Funding - Kingston Voluntary Action

We regularly update this page with available funding we think might be of interest to the organisations we support. Scroll through funding with deadlines and find rolling programme funding opportunities below.

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Funding opportunities - with deadlines:

Barclays Community Football Fund

Grants of £500 are available for not-for-profit groups in the UK to help improve access to football for all by running football activities for underrepresented groups. Deadline end December 2024.

The Wolfson Foundation

Is offering grants to charitable organisations and educational establishments in the UK for capital initiatives, ie buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. Deadline end December 2024.

Arnold Clark

UKs largest independently run car retailer, have three funds that are currently available:

Gear up for Sport

Providing funding for sports kits to support youth sports teams. Any type of sport youth team. Up to 30 members age range 4-15.

Cost of Living Fund

Offers grants up to £2,500 to registered charities and other notfor-profit organisations located within 50 miles of an Arnold Clark Branch. The nearest branches to Kingston are Heathrow, Wembley and Chertsey. Eligible projects should focus on working directly with those most affected by the cost-of-living crisis. E.g., foodbanks, accommodation, poverty relief and where people/communities are the primary and immediate focus of investment.

Our Communities Support

For organisations who provide services which are widely accessible to those within their local communities and address the needs of people living with them, supporting them to a better future.

Deadline for all Arnold Clark funds is 31 December 2024.

Stef and Philips Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £2,000 to support organisations that deliver projects and activities that support individuals and families who are living in emergency or temporary accommodation across London. Deadline 31 December 2024.

The Thomas Wall Trust

Grants of up to £5,000 are available for UK registered charities for specific projects that improve communication skills for disadvantaged adults and supports NEET people into employment. Deadline 6 January 2025.

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

Is offering grants of up to £20,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months to enable and deliver accessible mental health and wellbeing support for those with seldom heard needs in Armed Forces communities. Potential beneficiaries may include, for example: Black and minority ethnic individuals; Carers; People with disabilities; Members of the LGBT+ community; Those for whom English is an additional language; People from Foreign & Commonwealth communities; Other members of the Armed Forces community with seldom-heard needs that can be overlooked. Deadline 8 January 2025.

Steel Charitable Trust

Has grants available to registered charities in the UK to deliver a variety of projects and activities that benefit children and young people under the age of 26. Deadline 15 January 2025.

National Archives

Is offering engagement grants to archivists and heritage professionals working with archival collections in England or Wales. Public sector bodies, not-for-profit organisations including registered charities, and for-profit organisations including business archives can apply now for grants of up to £3,000 to conduct outreach and engagement projects, that will connect archives with their communities in places across England and Wales. This year's theme is ‘Community’. Projects can either reach out to new audiences or connect with old audiences in new ways. Deadline 17 January 2025.

Army Benevolent Fund

Has funding available for charities and organisations that provide lifetime support to soldiers, veterans and their immediate families when they are in need. The funding is intended to support charities and organisations with projects and activities that directly benefit the Army community in six key areas: supporting the family; employment, education and training; elderly care; mobility; housing; and wellbeing. Deadline 17 January 2025.

Supporting Communities Empowering Society

Has funding available for small organisations and galleries within the UK to make it possible for artists and those presenting their work to undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds.The fund is committed to helping artists and art institutions and galleries that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities. Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries within the UK. Grants are usually between £2,000 and £5,000. Arts festivals, group exhibitions, charities organising community events, theatres, symposia and conferences will not be considered. Deadline 19 January 2025.

Lloyd Bank Foundation

Is offering 83 unrestricted grants of £75,000 over three years, alongside tailored development support, to small, local, specialist charities supporting people to overcome complex issues in England and Wales. Deadline 23 January 2025.

Foyle Foundation Small Grants Scheme

Has funding available to UK charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000. Priority is given to local charities still active in their communities that are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community. Applicants must show how any grant will make a significant difference to their current work and must be able to demonstrate ongoing financial viability over the next 12 months. Deadline 31 January 2025.

Kingston First Town Centre Community Fund 2025

The Kingston First Town Centre Community Fund has returned for 2025. This year the fund has grown, with £30,000 available to local businesses, charities and communities organisations to support projects that have a positive impact on the town centre, support local businesses and promote positive community engagement. You can find out more about what was funded in the previous window here. Deadline 31 January 2025.

The 7stars Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £2,500 for registered charities with an annual turnover of less than £1.5 million across the UK to deliver projects and activities that support young people aged 16 years and under across the priority themes of abuse, addiction, child carers, and homelessness. Deadline 2 February 2025.

