GRANTS LIST List compiled by Transformation Cornwall. 1 Grants for Foodbanks, grassroot groups and faith based social action in Cornwall. 26 th February 2021 We have created this list of possible funding that might be suitable for some of our wonderful Foodbanks, grassroot groups and Faith based social action projects in Cornwall. We are updating this list weekly as the funding environment continues to change at pace. Many of the grants related to Covid-19 are very quickly changing at the moment, so we would recommend that if you see a relevant emergency or individual grant open, apply quickly. We also update a grants list for individuals and families in need of emergency financial help. The comprehensive list includes grants for those who have worked in certain professions, support for disabled people, young people, and so much more. You can find the list here: https://transformation-cornwall.org.uk/resources/transformation-cornwall-grants-list Please contact funders directly with queries on their grant programmes but do please get in touch with Transformation Cornwall if we can help to support you in any way: Info [email protected]Index Covid-19 & Emergency Funding ............................................................. 2 Funders Sensitive to Faith Based Projects ............................................. 9 Other grant funders ............................................................................... 14 Other .................................................................................................... 41
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GRANTS LIST
List compiled by Transformation Cornwall. 1
Grants for Foodbanks, grassroot groups and faith based social action in Cornwall.
26th February 2021 We have created this list of possible funding that might be suitable for some of our wonderful Foodbanks, grassroot groups and Faith based social action projects in Cornwall.
We are updating this list weekly as the funding environment continues to change at pace. Many of the grants related to Covid-19 are very quickly changing at the moment, so we would recommend that if you see a relevant emergency or individual grant open, apply quickly.
We also update a grants list for individuals and families in need of emergency financial help. The comprehensive list includes grants for those who have worked in certain professions, support for disabled people, young people, and so much more. You can find the list here:
Please contact funders directly with queries on their grant programmes but do please get in touch with Transformation Cornwall if we can help to support you in any way: Info [email protected]
In response to Covid-19, the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation has temporarily changed its priorities.
We will ONLY be accepting applications for the costs associated with the delivery of projects that are: • Either Foodbanks or Crisis Funds focused on the relief of poverty caused by the Covid-19 situation • Run by registered charities in England, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Republic of Ireland • Entirely for beneficiaries in the above four jurisdictions.
The Alpkit Foundation are now prioritising their funds to support projects that demonstrate an immediate impact on those affected by the Covid-19 virus crisis Over £200,000 has been awarded to more than 600 incredible projects so far, with a number of community food schemes supported. This grant is simple to apply for.
Examples include:
Being active in your local community to help elderly or vulnerable people.
Minimising the impact of self-isolation for those in quarantine and need access to food, medicines or social care.
Supporting foodbanks and increasing the number of meals on wheels deliveries to support the elderly.
Supporting those who are homeless or in temporary accommodation.
Bringing adventure indoors.
Projects that encourage responsible and Covid-19 safe outdoor activity.
Introduced as a result of more people taking up fishing during COVID-19, the £100,000 Get Fishing Fund offers grants from £500 to £5,000 for charities, schools, local authorities, angling clubs and fisheries in England for activities and events that will encourage more people to start and continue fishing. Please note that funded activities must take place on freshwater fisheries where angling requires a fishing licence.
The following grant funding is available:
1. Smaller Grants, with no matched funding requirement, up to £500 for:
o Equipment to help run events, this includes any additional equipment to ensure events are COVID-19 safe (for example, PPE).
o Event resources, and o Fishing equipment, terminal tackle and bait.
2. Larger Grants (where matched is encouraged – see below) up to £5,000 for:
o Basic equipment storage facilities (for example, a lock up container or shed). o Coaching fees. o Contribution towards venue hire. o Equipment to help run events, this includes any additional equipment to ensure events are COVID-19 safe (for example, PPE). o Event resources, such as a gazebo. o Fishing equipment, terminal tackle and bait, and o Promotional materials.
*Application deadline 12th March
The Batchworth Trust
Grants of between £5,000 and £45,000 for UK registered charities working in the UK and overseas for a wide range of charitable causes, but in particular for charities working in the areas of medical research, social welfare and support for young people.
The Trust prioritises small charities with innovative projects or that are addressing a critical issue. Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Applications may be made at any time in writing, addressed to: Mrs J C Chalmers (Chairman), The Batchworth Trust, Unit A Faraday Court Manor, Royal Estate, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 9PU
Burg-Wächter Secure Communities Scheme
https://www.burg.biz/uk/community/
Burg-Wächter Secure Communities Scheme offers free security kits, up to a value of £150, for properties, equipment, or outdoor areas that are used in service of the community and need extra security at this time. The scheme prioritises grassroots organisations who have limited funds and the most difficulty in meeting extra security costs due to the current situation. Any property, equipment or area that is the responsibility of the local community is relevant, including allotments, sports clubs, village halls, common land or community centres. That means any charity, social enterprise, not for profit, or community venture can apply so long as the security kits will be used locally.
Cornwall Community Foundation (CCF): One Programme
CCF have moved their regular funds for community groups and charities based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly into one main programme, ‘One Programme’.
You can now apply to the One Cornwall programme for grants for community groups and charities based in Cornwall and the Isles Of Scilly. CCF have funding available for emergency and crisis support and for recovery from the effects of the pandemic. CCF administer several area funds covering most of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and we have funding available for crime prevention, to improve the natural environment, to improve physical health and wellbeing and to support young people, elderly people and people with a disability.
Providing grants to support children and young people aged 10 -16 with their emotional health and mental wellbeing. Open to local community groups, projects and individuals via sponsor agencies to promote resilience and the emotional health and mental wellbeing. (We’ve listed this also in our separate hardship grants for individuals list). But projects can apply for up to £6,000 per group activitiy. An application should make clear how the proposal is linked to at least one of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing:
Connect
Be Active (get moving)
Keep Learning (take time for you)
Give (give to others)
Take Notice (stop and take notice). *Deadline: 02/03/2021. The panel will be reviewing applications on the 13th April 2021
Cornwall Council Community Chest Crisis Scheme gives grants of up to £1,000 to smaller un-constituted groups who are supporting local communities through the coronavirus crisis. Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise groups that are formally constituted should first apply to access Cornwall Community Foundation’s Emergency Fund.
The programme operates across all of Cornwall's 19 Community Network areas, and groups can apply for grants through individual Cornwall councillors.
To apply, simply email your Community Link Officer (CLO) with brief details of your group and the work you’re doing. In the email also copy in [email protected].
The CLO will then contact the relevant Cornwall Councillors to see if they are willing to support your project in principle. Details of the 19 CLOs are on the Community Network Map that can be accessed through the link above.
Coastline Housing is match funding the scheme in the three, main community network areas in which it operates:
Camborne, Pool, Illogan and Redruth;
Helston and South Kerrier;
and parts of Falmouth and Penryn. This means that community groups in those areas bidding successfully for Community Chest funding would see their cash injection go up by half through the Coastline Housings contribution.
The Enterprise Development Programme Mental Health Grants
Grants up to £30,000 and additional business support for charities and social enterprises working in the mental health sector in England to develop new or grow their existing enterprise.The following grant and business support packages are available to help organisations develop and grow their services:
o Grants of up to £30,000 to research or test out new ideas, to launch new enterprises or grow existing ones (grants are likely to be conditional on evidence of growing income sources). o Access to a team of pro bono legal experts who can offer guidance on the legal considerations of trading. o Extensive peer-learning and networking opportunities, and o Invitations to conferences on enterprise development and social investment within the wider charitable sector.
*Eligible applicants must have an annual revenue of between £50,000 and £1.5 million. Deadline for Expressions of Interest is Friday 19 March 2021.
February Foundation
https://www.thefebruaryfoundation.org/
Grants averaging £8,700 to UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable causes, in particular charities working with people in need in the areas of the arts, culture, disability, education, end-of-life care, financial hardship, healthcare and patient support, and heritage.
The Fitton Trust
Micro-grants usually between £150 and £350 for a wide range of charitable causes provided by registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales. The Trust normally meets 3 times each year in April, August and December. Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Please apply at any time in writing to: Mrs Karen Donovan, Secretary. The Fitton Trust, PO Box 289, Bramhall, Stockport. SK7 0DZ
The Foyle Foundation has re-opened its Small Grants Scheme to support smaller, grass-roots and local charities across the UK during the Covid-19 crisis.
Organisations which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community either directly or through online support can apply for grants of between £1,000 and £10,000.
Funding can be used to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services for charities with a turnover of less than £150,000 per annum that can show financial stability and a clear need for their services. Applications can be submitted at any time.
The Leigh Trust
Small grants averaging just over £3,000 for registered charities in England and Wales that are working in the areas of:
o Criminal justice. o Drug and alcohol rehabilitation. o Racial equality and education, and o Support for asylum seekers.
Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Requests for grant support must be concise and ideally summarised on a single side of A4 and should include the most recent audited accounts, a registered charity number and - most importantly - a cash flow statement for the next 12 months. All applications should also include a stamped self-addressed envelope.
