Funding Database
You can find our funding database below.
The following funds are available all year round however, some may only be distributed at certain times of the year.
You can navigate by using the search bar below (use keywords eg. youth, sports etc), or by browsing through the pages at the bottom of the table.
PLEASE NOTE: Whilst viewable on mobile, this page works much better on a laptop or PC.
Title | worth | Summary | Who Can Apply | Link | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 Stars Foundation | £2,500 (up to) | Project Funding - unrestricted funding for UK charities, at risk young people (16 years or younger) across the themes of abuse; addiction; homelessness and those who are supporting our young child carers. Shine Bright Funding - enables UK charities to purchase items and resources to protect and support the children they serve. | Applicants must be from a registered charity across the UK. | Our foundation trustees meet four times a year to review grant applications the foundation has received and to make grant awards. | |
A B Charitable Trust | £10,000 - £30,000 per year (usually) | We support work that promotes human dignity and defends the human rights of the most marginalised and excluded people. We fund small to medium sized organisations who work in these priority areas:
| Small to medium sized organisations working to deliver change. Most of our funding goes to organisations with a turnover of between £150,000 and £1.5 million. | Our Grants Committee meets four times a year to decide upon grant applications. | |
ABRDN Financial Fairness Fund | £10,000 - £200,000 | We fund research, campaigning and policy work to improve living standards and personal finances for people on low to middle incomes in the UK. Our funding programmes focus on income, spending and assets. | Registered charities, voluntary organisations, think tanks, campaigning groups, research bodies and universities. | February and June each year | |
The Access Foundation | £25,000 - £100,000 | To be eligible to apply for a grant from The Access Foundation an organisation must be aligned with the following objectives:DIGITAL OPPORTUNITIES To have as a key objective the mitigation of the digital divide by making computing facilities, support and/or learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people. | Applications must be for specific services, activities, initiatives or projects with clearly identified and measurable outcomes. Funding will not be provided for the general overheads or operational costs of an organisation. | The Board of Trustees will set-aside an annual budget for grant giving which will be reviewed at least bi-annually to ensure appropriate allocation of resources. | |
Anchor Foundation | £12,000 (Up to) | Our vision for the work of The Anchor Foundation is to support Christian Charities working with Art, Healing and through those seeking to offer Social Inclusion. | The Trustees look favourably on organisations whose Boards demonstrate equal opportunities | Applications are considered at twice yearly Trustee meetings, usually held in April & October. | |
Ashley Family Foundation | £10,000 (up to) | We support a broad range of arts, community and social welfare projects in England and Wales, with a particular interest in supporting rural communities in Wales. They have an affinity with small charities (under £2m pa income). | Grants are made to organisations registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or Companies House (such as Community Interest Companies). | Three funding rounds per year | |
Awards For All - National Lottery | £300 - £20,000 | The funding is intended for projects that support communities to thrive by: - Building strong relationships in and across communities. - Improving the places and spaces that matter to communities. - Helping more people to reach their potential, by supporting them at the earliest possible stage. - Supporting people, communities and organisations that are facing increased demands and challenges as a direct result of the cost-of-living crisis. | Voluntary and community organisations, constituted groups and clubs, registered charities, CIOs, Not-For-Profit Companies, CICs, Schools, Statutory bodies and community benefit societies. | No Deadline | |
Bernard Sunley Foundation | 3 levels of funding: large grants of £20,000 and above; medium grants of up to £20,000 and small grants of £5,000 and under. | We are a family grant making foundation which supports charities in England and Wales working to raise the quality of life and provide greater opportunities for the young, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged. | We support charities registered in England and Wales, CIOs (Charitable Incorporated Organisations) working in England and Wales and certain organisations which include specialist schools, scout and guide groups and housing associations. | No Deadline | |
Blue Spark Foundation | Grants of up to £5,000 are available. | Grants are available to improve the education and development of children and young people through educational, cultural, sporting and other activities. | Schools, community groups, clubs, societies and other not-for-profit organisations based and working in England can apply, as can individuals. | No Deadline | |
Clothworkers' Foundation | Small Grants Programme: Up to £15,000 Large Grants Programme: More than £15,000 | Capital grants are available to UK registered charities working in the UK in one of the following areas: communities experiencing racial inequalities, disabilities, domestic and sexual abuse, economic disadvantage, homelessness, LGBT+ communities, older people facing disadvantage, prison and rehabilitation, substance misuse and addiction, and young people facing disadvantage. | We award grants to UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools). | No Deadline | |
D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust | £500 - £6,000 | The objects of the charity are the advancement of the arts, health and medical welfare and environmental protection or improvement. The Trust supports a diverse range of charities seeking in some way to enhance and improve people’s lives. The Trust incorporated as a Company in 2005. | Applicants must be UK Registered Charities operating in the UK for the benefit of UK residents, and the organisation’s annual returns to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland must be up to date. | There are three grant-making meetings held annually which take place in March, July, and November | |
Edward Gostling Foundation | Grants of up to £5,000 are available. | The Edward Gostling Foundation provides grants with the aim of enhancing the quality of life for disadvantaged people in need, specifically those who have a physical or mental disability, those with long-term illness or those on low income. | UK charities registered and regulated for at least three years may apply. | Applications may be submitted at any time and are considered four times a year. | |
Friends Provident Foundation | <£10,000: Small Grants Programme £50,000 - £75,000: Project Funding | Friends Provident Foundation’s grant giving programme aims to fund organisations and activities that support our vision of a fair and sustainable economy.