Idlewild Trust

Is offering grants of up to £7,000 to registered charities working in the following two areas: Arts Grants: Nurturing Early-Stage Professionals - grants support training opportunities for emerging professionals, working creatively and backstage, within the performing and visual arts, post-training, and at an early stage in their career. Conservation Grants: Objects and Works of Art - grants support the conservation of cultural heritage of recognised national and international importance in museums, libraries, galleries, historic buildings, or landscapes accessible to the public (also available to museums that are exempt charities). Deadline 14 February 2025.

Better Community Business Network Grant Initiative

Has a small number of grants available each year to small not-for-profit groups with projects that address a community issue or support a local community initiative; and provide benefits to the local community. Deadline 16 February 2025.

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Is accepting applications from UK not-for-profit organisations to support projects in the UK aimed at working towards the creation of a peaceful and just world. Deadline 27 February 2025.

The Rowing Foundation

Is offering grants to clubs, schools and organisations within the UK who are involved in rowing and need help in buying equipment or refurbishing a boat. Although most of the Foundation’s grants go to UK Rowing Clubs, any club or organisation involved in ‘on water rowing-type’ activities can apply. Please note grants do not support kayaking, sailing or swimming. The funding should either be for the benefit of young people or those in full time education, or for the disabled. Deadline 10 March 2025.

The Weaver's Company Benevolent Fund

Has funding available for UK registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations based and working in the UK that can demonstrate impact with ex-offenders, young offenders or young people at risk of offending, either within a local area or nationally. There are small grants of up to £5,000 or larger grants with no set limit. Deadline 13 March 2025.

The Cruach Trust

Has grants available to charities and other organisations to support gardeners, retired gardeners and the preservation of gardens throughout the United Kingdom. Additionally, funding can support a wide range of activities. Deadline 12 September 2025.

Funding opportunities - rolling programmes

Heritage Fund

Has funding available for heritage projects from £10,000 up to £10million. Ongoing.

Cosaraf Hardship Grants

Is offering up to £2,000 to organisations that support families and individuals from across the UK who are in financial need and struggling with everyday costs such as basic expenses, utilities, or rent arrears. Most grants are typically around £500. Applications are assessed every six weeks and groups can expect to receive a response within eight weeks of their application. Ongoing.

Kellogg's

In partnership with Forever Manchester, is offering grants of up to £1,000 to schools across the UK to help fund breakfast clubs aimed at pupils between reception class and year 13 to ensure that those who need it most receive a morning meal. Priority will be given to schools that either: Have 35% and above of children eligible for pupil premium funding (for England) and eligible for free school meals (Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales); or are based in an area which is classified as falling in the 10% of most deprived areas according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Ongoing.

Community Hub Grants Programme

Has grants between £100 - £500 available for projects or activities that require space to share special interests (i.e. knitting, chess) or offer an opportunity for learning or skill transfer (i.e. creative writing, language). Funds to be used to deliver a project, not salaries or general services. Ongoing.

Leathersellers' Small Grants Programme

Has funding available for charities and Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) registered and operating in the UK to deliver activities to meet an identified need for vulnerable members of the community. You should have a planned expenditure of under £200,000 during the financial year in which you are applying for funding and at least one year’s published accounts. Ongoing.

Legal & General

In partnership with the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE), has launched a £3mn ‘Health Equity Fund’ to support community-based initiatives across the UK that address the social determinants of health. The Fund is open to receiving expressions of interest from organisations with projects or ideas for projects for implementation in any part of the UK. Grants of up to £75,000 per project are available. Projects could range from funding for projects that enable children living in areas of deprivation to live healthier lives to community programmes which address the social determinants behind pressures on A&E services, ways to improve housing to support better health of the occupiers, or partnerships raising awareness of the contribution the natural environment makes to health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

Football Foundation - Funding for Goal posts

Grassroots football clubs, charities, community and voluntary groups, local authorities and other
not-for-profit organisations in England can apply for grants of up to £25,000 to purchase new or replacement goalposts. Ongoing.

The Federation of Independent Retailers (The Fed)

Has announced the availability of emergency grants for members whose businesses have been damaged by recent riots in towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland wth the aim to provide financial assistance to members in need of urgent support.
These grants are part of a broader range of support measures the Fed is offering to those impacted by the disturbances. In addition to the financial aid, members can access guidance on making insurance claims, legal advice, and information on other sources of help and support.
Eligible members can apply for a one-time grant of up to £1,000. To qualify, members must be located in areas that have experienced rioting.

