Funding

The McCarthy Stone Foundation supports projects that address loneliness and wellbeing in the over 65s. Our Creating Connections Grant Programme will be awarding 20+ grants of up to £7,500 to charities and community groups who are helping to reduce loneliness and isolation for the over 65’s. You may be providing direct person-centered interventions such as befriending OR group based social activities. We also support Community Transport who assist in bringing together older people.

Welcome to the Marshes Community Benefit Fund website. The Fund was created in 2016 as an independent entity by the Frodsham Windfarm Limited partners, the Fund is managed by a Panel of independent volunteers and is governed by its Constitution. The Fund receives an annual grant from Frodsham Windfarm Limited of up to £120,000. This annual payment will be provided every year the wind farm operates and is expected to amount to some £3 million. The Marshes Community Benefit Fund (MCBF) Panel will control the administration of the MCBF and will consider applications from groups and organisations for awards of between £250 and £60,000 from the MCBF in each of the two application rounds to be held each year.

The Foundation’s August round of their Small Grants Programme is focussed on projects that improve the quality of life and social engagement for people with severe physical and/or learning disabilities. Grants of between £500 – 2,500 are available to registered charities with an annual income of less than £750,000, and educational institutions. Grants can cover core costs as well as projects. The Small Grants programme has two funding rounds a year, in March and August. This round will close on either 31 August 2025 or when 150 applications have been received, whichever is the sooner.

This programme is aimed at registered charities, CICs and CIOs which are led by and working for Deaf and Disabled people. Your organisation will work directly with Deaf and Disabled people over the long term to support them to have more choice and control over their lives, access their rights and entitlements, and challenge the barriers they face.

Operating across the North West, the Equilibrium community support scheme offers charitable organisations the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to £500.

The Foundation supports charitable activities under a number of grant categories which are as follows: · Social and Criminal Justice (Main grant). · Overseas (Main grant). · Older People (Small grant).

Our grants are an essential part of our work to protect the nation's heritage. The grants we offer are intended for: People who own or manage individual historic sites and need to repair them or understand them better Local authorities, for sites and buildings in their area Organisations that want to encourage better understanding, management and conservation of the historic environment in its many and varied forms In all cases, we expect to have a dialogue with the applicant. Please note that we cannot grant-aid work that began before a written grant offer was made and accepted.

Following Cheshire West and Chester Council’s announcement on the commencement of the 2025 Community Chest small grants scheme (up to £500), Cheshire Community Action is now inviting applications from local community groups and organisations. Please note that there is no application deadline, but the scheme will close once all funds have been allocated.

Funding of up to £140,000 is available to help parish and town councils, community organisations, faith groups, community interest companies and even sports teams get started on clean power projects that benefit their local areas.

Where People Meet Grant Programme. Open Call for Expressions of Interest. Through the grants to community spaces across the UK, we aim to raise the profile of community-led regeneration and shine a light on new solutions to challenges faced in our communities. We are therefore looking to fund projects and initiatives which are out of the ordinary and challenge the status quo.

The funding aims to support smaller charities and good causes in the north of England to make a difference to their community for the benefit of people and planet.

The Trust offers grants to charitable organisations working in agriculture, rural development and insurance in the UK.

This funding is for organisations to give extra support to young people in areas with higher rates of anti-social behaviour. The extra youth work you deliver must help young people: -have improved emotional wellbeing -have improved life and practical skills -feel safer and have access to trusted relationships with adults

The Large Grants programme (formerly Cornerstone Grants) supports structural repairs and maintenance issues costing more than £100,000 or the installation of kitchen and toilets costing over £30,000.

The NLCF plans to distribute at least £4 billion of funding by 2030, supporting projects that will create resilient communities that are more inclusive and environmentally sustainable. Projects that will strengthen society and improve lives across the UK. The funding is for projects that meet one or both of these aims: · Help people connect with and care for nature in their area. · Make a positive difference to the environment.

The Marjory Boddy Charitable Trust meets three times a year to consider applications for grants from registered charities that are involved in but not confined to the areas of health, education, welfare and the arts.

