We regularly update this page with available funding from Idox-Grantfinder and other sources we think might interest the organisations we support.

Please see funding opportunities with deadlines below:   

Another Way Women's Foundation

Is an independent, volunteer-led, grant-making charity dedicated to enabling a brighter and fairer future for women and girls through financial support, education, empowerment and advancement.

The Foundation supports impactful projects and services with the aim of accelerating gender equality, effecting system change and advancing women’s lives, sustainably, at both an individual and community level.

UK registered charities and other not-for-profit organisations based and working in England and Scotland can apply for either of the following grants:

• Another Way Women's Foundation grants are for any type of project, initiative, service aimed at advancing and empowering women, creating positive social change, sustainably impacting communities, or indeed anything that makes the world a brighter and better place for women and girls.
• The '£1000 for 1000 words' grants provide 'seed funding' to kick start things on a project or service aimed at advancing women's lives for the better.

The grants typically fall into two areas:

• Project support – ‘seed’ funding for pilot or start-up initiatives to show ‘proof of concept’, with a view to enabling partner organisations to go on to apply for further/larger grants from other funders to expand/increase the project scope, or to attain self-sustainability for the project.

• Services support – aid funding to enable support organisation and service providers to pay for essential service delivery.

The Foundation has announced that from January 2026, there will be two application windows each year:

• ​January is for general applications supporting women and girls in any area.
• ​September is for specific applications supporting women and girls only in the stated focus area of that year:
  • September 2026 - Sport and Leisure
  • September 2027 - Environment, Eco and Sustainability
  • September 2028 - The Arts

The next application round is for general applications supporting women and girls in any area. Deadline 30 January 2026.

Sovereign Network Group (SNG)

Is offering grants of between £1,000 and £7,500 for groups operating in SNG communities across South England to create sustainable, inclusive communities that people are proud to live in. The Strengthening Place Grants Programme will support projects and activities that align with the following priorities:

Community Safety:

• Innovative approaches to tackling anti-social behaviour.
• Crime reduction.
• Safer neighbourhoods.

Environment and Sustainability:

• Driving local, long-term environmental improvements.
• Supporting local nature recovery.
• Promoting community-led climate action and enhancing biodiversity.

Health, well-being, and social inclusion:

• Creating healthier, more inclusive communities.
• Supporting intergenerational connections.
• Encouraging young people to achieve their goals and plan for the future.
• Promoting mental and emotional well-being (including creative and holistic approaches).
• Encouraging healthy lifestyles through sport and physical exercise.

This fund is part of SNG’s Thriving Communities Fund, which aims to support not-for-profit groups and organisations to deliver cohesive, sustainable, and resilient communities. Deadline 30 January 2026 or until all funding is fully allocated. 

Kingston First Town Community Fund

Has £30,000 funding available.   The aim is to help local and community focused organisations develop and grow with a fund primarily for not for profit, charity or voluntary organisations (however, other types of organisations are welcome to apply, including businesses or individuals, as long as they can demonstrate they meet the criteria) and we will be as flexible as we can be to accommodate different needs. Organisations can bid for any amount from £500 up to £10,000, as long as they can outline how they meet the criteria.

Successful applicants will be offered access to training and learning opportunities until the end of 2027 and support with promoting and marketing the project. Deadline 30 January 2026.

The Mayor of London

Is launching a new grant of up to £140,000 to strengthen mental health support for young Londoners through mentoring. This is a fantastic opportunity for VCSE organisations with experience in youth wellbeing and mental health to lead delivery from March 2026, with potential to extend until 2028.

An information session on 7 January at 1pm will cover everything you need to know about eligibility, application guidance, and how this funding can help improve outcomes for children and young people across London.

Key details:

• Grant amount: up to £140,000 for 12 months (option to extend)
• Grant opens: 5 January 2026
• Closes: 12pm, 2 February 2026
• Eligible organisations: VCSE with experience in youth mentoring and mental health

Why attend?
This is a unique chance to shape and support mentoring initiatives that can make a real difference to young people’s wellbeing. Deadline 2 February 2026.

Register for the info session or ask questions:
📧 newdealforyoungpeople@london.gov.uk

The Grow Wild Community Programme

Is offering around 23 grants of up to £2,000 to not-for-profit groups across the UK to transform urban spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife through planting and championing UK native plants or fungi.