Protective Security for Mosques Funding Scheme

Is accepting applications from Mosques and associated faith community centres from across the UK to cover the provision and installation of security measures to keep their place of worship safe. They can also apply for some security guarding services, where they feel security guards will improve the safety of their site and those worshipping there.

BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials 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. Ongoing.

The Albert Hunt trust

Has grants available to local registered charities in the UK that provide hospice care, provide support for the homeless or promote health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

Trust for London

Is offering grants of around £40,000 to £80,000 per year for up to five years for charitable work across London that addresses economic and social injustice across the city. The Trust will support work that helps to create a fairer London through achieving the aims laid out in the new 2030 Funding Strategy. Ongoing.

Alpkit Foundation

Grants are available to community groups, schools and other not-for-profit organisations for projects that tackle issues such as diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, participation, education, conservation and protection of the natural environment and health and well-being. Ongoing.

Barchester Healthcare Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £2,500 for small community groups and local charities across England, Scotland, and Wales for projects that help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities, and generally improve mobility and quality of life for older people and adults with physical, learning, or mental disabilities. Funding is intended to help small community groups and local charities with the following: Activities; Equipment and materials for use by members; Member transport; Day trips, outings, and group holidays in the UK. Priority will be given to innovative projects that help older people and those with a disability to get active, meet people, and reduce isolation. Ongoing.

Sport England

Is offering grants of between £300 and £15,000, crowdfunding pledges, and resources to improve physical activity opportunities for the people and communities who need it the most across England. The funding is intended for local not-for-profit groups and organisations whose projects promote physical activity, including active travel, walking, cycling, dance, fitness and sporting activities. Priority will be given to projects where there is the most need and to sports and activities that need help to recover quickly from Storms Bert and Connall. Community organisations can apply now for funding to support emergency costs to help restore sports facilities and activity venues. Ongoing.

Material Focus

Is offering grants to communities across the UK to reuse and recycle small household electricals. A total of £750,000 is being made available in 2024 to support two types of projects: Growing existing services – grants of up to £100,000 for projects that grow existing collection methods for small electricals. This could community drop points in libraries and other community locations, adding cages under refuse collection vehicles, bring banks/WEEE banks; Innovating new methods – grants of up to £50,000 to come up with new approaches to repair, reuse and/or recycle electricals, for example, collection points at large offices/campuses, drop-offs at post offices, major supermarkets, large shopping centres, retail parks, collection of waste electricals using the return journey/spare capacity during collection/delivery of parcels, or projects that support tackling the growing concerns around digital inclusion. Ongoing.

Morrisons Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities in England, Scotland and Wales for specific projects that help to improve people’s lives. To be eligible, projects must address at least one of the Foundation’s funding objectives of: Tackling poverty and social deprication; enhancing community spaces, facilities and services; improving health and wellbeing. Ongoing.

National Lottery Heritage Fund

Grants are available to support projects of up to five years that care for and sustain heritage in the UK. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories. Applications for grants of between £10,000 and £250,000 are open all year round. Applications for more than £250,000 have quarterly application deadlines. Ongoing.

Community Ownership Fund

Is accepting expressions of interest from community groups to buy or renovate assets that would otherwise be lost to the community. Voluntary and community organisations from across the UK can apply as long as they are an incorporated organisation set up to deliver charitable purpose, social purpose or public benefit and have a viable plan for taking ownership of a community asset at risk and running it sustainably for community benefit. this is the fourth and final round. Ongoing.

Biffa Award

Is giving grants to Community Projects near Landfill sites. Ongoing.

Benefact Trust Building Improvement Grants Fund

Is offering grants to support capital works to protect and enhance Christian church and charity buildings, ensuring their continued use and viability, and the safeguarding of their heritage. Ongoing.

Skipton Charitable Foundation

Is offering grants of up to £6,000 to UK registered charities whose objectives are to: Benefit children and adults particularly those living in socially deprived areas, through education to develop core skills and support wellbeing and mental health; Benefit the wellbeing and welfare of children and adults by preventing or reducing poverty and homelessness in the community; Support the elderly and improve their wellbeing by reducing isolation, helping reduce the effects of Dementia and Alzheimer's and support later life/palliative care. Ongoing.