The Foundation award grants to UK registered charities, CICs, and other registered UK not-for-profit organisations (including special schools). Grants are awarded towards capital projects, which they define as: - Buildings: purchase, construction, renovation or refurbishment. - Fittings, Fixtures, and Equipment: this includes but is not limited to office equipment/furniture, sports/gym equipment, digital/audio visual equipment, software and websites (more guidance on digital infrastructure can be found here), garden equipment, specialist therapeutic (excluding medical) equipment. It does not include equipment for one-off use, or which will be given to service users for personal use on a permanent basis. - Vehicles: This includes a minibus, car, caravan, people-carrier, or 4X4. We are unlikely to fund the total cost of a new vehicle and do not provide grants towards vehicle leasing. They fund both large and small projects.

The funding is intended for charities and other not-for-project organisations that are working with disadvantaged and vulnerable people in England, Scotland and Wales. The funding aims to tackle digital inequality, to help ensure that people from all backgrounds and walks of life have access to the same opportunities.

Single year grants between £2,000 and £10,000 for core costs, salaries, running and project costs. Projects must have a focus on Community Support.

The Trust seeks to improve the effectiveness of literacy teaching in primary and secondary education for children with learning difficulties, including dyslexia. Their work has a particular focus on areas of social need and those who are at risk of non-inclusion in society and the world of work. The Trust’s small grants scheme funds charities and community groups that directly help children and young people develop literacy skills, with a focus on supporting those with learning difficulties such as dyslexia. They are keen to see applications for projects that use volunteers and reading mentors and those that help during transitional points. For example, when students move from primary to secondary school, and when they transition to further education, college, or the workplace. They will consider grants for literacy support at any primary or secondary key stage. You can apply for grants between £5,000 and £20,000. You can apply for a multi-year grant, over a maximum period of 3 years.

Single year grants between £10,000 and £50,000 are available for core costs, salaries, running and project costs or multi-year grants for a maximum of 3 years, not to exceed £100,000 in total over this period, for core costs, salaries, running or project costs. No more than £50k can be applied for in any given year. Organisations should have a focus on Family Support, this may further include: Early intervention Families coping with addiction Prisoners' families

The Foundation offers grants in the categories of Community, Education, Health or Social Welfare. They offer three levels of grants. These are large grants of £20,000 and above; medium grants of up to £20,000 and small grants of £5,000 and under. Grants can be used for: Capital projects which include new buildings, extensions, refurbishments and recreational spaces. New minibuses and other vehicles that provide a vital service to those most in need in their local community. Churches and other places of worship with a strong, secular community focus. Charities or CIOs (Charitable Incorporated Organisations) registered in England and Wales. Certain organisations with exempt status such as specialist schools, scout and guide groups, housing associations, cooperatives, and community benefit societies. Applications are accepted all year round.

Children in Need often have several funding programmes open at any one time. These include: Project Costs grants – support the aims and delivery of a specific piece of work. This work will usually be time-limited and based on a defined set of activities. Core Costs grants – can be spent on an organisation’s central running and operational costs. Charities and not-for-profit organisations can apply for these grants for up to three years. They aim to give quicker decisions for grants of £15,000 or less per year. There is no application deadline.

This programme supports children and young people who are facing exceptionally difficult circumstances, and is delivered by Family Fund Business Services. The programme provides items that meet a child’s most basic needs such as a bed to sleep in, a cooker to provide a hot meal and other items or services critical to a child’s wellbeing. All applications must be made by a registered referrer.

Biffa Award’s Main Grants Scheme is aimed at community and cultural groups and organisations, situated in the vicinity of landfill sites, that are in need of funding to improve the quality of life in their community or to conserve wildlife. There are four themes - Community Buildings, Recreation, Cultural Facilities and Rebuilding Biodiversity. Under these themes we provide funding to create or improve community amenities. For example, upgrading kitchens, meeting rooms and toilets in village halls and community facilities; creating new playparks; installing new seating, lighting and exhibitions within theatres and museums; or establishing, protecting and enhancing habitats for biodiversity. Between £10,000 and £75,000 can be awarded to projects that have a total cost of less than £200,000 including VAT. This is a rolling programme and as such there are no deadlines to submit an Expression of Interest in the Main Grants Scheme.

The Foundation is dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and young people, as well as vulnerable older people, in England and Wales. Their Charity Grants programme is open to registered charities in England and Wales working with any of their four main priority groups: Improving the health and wellbeing of older people with dementia and their carers. Children affected by domestic abuse. Early years (0-5) with a focus on poverty and neglect. Children with special educational needs and disabilities. Small grants are for charities whose annual income is between £25,000 and £500,000. These grants are unrestricted. Small grants range from £1,000-£5,000 per year, for up to three years. Large grants are for larger charities whose annual income is between £500,000 and £10 million. They must be restricted to a project. Large grants usually range from £10,000 to £60,000. They can be awarded over one to three years. No deadline, rolling programme for both Small and Large grants.