Contact details for the Trust are: The Leigh Trust, 9 Bonhill Street, London. EC2A 4DJ
Music for All offers grants of up to £2,500 for community groups and schools in the UK to develop community music initiatives. In general, community grants are provided towards the purchase of instruments, associated equipment or for teaching costs.
The Newby Trust has designated a Special Fund for smaller charities to provide support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Priority will be given to existing and recent grant recipients and to charities working in the areas of homelessness, food supplies, domestic violence, mental health, young people and older people. Grants of up to £5,000 may be made to cover core costs or to fund operational changes made in response to the crisis.
Ocean Housings hardship fund supports local community groups, charities, and other voluntary sector organisations which are serving our local communities, and are experiencing unprecedented demand for services at this time. If you are a voluntary organisation, please download and complete the application form from their website using the link above and email it to [email protected]
The Ocean Housing hardship fund also provides direct support to people who are tenants of Ocean Housing (see separate entry under grants for individuals) where their needs cannot easily, or immediately, be met and where financial support is required in areas including helping tenants with bills, fuel costs, and supermarket shopping vouchers, where food banks are unable to assist.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation have reopened applications to their Covid-19 support fund as of the 30th of October 2020. They have a £20 million emergency fund, and have already made over 350 grants totalling £11 million. They are still prioritising organisations that they have an existing funding relationship with and state that ‘Awards through the Emergency Fund are continuing. This is not an open application fund and you will need a PHF grants manager to support your case.’ See their website for more details
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
https://www.phf.org.uk/funds/youth-fund/ The Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is working with and for young people (aged 14-25) who face complex transitions to adulthood.
Through the Covid-19 crisis we have been made increasingly aware that inequality plays out in ways that connect and intersect across race, gender, class, disability and other characteristics. The pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on young people.
The Youth Fund will support:
Core operating costs (organisations can request up to £90,000, spread over three years (max £30,000 per year).
Organisations which provide direct services or infrastructure support
The Volant Trust: COVID-19 Response Fund
https://www.volanttrust.org/how-to-apply-covid-19
The Volant Trust accepts applications from registered charities, community interest companies, community organisations and social enterprises in the UK and internationally that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Funding is available for project and administrative costs although applications for medical equipment and the production or distribution of PPE will also be considered.
* To receive a decision by October 2021 applications must be submitted between 1st January and 31st July 2021.
The Women Thrive Fund
https://rosauk.org/funds/women-thrive-fund/
A new grant programme with funding provided from the Tampon Tax Fund, offering grants up to £40,000 for grassroots and specialist women’s and girls’ organisations in the UK that are enabling women and girls to improve their mental health and wellbeing, and/or improve their financial resilience.
Applicants must be working one of the following priority areas:
o Drug and alcohol services. o Education and employment activity. o Engaging excluded and vulnerable women and girls through sport. o LGBTQI-specific services. o Services for Black and minoritised women and girls. o Work to address period poverty. o Work to address women’s and girls’ loneliness.
o Work to increase gender equality. o Work with female offenders. o Work with financially vulnerable women and girls and women on low incomes. o Work with older women. o Work with women and girls with disabilities and/or women and girls with learning disabilities, and/or o Work with women and girls with multiple and/or complex needs.
Rosa and the Smallwood Trust are hosting a number of webinars for organisations that would like to find out more about the Fund. Please see the website for more details.
*Deadline for applications is 17:00 (5pm) on Thursday 25 March 2021.
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Funders Sensitive to Faith Based Projects AllChurches Trust Ltd
https://www.allchurches.co.uk/
AllChurches Trust Ltd supports projects run by churches of many denominations and Christian organisations. Their primary charitable objective is to promote the Christian faith or any other charitable purpose.
The Trust focuses on building communities, helping people to flourish, and growing churches.
Their grants normally fund capital projects and equipment and not salaries or running costs. They only fund projects in the UK and Ireland. They give grants to churches of many denominations, so long as they are members of Churches Together in England (CTE), Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS), Churches Together in Wales (Cytun), the Irish Council of Churches or a local ‘churches together’ group. All applicants, including education establishments, need to be a UK registered charity, church or have “exempt” status.
The Alliance Family Foundation
Grants for UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable causes, with a preference for projects that focus on education, the relief of poverty and religious activities in England, Wales, Israel and the USA.
Please note that the Foundation does not maintain a website. Applications may be made at any time in writing Lord David Alliance CBE (Chair), The Alliance Family Foundation, Spencer House, 27 St James's Place, London. SW1A 1NR
Anchor Foundation
www.theanchorfoundation.org.uk
The Anchor Foundation offers grants for Christian charities who are working to address social exclusion with a particular interest in charities working within healing and the arts. The Foundation only supports registered charities and offers grants in the range of £500 to £10,000. The Anchor Foundation cannot enter into correspondence about individual applications or pre-application support.
The Andrew Anderson Trust
Provide small grants of £1,000 or less for UK registered charities working in the areas of religious activities, education and training, health and sickness, and overseas aid. The Trust’s main area of grant support is evangelical organisations and churches. Individuals are also regularly grant aided.
Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Applications may be made at any time addressed to: Miss A A Anderson, Secretary, The Andrew Anderson Trust, 1 Cote House Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS9 SUW, Tel: 07983 355 9127 Email: [email protected]
The Archer Trust provides funding for small UK charities who support needy or deserving people including those with physical or mental disabilities and the disadvantaged. Grants vary from £250 to £3,000. They prioritise organisations working in areas of high unemployment/deprivation and favour charities who make good use of volunteers. Trustees meet twice a year.
The Bishop Radford Trust
https://bishopradfordtrust.org.uk/
The Bishop Radford Trust is a charity which supports Christian ministry in the UK and internationally. They offer grants of up to £5,000 for UK registered charities to support the work of the Christian church in the UK and internationally. Larger grants of £15,000 are available for organisations that have already received a grant from the trust. They fund those who aim to promote the work of the Christian church following the principles of the Church of England in undertaking church related projects promoting charitable purposes, the education of priests, future priests and church workers, and to support Church Ministry.
Childs Charitable Trust
https://childscharitabletrust.org/
The Childs Charitable Trust is a grant-making trust, supporting Christian UK registered charities and organisations working both in the UK and overseas.
Projects will be considered that fall into the following categories:
Youth - the trust looks to support projects working in schools and with vulnerable and disengaged young people in the UK. Supported activities may include RE Lessons; School Assemblies; Lunchtime/After school clubs; Evangelism; Personal Development Programmes; Homelessness Prevention.
Outreach - the trust works to share the gospel of Christ by supporting all aspects of Christian outreach both in the UK and overseas and can fund, for example, Church Plants; Overseas Mission; Training in Evangelism; Chaplaincy.
Society - the trust believes people of faith bring a valuable contribution to social action and justice and support initiatives that have a positive impact in their society. Grants could support, for example: Counselling; night shelters; alcohol/drug rehabilitation; homelessness; or prison/ex-offenders work.
Education - the trust supports initiatives involved in all areas of Christian education including Bible Translation; Media Initiatives; Bible Colleges; Literature; Apologetics.
The trustees can’t guarantee to fund all applicants, but will give prayerful consideration to every request they receive and aim to meet monthly to discuss applications.
The Elmgrant Trust:
http://elmgrant.org.uk/
The Elmgrant Trust awards small grants to voluntary and community organisations in the South West of England for projects that improve the lives of local people, particularly through education, the arts and social sciences.
Grant awards can cover core running costs or project costs of small, established organisations. Although the Trust will fund across the South West, it favours projects in Devon and Cornwall.
The Equitable Charity Trust
Grants for registered charities in England and Wales working in the areas of:
o Relieve poverty. o Support educational establishments. o Support religious education, and o General charitable purposes.
The Trust does not maintain a website, although further information is available on the Charity Commission website.
The Trust states that it considers all grant applications and decides on the level of grant to be made depending on the cause and the level of reserves.
Applications should be made in writing, addressed to: Mr A Vaisfiche and Mrs. E. Vaisfiche, The Equitable Charitable Trust, C/o Sefton Yodaiken & Co., Chartered Accountants, Fairways House, George Street, Prestwich, Manchester M25 9WS. Tel: 0161 773 9411
Girdlers Company Charitable Trust
https://girdlers.co.uk/charity/
Makes donations and grants on behalf of the Girdlers’ Company to registered and exempt charities, Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) and Community and Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs). Subject to available funds, the maximum grant is £10,000. The average grant awarded is £4,250. Their website includes an eligibility quiz.
The funds priorities:
The improvement in people's employability;
An increase in the support offered to carers;
The improvement in people's overall mental health;
The improvement in people's literacy;
The reduction in rate of prisoner reoffending.