The Cruach Trust

Is offering Grants to charities and other organisations to support gardeners, retired gardeners and the preservation of gardens throughout the United Kingdom. Additionally, funding can support a wide range of activities. Ongoing.

The Leathersellers' Foundation

Is offering grants to support the work of registered charities in the UK. Ongoing.

The True Colours Trust

Is offering grants of up to £10,000 for registered charitable organisations with an annual income of less than £350,000 across the United Kingdom. to deliver projects that work to improve the lives of disabled children and young people up to the age of 25, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families. Ongoing.

Percy Bilton

Has funding available to UK registered charities with primary objectives to assist one or more of the following groups: disadvantaged/underprivileged young people (under 25 years old); people with disabilities (physical or learning disabilities or mental health problems); older people (aged over 60). Ongoing.

The Willowtree Foundation

Is offering grants to people and their families who are living with Blood Cancer. Ongoing.

The UK Fund (The National Lottery)

A fund supporting organisations that want to do more to help communities come together and help create a better-connected society. Ongoing.

Percy Bilton Charitable Trust

Funding is provided to UK registered charities whose primary objectives are to assist one or more of the following groups: Disadvantaged/underprivileged young people, people with disabilities and older people. Ongoing.

British Gas Energy Trust

If any of your beneficiaries are struggling with increased utility bills, they should be encouraged to apply for this grant. Only individuals and families can apply and they need to apply.

Cash for Kids Cost of Living grant

The charity helps children and young people (up to 18 years old) affected by poverty, neglect or those living with additional needs. Ongoing.

British Gas Energy Trust Offering Fuel Poverty Grants

In response to the cost-of-living crisis and energy price cap increase, the independent charitable trust is currently providing two funds: Individuals and Families Fund and British Gas Energy Support Fund. No official deadline but will be cancelled once fund runs out.

Hodge Foundation

Grants are available to UK registered or exempt charities for projects that address the objectives of the Foundation which are welfare, education, medical treatment and research and religion. Ongoing.

Gosling Foundation

For charities and non profit organisations with an income of less than £30m working with young people, in education, health and with Royal Marines. Ongoing.

Ovo Energy Fund

Supports OVO customers who’ve fallen behind with their energy payments to OVO. You must be in receipt of: Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance, Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, or Universal Credit (but only if not working). Ongoing.

Mercers Company and Philanthropy

Grants are intended to support charitable organisations with community-led projects that 'will make a real difference in people's lives' and which address the Foundation's priorities within its three funding programmes.

The Clothworkers' Foundation

Has grants 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. Ongoing.

Matthew Good Foundation

Grants are available of up to £3,500 for local community groups, charities, voluntary groups and social enterprises in the UK for projects that have a positive impact on communities, people, or the environment. Ongoing.

National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Communities

Large grants are available to voluntary and community organisations in England for projects that make positive changes in their communities. The grant value is discretionary and ongoing.

Tesco Bags of Help Bags of Help

Tesco’s local community grant scheme where the money raised from the 5p bag is used to fund local projects in communities right across the UK. Ongoing.

Pilgrim Trust

Two levels of grants are available for projects in the UK concerned with heritage preservation and social welfare, especially improving the life chances of vulnerable members of society (particularly women and girls). Grants are up to £5,000 and beyond. Ongoing.

Home Instead charities

Grants of up to £1500 are available for grass roots community groups and charities addressing mental health and isolation in older people in the UK. Ongoing.

Hargreaves Foundation

Grants up to a discretionary amount are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health condition, disability or growing up in poverty through the mediums of sport and education. Ongoing.

Ernest Cook Trust

Grants are available to registered charities, schools and not-for-profit organisations in the UK for educational projects that will encourage young people's interest in the countryside and the environment. Grants of up to £15,000 are available. Ongoing.

Goldsmiths Charity

General charitable support - Grant support of up to £30,000 is available for projects addressing prisoner resettlement, youth and an ageing population. Currently, only prisoner resettlement activities are considered. Ongoing.

Henry Smith Charity

Main Grants - Grants are available for registered charities, social enterprises and constituted charitable groups to help people in the UK when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available. Ongoing.

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Criminal Justice Programme - The Criminal Justice Programme aims to support projects that will strengthen the evidence base for practical, structural change to the criminal justice system to account for the distinct needs and contexts of young adults, women and Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Ongoing.

Toy Trust

The funding is intended for UK based children's charities who are working for the benefit of disadvantaged children under the age of 13 years and their families. Ongoing.