Projects should enhance the biodiversity of the urban space with planting and growing as a core activity, be led by groups who care about the environment and will use sustainable materials and practices and have the potential to reach at least 300 people.

In addition, projects need to work with one or more of Grow Wild’s target audience:

• Young people aged 12-25.
• People experiencing some disadvantage or reduced access to services.
• People who are less engaged with others in their local community.
• People who face barriers to connecting with nature.
• Disabled people.

The grant can cover 100% of project specific costs, including seeds plants, soil, materials, events, workshop charges, specialist experts and contractor costs.

Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations in the UK, including:

• Constituted voluntary/community organisations, groups or clubs. 
• Charities
• Not-for-profit companies
• Community Interest Companies (CICs)
• Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIOs)
• Community Benefit Societies

Grants of £2,000 are available and must be spent by the end of October 2026. There is also an opportunity for groups to apply for a £500 follow-on grant for spring 2027, to help support ongoing activities. Deadline 4 February 2026.

King Charles III Charitable Fund

UK registered not-for-profit organisations with an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 can apply for grants of up to £3,000 per year for three years to support projects in the following areas:

• Social inclusion – promoting social inclusion for vulnerable and marginalised communities through projects that relieve poverty, loneliness and other social issues.
• Health and wellbeing – improving the health and wellbeing of people and communities. Grants have enabled people with disabilities, those facing life limiting illnesses and people from disadvantaged and marginalised communities to benefit from improved physical and mental health.

Priority will be given to projects serving the most disadvantaged communities within the UK.

Funding provided through this programme is restricted and must be used exclusively for the project. Core costs or staff salaries may be covered, provided these expenses are directly attributable to the delivery of the project

Grants of up to £3,000 per year for three years are available. The total cost of the project should not exceed £50,000.

Approximately 100 community-based organisations are awarded grants each year.  Deadline 11 February 2026.

Tesco Stronger Starts

Invites schools, registered charities and not-for-profit organisations supporting children and young people to apply for up to £1,500 for causes that improve access to healthy, nutritious food.

From enhancing school provision to supporting local community services, we welcome applications that use healthy food that supports physical and mental health of children and young people across the UK. This could include breakfast or holiday clubs, cooking or gardening initiatives, providing fruit or healthy snacks for a sports club or projects that build life skills, confidence and wellbeing.

Tesco colleagues help to select the projects that will be voted for in regions across the UK. Customers are then invited to vote, using a blue token, to select their preferred project – ensuring local communities can have their say in how funding is distributed to the three groups.

Community charity Groundwork manages this website and administers the funding across the UK. Deadline 13 February 2026.

Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

Is offering grants to UK registered charities for projects which address one or more of the following funding priorities:

• Financial stress
• Security and refuge
• Quality and suitability of housing.

Applications are welcome from those who take a Housing First and/or relationship-based approach. Applications should show evidence of:

• Strength-based practice
• Trauma-informed care
• Psychologically informed environments

Depending on their annual turnover, UK registered charities can apply for:

• Small Grants of up to £2,500. This is available to charities anywhere in the UK that have a turnover of less than £500,000. Small Grants are flexible and can be used for core, project and/or capital costs.
• Large Grants of up to £75,000 across one, two or three years. (The average grant size is £40,000 over two years.) This is for charities with a turnover of £1 million or less who have a registered address in Yorkshire or the North East of England. Large Grants can support running costs, staff and volunteer costs, project and  capital costs.  Deadline 2 March 2026.

EMPOWER Rivers Community Grants Programme

Is accepting applications for 2026 Funding Round. Thames21, in partnership with Lund Trust, is offering grants of up to £20,000 for voluntary and community groups in Greater London with an annual income of less than £1 million to deliver small-scale, volunteer-led river restoration and water quality monitoring initiatives.

Through the EMPOWER Rivers Community Grants Programme, a total of £80,000 is available for the following types of projects:

• Water quality monitoring projects, such as monthly urban riverfly monitoring initiative (RMI) surveys, water sample testing, and regular monitoring of chemicals and physical
• River restoration projects, such as the creation of berms, adding large wood habitats, small-scale weir removal and channel reprofiling, backwater creation or restoration, installation of reed beds, and invasive species control or removal.

Contractor activities will also be considered, including vegetation management specialists, small-scale concrete bank reinforcement removal, and surveys.

