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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.
Tesco Stronger Starts with Groundwork
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 - 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have launched a £25.5 million funding package to help voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations in England improve their energy efficiency.
Eligible organisations will be able to apply for 1) an independent energy assessment and 2) capital grants to install energy efficiency measures.
To apply for the second element, organisations not owning their premises will need to ask for their landlords’ permission.
Tesco Footie for All Fund
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.
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Tesco £5k Community Pledge
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
Stockport Council Ward Flexibility Fund
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.
Save our Wild Isles Community Fund
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.
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Arete Foundation
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
Opportunities through Sport - Peter Harrison Foundation
Grants are available to UK charities running sports projects which provide opportunities for people who are disabled or otherwise disadvantaged to fulfil their potential and develop personal and life skills.
Two levels of funding are available:
Major grants - £5,001 to £30,000.
Small grants - up to £5,000 (for organisations with a turnover of up to £500,000).
The foundation provides single year or multi-year funding.
Initial applications can be made at any time.
There is a two-stage process. Applicants should first submit an enquiry using the online form.
Selected entries will then be invited to complete a full application. Full applications are considered quarterly. The application deadlines for the trustees' meetings each year are:
1 January - spring meeting.
1 April - summer meeting.
1 July - autumn meeting.
1 October - winter meeting.
Community Automated External Defibrillators Fund
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.
Cellnex Digital Inclusion Fund - Micro Grants
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.
Little Lives Children’s Community Support Programme
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.
Always open funds
These funds have a rolling deadline and can be applied for at any time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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