focus on Community Support.

Ongoing deadline

Support projects that provide opportunities for disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. Grants range from a few hundred pounds up to £10,000. Registered charities only.

The deadlines for receipt of applications are 15 December and 31 July every year.

Grants are awarded towards capital projects which they define as buildings; fittings, fixtures and equipment or vehicles. They fund both large and small projects. The size of grant awarded will depend on a number of factors including the size of your organisation and the cost and scale of your capital project.

Rolling deadline.

These grants are for capital initiatives, i.e. buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. They fund a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science & medicine, health & disability, heritage, humanities & the arts.

Decisions are made June and December annually

Grants are available for UK registered charities, CIOs (and in some circumstances CICs) that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending within a local area. Preference is given to pump-priming new projects, especially those that are innovative and can serve as a model elsewhere.

There are two levels of funding- Small grants up to £5,000 and Main grants have no maximum amount. Grants are single year funding however exceptional cases will be awarded up to 3 years funding.

The committee meets every February, June and October each year.

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Funding of £10,000 - £20,000 is available to small-medium sized charities who work in three priority areas: migrants and refugees, criminal justice and penal reform and human rights - particularly access to justice.

Application deadlines are four times a year

Offer a variety of funding streams including funding for breakfast clubs to tackle child food poverty and grants for projects supporting disadvantaged children.

Deadlines are quarterly end of January / April / July / October