The Headley Trust
http://www.sfct.org.uk/Headley.html
Operated by The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, the Headley Trust funds projects in the areas of arts and heritage in the UK. They fund charities working in the areas of the arts, heritage, education, health, social welfare, cathedrals and major churches, parish churches, and arts. They prefer to fund schemes that can be successfully replicated or become self-sustaining
The Jerusalem Trust
www.sfct.org.uk/Jerusalem
This scheme makes grants available for voluntary and community organisations undertaking projects for the promotion of the Christian faith and Christian education in the UK. In particular, the scheme wishes to support projects with the following themes: evangelism, Christian education, Christian media, and Christian art.
The John James Charitable Trust
www.johnjamestrust.org
Grants are available to provide support for individuals and organisations with a Christian focus, as well as funding for ministry training. The Trust’s Charitable Objects are to promote
education in the Christian faith amongst children and young people and to support people in training for Christian ministry. The average grant is £2000.
The Joseph Rank Trust
www.ranktrust.org
An independent Christian grant-maker working with all Christian denominations in the UK. The principal object of the Trust is "to advance the Christian Faith" - to further the Kingdom of God. The Trustees have identified two main areas of interest - projects that demonstrate a Christian approach to the practical, educational and spiritual needs of people of all ages; and the adaptation of Church properties with a view to providing improved facilities for use by the church and its work in the community in which it is based.
Laing Family Trusts
www.laingfamilytrusts.org.uk
The Laing Family Trusts are a group of four grant-making trusts with a Christian foundation - the Beatrice Laing Trust, the Kirby Laing Foundation, the Martin Laing Foundation and the Maurice & Hilda Laing Charitable Trust. The Trusts seek to support projects which promote Christian faith and values, express Christian faith through practical action to care for those in need and encourage young people to realise their potential. The Trusts’ website provides information about the priority areas of giving of each of the four Trusts and the application process.
Marsh Christian Trust
www.marshchristiantrust.org
The Trust focuses on providing funding which could help small charities pay for various running costs, such as volunteer expenses, training days, equipment maintenance and other core outgoings. The application requirements are a cover letter and a copy of the most recent Annual Report and Accounts. Grants are unrestricted and range from £300-£2,000.
The Trust funds the following core areas:
Arts and heritage
Education and training
Environmental causes and animal welfare
Healthcare
Social welfare
National Churches Trust
https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/our-grants
The National Churches Trust supports a wide variety of projects at churches, chapels and meeting houses through their grant programmes. Their grants are available to any Christian place of worship in the UK that is open for regular worship. From repairing a roof to helping to install an accessible toilet - and many other projects - their grants help keep churches open for worship and community activities and allow them to continue to serve people and communities in all sorts of ways.
The National Churches Trust offer 4 types of grant:
Cornerstone: For urgent and essential structural repair projects with estimated costs of at least £100,000 that will help places of worship become wind and watertight, and
for installing kitchens and toilets with estimated costs of at least £30,000, to improve access for all.
Gateway: To support churches in their project development up to RIBA stage 1; supporting local church trusts; and essential repair projects with estimated costs of between £10,000 and £100,000.
Foundation Grants for Maintenance: Small grants to support small, urgent maintenance and repair issues or to carry out small investigative works costing up to £10,000.
Preventative Maintenance Micro-Grants: Churches can apply for a Preventative Maintenance Micro-Grant if they book a service for work direct to their church
building through the MaintenanceBooker website.
The Norwood and Newton Settlement
www.norwoodandnewton.co.uk
Aims to encourage Church growth, both numerically and spiritually and provides grants to projects which demonstrate Christian Values. This includes demolition and rebuilding of churches, church extensions and upgrades, building purchase and capital projects for local charities.
The Ross Russell Trust
Grants for registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales for educational, social welfare and church projects. The Trust’s charitable objectives state that the Trust will award to any charity or charitable purpose.
The Trust does not maintain a website; Applications may be made in writing at any time: The Ross Russell Trust, 30 Ladbroke Square, London. W11 3NB Email: [email protected]
Souter Charitable Trust
www.soutercharitabletrust.org.uk
Assists projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in the UK and overseas – particularly, but not exclusively, those promoting spiritual welfare. Whilst there are no minimum or maximum amounts given, an average grant would be a small one off in the region of £1,000 - £3,000. Grants are restricted to UK registered charities only.
1772s original name was ‘The Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales’. In recent years, however, they have come to refer to themselves simply by the date of our establishment, 1772. 1772 provides grants between £1000-£3000 to registered charities supporting people in the following priority areas:
the welfare of prisoners and ex-prisoners and their families,
homeless people,
sex workers
people involved in alcohol and drug abuse.
The 7 Stars Foundation
https://the7starsfoundation.co.uk/
Funds are available for projects which will positively impact a vulnerable child’s life, for example, recreational trips, mentoring programmes, and counselling sessions. Project grants are awarded up to £2,500. The7stars foundation also awards individual grants directly to the most vulnerable young people in the UK.
A B Charitable Trust
https://abcharitabletrust.org.uk/ A B Charitable Trust promotes human dignity and defends human rights for marginalised and excluded people.Running three different funding streams, the Trust runs an open programme that aims to support small to medium sized charities in our three priority areas.
Migrants and Refugees
Criminal Justice and Penal Reform
Human rights, particularly access to justice
The Trust usually fund single focus organisations working solely in our priority areas. For these organisations, we generally give core funding (unrestricted grants).
The Albert Hunt Trust
https://www.alberthunttrust.org.uk/
The Albert Hunt Trust’s mission is to promote and enhance the physical and mental welfare of individuals. They fund those who provide hospice care, provide support for the homeless, and those that promote health and wellbeing - including physical and learning disabilities and mental health. Grants may include core funding to include staff costs and ongoing running costs for specific projects.
The Allen Lane Foundation
https://allenlane.org.uk/
The Allen Lane Foundation funds small registered charities, voluntary groups, and charitable organisations who work with asylum seekers and refugees, gypsies and travellers, offenders and ex-offenders, older people, people experiencing mental health problems, and people experiencing violence or abuse. The foundation aims to fund work which will make a lasting
difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems. Applicants can apply for up £15,000 however, the average grant size is between £5,000 - £6,000.
*Applications received from now, until the early part of April, will be considered in the round leading up to the Allen Lane Foundation June 2021 meeting
The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement
https://www.fergusontrust.co.k/
The Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement provides small, medium and large grants (over £50,000) to UK registered charities and universities for projects in the UK or overseas that advocate:
o The support of education in the UK & overseas. o The promotion of peace through international friendship and understanding, and o Supporting further sustainable progress in the developing world.
The Charity does expect applicants to have sought and secured matched funding matching. Applicants that can evidence this are likely to be prioritised for grant support. If an applicant has raised 50% of their budget the Trustees will consider awarding matching funding up to a maximum of 50%. However, if the applicant has raised less than 50% of their budget the Trustees will only consider awarding a maximum of 30% funding.
*Deadlines: Small and medium grants up to £50,000 may be submitted at any time and are considered regularly. Large grants over £50,000 have annual application deadlines of 28 February and 30 September 2021
Architectural Heritage Fund: Transforming Places Through Heritage
http://ahfund.org.uk/england
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) is a registered charity, working since 1976 to promote the conservation and sustainable re-use of historic buildings for the benefit of communities across the UK. The ‘Transforming Places Through Heritage’ programme supports projects that will contribute to the transformation of high streets and town centres in England helping them become thriving places, strengthening local communities and encouraging local economies to prosper. Three funding streams are currently open:
Project Viability Grants: up to £15,000, for early viability and feasibility work.
Project Development Grants: up to £100,000, for capital project development costs.
Crowdfunding Challenge Grants: up to £25,000, to match fund crowdfunding campaigns.
*Application Deadline: 31/01/2021
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/projectgrants
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants up to £100,000 for not-for-profits in England focused on the arts, museums and libraries projects. The programme sets out to achieve ACE’s mission, ‘great art and culture for everyone’. Project Grants supports a broad range of not-for-profit projects that create new work and sustain quality to help new audiences across England to engage with arts and culture. Applications must include at least 10% partnership
funding from sources other than the Arts Council. Decisions on applications for £15,000 or less take six weeks. Decisions on applications for over £15,000 take 12 weeks.
The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund provides small and large revenue, capital and core running cost grants for UK registered charities, schools and voluntary organisations associated with a registered charity that are working with children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and/or autism in the UK. Exempt charities such as schools, Parent Teacher Associations and Industrial & Provident Societies may also apply. The following one-off grants are available:
o Small Grants: from £250 to £5,000, and o General Grants: over £10,000.
The Charity has previously funded the following types of project:
o Capital building/renovation/refurbishment works for residential, nursing and respite care, and schools. o Day and social activities centres including building costs and running costs. o Employment schemes, including woodwork, crafts, printing and horticulture. o Independent living programmes. o Play schemes and play therapy schemes, and o Support for families, including respite schemes.
Application deadlines for grants over £10,000 (applications for a Small Grant may be made at any time) in 2021 are: 1st March 2021, 1st Aug 2021 and 1st Dec 2021
Details of the ever-popular Barclays Bank, Employee Matched Donations Programme are above. So if you have a friend, colleague or supporter in your community. It ay be well worth asking if they would help you through this scheme.