| We are looking for applications that:
| No Deadline | |
Garfield Weston Foundation | £1,000 - Several million | We support a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage and faith. | We fund small local organisations and large national institutions. | No Deadline | |
Grocers Charity | £5,000 (one off grants) | Our funding priorities are as follows:
| UK registered charities | The Charity Trustees meet four times a year to review grant applications in December, March, April and June. | |
The Hedley Foundation | £250 - £5,000. | The Foundation supports the following:
| Small to mid-sized UK registered charities that are based and working in the UK can apply. | Applications are considered at Trustee meetings which are held four times a year. | |
Henry Smith Charity - Holiday Grants for Children | £500 - £2,750. | Grants are available for schools, youth groups, not-for-profit organisations, and charities to provide access to recreational trips or holidays for groups of children aged 13 years and younger who experience disadvantage or disability and live in an area of high deprivation. | Schools, youth groups, not-for-profit organisations and charities in the UK are eligible to apply. | 13th March - 22nd July 2024 (for trips taking place 1st May to 31st August 2024). | |
Home Instead Charities | Two levels of funding: -
| Grants are available for organisations that are providing activities and projects to prevent social isolation and loneliness for older people (the over 55s) in the UK. | Applications are accepted from small community groups and charities in the UK. | There are now four application windows per year: January, April, July and October. | |
Inman Charity | £2,000 - £5,000, with an occasional larger grant. | The scheme aims to fund projects with a social welfare focus and those working with disadvantaged people. | Charities registered in the UK may apply. | Applications must be received by the end of: February for consideration at the April meeting. | |
Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust | £1,000 - £10,000 | JSAWT aims to support registered charities by making donations toward the following:
| Smaller animal welfare charities working in the UK and/or abroad:
| Trustees meet to discuss applications three times a year. | |
Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts - JJ Charitable Trust Literacy | £5,000 - £20,000 | Grants are available for organisations undertaking charitable projects focusing on literacy teaching for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, in the UK. | Applications are accepted from registered charities, CICs or CIOs. | No Deadline | |
The Screwfix Foundation | £5,000 (up to) | We fund projects which improve a physical building (or land attached to it) that is used by people in need. The types of projects we fund are:
| Must be a charity or not for profit company based in the UK. | our Trustees meet to review applications in March, June, September and December. The cut off date for applications will be 12pm on the 10th of the month prior to the Trustee meeting. | |
Steel Charitable Trust - Rolling Grants Programme | £10,000 - £25,000 | Applications must be for charitable purposes that fall into one of the five core categories below; applications for purposes outside these categories are only permitted at the direct invitation of a Trustee:
| Applications will only be considered from:
| Trustees meet quarterly to assess the applications and make awards. | |
Veterans' Foundation | £30,000 (Up to) | The Veterans’ Foundation provides grants to eligible organisations that provide assistance to serving and former members of the armed forces community, operational qualified seafarers and their immediate families. | The Veterans’ Foundation's trustees are more likely to award grants to small and medium sized organisations rather than larger ones. | Trustees meet 4 times a year to discuss applications | |
WCIT Charity | £15,000 (Up to) | As an IT charity, all projects we fund must make use of information technology, and must relate to one or more of our priority areas - education, inclusion, IT for charities, and public understanding of IT. We are more likely to fund the development and delivery of innovative new services, solutions, training, apps, analytics, AI, robotics, or accessibility features/hardware; projects where we are a material or sole funder; projects where we are sole funder of the IT component of a larger project; and organisations that could benefit from our pro bono support | You are eligible for our funding if you are a registered charity, educational establishment or organisation with a formal not-for-profit constitution such as a community interest company; CICs limited by shares may also apply | Applications for funding may be submitted at any time and are considered by the Charitable Operations Committee at one of its four meetings a year. | |
Youth Music - Trailblazer Fund | £2,000 - £30,000 | We offer grants to organisations in England to run projects for children and young people (25 or under) to make, learn and earn in music. The project should trial work for the first time, test a new way of working, or disrupt the status quo (or all three!). Your work must meet one of our themes:
| You are a constituted UK based organisation:
| Multiple rounds of funding throughout 2024 |