London Housing Foundation

The London Housing Foundation (LHF) supports organisations who work with homeless people, or work to prevent people becoming homeless. Ongoing.

Sporting Capital Fund

Sporting Capital is a social investment fund operating with the objective of helping organisations that make a difference by developing people and communities through sport. Ongoing.

Allen Lane Foundation

The Foundation makes grants to voluntary not-for-profit organisations in the UK for work which benefits groups of people who are under-represented in UK society. Ongoing.

Veterans' Foundation

The aim of the Foundation is to help charities and other organisations that support serving and former members of the British Armed Forces, and sometimes their dependants, who are in need. Ongoing.

Displacement Education Grant

The new £1 million Displacement Education Fund has been launched to address the specific challenges that children and young people who have been displaced by conflict face in accessing quality education. Ongoing.

Big Local

The aim of the fund is to create empowered, resilient, dynamic and asset-rich communities making their own decisions on what is best for their area. This will involve forming a Big Local partnership and creating a plan unique to each community. Ongoing.

Lionel Wigram Memorial Trust

Funding is available for charities that are providing services for blind, deaf and disabled people in the UK. Ongoing.

Trust for London

Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation aiming to tackle poverty and inequality in London. Ongoing.

The Pixel Fund

Grants of between £500 and £5000 are available for registered UK-based charities and registered community interest organisations to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults.

London Marathon Trust

The London Marathon Charitable Trust awards grants for capital projects that inspire and increase the numbers of people regularly taking part in physical activities.

The Kingston Lottery

The Kingston Council has launched the ‘Kingston Lottery’, which aims to raise money for local charities and community groups. Ongoing.

London Marathon Trust

The London Marathon Charitable Trust awards grants for capital projects that inspire and increase the numbers of people regularly taking part in physical activities.

Kingston Charitable Trust

The Kingston Charitable Foundation is providing an average of 3 x £500 grants with an emphasis on getting timely help to small, Kingston-based charities.

The Mrs Smith & Mount Trust

Grants are available to registered charities in the East of England, South East and London in the areas of: Mental Health; Learning Disability; Homelessness; and Community Youth Services.

Tesco Community Grants

Eligible organisations can apply online for a grant, applications are assessed and shortlisted. Every three months successful shortlisted applications are put into a customer vote in Tesco stores across the UK. Ongoing.

Stuart Halbert Foundation

Grants for projects that support disadvantaged people, animal welfare, the Armed forces or the local community. Ongoing.

Waitrose Community Matters

Each month every Waitrose branch donates £1,000 (£500 in convenience shops) between 3 local good causes that customers choose. Ongoing

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Fund the charitable work of organisations that are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society. Ongoing.

Garfield Weston Foundation

The foundation supports a broad range of charities and causes across the UK with small and larger grants. Ongoing.

Cranfield Trust

The Cranfield Trust is a national charity offering free business skills, advice and guidance to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations. Ongoing.

LawWorks: the solicitors Pro Bono group

LawWorks is a charity working in England and Wales to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal aid.

Groundwork One stop Community Partnership

This programme is designed to support community groups or organisations operating within two miles of a One Stop store and tackling food poverty, supporting the vulnerable, supporting the elderly, supporting low-income families or running youth sports teams. Ongoing.

Smallwood Trust

Open to women aged 18 or above, living in the UK, on a low income / not in work and in receipt of all benefits entitled to, or have no recourse to public funds, with savings under £2,000. Ongoing.

Sense Cost of Living Support Fund

To provide financial support to people with complex disabilities who live in the family home and are on low incomes. Ongoing.

Turn2us

Comprehensive list of grant givers to individuals and families. Ongoing

Community Chest funding

Cambridge Estate - Each year, £50,000 (£75,000 in the first year) will be put into the Community Chest to fund projects that Cambridge Road Estate residents support and value.

Hargreaves Foundation

Buttle Trust

Grants of up to £2000 available to enable vulnerable children and young people in the UK to overcome financial barriers preventing them from achieving their education, training or employment goals. Ongoing.

Matthew Good Foundation

Sobell Foundation

Grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for causes benefiting children, the sick, elderly, needy and disabled. Ongoing.

Motability

Community Transport Grants - Grants for a maximum of three years available to charities and community groups to develop community transport. Ongoing.

Ernest Cook Trust

Will Charitable Trust

Grants are available to UK registered charities for activities in the UK that fall within the following categories: care of and services for blind people; long-term care of people with learning disabilities; and care of and services for people suffering from cancer. Ongoing.