The Bernard Sunley Foundation
http://www.bernardsunley.org/
The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation is an independent grant-making charity. Funds are given to charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. They can help fund new buildings, new minibuses, church projects, hospices, museums, galleries. Grants are awarded to those specifically applying for assistance towards capital projects. Grants are from £1,000 upwards and the majority of grants awarded are under £5,000. Grants are normally a small proportion of your total budget or shortfall. Projects with a total budget of under £5,000 should not apply for a grant.
The Big Give Green Match Fund, a match funding campaign for UK charities working on environmental issues as part of their core mission. Match funding of either £2,500, £10,000 or £25,000 is available.
Charities must be registered on match funding platform https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/ to take part. Those participating during the Green Match Fund campaign week of 22-29 April will see public donations given that week matched up to a specific amount, with each charity awarded a ring-fenced amount of match funding of either £2,500, £10,000 or £25,000. All the match funding for this campaign is provided by Big Give Champions, meaning charities do not need to secure their own pledges, and charities are able to use the campaign to raise unrestricted funds, or for a specific project.
The Big Give’s Champions include The Reed Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation and a number of other philanthropists and funders.
Eligible charities are those working on environmental issues as part of their core mission. This may include:
o Agriculture and food. o Biodiversity & conservation. o Climate change. o Consumption and waste. o Energy. o Sustainable communities. o Toxics and pollution. o Trade & finance, and o Transport.
*Application deadline: Friday 5 March 2021.
Big Society Capital Ideas for Impact
https://bigsocietycapital.com/how-we-work/creating-new-ideas/ideas-impact/ Ideas for Impact, is a call for ideas for how social impact investment can address a social issue in the UK, with potential for the solution to scale through a fund or similar structure. A selection of ideas with the greatest potential to transform people's lives in the UK could each receive up to £30,000 of development funding plus in-kind support and connections.
Applications are open to UK-based fund managers, charities or social enterprises with an innovative social impact investment ideas with the greatest potential to have a transformative impact on a social issue at scale. Ideas could relate to changing a part of the existing investment system that does not work, bringing together partners in new ways, or aligning the needs of charities, social enterprises and investors with a solution that is more effective than those currently available.
*Deadline 1st March
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation
www.boshierhintonfoundation.org.uk
The Boshier-Hinton Foundation exists to improve quality of life for people with disabilities, learning difficulties or sensory impairement and their families. The foundation supports registered charities registered charities working on behalf of children or adults with special needs or other needs.
Grants of up to £2000 are available to individuals and organisations to organise ecological public engagement events that promote ecological science to a wide audience. Applications are welcome from, but not limited to, BES members, researchers, schools, museums, libraries and community groups.
BES define ecology as the scientific study of the distribution, abundance and dynamics of organisms, their interactions with other organisms and their physical environment. Grants will not be awarded for purely nature conservation purposes or any activity that does not promote the science of ecology. BES support projects that:
Increase public understanding of, and engagement with, ecology
Stimulate discussion about ecology and its implications for society
Inspire and enthuse people of all ages about the science of ecology, especially those not previously interested
Develop skills in communicating the science of ecology
Cameron Grant Memorial Trust
https://www.camgrant.org.uk/
The objectives of the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust are to raise awareness of suicide, to urge all who are suffering in silence to speak up and ask for help, and to support people, especially young people, who are fighting to overcome poor mental health. Through this scheme, Cameron Grant Memorial Trust will offer ‘seed-funding’ of between £100 & £2,500, to individuals or organisations who need money to trial new ways to support those in need. Individuals; Charities; Social Enterprises/CIC; Schools; Colleges; Universities; Pre-registration start-ups; Voluntary Groups; Community Groups and other not-for-profit entities are invited to apply. The grant can be used to trial a new service, create an asset, a technology, a performance, fund research, or otherwise experiment in any way that supports the treatment mental health. The emphasis will be on innovation – using new methods, channels, technology, ideas or approaches to reach out and effect change. Ideas should typically fit into one of the following categories:
Destigmatising Mental Health
Reducing Barriers to Mental Health Care
Improving Mental Well Being Note the grants are for project-based activities that demonstrate clear innovation. They will not be made to fund ongoing operational expenses or salaries. In the first instance they ask that, applicants contact them by email with a brief outline of your idea and the amount you will be requesting (see website for contact details).
The Carew Pole Charitable Trust
Grants averaging £2,200 for charities and not-for-profit organisations in Cornwall for general charitable purposes. The aim of the Carew Pole Charitable Trust is to support such charitable purposes both nationally and locally but in particular, those in Cornwall or with a connection to Cornwall. The Trust is a general grant provider that supports a wide range of
causes, with some preference for conservation, environmental and heritage causes. During the year ended 5 April 2019, the Trust awarded 22 grants totalling £48,250. Grants ranged from £250 to £15,000. The average award was for £2,193.
Funding is not available directly for Churches, unless they are in the immediate vicinity of Antony House, Torpoint, Comwall or have an historical connection with the Carew Pole Baronetcy.
Applications should be made in writing addressed to: The Carew Pole Charitable Trust, Antony House, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 3AB Tel: 01752 815303 Email: [email protected]
Cash 4 clubs
https://cash-4-clubs.com/
Grants are available for local sports clubs throughout the UK and Ireland to improve facilities, buy new kit and equipment, gain coaching qualifications and increase sporting opportunities. Cash 4 Clubs strives to support grassroots sports clubs and teams all across the UK and Ireland, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you dance, box, swim, climb, throw or draw the bow, your organisation could be successful in securing a grant to help support the amazing things you're doing. Cash 4 Clubs are awarding grants between £500 - £5,000, with the highest grant levels going to clubs experiencing hardship due to the impact of COVID-19.
The Central Social and Recreational Trust
http://www.csrt.info/
The Central Social and Recreational Trust aims to improve the conditions of boys and girls in England under the age of 21 and of all other persons by reasons of their poverty who would otherwise be unable to obtain facilities for recreational or other leisure time occupations. They can help fund equipment, maintenance of properties, training. Grants up to £1,000 and applications can be made any time.
The Concertina Charitable Trust
www.concertinamusic.org.uk
Concertina provides grants to charities in England and Wales that provide musical entertainment and related activities to the elderly. Grants are awarded up to a maximum of £250.
It supports smaller organisations that might have difficulties in finding funding. The Trust has previously funded singing groups, concerts, music for reminiscence groups and music
therapy. To apply, download an application form from the website.
The Clothworkers Foundation
https://www.clothworkersfoundation.org.uk/
The Clothworkers’ Foundation aims to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities facing disadvantage. The Foundation currently only has their Small grant programme open.
Small Grant Programme Criteria: Annual income under £25,000 / maximum project cost is under £100,000 / maximum grant size is under £10,000.
UK registered charities and non-profits organisations can apply for support in the following priority areas: alcohol and substance misuse, disabled people, disadvantaged young people, domestic and sexual violence, older people, homelessness, disadvantaged minority communities, prisoners and ex-offenders, and visual impairment.
Crowdfunder and Cornwall Council have come together to support projects and activities that will help Cornwall become carbon neutral and tackle climate change. They want to inspire and back projects that support the Council’s climate emergency response and ambition to become carbon neutral by 2030. Start by setting up a Crowdfunder project, if eligible you will be able to apply.
There are three types of funding available: 1. The Carbon Neutral Cornwall Fund: up to £4,000 extra. 2. The Town and Parish Council and Community Groups Fund: up to £2,000 extra. 3. The Forest for Cornwall Fund: up to £5,000 extra.
Crowdfunder - Devon and Cornwall Police Community Resilience Fund
Devon and Cornwall Police have launched the Community Resilience Fund to support local projects within Devon, Plymouth, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This fund their way of supporting local projects that aim to increase community resilience within local communities and help to support vulnerable people.
Campaigns launching on Crowdfunder.co.uk could be eligible for a contribution from Devon and Cornwall Police of up to 50% of the funding target (up to a maximum value of £5,000). Projects must deliver on one of the following outcomes: supporting vulnerable people; tackling social isolation; building local capacity and resilience; and supporting community safety.
Cornwall Rural Community Charity (CRCC), Wellbeing Community Grants
http://wellbeingcommunitygrants.org.uk/
The Wellbeing Community Grants programme consists of several grants that Cornwall Council and NHS Kernow have commissioned CRCC to manage on their behalf. Wellbeing community grants support individuals, groups and peer support group networks in Cornwall. Grants managed by CRCC include:
The team have recently put in their newsletter: “Our Wellbeing Community Grants are available to fund community groups until the end of June! Now that Boris has set out his roadmap for a return to something approaching normal life, carer support groups, dementia support groups and mental health support groups might well be looking forward towards Spring and thinking about group outings to bring people together again safely. Our grants can fund things like days out to local gardens or visitor attractions, or creative or nature-based workshops, to suggest a few ideas that groups can enjoy, as well as their usual meet-ups in village halls and community centres.Don’t forget, for those that groups that would still prefer not to meet in person, we can fund the purchase of tablets, video-conferencing fees and mobile hubs that can allow members to still meet, albeit online. We appreciate that not everyone knows how to use tech and so Jane and Jay, from our Digital Outreach project, are very experienced at helping people new to technology get started.”
