Funding

To mark Small Charity Week 2025, NCVO is partnering with Big Give and Global’s Make Some Noise to launch a match funding campaign that will provide crucial financial support to small charities.

Grants of up to £500 are available for volunteering or community service projects that are run by young people aged 30 and younger to help them put their ideas into action and run projects that benefit others.

As part of its new grant-making Strategy 2022-25, BBC Children in Need has launched a grants stream for core costs.

BBC Children in Need is offering funding for defined projects with a focus on children and young people.

Grants for registered charities for a variety of projects and activities that support children and young people under the age of 26,with an emphasis on creating educational and/or access opportunities.

Impetus are open for applications from organisations supporting young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) into employment through skills.

Funding for collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence change around improving the social security system, improving access to suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees.

The Foundation provides unrestricted grants to charities and CIOs to support their work that helps prevent and tackle the consequences of adverse childhood experiences.

The Charitable Foundation are funding registered charities for their work around two themes: a place to call home, and financial wellbeing.

WCIT grants of up to £15,000 are available for educational establishments and not-for-profit organisations to support IT projects and activities.

Funding for innovations which tackle health inequalities to create a healthier and happier West Yorkshire. For registered small and medium-sized enterprises, including registered charities undertaking economic activity.

Grants for not-for-profit organisations with charitable projects that support the community in line with the priority areas of energy resilience, vulnerability, fuel poverty, levelling the rural divide and more.

School for Social Entrepreneurs are offering a Match Trading Grant that, combined with the learning programme, will support you to develop trading income streams and build a resilient community business.

The Charles Hayward Foundation fund preventative and early intervention programmes being delivered at the community level which allow older people to stay in their own homes and remain independent.

This programme is for small local charities and CICs which are led by and working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity.

Large grants are available for not-for-profit organisations that are looking to improve a built or natural environment of regional or national significance and located within 15 miles of a Biffa site.

A seven-day online match funding campaign working with exceptional charities dedicated to serving the women and girls in our communities, fostering a future where every individual can thrive without limitations.

Grants for projects and core costs are available for registered charities seeking to enhance and improve people’s lives through advancing the arts, health and medical welfare, and the environment.

Grants for capital projects are available to small and medium-sized charities working to assist homeless people to rebuild their lives and return to the community.

Leeds Building Society are offering grants to registered charities, focusing on projects that address financial stress; security and refuge; and/or quality and suitability of housing.

Unrestricted grants for small charitable organisations (income under £1m) making a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet.

Funding is available for both project and core costs. Supporting work with people in trouble, particularly young offenders and ex-offenders, as well as other disadvantaged young people.

Grants to voluntary groups and not-for-profit organisations to deliver cycling projects aimed at adults who are either not currently cycling or cycling less frequently.

Wakefield Council have opened new grant strands are open to charities, CICs and other VCSE organisations based in Wakefield District, and will support arts, creative and heritage activities and events.

The Booster Fund supports new and existing community businesses that are at all stages of a community share issue.

Grants are available to community groups, schools and not-for-profit organisations for projects that champion education, participation, environment, diversity and health in the UK.

The Flexible Finance Fund is for established community and social enterprises to complement existing blended funds. Up to £150,000 can be drawn and repaid flexibly as needed for an initial period of up to 5 years.

Grants are available for organisations that are working to support disadvantaged and disabled children in the UK.

Funding is available for UK charities working in the Swire Charitable Trust's three core funding areas of: Opportunity, Environment, and Heritage.

Isolation and loneliness are very prevalent in rural areas where transport and amenities are scarce and Pub is The Hub is making funding available to pubs prepared to support their local residents.

The Trust provides long-term core funding to small charities and run an Awards programme for individuals and groups committed to social, cultural and environmental causes.

The Trust aims to support charities that are providing services for blind, deaf and disabled people.

This grant funding supports charities delivering projects which help to improve people’s lives in communities across England, Scotland and Wales.

The National Lottery Community Fund are looking to fund organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help make us a better-connected society.

Capital grants are available to registered charities working in one of the following areas: communities experiencing racial inequalities, disabilities, domestic and sexual abuse, economic disadvantage, and more.

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

Small grants are available to community and voluntary groups to support small-scale projects with a community emphasis that would find it hard to obtain funding elsewhere.

Grants are available to support not-for-profit organisations in the UK who are working towards the Foundation’s vision of a world in which everyone is free to move and no is forced to move.

The Movement Fund offers crowdfunding pledges, grants and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most.

Grants up to £75,000 to support larger improvement projects to rural community buildings in England such as full refits and extensions.

Grants to support the running costs of small registered charities working with elderly people, children and young people and people who have disabilities or mental health challenges, or working in education/learning.

Grants from Turning Point to help local organisations and community groups launch activities that will reduce social isolation, improve the five ways to wellbeing and have a lasting legacy beyond the funding.

Grants for schools, community groups, clubs, societies or other organisations to improve the education and development of children and young people through educational, cultural, sporting and other activities.

Funding for registered charities with primary objectives to assist disadvantaged/underprivileged young people; people with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities or mental health problems); and/or older people.

This fund from Key Fund aims to support social enterprises over 1 year old looking to purchase or develop properties in the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Key Fund are providing finance to support the development or growth of trading activity, including cash-flow, working capital, and asset development or purchase.

Blended loan and grant fund for Black and Racially Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises improving people’s lives or the environment they live in.

A quick way to apply for smaller amounts of funding from TNLCF. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges.

The new £15 million Energy Resilience Fund is designed to help your organisation improve its energy efficiency and protect its compliance with Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) standards.