28 April 2023
Funding Opportunities
Hall & Woodhouse Community Chest
The Community Chest is now in its 22nd year of giving a helping hand to local people in supporting and strengthening their community, by encouraging charities and community interest companies to apply for a grant to go towards improving their local area.
Applications are welcome from any voluntary or community organisation that is based, or works in, our trading area across the south of England, from Devon and north to Bristol, Swindon, Bracknell and London.
Grants or funds raised could be used to support the following:
- Youth work and activities
- Sports and social clubs
- Elderly and people with disabilities
- Health and social care
- Local arts and culture
- Conservation and the environment
The 2023 application process is expected to open on 16th May and close on 15th July.
Groups can apply for grants or fundraising support ranging from £300 and £3,000 to help achieve their aims. These grants or fundraising commitments could be used towards things such as equipment and furniture, training, transport, professional assistance, specific project resources or operational costs that will help your cause.
Bentley’s Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme.
Bentley’s Advancing Life Chances Small Grants Programme provides grants up to £500 to support charitable organisations working with vulnerable, disadvantaged or under-represented communities.
The programme is aimed at supporting communities in 19 locations across the UK.
- Access – Remove the barriers and improve access to services, education and employability.
- Empowerment – Development of the life skills that enable people to be more self-confident, successful and thrive in life.
- Quality of Life – Provide support to live a healthier life both physically and mentally.
- Better Future – Safeguarding the environment, improving nature-deprived areas, drive improvement to “place” and boosting community spirit
To find out more and go to the Southampton page to see the full list of postcodes and when to apply.
Garfield Weston Charitable Trust
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. Our grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. Our grants can be for your organisation’s running costs, for a specific activity or for capital projects. We are flexible and fund what charities need the most.
We fund small local organisations and large national institutions. Our grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. Our grants can be for your organisation’s running costs, for a specific activity or for capital projects. We are flexible and fund what charities need the most.
Also operating/Core cost grants are made towards the general costs of running your organisation and project costs for a specific project or area of your work. It will have a defined scope of work and timescale.
Foyle Foundation
Who Can Apply
Our Small Grants Scheme is designed to support charities registered and operating in the United Kingdom, especially those working at grass roots and local community level, in any field, across a wide range of activities.
Our focus will be to make one-year grants only, to cover core costs, projects, essential equipment or building projects.
Our priority will be to support local charities still active in their communities which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community.
Charities can apply for between £2,000 and £10,000.
There are no deadlines – online applications can be submitted at any time. Once received, it will take up to four months, occasionally longer, to receive a decision from Trustees.
The Allen Lane Foundation
Our aims are to fund work which:
- Will make a lasting difference to people’s lives rather than simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems;
- Is aimed at reducing isolation, stigma and discrimination, and;
- Encourages or enables unpopular groups to share in the life of the whole community.
Our funding programmes:
- People experiencing mental health problems
- People experiencing violence or abuse
- Young People’s Programme
Within the first six funding programmes, we focus funding solely on adults.
The Young People’s Programme can support people aged approx 12-21 from across a broader range of backgrounds.
We aim to help organisations to become sustainable, supporting running and core costs to enable them to have flexibility, security and longevity.
We are interested in funding charitable causes which we believe to be unpopular both in society, and with other funders.
The Leather Sellers Company
Small Grants programme
Eligibility Criteria
The Leathersellers’ Small Grants Programme 2022-23 will consider applications from charities registered and operating in the UK (including Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO) but not Community Interest Companies (CIC) that are working
- to provide assistance to vulnerable people in their community
- in geographical areas of deprivation (within the UK) – we recognise all relative measures of deprivation as tracked by the Indices of Deprivation or similar tools. We ask you who your work helps and why this is needed for that group or in that area so you can explain the need that exists there.
- with an annual income of under £200,000 (secured for the coming year)
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