A grant to fund unpaid, informal carers’ groups to give their members opportunities to ‘switch off’ from their caring responsibilities by taking part in group activities and events that promote their health and wellbeing. Groups can apply for up to £1000 per application.
*Application deadlines: 5 March (grant panel meets 24 March) & 30 April (panel meets 19 May)
Mental Health Peer Support Group Grant
For groups that provide support and self-help initiatives to people who experience poor mental health or wellbeing, to assist them to have a meaningful break from their day-to-day routines. Groups can apply for up to £1000.
*Application deadline - 14 May (panel meets 3 June)
Memory Activity & Support Groups Grant
This grant can award funds to dementia support groups/ organisations and memory cafés to assist with a group’s running costs, including workshops and activities that enhance the wellbeing of people with dementia. Groups can apply for up to £1000 per year.
*Application deadline - 7 May (panel meets 27 May)
The D'Oyly Carte Foundation
http://www.doylycartecharitabletrust.org/
The priorities of the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust focus on the arts, medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. The Trustees will consider applications for core costs or projects, and for matched funding. Grants of between £500 and £5,000.
The Douglas Arter Foundation
Grants between £500 and £2,500 available to UK registered charities providing projects within the UK that benefit people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities.
The Foundation make grants where they are considered to be most effective, taking into account the:
o Feasibility of projects concerned. o Financial situation. o Funding already available. o Numbers of people benefiting, and o Voluntary and self-help aspects.
Appeals should be for specific projects, and the Trustees do not support core costs, such as salaries, research, major development costs..
Please note, the Trust does not maintain a website. Applications for grants must be made by letter to: Miss B J Arter, Secretary, The Douglas Arter Foundation, Fern Villa, Melksham Road, Patterdown, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Setting out in brief concise detail:
o The clear objectives of the appeal. o The details of funding already available, including details of self-help.
o A timetable for the project, and o A copy of the applicant’s latest audited accounts.
The Duchy Health Charity Limited
https://duchyhealthcharity.org/
Grants generally up to £30,000 for charities and other charitable organisations involved in providing healthcare services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
In particular, the Charity aims to support projects which improve direct healthcare in Cornwall and to assist in the provision of equipment and services that are not available from other agencies. The Charity also supports research in Cornwall relating to healthcare issues and organises seminars in order to identify current health needs.
The Charity’s strategy is to: o Act as a catalyst for change, a conduit of knowledge and learning, to enable learning to happen. o Support charities to enhance the health and well-being of the population of Cornwall by the development of strategies to prevent and alleviate illness, and o Use its Board’s skills, influence and facilitation to encourage change across health and wellbeing providers, commissioning and stakeholder organisations.
Edward Gostling Foundation:
https://www.edwardgostlingfoundation.org.uk/
The Edward Gostling Foundation (previously The ACT Foundation) provides grants to UK registered charities (over three years of filed accounts) with the aim of enhancing the quality of life of people in need and, particularly, those on a low income who have a physical and/or mental disability or long-term illness. The Foundation operates to grant streams – Small (applications under £5,000) and Large (applications over £5,000).
The Elise Pilkington Charitable Trust
https://elisepilkingtontrust.org.uk/
Provide small capital grants averaging circa £6,500 for UK equine charities and registered charities working with older people in the UK.
The Trust tends not to provide revenue grants or support the running expenses of a charity, although the criteria not to award for revenue has been relaxed during COVID. The Trustees aim to grant approximately 66% of funding to equine charities and 33% of funding to charities working with the elderly and infirm.
*Next application deadline is Monday 1 March 2021
The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Main Grants Programme
https://esmeefairbairn.org.uk/
Grants from £30,000 with no maximum amount for 3 years or more for UK organisations that meet the Foundation’s new grant-making priorities of:
The Foyle Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme awards grants of up to £10,000 to smaller charities in the UK working at a grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities. During the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the foundation will focus on making one-year grants only to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services to charities that can show financial stability. The fund particularly welcomes applications from those supporting the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged, and the general community.
Charitable grant-making foundation, which supports a wide range of causes across the UK. It has a preference for charities directly delivering services and activities to those in need, and is especially keen to see applications from charities in the Welfare, Youth and Community sectors and in regions of economic disadvantage. One of its areas of work is Faith and it supports communities by providing funds towards practical projects such as facilities in church buildings and inclusive activities for the wider community.
The Foundation has added an Addendum to their current grant guidelines in response to Covid 19.
The George and Esme Pollitzer Charitable Settlement
Grants averaging £5,000 for registered charities working in the areas of:
The Armed Forces,
Community and the environment,
Disability and elderly,
Health and medical research,
The Jewish faith,
Parenting, family and child support. . For details about how to apply for a grant, contact the Charity: The George & Esme Pollitzer Charitable Settlement, Saffery Champness, St. Catherine's Court, Berkeley Place, Bristol. BS8 1BQ. Tel: 0117 915 1617
The Green & Lilian FM Ainsworth & Family Benevolent Fund.
The Green & Lilian FM Ainsworth & Family benevolent fund provides grants up to £1,000 for UK charitable organisations providing social welfare activities in the UK. The trust does not maintain a website.
Applications may be made at any time addressed to: The Green and Lilian F M Ainsworth and Family Benevolent Fund, 1st Floor, Trinity Quay 1, Avon Street Bristol, BS2 0PT. Tel: 0345 3042424
One-off grants usually up to £5,000 for small UK registered charities working in the areas of education, environmental causes, health, heritage, people with a disability, the relief of youth poverty, the arts, the elderly, and the military.
*Deadlines for 2021 are 9th March, 10th September, 14th November.
The HDH Will Charitable Trust
https://hdhwills.org/grants/
The HDH Will Charitable Trust is an environmental and conservation grant-making Trust that awards small revenue, capital, or project grants to charities in England, Scotland and Wales. Charities should be actively involved in conserving and maintaining the natural environment and its indigenous woodland flora and fauna for the benefit of the public, and in particular the conservation and maintenance of the character and amenity of rural areas.
Small Grants of between £250 and £500 to small charities where a grant will make a significant difference, and
Medium Grants of between £1,000 and £2,000 for wildlife and conservation charities. Larger grants up to £5,000 are occasionally made.
The Henry Smith Charity
https://www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/
The Henry Smith Charity aims to bring about lasting change to people’s lives, helping them to benefit from and contribute to society. They offer a number of grants, including the Christian projects grant programme which supports projects that explicitly promote the Christian faith. Priority is given to work with groups experiencing social and/or economic disadvantage (people with disabilities, for example) and to work that tackles problems in areas of high deprivation.
The Hilden Charitable Fund
https://www.hildencharitablefund.org/
Project and core grants around £5,000 for small UK registered charities and Community Interest Companies working in the areas of asylum seekers and refugees, disadvantaged young people aged 16-25, homelessness and penal affairs. Hilden also supports community development, education and health initiatives that benefit women and girls overseas. *Application deadline is Friday 16 April 2021.
Grants averaging just over £10,000 for UK charities that are rebuilding services for older people following COVID-19. Funding is available for organisations that:
o Have continued to support those older people during and since the initial national lockdown – for example, by delivering food and other necessities, or providing online or
telephone-based services and support. o Have thought carefully about how to move safely towards re-establishing their face-to-face services and have made plans that enable those services to remain flexible so that older people continue to be supported as local and national restrictions change. o Mostly worked face to face with older people before the pandemic – for example, through social and day centres; in person individual befriending, counselling or support; or through provision of group activities, and o Work only or mostly with older people – as a guide, at least 50% of services users should be older people. Independent Age says it will be flexible about this requirement, particularly for smaller, community-based organisations doing, for example, significant intergenerational work.
*Application deadline: Friday 5 March at 5pm.
The Ironmongers’ Company
https://ironmongers.org/charity_organisations.htm
The Ironmongers’ Company offers grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities that work with disadvantaged young people under the age of 25. In particular, the Company wishes to support projects that provide opportunities for young people to fulfil their potential through educational activities that develop learning, motivation and skills. Preference will be given to projects piloting new approaches where the outcomes will be disseminated to a wider audience.
The Kelly Family Charitable Trust
https://kfct.org.uk/
The Kelly Family Charitable Trust awards grants of up to £5,000 to UK registered charities whose activities involve all or most family members, where possible, in initiatives that seek to tackle problems facing one or more of its members. Grants up to £5,000 for UK registered charities for activities and interventions that focus on families working together to resolve issues that could otherwise fracture the family unit.
Grants between £200 and £2,000 for grassroots UK not-for-profit organisations in areas where KFC restaurants are located (Camborne only) for activities that enable young people aged 11-25 to fulfil their potential by providing: o Mentoring. o Safe social spaces, and o Work, social and life skills.