The Foundation 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. They fund small local organisations and large national institutions. Grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. The grants can be for your organisation’s running costs, for a specific activity or for capital projects. The Foundation are flexible and fund what charities need the most. Normally, capital grants are no more than 10% of a total project cost. However, for local community projects (e.g. village halls, community centres, places of worship, etc.), grants are unlikely to be over £30,000 regardless of the project size. If your organisation wants to apply for £100,000 or over, they expect your annual income or project to be over £1 million. No deadline, rolling applications.

Awards for All: TNLCF offer funding from £300 to £20,000 and can support your project for up to two years. You can apply for funding to deliver a new or existing activity or to support your organisation to change and adapt to new and future challenges. They can fund projects that’ll do at least one of these things: bring people together 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 support people, communities and organisations facing more demands and challenges because of the cost-of-living crisis. Reaching Communities England: TNLCF fund projects and organisations that work to make positive changes in their community. By community they mean people living in the same area, or people with similar interests or life experiences. They offer funding that starts at £20,001. TNLCF can fund projects or organisations that’ll do at least one of these things: bring people together 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. Partnerships: This funding is for organisations working together in partnership to help their community. This funding also starts at £20,001 and can fund projects that do at least one of the things also specified under the Reaching Communities programme. No application deadline, ongoing applications.

National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations. Individual artists and practitioners, community and cultural organisations, museums and libraries can all apply. National Lottery Project Grants is open all the time, there are no deadlines. Grants of between £1000 and £100,000 are available. No deadline, rolling applications.

Schools, colleges and community groups in England can apply for grants to Blue Spark Foundation for a wide range of projects. The Foundation value academic, vocational, artistic and sporting endeavour in equal measure but are particularly keen to support projects which will help enhance the self-confidence, team working skills and future employability of children and young people. Many grants will be under £2,000 and none are more than £5,000. Projects which could be supported include drama, music, sport, art and design, debating, public speaking, academic education, vocational training, community projects, enterprise projects and educational excursions. This list is illustrative and not exclusive as to the types of projects that the Foundation support. No deadline, rolling applications.

Cash for Kids is a grant-giving charity that supports children from birth up to 18 years old across the UK. The children's mental health grant is part of the General Grant programme, looking to address areas like poverty, mental health and wellbeing, sport and physical wellbeing, disability or life-limiting illness, education and essential skills, and diversity and inclusion.

Hays Travel created Hays Travel Foundation in 2015 to focus on supporting causes that benefit people who, for one reason or another, need a bit of help to achieve their potential. The funding is intended for local groups that operate or have an impact in an area where Hays Travel has a branch, particularly those that help young people up to 25 years of age develop in at least one of these areas: education, prevention of poverty, health, arts, culture or sports.

The Capacity Building Fund is designed to support the creation of a sight loss sector that is coherent, sustainable and resilient to the rising demand for equal services across the UK. The fund offers unrestricted grants for organisations in the sight loss sector across the UK whose growth and sustainability are challenged by the uncertain economic climate and cost of living crisis. The grants will focus on two key areas: collaboration between organisations within the sight loss sector and between the sight loss sector and external organisations, and small charities and grassroots organisations.

The foundation looks to fund projects that are trying to help communities come together to work effectively on the issues that matter to them, working in partnership with others to build trust and cohesive communities, providing advice and support, and trying to change attitudes and broaden horizons. Funding can be used towards running costs, salaries, capacity building, volunteer training and out of pocket expenses.

The trust makes grants to a wide range of charitable organisations and the trustees' preference is to support registered charities in the north west of England for mental health and mental disability projects where expertise in this area and financial stability can be demonstrated. While not excluding large UK-wide charities, the trust normally only makes grants to such organisations where there are strong relationships in the north west of England and the proposal has the potential to achieve a substantial impact.

The specific objectives of Alpkit Foundation are to help young people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, to develop their capabilities that they grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society, plus other areas.

Family Action aims to support families during times of hardship to enable them to become stronger, happier and healthier.