Applications from projects that involve physical river improvements must be submitted by recognised community groups such as River Action Groups or Friends groups, or by registered charities. Deadline 20 March 2026.

Quaker Housing Trust

Offers the following support and informal advice to grassroots housing organisations across Britain:

• Main grants and interest-free loans (a mix of grants and loans) up to £50,000 to enhance the quality of provision. (Up to £20,000 for grants.)
• Best practice grants of up to £6,000 for feasibility studies to test specific proposals.

In addition, the Trust also gives advice, information and encouragement to Quakers who are already involved with housing projects, enquiring about how to start a new project, or wanting to make use of their meeting's property and/or funds to meet housing need.

Finding a safe, comfortable and affordable home challenges many people in Britain. The Quaker testimony of equality means a belief that everyone should have access to quality housing. QHT support charities which provide homes for people who have a particular housing need or are at points of transition in their lives.

Until the end of 2026, QHT is particularly interested in the following:

• Projects in areas geographically underrepresented in previous grant applications (East of England, Wales, Southwest of England (Somerset, Devon, Cornwall).
• Organisations working with people with No Recourse to Public Funds.
• Organisations working with minoritised communities (as per the definition in the Equality Act 2010).
• Organisations working with people leaving prison.

QHT aims to use its funding to create homes. It is looking to fund projects which meet a real housing need and where QHT funding makes a real difference.

Applications will be considered from organisations with legal charitable status, operating in Britain with an annual turnover of up to £1 million, who are meeting a real and demonstrable housing need and providing actual ‘bricks and mortar’ housing.

There are separate application forms and deadlines:

• Main Grants and Loans Programme have a two-stage application process, starting with an Expression of Interest form. The deadline for the Expressions of Interest is 29 January 2026.
• Best Practice Grant Programme has a single-stage application. The deadline for applications is 26 March 2026.

Heritage Revival Fund

Is currently accepting applications for projects that will help to rescue and repurpose neglected historic buildings, like theatres, department stores and former banks. It will do this by supporting community organisations, charities and social enterprises to take ownership of these sites, transforming them into vibrant spaces that meet local needs. The programme will be delivered by the Architectural Heritage Fund and will be open to charities and social enterprises in England seeking to take ownership of and adapt historic buildings for community uses. The Heritage Revival Fund will offer advice and grants to charities and social enterprises, supporting projects from the earliest stages through to capital works, with funding available for feasibility studies, development of business plans and drawings for architectural adaptations, as well as the costs of acquiring and renovating buildings. Deadline 31 March 2026.

Grocer's Charity Grant

Has one-off grants available to small UK registered charities for work in the specific areas of: relief of poverty, disability and inclusion, the elderly, health, military, environment and conservation, and the arts and heritage. Deadline 01 September 2026.

Groundwork

In partnership with the Postcode Local Trust, Postcode Places Trust, and Postcode Society Trust, is offering grants of between £500 and £2,000 for small grassroots organisations that work to make a positive difference in local communities, particularly those working to support marginalised or vulnerable groups.

Funding is to support the work of groups that provide vital services in their local communities, such as:

• Access to food or basic essentials.
• Improvements to local greenspace.
• Cultural, support, or wellbeing activities.
• Volunteering opportunities to improve the local environment or support other people.

Grants are unrestricted and can be used flexibly for costs such as:  

• Paying staff or volunteer expenses.
• Costs for equipment or materials.
• Core, ongoing running costs of the organisation, such as rent, utilities, and other general running costs.
• Training for staff and volunteers.
• Consultant time to help develop the organisation or key policies. 

Priority will be given to work in communities that rank as being within the top 15% on the English Indices of Deprivation, and work to support communities that are classed as marginalised or vulnerable. To apply, groups should have an annual income of less than £25,000. Deadline 30 September 2026. 

The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

Is offering grants of between £500 and £3,000 for groups across the UK to support the development of group music-making, especially involving young people, with composing central to the project.

In 2023, the Trustees decided to include within the Foundation’s activities the funding of performances and recording of music by Michael Tippett. As of 2026, the Foundation will no longer accept open applications for such projects. Instead, the Trustees welcome applications for grants towards projects that support group music-making, especially those that involve young people in the process of composing and the development of creative ideas.

The Foundation will still occasionally but will still consider funding large-scale performances and recordings of music by Michael Tippett.

Successful projects should commence from January 2027.

The deadline for applications is 30 September 2026