The KFC Foundation's mission is to support young people aged 11-25 across the UK to help them fulfil their potential. Over the last year the Foundation has refocused its grant-making policy, moving away from funding a limited number of partnerships to a provider of small grants to grassroots community organisations in parts of the UK where a KFC restaurant is located.
*KFC provides a postcode store locator on its website, which only shows Camborne as an outlet area in Cornwall
1. Submit a 2-minute video about their organisation, and then 2. Complete an Expression of Interest form, via the link on the website
*Application deadline: Sunday 28 February 2021.
The Lady Neville Charity
https://www.skinners.org.uk/neville/ The Lady Neville Charity a small grants provider, awarding grants of between £500 and £1,000 to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for capital projects with a total cost of £10,000 or less. Applying organisations should have an annual income of under £100,000 and be able to demonstrate that they have sought and secured funding from other sources towards the project in question.
Grants are available for equipment and an element of capital building works. The Charity will also consider requests for funding towards one-off anniversary events. Regular events and core costs, however, are not supported.
The Charity’s specific areas of interest are:
o Local Heritage – for projects anywhere in the UK which help local groups to conserve and restore their landmarks, landscape, traditions and culture. o Performing and Visual Arts - for groups anywhere in the UK that are involved in undertaking a particular activity in any field in this area. o Skinners' Company - any charitable activity which takes place in areas where the Skinners’ Company already has a presence,*Specifically, these areas are: The City of London (i.e. 'The Square Mile'), the London boroughs of Camden, Enfield, Hackney, and Hounslow. West Kent includes Tonbridge & Malling, Tunbridge Wells, and Romney Marsh.
*Application deadlines for 2021 are Friday 12 March, and Friday 17 September.
This is a fast track application process for small one-off grants (up to maximum of £3,000) for UK registered charities (this includes Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO) but not Community Interest Companies (CIC)) that are:
-currently supporting vulnerable people;
-working in geographical areas of high deprivation (within the UK); and
-have an annual income under £200,000
The Linnet Trust
Grants for UK registered charities operating in the South West of England providing services for disadvantaged people with mental, physical and/or behavioural challenges. The Linnet Trust provides core funding and likes to support organisations that are innovative, cost effective, administratively efficient, well respected in their field and can demonstrate that they have a track record of successful delivery. Grants ranged from £5,000 to £40,000.
Contact the Trust for further details about how to apply: Mrs. R B Suenson-Luke Mr. J K Suenson-Taylor, The Linnet Trust, Rose Cottage, Old Bristol Road, West HarptreeBristol. BS40 6HQ.
Small grants up to £2,000 are available to individuals, members of a small group or a larger organisation in the UK that help support:
o The study and research into socialist ideas and practice and other allied fields and the dissemination of the results thereof to the public, and o Educational activities that raise public awareness and understanding of struggles and movements for peace, human rights and co-operation and a more equal, diverse, cooperative and democratic society.
Previously the Trust has funded: o Archives o Art installations: o Conferences: o Educational events: o Film and video: o Publications: o Research projects o Theatre productions: o Websites
The Trust is looking for diversity in applicants and in their projects. They may be an individual, a member of a small group or part of a larger organisation. They may be just getting going or well established. Applicants may work in a university or for a not-for-profit organisation; may be a volunteer or work freelance.
*Application deadline is Monday 31 May 2021
Mary Kinross Charitable Trust
Capital, core, revenue, one-off or recurring grants for UK registered charities working in the areas of
o Community Development. o General charitable purposes. o Health. o Mental Health. o Medical research. o Penal affairs, and o Young people.
The Trust does not have a website, for more information or to apply, please contact the Trust at the address below: Mrs F M Adams, Secretary. The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust, 6 Grove Avenue, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9RY
The Masonic Charitable Foundation offers grants for work related to children and young people and later life support (see below for details of later life grants). Small grants range from £1,000 to £15,000 and can be awarded over one to three years. Large grants start at
£10,000 and usually range from £20,000 to £60,000. They can be awarded over one to three years. Grants can be offered to charities/projects that provide: mental and physical health support; learning and development, including language and communication skills, social and emotional etc; support for the whole family; pastoral and advocacy support.
*The next deadline for Small grants programme is: 31 March 2021 (4pm) & deadline for Large Grants 31 March 2021 (5pm)
The Masonic Charitable Foundation Later Life Inclusion Grant Programme
Grants of between £500 and £60,000 for local and national charities in England and Wales that are working to reduce loneliness and isolation among people aged 50 and over through one or more of the following:
o Advocacy, social and welfare support. o Community based approaches (for example, volunteering, positive ageing and neighbourhood support). o Gateway and access to service, (for example, transport and technology), and/or o Mental and physical health support.
Grants are available for charities that are working with older people who face social isolation or loneliness for circumstances such as:
o Bereavement. o Care responsibilities. o Declining physical or mental health. o Financial hardship, and o Retirement. care responsibilities, a decline in physical or mental health.
The following grants, which can be awarded over 1, 2 or 3 years, are available:
1. Small Grants: between £1,000 and £15,000 are available to charities with an income of under £500,000. or 2. Large grants: grants of between £10,000 and £60,000 (with the occasional higher award) for charities with an income exceeding £500,000.
*Please note that early application is advised. the Foundation considers applications as they arrive. This means that applications received towards the end of the application window may be deferred until a later funding round if the current one is over-subscribed.
Grants up to £3,5000 for small UK charities, community and voluntary groups, and social enterprises with an annual turnover of under £50,000 that have a positive impact on communities, people and the environment.
The Matthew Good Foundation has announced plans to allocate £10,000 every 3 months to UK not-for-profit organisations that are having a positive impact on local communities, people and the environment. The £10,000 will be divided between 5 organisations that
receive the most votes from employees of the logistics and travel company, the John Good Group, as follows:
o Organisations receiving the most votes will receive £3,500. o Organisations receiving the 2nd most votes will receive £2,500. o Organisations receiving the 3rd votes will receive £2,000, while o 4th and 5th place will each receive £1,000.
Small UK charities, community and voluntary groups, and social enterprises with an annual turnover of under £50,000 that have a positive impact on communities, people and the environment are welcome to apply all year round. Applications will be considered in the next funding round. Funding will be awarded every three months, in April, July, October and January, with an application deadline of the 15th of the month before. Eg. for the April round, applications will close on the 15th March.
The MCS Charitable Foundation
https://www.mcscharitablefoundation.org/
Grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for a range of projects that accelerate the adoption of renewable energy and low carbon technologies, and which have a UK-wide impact. Open to UK registered charities, not-for-profit companies and public organisations.
Proposals should fall into one of the following themes:
o Education, skills and continuing professional development (CPD). o Local zero carbon delivery initiatives. o Public awareness/information and consumer confidence, and/or o Zero carbon planning.
Bids should also meet at least one of the following criteria:
o Research to support innovation or capacity building in one of the themed areas above. o Seed funding for innovative initiatives. o Sharing good practice, and/or o Support delivery of a proof or concept.
*The next grant funding deadlines for full applications is Monday 19th July 2021, 9am
The Michael Marks Charitable Trust:
Grants for UK registered charities working in the areas of:
o The arts. o Education, and o The environment.
The Trust does not maintain a website. The Trust normally meets every June to review applications. Applications may be made at any time in writing addressed to: The Michael Marks Charitable Trust, 5 Elm Tree Road, London, NW8 9JY. Tel: 0207 286 4633 Email: [email protected]
The Morrison’s Foundation provides grants of between £1,000 and £25,000 to local and national registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales for new projects that will benefit their local community. Initiatives that support people who are disadvantaged and that have struggled to secure funding from other sources are likely to be prioritised. A wide diversity of projects can be supported through the Fund, including arts, community, culture, education, health and many others.
The National Lottery Community Fund are continuing to support people and communities most adversely impacted by COVID-19 with their Awards for All programme which offers between £300 to £10,000, for up to one year funding. Open to a whole wealth of voluntary and community organisations, constituted group or clubs, registered charities, CIOs, CICs, not for profits, schools (as long as your project benefits and involves the communities around the school), statutory bodies (including local authorities, town, parish an community council) and community benefit societies. Through this fund, projects can be supported to:
continue to deliver activity - whether your community needs crisis response, recovery or business as usual activity
change and adapt, becoming more resilient to respond to new and future challenges.
In order to support communities to thrive, we aim to:
build strong relationships in and across communities
improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
help more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage. *Application Deadline: ongoing
National Lottery Community Fund: Growing Great Ideas Programme
A new £25 million National Lottery Community Fund grant programme with grants starting at £150,000 for between 2 and up to 10 years. Growing Great Ideas seeks to invest in collaborative ideas and experimental, innovative approaches that disrupt and challenge the way things have been done in the past and that offer pathways to transformational, long-term change for how future services and infrastructure can be developed for the future.
UK registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs), not-for-profit Cooperative Societies, not-for-profit Companies Limited by Guarantee, not-for-profit social enterprises, and voluntary and community groups.