The Albert Hunt Trust is a grant-giving charitable trust that provides grants to UK registered charities that are based and working locally in the UK. It has distributed more than £40 million in grants since it was established in January 1979. Core funding is available to support local charities throughout the UK that: · Provide hospice care - this is a priority area. · Provide support for the homeless. · Promote health and wellbeing for areas such as family support eg Home Start, children and young people counselling services, suicide prevention, specific carers support, cancer support, prisoner support and rehabilitation, community centres, food banks and debt advice.

The Happy Days Charity is a national children's charity dedicated to providing holidays, days out, and theatre trips for disadvantaged young people with special needs. The Charity supports families with children aged 3-17 who have learning difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, acute, chronic or life limiting illnesses, been abused or neglected, witnessed domestic violence, been bereaved or act as carers for a parent or a sibling.

The Chances for Children Grant scheme is provided by Buttle UK, a registered charity based in the UK that is dedicated to helping children and young people who are in crisis reach their potential. The funding aims to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people and their capacity to engage in education and learning.

The Community Award fund is intended to assist small organisations and good causes from Chester and surrounding areas. The objective is to support organisations with a small grant that will make a ‘real difference’.

We award funding for charitable purposes across the UK. Our focus is on funding specific groups that experience marginalisation and/or discrimination and we currently make grants through seven funding programmes. Applications open all year round.

Our Stobart Sustainability fund is aimed at supporting community-led sustainability projects and initiatives lead by non-profit organisations, community groups and educational facilities, such as schools and colleges, to help them transform their local community through projects that tackle climate change, reduce carbon emissions or that protect and enhance the environment. Applications are open all year round.

Family Action was established in 1869 and aims to strengthen families and communities, build skills and resilience, and improve the life chances of those involved. Family Action aims to support families during times of hardship to enable them to become stronger, happier and healthier. Applications open throughout the year.

This fund aims to support Christian organisations to deliver projects that will make a positive and transformative impact on lives and communities and contribute to the following objectives: · Growing congregations and Christian communities. · Addressing social challenges facing communities. · Enabling wider community use of church buildings. · Empowering Christian education.

The Foundation supports projects that address deprivation or disadvantage in our communities, especially among young people. These include social mobility and youth development, such as learning and training. Persimmon Homes Foundation operates an ongoing application deadline, meaning you can submit applications at any time

This dedicated grants programme aims to enhance the life of disabled, or seriously ill, young adults, aged 18 to 24 years old, living at home. No deadline specified.

This fund aims to enhance the mission and ministry of the Methodist Church in the UK and Ireland by supporting Methodist organisations to run building development projects and repair and maintenance projects that are essential for ongoing mission and ministry, with a focus on: · Church growth (both numerically and spiritually). · Community engagement. · Improving accessibility. · Environmental benefits No deadline specified.

The funding aims to support the modernisation and improvement of village halls, so that they are fit for purpose and can provide activities which seek to achieve one or more of the following outcomes for their communities: · Improved health and/or wellbeing and/or reduction in rural loneliness. · Positive impact on the local environment, contributes towards net zero. · Support for the local rural economy. · Promotion of community cohesion. A closing date for applications has not been specified.

Sanctuary’s Community Investment Fund provides grants for community initiatives which make a difference to the lives of Sanctuary residents in England and Scotland. The aim of this fund is to help build resilience and connection between Sanctuary customers and their communities.

Grants and other resources are available for community groups, local sports clubs and grassroots organisations across England with ideas of how to tackle inequalities and help get more people active as well as new initiatives that improve both environmental sustainability and physical activity opportunities for those who need it most.

The fund aims to support improvement in mental health by providing grants to UK registered charities involved in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults. No application deadline specified.

This fund aims to provide essential support to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage. No deadline for applications specified.

Friends of the Elderly provides grants to older people living on low incomes. Grants can be used to cover essential expenses such as purchasing a new fridge, paying unexpected bills, food, clothing, or covering gas and electricity costs.

Funding is available for small registered charities delivering projects that support young living in areas of deprivation and socioeconomic disadvantage in the UK. Projects should address a lack of support and provide immediate support for young people who are challenged by abuse or addiction, young carers, or homeless. Projects can involve recreational trips, mentoring programmes and counselling sessions.

The Kelly Family Charitable Trust was set up in 2004 as a grant-giving body. It provides grants to local and regional charities that are working to make a difference to the lives of local people across the UK. The funding is for charities whose activities involve all or most family members in initiatives that support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members.