Grants starting at £150,000 are available for partnerships putting forward proposals and can be for a minimum of 2 years and may be awarded for between 7 and 10 years in some instances.
This is a flexible fund in which grants can be used for a broad range of costs, including (please note this is not an exclusive list) capital investment, equipment, ITC upgrades, running costs, research and development, salaries, training, transport and volunteer expenses.
Because of Covid, the National Lottery Heritage Fund have revised their approach to what
they will fund. In short, they will prioritise heritage projects that will:
boost the local economy
encourage skills development and job creation
support wellbeing
create better places to live, work and visit
improve the resilience of organisations working in heritage
Every project will need to achieve the inclusion outcome, ‘a wider range of people will be
involved in heritage’.
All projects will also need to demonstrate that they are building long-term environmental
sustainability into their plans, as appropriate.
The website advises potential applicants to ‘read all the guidance and take your time’!
The Noel Buxton Trust
http://www.noelbuxtontrust.org.uk/
The Trust has a long-standing concern for the welfare of both families and prisoners, and its work in Britain continues to focus on these areas. Registered charities may apply for a grant of up to £4,000 over 2-3 years for projects that take place in Great Britain. Larger awards are occasionally made. Applications may be made at any time in writing and should be no longer than two sides of A4.
The Patrick Trust generally provides small grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 to UK registered charities providing services in Cornwall in Cornwall, Birmingham, Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
The Trust’s preferred areas to support are:
o Arts, culture and heritage. o Children and young people. o Disability. o Education and training. o Elderly and older people. o Prevention or relief of poverty. o Science, and o General charitable purposes.
Please note that the Trust does not maintain a website. Further information is, however, available on the Charity Commission website.
Applications may be made at any time in writing, addressed to: The Patrick Trust, The Lakeside Centre, 180 Lifford Lane, Birmingham, B30 3NU. Tel: 0121 486 3399 Email: [email protected]
The Percy Bilton Charity awards grants to charities assisting disadvantaged youth, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems and older people may apply for grants towards furnishings and equipment (excluding office items), building or refurbishment projects. Small grants of £500- and one-off payment for capital expenditure of approximately £2,000 and over (the majority of grants fall within the range of £2,000 to £5,000) are available.
Persimmon Community Champions is a national programme where charities and groups can apply for funding up to the value of £1,000 to match money, they have already raised themselves. Groups and charities can apply every month for a donation. The scheme focusses on organisations that support the over-70s. To apply, please complete the online form, telling us why your group or charity, which works with or supports the over-70s, deserves our donation. Included in your application we need to know how much you want us to donate.
The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation
https://www.polden-puckham.org.uk/
Grants are available to UK registered charitable non-governmental organisations that help to promote peace and security, and environmental sustainability. The Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation (PPCF) is a grant giving trust with Quaker family roots in the United Kingdom. We aim to contribute to the development of a just society based on a commitment to nonviolence and environmental sustainability with 2 priority areas:
Peace and Sustainable Security - We support work that addresses the underlying causes of violent conflict and the development of ways to prevent and resolve conflict
Environmental Sustainability - We support work that addresses the pressures and conditions that contribute to global environmental breakdown.
We usually give grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 per year, for up to three years. We usually support organisations for whom this would represent between 4% and 50% of their annual income (organisations with an annual income of between £10,000 and £500,000 approximately). If you are an organisation that is new to PPCF, the foundation encourage you to get in touch with the Trust Secretary for an informal discussion about your work prior to submitting an application. Please send her an email at: [email protected] or use the website's contact page to arrange a convenient time to talk.
The Prince’s Countryside Fund has grants of up to £10,000 available for projects from across the UK which are working to create resilient rural communities. Funding is for innovative projects that build resilience through community-led solutions, from groups and organisations who are working in villages and hamlets with populations of less than 3,000 residents. We are particularly encouraging applications from Norfolk, Suffolk, South East England and Wales. Applications are welcomed from: UK registered charities,
Community Benefit Societies, Community Interest Companies, companies limited by guarantee, not-for-profit organisations, social enterprises and unincorporated associations.
In general, the Prince’s Countryside Fund is a revenue grant programme which has a small capital element. In the past grants have been awarded for initiatives that tackle issues in rural communities around:
o Developing village amenities, such as shops and key services. o Financial hardship. o Improving digital connections. o Mental health needs. o Physical health, and o Social isolation.
*Applications close on Friday 19th March.
The Prospectory "I've Got An Idea" Fund
https://theprospectory.com/idea-fund/
Grants between £250 and £5,000 for small groups or organisations as well as individuals in the UK who want to trial an innovative technical idea. The Fund will cover the costs of making and/or testing the idea itself.
The Fund is particularly seeking to support smaller-scale projects that:
o Are based on a novel technical idea. o Are intriguing, inventive and have an element of fun, and o Would deliver a social or environmental benefit.
*Applications may be made at any time until the Fund is fully allocated.
The Radcliffe Trust
www.theradcliffetrust.org/
The Radcliffe Trust support two funding schemes: -
Heritage and Crafts: supports the development of the skills, knowledge and experience that underpin the UK’s traditional cultural heritage and crafts sectors. This includes support for: craft and conservation training; practical projects, particularly those that include a strong training element; strategic and capacity-building projects which demonstrate clear benefits to the sector; Special Needs projects whose emphasis is on skills development.
Music: supports classical music performance and training, especially chamber music, composition and music education. Particular interests within music education are music for children and adults with special needs, youth orchestras and projects at secondary and higher levels, including academic research.
Grants of between £500 and £3,000 area available for schools, organisations and clubs in England that are involved in the water elements of the sport of rowing and who are
individually affiliated to British Rowing. Projects must enable greater participation in rowing, particularly through the provision of equipment for the young and/or disabled.
* Please note that there is a matched funding requirement of at least 50% for any grants awarded.
The Randal Charitable Foundation
https://www.randalfoundation.org.uk/
The Randal Charitable foundation are a UK based grant-giving foundation, which supports a number of key areas including: Health, Mental Health, Poverty, Social Disadvantage, Addiction and Education. Grants average at around £15,000. Groups must make an enquiry before submitting an application.
Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts
https://www.sfct.org.uk/index.html
The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts is the operating office of 17 different independent grant-making trusts established by members of three generations of the Sainsbury family. The trusts only fund registered charities or activities with a clearly defined charitable purpose. None of the trusts directly supports individuals, education fees or expeditions.
5 of the trusts will consider direct applications if they match their areas of interest: Alan & Babette Charitable Fund, Headley Trust, Jerusalem Trust, JJ Charitable Trust and Three Guineas Trust.
Collectively, these areas of interest include:
Civil liberties and human rights; practical autism projects; support for older people and their carers ;family welfare; youth work; Christian mission, education, evangelism, media and art; literacy; dyslexia; school inclusion; sustainable environments, food or finance ; archaeology; conservation of industrial, maritime and built heritage; display, study or purchase of British ceramics; regional museums and galleries, especially curatorial support and purchase of objects with local significance; restoration and repair of cathedrals and major churches.
Schroder Charity Trust
www.schrodercharitytrust.org
The Schroder Charity Trust is an independent grant-making Family Trust. The Schroder Charity Trust is an independent grant-making Family Trust. They award grants up to £5,000 (average £2,500) to UK registered charities working in: education; health; communities; environment and conservation; heritage; arts and culture; international development. Funding for core costs and specific projects, but not large capital appeals. The trust meets twice a year in June and November.
The Screwfix Foundation
https://www.screwfix.com/help/screwfixfoundation/
Grants up to £5,000 for UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, including Community Interest Companies, for projects that need to fix, repair, maintain and improve properties and community facilities, particularly for those catering for people in need. Buildings can be homes or community buildings and other buildings in deprived areas or for those in need, and can include repairing run-down buildings and decorating the homes of
people living with illness and disability. All building projects must show that they are environmentally friendly.
Sea-Changers Coastal Fountain Fund
https://www.sea-changers.org.uk/
Environmental charity Sea-Changers is currently offering grants of up to £2,000 for UK not-for-profit organisations to install a water bottle refill station in a busy or environmentally important coastal location. The fund is aimed at reducing marine litter, particularly non-reusable plastic drink bottles, through the provision of well-located coastal water fountains.
Applications are invited from all types of UK not-for-profit organisations. Applicants should already have permission in place for the water fountain’s placement from the landowner and to have explored issues that relate to the ongoing maintenance of the fountain and water testing (for example, with the local water company).
Projects will be assessed against the following criteria:
o Need and impact – fountains should be placed in areas which have significant public use/a lot of littering and/or are of particular environmental importance or status. o Sustainability. o Value for money, and o Viability to be operational within 2021.
Please note that (a) there is a matched funding requirement for this programme. Applicants are expected to have secured contributions from other sources; and (b) grants cannot cover the costs of installation or ongoing maintenance.
*Deadline for applications is Monday 15 March 2021.
Standard Life Foundation is an independent charitable foundation. Their mission is to contribute towards strategic change which improves financial well-being in the UK. They want everyone to have a decent standard of living and have more control over their finances.
Standard Life Foundation fund research, campaigning and policy work and funding programmes with grant sizes of between £10k-£200k focus on income, spending and assets.
*Application deadlines 3rd June 2021
Steel Charitable Trust
https://steelcharitabletrust.org.uk/
Grant giving trust with five funding priority areas: arts & heritage, education, environment, health, and social or economic disadvantage. Open to charities registered in the United Kingdom, Community Interest Companies, and Charitable Incorporated Organisations. Grants are generally made as single payments between £2,500 and £25,000.
www.swirecharitabletrust.org.uk/our-funding Grants of up to £50,000 for core costs, salaries and capital expenditure for UK registered charities working in the following priority areas:
1. Environment o Connecting people to the environment: charities that inspire and motivate individuals and communities to enhance the natural and built environment and help guide those who wish to live more sustainably, and/or o Supporting the UK's biodiversity: activities that improve the health and resilience of the UK's eco-systems, habitats and native species.
2. Heritage o funding to support projects that have legitimacy from a heritage perspective as well as the potential to deliver meaningful social and economic benefits to deprived communities or disadvantaged people, and/or o funding for charities that are working hard to protect and cultivate the skills and knowledge underpinning the UK’s heritage sector.
3. Opportunity Charities that are directly addressing the challenges faced by the most marginalised and disadvantaged, supporting them to make the most of their talents and boost long-term outcomes. Specifically, organisations working with: o Children and young people o Ex-service men and women, and o Victims of slavery and trafficking. *Applications may be made at any time. Applications for grants of under £25,000 are
considered every month, while requests of over £25,000 are reviewed each January, April, July and October.
Theatres Trust: Theatre Reopening Fund
http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/how-we-help/grants-funding/theatre-reopening-fund Grants of up to £5,000 to support not-for-profit theatres affected by COVID-19 and to contribute to preparations for reopening.
The Thomas Wall Trust: Grants for registered charities.
The Thomas Wall Trust awards small grants, nominally up to £5,000 but more usually of £1,000 or less to UK registered charities that are working to improve the employment prospects of individuals aged 11 and over in the UK through developing literacy, numeracy and digital skills and by building confidence and self-esteem.
The Thomas Wall Trust Digital skills programme will run throughout 2021 with grants of up to £5000 available to organisations working towards improving basic digital skills for people in need.
The programme aims to equip adults with basic digital skills for work and life, helping them access the online world. Grants are available for projects working with disadvantaged people aged 18 or over to improve their basic digital skills. The programme will support not-
for-profit organisations/charities based in the UK that have been established for at least 3 years.
The Tudor Trust
https://tudortrust.org.uk/
Tudor makes grants to smaller community-led groups that support people at the margins of society. Tudor operates a two-stage application process, so they ask all applicants to complete a brief first stage proposal.
They are keen to work with organisations that have a real understanding of the challenges facing the communities they support, and a clear sense of the difference they seek to make through their work. They are particularly interested in supporting work that develops and promotes the social connections and relationships which make such an important contribution to the well-being and quality of life of individuals, and which strengthens communities.
There is no maximum or minimum grant, though in practice it is unusual for them to make a grant of less than £10,000.
The Truemark Trust
Grants between £1,000 and £5.000 for small local UK charities working to address social distress and disadvantage, with a preference for innovative neighbourhood-based community projects and unpopular causes. The Trust prefers to invest in innovative community-focused projects that help relieve social distress, deprivation and disadvantage. Unpopular causes are also supported. A wide range of organisations are provided with grant support, including youth groups, hospices, women’s groups, advice centres and churches.
The Trust does not maintain a website. Further information is available on the Charity Commission website. Applications may be made at any time in writing. The Trust meets every three months to review applications.
Contact details for the trust are: Clare Pegden, Administrator, The Truemark Trust, P O Box 2, Liss, Hampshire. GU33 6YP Tel: 07970 540015 Email: [email protected]
The Trusthouse charitable foundations are a grant making foundation giving grants to small and medium sized organisations in the UK.. Both their Small Grants and Major Grants are rolling programmes with no application deadline.
Grants are available for general costs, including core costs, salaries, projects costs, and capital expenditure on buildings or essential equipment. Grants are available to fund arts, community support, education and heritage projects in areas of extreme urban deprivation or remote, socio-economically deprived rural areas.
The project geographic area postcode must fall within the following on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation:
if you are located in an urban area, you must be in the bottom 15% most deprived areas
if you are located in a rural area, you must be in the bottom 50% most deprived areas
http://www.tweedfamilycharitablefoundation.org.uk/how-to-apply.html The Tweed Family Charitable Trust is a new grant-making charity with a focus on inspiring disadvantaged young people aged under 25 years to live full and valuable lives and break the cycle of chaos that many experience by funding life-enhancing opportunities. The Foundation is looking to fund one or two projects each year delivered by registered charities in England and Wales. A grant of up to £10,000 is available.
The Foundation will give greater consideration towards applications that support disadvantaged young people in their teenage years.The Foundation is seeking to support a limited number of community and educational projects that inspire young people to develop the social and practical that will enable them to achieve their full potential. The Foundation lists mentoring, educational and community activities as areas it is particularly interested in supporting. Opportunities or activities can be educational or vocational, may include core costs, and should provide experiences with a lasting impact that would otherwise be inaccessible to the young people concerned.
The Foundation will send a full application form to applicants it may be interested in funding.
*Deadline Wednesday 31 March 2021.
The Viscountess Boyd Charitable Trust
The Viscountess Boyd Charitable Trust supports organisations delivering projects in the following areas: arts, culture, heritage, science, environment, heritage, education, training and health. Preference is given to projects in the south west. Applications should be made in writing to the correspondent; no application form is used.
Contact details: The Trustees, c/o Smith & Williamson, 25 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AY. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 02071314000
The Wakeham Trust
https://thewakehamtrust.org/
The Wakeham Trust has the core goal is to help small groups of people who are getting together to make a difference in their communities with small grants for grassroots UK registered charities and community and voluntary organisations for small-scale projects that are finding it difficult to secure funding from elsewhere. Unpopular causes are particularly supported. Grants are awarded between £125 and £2,500 and there is no deadline. Registered charities can apply, and organisations that are not registered charities can make an application through a registered charity in their area that can then pass the money directly on to their project.
Warburtons Families Matter Community Grants programme
Offers grants of up to £400 to not-for-profit organisations in England, Scotland and Wales for projects that support families in need at a grassroots level and align against the following themes: Grants can be used for specific items of projects, such as buying equipment or supporting a community event. Priority areas are:
1. Challenges. o Health - helping families lead healthier lifestyles. o Financial stability - helping families manage their finances, and/or
o Worklessness - helping families recognise the economic and social benefits of employment.
2. Opportunities. o Health education - helping educate families about healthy lifestyles (no Project Grants). o Aspiration - helping raise career aspirations to improve prospects for them and their families, and/or o Employability and skills - helping raise employment prospects for family members seeking employment.
Deadlines are 18th Feb 2021; 10th May 2021; 9th Aug 2021.
The War Memorials Trust
http://www.warmemorials.org
Grants up to £30,000 (but averaging £3,783) for charitable organisations, town and parish council and individuals in the UK, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man to conserve and protect memorials in the UK commemorating any conflict.
1. Up to £5,000 for non-freestanding war memorial. 2. Up to £30,000 for freestanding, non-beneficiary war memorials.
Funding will support:
o Conservation. o Like-for-like repair. o Professional condition surveys and structural reports. o Reinstatement of lost elements that form an integral part of the design, and o Structural repair/stabilisation.
There is a 25% matched funding requirement for all applications. Applications may be made at any time
The Woodroffe Benton Foundation
https://www.woodroffebenton.org.uk/
The Woodroffe Benton Foundation offers grants of between £500 and £2,500 towards the core costs of UK registered charities working in the areas of:
The relief of persons in need, hardship or distress by reason of disaster or as a consequence of social or economic circumstance.
The provision/maintenance of care and accommodation for the sick and elderly.
The promotion of education and youth development, particularly (but not exclusively) within the Derbyshire area, and
Environmental, conservation, preservation, protection and/or improvement - in particular where this would improve access for members of the general public
*The next deadline for applications is beginning April ’21 for consideration at the May Trustees meeting.
The Woodward Charitable Trust
http://woodwardcharitabletrust.org.uk/general_applications/ One-off core funding grants up to £3,000 for small UK charities, CIOs and CICs with a focus on activities that help improve social inclusion, particularly in the following areas:
The Yapp Charitable Trust offers grants to small registered charities with a total annual expenditure of less than £40,000 for running costs and salaries. Grants are at a maximum of £3,000 per year, for up to three years. The funding is for charities supporting elderly people; children and young people; people with physical impairments; social welfare; and education and learning.
* Please note, Trustees meet 3 times per year to consider applications and a decision time can take up to 5 months from the date of submission.
Cornwall Council has compiled a great list of organisations that give away trees (or funding for trees) to schools and community organisations which have environmental projects.
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